Real Film
By Mitch Berg
Brendan Miniter at the WSJ notes that while Hollywood’s much-ballyhooed slate of anti-war movies has stiffed terribly, lower-budget productions are doing quite well in the alternative media:
Some of the are amateur productions and others are professionally produced, such as two films that have drawn about 700,000 viewers each: “Insurgent Snipers vs. U.S. Marines,” put together by the History Channel, and “Iraq Marine Battle Fallujah.” In the latter, U.S. Marines are seen assaulting Fallujah. The film, just 4 1/2 minutes, plays to the tune of Dire Straits’ 1985 hit “Brothers in Arms,” and is a better tribute to the men who fight the nation’s wars that anything Hollywood has put out since John Wayne’s 1968 film “The Green Berets.”
Much more to read, naturally.
