NY Times Rationalizes Why Anti-War Films Are Tanking

This is really lame, even by the low standards of the New York Times.

“Lions for Lambs,” the new Robert Redford/Tom Cruise movie about the Iraq War, disappointed at the box office this weekend, finishing fourth, according to boxofficemojo.com – behind “Bee Movie,” “American Gangster” and “Fred Claus.”

“Lions for Lambs” was hurt by lukewarm reviews, but it’s hardly the only Iraq War/war on terror movie to do disappointing business.

No, the reviews weren't lukewarm.

They were dreadful.

So now that Americans have turned their back on Hollywood's anti-war effort, how does the NYT portray it?

If ticket sales are any indication, the American people do not merely want to get out of Iraq — they don’t even want to spend some time at the multiplex thinking about it.

Weak.

Really weak.