Americans Want To See Winners

I ordered Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare as a Christmas present for me from loving wife and it looks like I am not alone. Like all the CoD games I am sure it will rock. And as Glenn Reynolds points out in an e-mail from one of his readers, Hollywood should pay more attention to what people want.

:”Armed with an arsenal of advanced and powerful modern-day firepower, players are transported to treacherous hotspots around the globe to take on a rogue enemy group threatening the world. As both a U.S. Marine and British S.A.S. soldier fighting through an unfolding story full of twists and turns, players use sophisticated technology, superior firepower, and coordinated land and air strikes on a battlefield where speed, accuracy, and communication are essential to victory.

“So, if as Hollywood whines that the public doesn’t want Iraqi War movies, why is this selling so well, top of the rental lists, and ever so popular? At this rate it’ll be the successful game companies, that gives the pubic what they want, who’ll buy out the studios for their IP and name. Hollywood appears to have missed the impact of the technological shift as badly as MSM has. The public is getting the entertainment they crave, just not in the form that the old gatekeepers dispense.

It’s not brain surgery. Americans want movies where our military is shown the way it is - competent, honorable, professional, moral, and deadly as hell - not the way Hollywood sees it - immoral, corrupt, incompetent, and, oh hell, let’s face it, evil.

One hundred and fifty million is more than all the anti-military movies have made so far this year. Many times more actually. You would think Hollywood would get the message.

Misc Chatter

1.  It’s true, the world does look better off than it did a year ago - “safer, friendlier, more hopeful” - but that doesn’t mean a thing if we forget what it took to get here and elect some wishy-washy Democrat who will undo all the progress we have made. Remember that come election day.

2.  An armed security guard shot and killed the shooter at this Colorado church. If only security and, better yet, shoppers had been armed at that Omaha mall or Virgina Tech. I know I am carrying my weapon more often while off-duty these days.  And in case you are wondering, Disney was probably less safe after this.

3.  The Golden Compass isn’t doing well at the box office. Not surprising and, as a Catholic, very satisfying. And we didn’t have to cut off any heads to make em suffer.

4.  Dammit, there goes my next vacation destination.  And I had so looked forward to a rousing game of “Naked Twister.”

5.  Don’t you hate it when Republicans Democrats mix politics and religion?

6.  No link yet, but I just heard Al Gore, in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, compare the “threat” of global warming to Hitler.  I hadn’t realized my driving an SUV was the equivalent of running death camps. Talk about jumping the fricken shark.

7.  I’ve started playing World of Warcraft again. Just a month’s subscription. Like sticking a toe into a lake to see how cold it is. I’m not going to take a plunge just yet, but it’s winter and with these cold short days I have less to do outside.

8. Neil is having The 2007 Blogger Christmahanukwanzaakah Online Holiday Concert. If I had any talent other than being crotchety and, of course, incredibly good in bed, I would participate. Check it out.

9.  We’re slowly getting over the great puppy rip-off, and we are still looking for a Beagle. Unfortunately there aren’t many breeders near here - none really - so we will have to travel an hour or two to see some pups and, more importantly, their parents and the conditions they are bred and raised in. But it’s going to happen soon and we are all very excited.