Green Zone

So, I'm getting ready to watch Green Zone and I've got my sense of humor primed and ready because I've already read some of the reviews on Netflix. Soooooooo predictable. Looks like the people who voted R gave the movie bad reviews and went about smashing liberal Hollywood and telling Damon to keep is big mouth shut and just be an actor with no political views. I got news for those people - actors are human beings also and if they choose to use their star power to influence so be it.

I think Rob Lowe is a fine actor and I'll betcha ten bucks that I don't want to know what his politics are. Does that mean I hate movies he's been in?

Nope.

Bruce Willis may be another story, but I imagine that that is because I'm not a huge fan of action pictures, I get bored with action for the sake of action. Neither of these actors is in the movie, mm just sayin.

So, onto the movie, but first -

Remember W joking about there not being any WMD's in Iraq?

I always thought it showed what a cruel asshole he was.

The movie?

Meh, like I said I'm not much of an action movie fan, and that especially includes war movies. This one was marginally better than some. I think that was only because whoever wrote it got some of the major facts right about the Iraq war, even if all the names and some of the circumstances were changed in order to protect the guilty. There was one moment when I sort of had a flashback to 2003 and all that anger came back.

The anger back then was brought on by an e-mail argument with a right wing military blogger where I questioned the war in Iraq, and the asshole intimidated me into silence. Did I shut up? Yeah, my husband was floating around in the Gulf on a deployment of course I shut up. I was terrified by weird people and weird stuff showing up and weird "coincidences" happening. Nothing like that has ever happened to me before, and nothing since. I can't remember what line in the movie triggered those fun memories.

Speaking of fun, I dunno how Damon kept from laughing when he delivered this line to the character who wrote all the newspaper articles about the intelligence that led us to war in Iraq:

Miller: At least tell me how it happened. How does this happ... how does someone like you write something that's not true? Tell me.

I can tell I've been watching too many movies lately because I found myself thinking "Hey, those dudes are from the UK and their accents are slipping," rather than watching whatever was being blown up or shot at at the moment.

Kudos to the real Iraq vets in the movie.