Why We Fight

[mrgorth]

This looks like it's going to be a great flick:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436971/

Here's the cast:
Ken Adelman .... Himself
Joseph Cirincione
Anh Duong .... Herself
Gwynne Dyer .... Himself
John S.D. Eisenhower .... Himself
Susan Eisenhower .... Herself
Donna Ellington .... Herself
Chalmers Johnson .... Himself
William Kristol .... Himself
Karen Kwiatkowski .... Herself
Charles Lewis .... Himself
John McCain .... Himself
Richard Perle .... Himself
James G. Roche .... Himself
Wally Saeger .... Himself
Wilton Sekzer .... Himself
Naj Sheesan .... Himself
William Solomon .... Himself
Franklin Spinney .... Himself
Rich Treadway .... Himself
Michael Valentine .... Himself
Gore Vidal .... Himself
(more)

Here's some 411 from Newsweek:
Jan. 9, 2006 issue - Eugene Jarecki's new film, "Why We Fight," surveys America at war, from Korea to Iraq. Jarecki talked to T. Trent Gegax about his documentary, which won top honors at Sundance last year.

Your movie is like "Fahrenheit 9/11," but smarter and with better access.
The film lays responsibility for happening not at the military's feet, but with the policymakers who make less-than-ideal decisions.

Eisenhower, a Republican war hero, is the protagonist of a somewhat antiwar film.
He warned about industrial capitalism that makes democracy no match for a corporation that can write a big check.

You finished before the 2004 election. Why wait to release it?
Democrats didn't stop the war either. To go against the war would be to go against the massive infrastructure that gets liberals elected, too.

The media's been complicit?
There are too many economic pressures for the mainstream media, and if you're told you can't offend then you won't criticize. Docs and blogs are filling in where there's been a collapse of trust. Peer-to-peer communication is "idea Darwinism," where ideas that rise to a critical mass make it to the top.

[thebigidea]

1. its been online for months. Try uknova.

not that great, actually. Nothing we haven't heard before, nowhere near as good as "The Power of Nightmares." Fahrenheit 9/11 pisses all over it...

All the Eisenhower military-industrial complex stuff could've been covered in a few minutes, but they really stretch it to the breaking point. Kind of a low budget made4tv thing...

[mrgorth]

2. Sorry to hear that

I don't really do the download thing. I'm hoping it makes it to the art house theaters. I read the transcript for PoN and it was great but I didn't get to see it.

[thebigidea]

3. it has a few informative interviews, I guess.

but nothing that's going to make you leave the theaters shaken & stirred. More like a quiet frontline documentary or something...

definetely try and track down a copy of Power of Nightmares, I think its the best all-round documentary about these weird times going. Adam Curtis is a great documentarian, I love his stuff... Pandora's Box, Century of the Self - all classy work. He has a terrific editing style, really works much better on screen than in print.

[mrgorth]

4. Official site has a trailer that looks good

http://www.sonyclassics.com/whywefight/