TAKE A MOVIE TO WORK: Hanna

Bill, you touched on something in your Trifecta that I think might bear some thought. You know how Star Trek the Original series got people excited about Space/Science Fiction? Why not look into developing a script for a series for something similar to Star Trek or FireFly without all the Hollywierd social engineering and political indoctrination? You know just inject the wonder of space exploration and discovery that was Star Trek and rework Firefly's message of self reliance and integrity into an associated storyline. I know that we are currently starved for something like this. Personally I don't have the framework to under take something like this but I'm willing to bet you or someone there a Declaration Entertainment do. I'll throw this out there for thought as well, if you need the services of a Commercial Helicopter pilot give me a shout and we'll see what we can do.

I LIKE this idea!

Did you not like Taken? I thought it was a great movie and a very conservative movie. The CIA agent is retired, not rogue, and the agency is treated with a lot of respect. Its a story about the power of a father's love and how sometimes good men have to kick quite a lot of bad guy a$$ to protect the ones they love. And sometimes you have to unflinchingly shoot a sheik in the face to save your daughter's virginity. Everything else you listed in the begining (especially the Bourne series) sucked, but I though you would have liked taken.

ROFL...Star Trek was still full of political and social commentary...Poor Bill here is just upset because he sees it as "Anti-American"...suck it up Bill...its also a movie...FICTION

Well what do you expect, in Hollywood, you can get money to make garbage and loose more money and yet the money keeps coming to finance this stuff. Kate Blanchett, is one of my favorite living Actresses. Its to bad who ever the heck her agent is that lets here do junk like this. In the old days this short of think would kill careers right quick. Nope not in 2011. I don't really bother going to the movies anymore. In the old days I would go maybe twice some times three times a week. Not now. I would like to see Atlas Shrugged, but in the State I live in its in only two theaters, both over an 90 mile round trip. I can't afford to spend 12 bucks for a ticket then another 25 for gas. Yet this one is doing very good box office on 300 Screens. Why so few? When it could be huge and junk like this gets wide release?

Get of the Floor and find something that is actually funny to laugh at. Considering most of us are Americans that visit Bill's site I wonder why we would find "Anti American" movies pathetic and old hat?

Hollywood just keeps rehashing the old stuff over and over again. I hardly find that funny or entertaining. I find it stodgy and boring.It would be nice if some people with an actual imagination and some talent would step up and make something original. Every once in awhile you will find something original. Hanna isn't it. Neither is Nikita,neither was Kill Bill, neither was The Last Seduction, neither was Out of Sight, neither was Jackie Brown, neither was Charlie Angels,neither was The Long Kiss Goodnight, neither was Thelma and Louise, neither was, etc...etc...etc...etc...etc...

I view movies like this as "mindless entertainment". I teach my kids that, too. Nearly everything that comes out of Hollywood can be considered "fantasy/make believe". Well... maybe everything, actually.

Though I'm reluctant to agree with how ridiculous this movie can get with the plot holes, girls beating up grown men, etc, (I, however, do love that about the movie), I have to make a point here.

You mentioned how displaying other cultures drinking alcohol and not becoming violent is anti-American. In defense of the movie and standing up for psychology: The effects of alcohol are pretty much cultural. Yes, it produces/prolongs the effect of GABA (an inhibitory neurotransmitter) and decreases/halts production of stimulating neurotransmitters (that's why alcohol is called a downer). However, alcohol only releases inhibitions. Italians drink on a daily basis and don't primarily display violent behavior. Another one particular culture went on drinking binges and never acted violent. They only sang and danced. Only until they were shown videos of drunk sailors fighting and yelling did they start that violent behavior themselves. In other words we only act how we think we're supposed to act when we're drunk. Not necessarily consciously, but still. It's cultural.

Please, check your facts before you accuse a film of being anti-American just because it displays another culture more favorably than yours.

You're on top of the game. Thanks for sahrnig.

Joe Wright, the director, doesn't seem to be too concerned with good precise story telling. Witness his movie 'Atonement'. (Avoid it unless you want to see 'Life is nasty and hopeless.' concretized on screen.)

He was smart enough to cast Ms. Ronan who has great talent and is fun to watch.

Hanna has many shortcomings but the worst to me was the complete lack of even the slightest hint of why the bad guys (particularly Ms. Blanchette, who did her best with a thankless role) are doing what they do. That left nothing to watch but frenetic action. I wanted my 12 bucks back.