Defy the corporate critics! Show up in droves for the War, Inc. premiere tomorrow.

[pnwmom]

Fill the theaters all weekend. Don't let this important movie get shunted off to DVD. -- So says, Larisa Alexandrovna, and I agree.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larisa-alexandrovna/you-want-courage-are-you_b_103107.html

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My interest in writing about the film right now, before its opening on May 23rd, is in the hope of saving it from what appears to be a distinct stench of blacklisting. No, I do not believe there is an organized, conspiratorial effort to shut-down a wide release of War Inc. Just to be clear, that is not what I am saying. In reality, we no longer need any organized effort because the mechanism of censorship is now so fully integrated into the body-politic of this nation anyway.

But I do think that there is an unspoken mega-understanding within mega-corporations and their wholly owned mega-writers that the film should be quietly escorted from the reach of the general public and instead, relegated to the outskirts of art-houses and small venues in a land far, far away.

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Indeed the people who "get" War Inc., in their critiques and reviews are a smaller contingent than those who are busy panning it. But that smaller contingent is not a collective of "movie-critics" working for corporate owned publications. Rather, the people who "get" War Inc., are people I read, admire, and whose opinions I trust. They are people you read, admire and whose opinions you trust.

They are serious writers and thinkers who have spent a great deal of time in Iraq; who have broken new ground in reporting on the extent of corporate abuses and war profiteering; who many consider to be heroes.

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[hootinholler]

1. Opening in NY and LA Only?

That sucks donkey.

-Hoot