I was so excited. So was Zack.
We had just opened the latest offering from Netflix, and inside the envelope was a totally cool movie graphic.
Two tiny figures of cops walking between two tall buildings that soared up and out of sight. The movie?
The World Trade Center.
Zack starts reading off names, saying "Nick Cage, we like him, sounds good...uh, oh."
"What?"
"It's directed by Oliver Stone!"
Both our shoulders slumped and our enthusiasm turned to disappointment and disgust.
Great. O. Stone gets to make the first movie about the WTC. It'll be boring, retarded, ridiculous and infuriatingly stupid like all his other movies. It'll be a huge box office bomb and no one will touch the subject ever again. He peed in the well of the first great story of the century.
Today I was at
www.townhall.com and I couldn't get into Mike S. Adams latest column, so I hit Cal Thomas's latest to see what he had to say and he really threw me for a loop.
He said that The World Trade Center was one of the best, most patriotic, flag waving, pro-family, pro-faith, pro-America movies he's seen in years.
Mr. Thomas said that for all his ideological faults, Oliver Stone knows how to make a good movie and that this is a great movie. He said he hopes that tWCT makes a ton of money so that Hollywood will make more like it. He said it deserves Oscars in lots of catagories.
So, now I'm excited about it again. I
will go see it. If it's as good as Cal Thomas says, I may see it more than once. If it's that good, I want it to make big bucks too, as Hollywood will notice.
Hollywood may be all about ideology, but the ideology that trumps all others is money.
Pay them for good behavior; ignore all else.
I read that somewhere, just recently.
