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2007-08-28 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Oliver Stone re-enlists for duty in Vietnam with My Lai film

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Posted by tu3031 2007-08-28 11:50|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top

#1 Stone has has a string of less-than-succesfull movies. He needs a success. If not monetary than critical and going back to brutal Americans in Vietnam will get him beloved by Hollywood again.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-08-28 13:52|| 2007-08-28 13:52|| Front Page Top

#2 How maany Mi Lais prepetrated by the Vietcong and the AVN?

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-08-28 14:04|| 2007-08-28 14:04|| Front Page Top

#3 JFM, it doesn't matter. Just as in Iraq, the fraternity pranks at Abu Ghraib are more important than all the slaughter done by Saddam. The important thing in Hollywood is to demonize the American military.

Posted by Rambler">Rambler 2007-08-28 14:49|| 2007-08-28 14:49|| Front Page Top

#4 When the NVA briefly held Hue during Tet, they murdered thousands of alleged "collaboraters," and tossed bodies in mass graves, with the thought that they could hold Hue forever. Does that interest Oliver Stone?

As for My Lai, I believe it revealed the folly of any "hearts and mind" policy. During WW2, Bomber Command directed indiscriminate air bombardment of "built up areas" in enemy territory. On the ground, advancement followed massive artillery bombardment. "Hearts and mind" led Vietnamese to remain in VC/NVA villages. When these were captured, US troops were subject to sniper fire and controlled explosions. Inevitably, troops blamed innocent and other civilians for avoidable deaths, and we had My Lai. So why the hell are we playing the same losing game in Iraq? Al-Jazeera still films Iraqis celebrating around destroyed US vehicles. That drives steel into the enemy's backs.

Posted by McZoid 2007-08-28 15:40|| 2007-08-28 15:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Stone needs a success so he will pick this old scab and make a strained and over-exaggerated comparison to today's war.

Whatta Dick.

Posted by danking70 2007-08-28 15:45|| 2007-08-28 15:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Co-produced By John Kerry, I bet.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2007-08-28 15:48|| 2007-08-28 15:48|| Front Page Top

#7 "Check this out. This is my Lucky Director's Hat. A CIA guy gave it to me..."

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-08-28 16:01|| 2007-08-28 16:01|| Front Page Top

#8 The late, great, much-loved Cathy Seipp routinely eviscerated Oliver Stone.

Posted by mrp 2007-08-28 17:32|| 2007-08-28 17:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Off in search of Meat-Lie, the Shame of Nation, I may have to loot the Terry Hendra vault.

Posted by Thomas Woof 2007-08-28 18:24|| 2007-08-28 18:24|| Front Page Top

#10 I still remember an old Nat'l Lampoon "meat issue"
....same one?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-08-28 18:53|| 2007-08-28 18:53|| Front Page Top

#11 There are still former Army soldiers whom continue to argue that Calley's unit did receive heavy enemy fire from the village and surrounding areas,and that a yet/still unknown number of dead civilians at My Lai were in fact Cong fighters.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-08-28 19:54|| 2007-08-28 19:54|| Front Page Top

#12 There are hundreds of great stories to be told about Irag and Afghanistan. Bit they won't be told by Hollywood.

Sorry Bruce Willis but your stock just dropped in my book. Oliver Stone is a known moonbat. You made a mistake signing on with him.

Posted by Mark Z">Mark Z 2007-08-28 20:23|| 2007-08-28 20:23|| Front Page Top

#13 Lt Calley's troops took fire and had the right to counter same. Frustration caused them to kill indiscriminately, at close quarters. At worst, Calley ordered an "active entry" (hair trigger) into My Lai, and it got out of control. What happened was not forseeable, above the grunt level. And even the foot soldiers acted out of terror and frustration.

Oliver Stone will both defend "hearts and minds" idiocy, while smearing US troops who were fighting under JFK' whimp war rules. Any Stone' film about My Lai, should be labelled: Democratic Party fiction.

As for the "National Lampoon," I recall that they wrote a parody of the "Save the Children" foundation, and concocted "Lt Calley's Kill the Children Foundation." I still have NL issue 1 ("sexy cover issue"); wonder what its worth?

Posted by McZoid 2007-08-28 20:38|| 2007-08-28 20:38|| Front Page Top

#14 Wide World of Meat - 1972 - Tony Hendra

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-08-28 21:47|| 2007-08-28 21:47|| Front Page Top

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