I've never heard Santorum being described as a RINO, and I wouldn't be too sure about Obama's proclivities in any voting area, except of course as an anti-conservative.

In order for that vote to have any real meaning, it also needs to have a "No effect at all" option. Which is my personal vote.

While they should have made the release date September 10th, I'm one of the doubters here that the movie will be about Obama. Its supposed to be about bin Laden, and our governments long desire to take him out. They could go back to Clinton and make him out to be the weak willed individual he was. It could go back as far as the Afghan war with the USSR, where we supplied the Afghanis with weapons and tactical support. OBL was there, too. So there's a lot of ground to cover besides Obama saying "OK, do it."

Obama only gave the go ahead. As president, he did his duty the right way in that instance. It will mean nothing to his reelection because of all the terrible ideas and policies he's championed since he was elected. But I'm looking forward to the movie, and hope someone out there is willing to make a flick about Saddam Hussein and what a sick, evil bastard he was. Wish that soldier who found him had put one in his head. Would have saved a lot of stupid anguish about his treatment.

I'm not too interested in Canuck's posting history so I'll take your word for it. I still stand by his statement until someone can give me an example of an October Surprise with a 14 month advance warning. How about even a six month advance warning.

I agree that the timing of the release is more than suspect, but due to the timing of the statement about the release, it renders the label October Surprise rather moot, which I think was the point of Canuck's post. You said time will tell, but patience is not a virtue on the blogosphere. Especially on this site. If you remember, and I'm sure you do, Big Hollywood was all up in arms about a certain movie called Captain America because of some throwaway comment from its director. It spent 6 months presuming the worst, including the idiotic claim that a man wearing a costume based on the American flag wouldn't wave the flag enough. Crap like that brings out the worst in a lot of people it seems. After seeing the film, most of them had to eat their words and pretend they had ordered the meal themselves. Something similar is already happening with this film.

As far as a movie designed to make Obama look good. It was a stated goal of the U.S. government to take bin Laden out. It was not a personal goal of Obama. The fact that he had the balls to give the go ahead is one of the few things I ever felt proud of him for, so if he can get some traction out of it politically, more power to him. We all know that any president who had done the same and was up for reelection would make as much hay out of that victory as they could. As well they should. That really doesn't mean the film is going to make him out to be the star, any more than movies about WWII and the U.S. dropping atomic bombs on Japan are about Truman. He gave the order so its just how the story ends. Sorry, nothing we can do about that.

Thank you for not calling me an idiot, Hoosier, but I think we both know intelligence is not required to post on this site. Hell, its not even encouraged. I've been called both a commie and a nazi here all by the same poster in the same breath, so its refreshing to have a conversation without all the needless cowardice of anonymous B....slapping. That crap is tedious. Very tedious.

Lets not forget they also remade Straw Dogs, another Peckinpah piece. If they're going to go through Peck movies, why not The Wild Bunch?

But Robert DeNiro mentally endorsing his check as he goes through the motions? That is a great line.

Geez, the guy just made a one sentence comment. I don't think he deserves to be called an idiot for it. Besides, he is making a valid point. We already know the release date. Most of the posters here are assuming (without many facts in evidence by the way) that the whole point of the movie is designed to make the One look good. Hence: No Real Surprise, whether its in September, October, or November 5th. Most October surprises in my long lifetime didn't get 14 month advance warnings. That's why the they're surprises, like GWBs drunk driving ticket. Did you know about that 14 months in advance?

Now, I neither believe that the movie will help Obama at the voting box, or that the movie will be some great love letter to his leadership. We were after OBL for almost 10 years. How much face time do you think O is going to get in the film?

So I think reason trumps research for the Canuck.

I'm with you on the director. I did not see any overtly political message in The Hurt Locker, although word of mouth I heard (not from this site) was pretty negative on Valley of Elah as another, "our soldiers are really just a bunch of torturers contracted by Big Oil Cos." I didn't see it for that reason though I usually will make my own judgments. There was a rash of those movies when the war was going south, and I put that down to agenda driving by Hollywood liberals. At that time, I thought the liberal premise of losing the war as a good idea a pretty lousy one to be promoting.

There is no movie capable of helping Obama get elected. He will have to rely on the ignorant, the overly forgiving, the racially motivated, and a media willing to shill for him in order to do that. And this time, I think he's just clearly over-matched.

I think the primary motivation for this film is to show what kind of ruthless scumbag OBL really was. BO will probably be mentioned as Commander in Chief only. No way do they have an actor strutting around the white house directing the action.

I'm not a huge fan of The Hurt Locker, but I thought it showed the military with some realistic respect. Maybe not the actions of the bomb sniffing squad, but I don't remember it being anti-military in any way. This could be a good movie about killing the biggest murderer since guys were Heiling Hitler, and in all probability, will show why he needed to get done.

The release date is completely transparent, but so was Farenheit 911 and that did nothing for Kerry.

Well, DVX, I hope not, because the story itself is not only important in that it shows our government actually finishing a job started ten years ago next month, but it also should show both what a ruthless, cold blooded group of enemies we have, and what fickle friends we have trying to defeat them.

You, and everyone else, including Maureen Dowd, (WTF!) is right about the release date. If this film is in any way true to facts, and not just a PROBAMA pic, it should be released on September 11, 2012. I don't care if its a Sunday.

Since he's the editor in chief, and this kind of BS is rather commonplace on this site, I don't hold out much hope, Mr. Holland.

Let me know if they do a post post edit like they did with the other reviewer who thought it was bad that the villain said an anti-American comment. Then wait for the wacko parade to hit you with the Nazi Commie label.

How about Kang the Conquerer?