Tuesday, March 16, 2010

How Realistic Is Iraq War Film Green Zone?



From Popular Mechanics:

The military conspiracy-thriller Green Zone, a policy debate masquerading as an action movie, has a premise that invites scrutiny. The central idea—that warmongering civilian planners knowingly lied about weapons of mass destruction (WMD) as a reason to invade Iraq in 2003—is challenging enough. But the filmmakers then have their nefarious civilians engage in a cover up and, while they're at it, willingly make moves that will directly lead to Iraq's Sunni insurgency. That civilians cooked WMD intel is just one of the movie's assertions that beg to be questioned.

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My Comment: Hollywood has failed miserable when it comes to making movies on Iraq. The exceptions to this rule have been movies like "Taking Chance", and "Hurt Locker", which (interestingly) was done independent from the major studios.

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