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To: KeithMyloe

Not my favorite movie but a good movie I saw recently with a conservative theme was The Incredibles - but I only get to see movies like that because of the 5 year old in my house.


19 posted on 03/09/2005 8:02:06 AM PST by vabeachrepub
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To: Dashing Dasher

ping to you, missy.


22 posted on 03/09/2005 8:04:42 AM PST by pissant
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To: vabeachrepub
Not my favorite movie but a good movie I saw recently with a conservative theme was The Incredibles

I have been waiting for someone to bitch and moan about the "heteronormative" nature of The Incredibles nuclear family (the superhero mother actually is a housewife and does housework!), but so far, nothing. Thank God the designer Edna Mode was a woman (albeit voiced by writer-director Brad Bird) instead of a Queer Eye-inspired guy. I would have expected as much from a guy who used to write for The Simpsons.

BTW, Incredibles is the first halfway decent movie I have ever seen with the unendingly irritating milquetoast, Wallace Shawn. If you're not familiar with Shawn, imagine this: Woody Allen is Shawn on steroids. For years, a rule of thumb has been "If Wallace Shawn is in it, it's gotta suck."

I ran into Shawn while channel-surfing, finding him on PBS' NOW show (which I didn't know Bill Moyers didn't take with him into retirement). He has edited a journal full of anti-American screeds called Final Edition, and whined on about how uncomfortable it is to be a privileged American artist, although he admitted he wasn't ready to abdicate his position as such. Click here to read the transcript, if you have digested your last meal.

116 posted on 03/22/2005 8:48:54 AM PST by L.N. Smithee
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