The Price of Military Tech Assistance In Movies 212
derekmead writes "Last week at Camp David, President Obama met up with fellow NATO leaders to discuss the road ahead in Afghanistan. Although no one there used the language of defeat, the implicit message was clear: the war has gone nowhere in the past few years and it's time to start packing up. Meanwhile, what raked in $25.5 million at the box office? Battleship. And who provided director Peter Berg with the war technology that beats the aliens? The U.S. military. He's not the only one: the past few years have seen an explosion of high-profile cooperation between the armed forces and the movie industry. If the most powerful armed force in history isn't winning in reality, it certainly is on the big screen. And like so many problematic aspects of late capitalism, the military-Hollywood complex has a grimly understandable logic."
capitalism (Score:4, Funny)
what does this have to do with capitalism? I hate it when people don't have the discipline to leave their own biases out of objective writing formats like summaries.
Re:Illegal???? (Score:5, Funny)
It's worth noting that homosexual agenda recruiters also set up booths outside the cinema to catch men who had questions about their sexuality after that shirtless Tom Cruise volleyball scene.
Re:jump: Afghanistan - Battleship? (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Illegal???? (Score:5, Funny)
In other words what you're saying is that if the roads in Nazi Germany were more dangerous that'd make the Holocaust ok.
Wait... did you just invoke Godwin's Law AND make a car analogy in the same post? Is this a definition of a perfect /. post???
Re:Illegal???? (Score:5, Funny)