The last few months of 2001 was not a happy time in America and the terrorist attacks of September the 11th had a number of strange coincidences associated with them. the Look that up on YouTube real weird.

The Koo's fourth studio album, Party Music, was poised for release,

but was pulled from shelves because the cover featured an image of the Twin Towers

being exploded by Boots Riley and Pam the Funstress using a drum machine as a detonator,

and I will brag a bit that I actually own a copy of the CD with the original album art.

We were still stunned, and for a long time after that day we walked on cultural eggshells

What was appropriate given the way the world had changed? It didn't seem all that clear how long the emotional half life of that shared experience would be.

There's a whole list on Wikipedia of films that were cancelled or delayed or changed in some

way in the wake of 9-11, but in November that year 20th century Fox went ahead and put today's film in wide release.

One of the first war film theaters after the attack that put our country into a totally different relationship with war.

The critics hated it, but the film found a big audience and made more than $90 million against

a $40 million production budget.

Seems like we wanted to see a film where Team USA was winning,

whether or not it was good.

And spoiler alert, this film is most certainly not good.

Our main character is the disaffected Lieutenant Burnett played by Owen Wilson.

Jean Hackman is Admiral Regert, head of an American carrier group under NATO command, and he is sick and tired of Lieutenant Burnett for saying,

wow about everything. They're in a war zone, Bosnia to be specific, and due to the ill favor he's carried with the brass navigator Burnett and his pilot

Stackhouse gets sent on a Christmas Day surveillance flight over the DMZ they were just

supposed to take pictures because the the war is over. There's a ceasefire

that NATO is attempting to delicately reshape into a lasting peace. And this flight is supposed to be

no big whoop.

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