By Ed Driscoll · July 29, 2005 10:14 AM
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Hollywood, Interrupted
Citizen Smash weighs in with other military bloggers on FX's new Over There series:
It was like a bad Vietnam movie, filmed in what was clearly the Mojave desert filling in for Iraq. I even spotted a Joshua Tree in the background.
Simple, stereotypical characters. Not much depth. Unrealistic battle scenes, with poor understanding of fire & manuever tactics. Too much inane chatter. Anachronisms abound, including a Vietnam era "Huey" MEDEVAC helicopter.
Bottom line: total crap.
Found
via Glenn Reynolds, who suggests that Maybe Hollywood "should try
just reading more
blogs from
Iraq. Might produce some better story ideas".
What--and say something positive about the war? Diversity only goes so far in Tinseltown.