Why is there such a paucity of Iraq War films?

[genie_weenie]

Now that the War against those Dastardly Saddam backed 911 terrorists and the Enshrinement of Glorious Democratic Values in the Backwards Middle East and the Freeing of the latent American who resides inside every Iraqi has gone on longer than WWII where are the war films?

Where is the Iraq equivalent of the Sands of Iwo Jima? Perhaps we could call it the Streets of Hadithah? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070601/ap_on_re_us/marines_haditha

or The Best Years of their Lives? The Iraq version could be The Worst "Year" of their Lives Extended Again & Again? http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/11/military.stay/index.html

or The Fighting Seabees? We could make a film called The Bloated Contractors of Kellogg, Brown & Root (a subsidiary of Halliburton ), DynCorp, Blackwater, The Louis Berger Group, The Rendon Group and more...
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13518

When is Hollywood going to turn Pat Tillman into Audie Murphy?

How about a new They Were Expendable? I guess we wouldn't have to change that title.

Something more than Gunner Palace and the odd FX series Over There needs to make it's way to the American people.

[aquart]

1. Wait ten years.

[DS1]

2. They're always a few years behind the 'close' of the conflict

Blackhawk Down, Apocalypse Now, Three Kings, etc etc

[Cleita]

3. I don't know about any fictionalized movies, but I'm

sure there is plenty of video and film out there taking by eye witnesses on all sides of the conflict that is hidden until the right time, like when Michael Moore decides to make a movie about it. I hope he's thinking about it.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

8. There are

Iraq for Sale (very good)

Valley of the Wolves (haven't seen yet)

Iraq in Fragments (very good)

the body of work is growing everyday, because we have not managed to end it, YET...

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Why? The less people think of this damnable war

and keep shoping, the better.

The studios are not a multiplicity of them

They are owned by the same five people who own your television and newspapers...

Hope that answers it for ya

(Oh and the Sands was actually antiwar... and the first time that the hero died a sensless death on the screen)

And Pat Tillman, unlike Eddie Murphy who PLAYED himself, is not that kind of a hero. Neither was Eddie by the by. His best years were the war years. The only time he made any money as a civvie was while making that movie, but he WAS the most decorated soldier of WW II. He was not a hollywood creation

[genie_weenie]

5. Audie Murphy was a hero,

my point was that the goal is to turn a Jessica Lynch or Pat Tillman into Audie Murphy. And by inference to plaster the level of respect Audie earned, onto this War.

And I do understand the Gatekeepers of TV, Radio, Newspapers continue to control the flow of information, which is why the DoD keeps the shackles on service members.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. It didn't work, they tried

if Jessica had not spoken, or the Tillman's not asked too many questions, they would have been turned into heroes

And on edit, both Jessica and the Tillman's are heroes, just not the kind that the right apreciates, as they are no longer martial heroes

But as to why Pat Tillman was killed by friendly fire... I ain't going there as to saying they did this on purpose, but they hoped, the best hero is the dead hero, since the dead don't argue

[MikeNearMcChord]

7. How about a remake of Johnny Got His Gun

About a young GI at Walter Reed after being lit-up by an IED.

[genie_weenie]

9. Releasing Johnny Got His Gun on Region 1 DVD would be

a good start. But, for some strange reason it hasn't been.

[NYCGirl]

10. Here's a few:

One coming up with Harrison Ford:

http://www.countingdown.com/movies/3704520

John Cusack as a father whose wife is killed in Iraq

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0772168/

Richard Clarke's "Against All Enemies" is being filmed.

A few more from IMDB:

"Divergence"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0982872/maindetails

"Fahrenheit 9/11-1/2" (whether this will ever see the light of day, who knows?)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0433561/maindetails

"I Am an American Soldier: One Year in Iraq with the 101st Airborne" (shown at this years Tribeca Festival)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1002538/maindetails

"Redacted" (from director Brian dePalma)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0937237/maindetails

"The Return" (with Tim Robbins)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0981072/maindetails