{"id":41180,"date":"2014-01-17T04:54:57","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T10:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41180"},"modified":"2014-01-17T04:54:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T10:54:57","slug":"lone-reviewer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41180","title":{"rendered":"Lone Reviewer"},"content":{"rendered":"

I caught “Lone Survivor” – the film adaptation of former SEAL\u00a0Marcus Luttrell’s memoir chronicling his surviving a badly-awry mission in Afghanistan in 2005 – a few weeks back, as part of a review audience.<\/p>\n

It was, by the way, an amazing movie.\u00a0 Not a perfect retelling of the book – I won’t spoil anything, but one of the battles does get Hollywooded in comparison to the book, just a little.<\/p>\n

All of that aside, it’s a great move, and I highly recommend it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Of course, it bleeds red white and blue – which means Hollywood’s liberal film critic elite have broken out the long knives.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Which brings us to Roger Simon’s review of the reviews (and the movie’s snubbing from this year’s Oscars).\u00a0 Read the whole thing<\/a>.\u00a0 But the conclusion is the vital part:<\/p>\n

As for those of you who are lining up to diss Hollywood again in the comments, remember the late Andrew Breitbart said that politics is downstream of culture. He was a 1000% correct. Diss Hollywood all you want. It deserves it. But save some of your energy for taking it back. That\u2019s a lot harder. And a lot more important.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Winning – no,contesting- the culture war is going to be as hard as Afghanistan.\u00a0 And maybe more vital for this nation’s future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I caught “Lone Survivor” – the film adaptation of former SEAL\u00a0Marcus Luttrell’s memoir chronicling his surviving a badly-awry mission in Afghanistan in 2005 – a few weeks back, as part of a review audience. It was, by the way, an amazing movie.\u00a0 Not a perfect retelling of the book – I won’t spoil anything, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-conservatism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41181,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41180\/revisions\/41181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}