This trailer for The Tillman Story has been out for a few days now, and I probably should’ve posted it sooner, because I sense there’s quite a bit of interest in it. I read the Rolling Stone story that got General McChrystal fired last week, and though for the most part I thought he came off as plainspoken without saying anything particularly inflammatory and didn’t necessarily seeing what all the fuss was about, by far the most damning part was about his central role in the Pat Tillman cover up. Anyway, here’s a movie about it. It opens August 20th. You should do your duty as an American and go see it. If the documentary’s popular enough, they’ll probably turn it into a big Hollywood blockbuster starring Channing Tatum. Ouch. It hurt me to type that. But you know it’s true.
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He intercepted the fuck out of that friendly fire!
Tillman just had to be a bad ass NFL guy and get himself killed. Had he been an MLS player, he could have just tripped over a rock and rolled around on the ground while holding his face and maybe gotten a purple heart.
Pat Tillman would be alive and well to this day and for along time to come if he had only committed himself to Twilight instead of football. Oh, and yes, avoiding the whole military service thing.
Picking fights with the Vice President and having your aides describe diplomacy in France as “Fucking Gay” as well as calling a former Commandant of the Marines a clown is only not-inflammatory because this is Filmdrunk.
I’m pretty sure that McChrystal signed his own resignation letter when he repeatedly showed the Troops in Afghanistan his “Boss” throwing a baseball like a bitch.
I’m going to refrain from making a jump shot joke on fear of the Secret Service busting down my door and popping a cap in my ass.
You can’t really blame him for stuff his aides say. And if he knew all those things were on the record, than yeah, I agree. But come on, you’re telling me 80% of those guys don’t say the exact same things in private? It seemed a little like busting a guy for locker room talk. Not that I think he’s a great guy or that we’re not better off without him, it just struck me as a little unfair. Context is important.
I really want to make a joke right now, but no matter what your political views are, you’ve got to admit that Pat Tillman is the definition of Bad-Ass.
I hear that his squadmates mistook him for a rock and that’s pretty much all there is to shoot at out there. It’s kinda sad really because for a little while, the guy who shot him actually thought he had finally solved that “can’t squeeze blood from a stone” thing. He must have been really disappointed, I feel badly for him.
You ought to hear what we say about you when you’re not around, Vince. I’ve heard shit that would turn you white!
I mean, the dude fucking VOLUNTEERED to be in that environment with those trigger-happy dipshits. I don’t have anywhere near the balls to do that – I’d be so afraid of getting shot. And THEN the dude goes and joins the Military.
If this is a business leader, a sports personality, or even a politician, I agree with you 100%. The military is held to a higher standard and McChrystal is responsible for the things his aides say, especially when those things go on the record (which he or his loud-mouthed aides should have prevented, knowing full well the military’s history with the press).
The whole situation with Afghanistan is a clusterfuck and McChrystal isn’t the only guy who should be losing his job over it, but he’s definitely a guy who should have gone.
Of course, with the arm-chair quarterbacking (GRRRR….FOOTBALL REFERENCE), McChrystal never should have gotten that command in the first place after signing off on a falsified report regarding Tillman’s death. Obama dropped the ball on this one, kind of like when he threw out that first pitch.
I’m going to refrain from making any jokes at Tillman’s expense or any other fallen soldier’s for that matter. It may not seem like it here very much, but I do actually have standards.
*cracks the top on a plain label beer, heads out the door to find a toothless meth head skank to rawdog*
J-what the fuck. If you don’t want to cut a soldier joke becasue youa re afraid Uff and Epic Beard Guy are gonna kick your ass, that is fine. Being a spineless baktag is not a shameful reason for not making a joke.
HOWEVER, pretending to have standards on Filmdrunk IS!
Stop. Right. There. If some asshole on the Face Books can get Bety White on SNL, then we can all keep C-Tate from playing P-Tills on the silver screen.
THIS MUST NOT HAPPEN ON OUR WATCH.