So the early word on the latest anti-war movie coming out of Hollywood is that its box office is as dismal as all its predecessors. Stop-Loss, starring Ryan Phillipe, discarded ex-husband of Reese Witherspoon, is D.O.A. at the box office. It would appear that Phillipe is being discarded by the mass audience as well. This follows in the trend of all the others, like Redacted, In the Valley of Elah and countless others whose names I've already forgotten.
It's puzzling, really, that Hollywood has been spending this much money trying to be didactic. For all the suffocating, self-congratulatory liberalism that is endemic out there, there's one true thing that matters, which is profitability. I went to college with a guy who is a pretty big wheel out there, fellow by the name of Matt Tolmach. Matt was always a pretty sensible guy and it would be interesting to get his take on why his industry continues to persist in making a string of movies that people don't want to see. Maybe I'll see him at a reunion or something and I'll ask him. Matt hasn't fallen prey to that tendency in his own career; lately he's been the executive in charge of Will Ferrell movies. Those tend to make money.
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