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'Stop-Loss' loses b.o. battle but wages ideological war


April 04, 2008 The options were a glossy movie about a bunch of sexy MIT whiz kids beating the house in Las Vegas and a gritty movie about a bunch of sexy young soldiers who, after completing their tour of duty in Iraq, learn they are being redeployed to the front. In a "memo to Hollywood" posted on his site, Bill O'Reilly proclaimed "Stop-Loss" "a bomb, a major disaster at the boxoffice." Now, the common wisdom in Hollywood is that with the Iraq War still raging, it's too soon to ask moviegoers to revisit the war.

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