Gunner Palace
I had heard something about this, but it didn’t hit until I saw the clips on here. Somebody that actually understands soldiers, as far as I can tell, is making a movie. The clips on the page are ripping stuff–I want to see this movie and I want to see it now! Where can I buy the DVD?
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September 13th, 2004 at 1:33 pm
does anyone have a link to the clips, please post
January 24th, 2005 at 10:20 pm
http://www.gunnerpalace.com is now availiable with two trailers now….
January 27th, 2005 at 3:04 pm
Thanks much!
February 18th, 2005 at 8:53 am
Gunner Palace has its own website http://www.GunnerPalace.com
My brother was in this unit in Baghdad. He couldn’t be more pleased with out the documentary turned
out, as a real life true portrayal of the troops fighting for our freedom. The trailers are available on the website
through yahoo.com (the movies section). The movie is hitting there’s in March of 2005. I’ve had the privilage of
viewing it once already with my brother and the director at the Toronto Film Festival. It’s a great movie, especially for
anyone in the service, or who has a family member or loved one in the service.
March 7th, 2005 at 11:51 am
I had the privilege of seeing the premier of Gunner Palace this past weekend at the Angelica Theater in New York City. This is one of the most truthful documentaries of the war on Iraq! As an American who has a brother that served 14 months in Iraq, I can attest that every day I looked for an email, or waited for a phone call. Everyday I watched CNN or Fox News to see if anything bad, or good, had happened in his sector of Baghdad. I watched my mother and father cry out of joy when my brother returned home, safe and sound. I also read the paper when attackers killed 150 Iraqi soldiers, men who are trying to work to stabilize their own country so that they may have it back, and it wasn’t even worth front-page news. Bring this war back to the front pages, where it belongs. According to him, and his friends who served in Iraq, this movie hits the nail on the head as far as the American Soldier’s opinion and feelings about this conflict. That is according to a soldier, not according to a critic, or according to a journalist.
It is important for American’s to see this movie. Some argue that the movie contradicts what they see on CNN or Fox News, well perhaps that’s because this war is slowly becoming second page news. Things aren’t fine and dandy in Iraq, the war isn’t over like people seem to believe. People are still dying in Iraq, we’re already over 1,500 US service men and women who gave their lives for freedom, freedom not only in the US, but freedom in Iraq. These soldiers who are risking their lives every day deserve a chance to exercise their freedom of speech.
Every American, whether you are for or against the war, owes this to these soldiers. It’s because of these soldiers that we can so freely argue our own opinions on matters like war, politics, religion, or anything else for that matter. It’s because of these troops that we can say if we like or dislike a political figure and not have our hands chopped off, or mysteriously disappear. The director doesn’t have a political agenda here. People may watch this and say, “Oh it’s anti-war.†I frankly don’t see how you can go to war and come out thinking it’s a good thing. People are dying! How is that good? It doesn’t mean that it isn’t necessary in some cases.
If this movie if pro or anti anything, it is Pro-Soldier, and Anti-Silence. It’s anti-silence meaning that the talk of this war is becoming silence. It’s slowly slipping into 7th page news, behind Michael Jackson, Martha Stewart and Social Security. Some people may be tired of talking about the war, well guess what, these soldier’s are probably tired of dying in that war, and tired of watching their friends die. The families of soldiers are tired of waiting for weekly emails or phone calls so that they know their husband, brother, mother, sister, son or daughter are still alive!
Don’t watch this movie because you’re for or against this war, watch it because the war is till important to our nation! Most American’s don’t have a direct connection to the war, not every person on your block has a family member in the service like in the past wars (The World Wars, Korean Conflict, Vietnam). This movie gives every American that connection. It puts names and people to the numbers you hear on the news.