The new film “Stop-Loss” about a soldier who tries to stop his battalion from going back to Iraq is making entertainment news among the right side of the blogosphere. But not because it’s making any money.

No, it’s because the right side of the blogosphere predicted that the film would be a money loser. And they were right.

This past weekend, the film, starring Ryan Phillipe, made $4.5 million over the weekend. But why did MTV Films greenlight this film? Although it got decent reviews, it still managed to underperform to expectations.

The typical liberal thinking at this point says that people want to escape from reality, and with the war still going on, people “aren’t ready” for these films yet.

Then there’s the theory I subscribe to – the reason these films have not done so well at the box office is because they are anti-American. They portray the troops as monsters who are turned that way by the government. And people don’t want to see that.

But they keep producing the films, hoping that at least one of them will make money. One of the excuses they use is that they have to think of the global market when making these films, and that the rest of the world hates America enough to go see them.

Um, no. Libertas, the Liberty Film Festival’s blog, points out that overseas, the anti-Americanism isn’t playing, either. Except for the Tom Cruise film “Lions for Lambs,” which had a respectable number, most of these films did not do well in other lands. In fact, three films that did incredibly well overseas – “National Treasure” and its sequel “Book of Secrets,” along with “Transformers” – all did very well in the foreign market. And all three films are pro-American films.

For more proof of this, the film “Vantage Point,” again a pro-American film, has already made $61 million overseas in the past six weeks.

I think a lot of these studios are deluded on their thinking because of the success of “Fahrenheit 9/11,” a very anti-American film that did do well at the box office. But even that film had to fight some controversy on its release, despite the revenues. Most people went because they either wanted something to complain about, or because they wanted their own opinions affirmed. So the film basically was preaching to the choir.

Bottom line, people are more conservative than what Hollywood takes them for. The evidence is in the box office.