War Movies (again) & Black Xmas

OK, there was a post awhile back lamenting the dearth of contemporary "war movies" and I accused "Hollywood" of not having the guts to explore the current situations in Afghanistan and Iraq - well I now stand corrected. Thankfully brave people decided to make some of them, overdue, but welcome nonetheless. One is Rendition and the other is Lions for Lambs, both approach the fuzzy ideas of "torture" and other things... it's about time and I expect more.

One of favorite new webpages is the Internet Movie Script Database (the pop-up ads really suck BTW!) where you can go and READ scripts of movies. I read the original script for Apocalypse Now and liked seeing the "other" ending where Capt. Willard (Martin Sheen) goes and sees crazy Col. Kurtz' widow at her home in "scrubbed clean" sunny California... this description of the home stayed with me, "Everything good and secure and desirable about America."
Ah... domestic bliss based on labor-saving appliances and consumption of status symbols.

OK, here is the ADDENDUM to this post, it is going to be a BLACK XMAS this year since I just saw on the Idiot Box 2 ads for movies coming out... "Perfect Christmas" and "This Christmas", both featuring casts "of color" and seemingly FOR black folks, as if we have some kind of de facto seperate-but-equal cinema policy... WHATEVER!