Posted on 10/12/2008 10:43:14 AM PDT by Inkie
Hollywood used to be called the Dream Factory, but nowadays it seems to be grinding out as much propaganda as anything else. Next off the weary assembly line: Oliver Stone's "W.," which opens on Friday. If the trailer is any indication, this movie will depict our current president's life as an evolution from drunken loser to dangerous idiot -- and just in time for the election, too.
The director of "Nixon" and "JFK," Stone has shown himself to be a master of rewriting reality until it resembles his left-wing ideology, but he's by no means alone. For the past 30 years or so, Hollywood storytelling has been guided by a liberal mythos in which, for example, blacklisting communist screenwriters during the '50s was somehow morally worse than fellow-traveling with the Stalinist murderers of tens of millions ("Trumbo"); Che Guevara was a dashing, romantic liberator instead of a charismatic killer ("The Motorcycle Diaries"); and the worldwide violence currently being waged by Islamo-fascists is either a figment of our bigoted imaginations or the product of our evil deeds ("V for Vendetta").
Hollywood moviemakers, in other words, have been telling lies -- loudly, constantly and almost always in support of a left-wing point of view. And these lies are most prolific and tenacious when the Hollywood left is lying about itself. Here's a list of their most egregious whoppers:
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Has anyone seen “An American Carol” yet? Awesome movie.
Excellent piece.
In the Post, no less. I almost dropped my coffee cup.
I saw it. I didn’t like it.
Me too.
But the part about the state of Louisiana giving — I think -— Sean Penn $27 million in tax cuts to make a movie there will make you spit your coffee out all over your keyboard and not just drop it.
So put down the cup and move away from the computer.
ping
I really liked V for Vendetta. For whatever it may have got wrong, it got one thing right: “People should not be afraid of their governments ... governments should be afraid of their people.”
Does anyone actually buy a ticket to a Stone movie?
Why?
Yes. Took my son second day it was out. Great on many levels. Anyone on this site who doesn’t support this film should rethink that. I wouldn’t have missed it, but it was better than expected. There are some here at FR who have no sense of humor. Fine, just keep it to yourself. This movie is not only hilarious, but very important.
The last Movie I’ve seen was ‘Die Another Die’, before I saw ‘American Carol’. If Hollywierd would make movies that is not TRASH, maybe they’ll get more $$$.
i might rent this "mediocre" film just to stick it to hollyweird.
Vantage Point is not mediocre - it was well done and the way the story was told is unique. I enjoyed it immensely - we are the good guys in this movie, for sure.
Eh....you post something positive about the the film, proclaim that those who disagree don’t have a sense of humor, and instruct the poster who didn’t like it to ‘keep it to himself’? C’mon...now...this ain’t a liberal website...
The simple fact is a movie about Fallujah would make a ton of money. The bigshots who produce the current anti-war garbage must know that, but fear retaliation from the great majority of Hollyweird anti-Republican libs. Make the movie (Fallujah) Mr. Lib Producer, and you’ll make a fortune.
This coming from the Washington comPost? Did somebody leave the door open and logic sneak in????
I saw it and I forced my fiancee who was a member of the ACLU to go with me, and he didn’t hate it, and even thought most parts were funny (except for the ACLU zombies)
An excellent article!
This summer was a great time for movies. I rarely see movies but in this order I saw:
Iron Man - The lib reporter tried to get under his skin by calling him a war profiteer. She only really wanted to get under his blanket.
Indiana Jones. Fun movie and the problems with it were the same as Iron Man but for some reason that was over looked by the critics.
Wanted - A stupid movie but I was able to see Angie nekkid.
WALL-E - Wonderful movie. It was not the global warming movie the critics said it was.
The Mummy - I’m glad the last actress decided not to make the third movie. A movie about a close family fighting the undead.
I can’t wait for the new James Bond movie.
In the Seattle area it only opened and is only playing in the outlying theatres that are the last stop for movies on their way out.
Saw American Carol yesterday afternoon with my son (here in Calgary - where it’s only playing at one, second run cinema). Only six of us in the theater for the first show of the day; projector was aimed wrong so the subtitles ran off the bottom and the picture ran off the left side of the screen. I complained to the bimbos at customer service, who basically said “huh?”
But about the movie itself: I was disappointed; it wasn’t nearly as funny as I expected, though it definitely has its laugh out loud moments. It’s no Airplane!, though, and at times is more than a tad preachy (perhaps to get through to the audience). One part near the end caused me to tear up a bit, where the camera pans across the audience and American soldiers throughout history are seen standing on guard. A wonderfully touching moment.
It’s an important movie and we need to support it. I never go to movie theaters any more, but paid $12.50 a head happily yesterday to make a political statement.
cheers
Jim
A US, non-Hollywood production company could be huge money maker. Small budget movies (direct to video?) are potently excellent investment returns. It’s not the size of the revenue that counts, its percentage of the return on investment. Wish I had a few million...
I cannot agree with him more. Old Hollywood had soul and understood the American soul. Old Hollywood's movies are timeless. Old Hollywood set a high standard. New Hollywood is a cheap imitation of the Old, the Great, the Wonderful Hollywood that was. Old Hollywood actors were real American/International Heroes who knew what sacrifice meant. They knew the price of freedom. They knew the costs of war. Here are just a few examples of Old Hollywood Heroes. Today's actors cannot compare to the wonderful, deep, courageous Actors of yesterday. They were truly great not only on screen but in private.
James Stewart, Clark Gable, Humphrey Bogart (WW1), Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (Special Forces), Eddy Albert (Bronze Star), Henry Fonda (Bronze Star), Kirk Douglas, Audrey Hepburn (Dutch Resistance), Lee Marvin, Audie Murphy (most decorated U.S. Soldier ever), Jack Palance (Required facial reconstruction from terrible injuries received in 1943 when his B17 crash landed in Britain), Mickey Rooney, Jack Warden (A Screaming Eagle - 101st Airborne), Rod Stieger (Torpedoman, US Navy. Falsified his age to enlist at 16), Robert Stack (US Navy. Because of his expertise as an Olympic champion skeet shooter, he was assigned to teach anti-aircraft gunnery), Charles Durning (landed at Omaha Beach on D-day). Mr. Durning is still here with us today. Dear Sir, thank you for your wonderful service. Without men like you millions would suffer under tyranny. There are so many more Old Hollywood Actors who should be named....
New Hollywood this is what I strongly believe. You are cowards. You are shallow. You are beneath contempt. You all would wet your pants if you had to step up to the plate like those listed above. You are the laughing stock of middle America. You have nothing in common with us. You have earned our disrespect.
For thirty years they have churned out movies in which the psychopaths, the serial killers, the drug dealing monsters, the wife-beaters, the burned out mental cases are all Viet Nam vets, preferably Green Berets now out of control, gone over to the dark side, consciences seared by the evil they did in uniform or else the opposite, guilt-ridden by the evil they did in uniform.
How many hundreds or even thousands of movies are cranked out with ex-CIA or ex-military guys who want to atone for their past, or the flip side, use their supposed contacts or superhuman training to commit crimes with impunity.
It is impossible for Hollywood to simply make a movie in which the hero is a soldier who is unself-consciously heroic. Brave, noble, and true. There are millions who have served honorably and bravely under fire but you wouldn’t know it if you’ve misspent your life watching Hollywood movies.
Indeed, I’ve told people from abroad many times that if all you know about the United States is what you’ve seen in the movies, or the newspapers, you don’t know us at all. If thats what you know about us, you don’t know us.
Not much I could add. You did a good job of calling Hollywood what it is. Of course there are closet and not so closet conservatives within their ranks. And they slowly will make their voice and opinions known.
American Carol isn’t playing in my area (with one movie theater!). I am taking my wife to see Fire Proof this evening.
Great movie. I also enjoyed Astronaut Farmer.
I too can recommend Secondhand Lions. It is a classic. I cannot tell you how much I enjoy that movie. Each and every character is a gem, the screenplay is delightful, the acting, well it is Duvall and McCain and the Haley Joel Osment (the boy from The 6th Sense). It is worth purchasing and savoring.
Amen my fellow American!
Thanks for the suggestion.
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