Posted on 02/03/2012 10:07:30 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I prefer Dexter and Lumen.
Taken was a very un-PC movie. Many on the left hated it for just that reason, never mind the fact the the horror of sex-trade network exists. The left hated 24. The left hated Blackhawk Down. Both portrayed non-whites as very violent.
The left loves Bourne movies, however, since middle aged white men come off looking like slugs.
I think it’s very simple.
The vigilante embodies the concept of not only not relying on the collective for protection, but actually rejecting the collective as offering anything valuable to the individual.
Leftists HATE it when their collective is devalued and the individual is glorified.
They love being a victim, even if they have to imagine some way in which they've been victimized.
They look at victims as heros and regard people who fight back, or prepare to fight back, as too aggressive.
They strive to build a coalition of "victims" who have suffered imaginary class, race, gender, sexuality or environmental victimhood.
Even their rich and famous struggle to identify some slight that will help them maintain some victim cred. And if the celebrity's life is just too damn good to credibly claim victimhood, the unlucky-for-being-so-lucky celebutard finds ways to be photographed with victims, from whom they can osmose some reflected struggle.
Your going to get your wish. I hear it is in the works.
John T. Kelly/Clark would make Bronson’s character look like a pacifist.
Crap! Now I know the ending.
What if that really was the last movie on earth and I decided to watch it?
Dexter is the best!!!!!! A serial killer that hunts and kills.... Serial killers...
If that was the last movie on earth I would demand a recount.
Didn’t most critics love “Natural Born Killers?”
I would love to see the critics wetting themselves over “Law Abiding Citizen” with Gerald Butler, if they thought “Death Wish” or “Dirty Harry” were offensive!
Mark
To view another perspective--mine--on the conflicting views of society involved, Conflicting Views On Core Premises. People who love to see poetic justice delivered on the street in a good drama, not favorable to thuggery, generally believe in individual responsibility & accountability--those "nasty" qualities that made America possible. (Incidentally, those aforesaid qualities are the exact opposite of "fascism.")
William Flax
bfl
I didn’t care for the liberal bent in the last third of the movie.
Have you ever heard of the idea of the customer is always right?
And I think you just nailed it.
If you could even get it to the box office. political correctness ain’t subtle.
It used to be called a Crime Against the State’s Peace, thought they dropped that lingo a long time ago.
I just watched Clockwork Orange again. Was taken by the ways in which Alex reminded me of Dexter.
Ever since Obama’s immaculation, I wake up every day and it feels like 1978 all over again. So why not?
I used to love The Equalizer. Russell Crowe has supposedly bought the movie rights. I pray to God he does not actually make the film. That’s all Hollywood does any more...destroy old TV shows that I used to enjoy.
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