Proof Hollywood doesn't get it


	Proof Hollywood doesn't get it

n2sooners

11-9-2007 9:20 PM

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hollywood, movies, iraq, military, liberal

n2sooners says:

Read the comments at that first link and you will see a consensus that says Hollywood just doesn't get why their anti-war films just aren't getting any viewers.

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11-10-2007 5:01 AM

davboz

In their own little world.
I wish folks would start paying a whole lot LESS attention to most of them.
Stand strong,writers.

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