Bad Movies Do Badly?

James Surowiecki at the New Yorker puts forth a radical hypothesis, so you should probably sit down as I say it. People say that Americans don't like movies about the war in Iraq or war on terror because these movies all do so badly at the box office. But James says probably what it really is is that those movies do so badly because they suck so bad. In other words, it's a spurious correlation. The war on terror movies have been consistently crap, and apparently the new Ridley Scott movie, Body of Lies, is no exception. I'm scoring James a point for this one, and adding him to my slim blog roll.