Could It Replace Waterboarding?

The film, Che, was released last December. Its production and marketing costs were between $40 million and $60 million. To date, it has earned slightly more than $1 million. At this rate, it will soon be known as Hollywood's biggest all-time box office bomb. Henry Louis Gomez, at Babalu, provides some commentary and a link to the story here.

Mel Brooks or Woody Allen could have turned a big profit on this subject as a mockumentary musical comedy. Perhaps we should simply thank the director, Steven Soderbergh, for creating a remarkably effective interrogation technique at no cost to the government. As for that bottom line, I hope he lost only his money in this disaster. Also like to think he learned a lesson or two.