Posted on 05/31/2009 9:24:43 PM PDT by OneVike
I am currently reading a book written by a friend about movies. He has asked me to read it and write a book review for him. While I am reading his book, I would like to get an idea of where my fellow Freepers stand as to what you think about today's movies. I have learned in my 11 years as a member of Free Republic, to trust and respect the opinions here more than anywhere else I could go to on the WWW. I guess I would have to say that your opinions reflect the truest conservative points of view in this country. So I have set up a blog specifically to ask a poll question of my fellow Freepers. YOU!
I will leave this poll up until June, 7, 2009 at 11:59 PM, at which time I will use the results of the poll in my review of my friends book. When the article is finished, I will post the review here at FreeRepublic for everyone's consideration. I would tell you more about the book, but I would then ruin my chance at you caring to read my review. Well, I hope to get many, many, many, who will answer my poll question. Thanks for reading this through and God bless Jim Robinson and FreeRepublic.
OneVike
I didn’t go to the movies today.
No acting.
90% special effects which are not humanly possible in this universe.
So, who is your favorite actor, alive or dead?
Today’s movies are polluted with political correctness presented as tradition.
The only thing worse is watching our brain dead lap it up.
You can place today’s movies into three categories, propaganda for some crazy left wing cause or America bashing, teen junk, or promoting some perversion. You get a really good film once every five years or so.
The 90-120 minute movie is obsolete.
The series that run on cable are much more original than the endless Hollywood remakes. Cable series have time to develop characters, fewer stereotypical characters, and terrific writing.
I thought there was no hope for today’s movies till I saw Star Trek.
PIXAR movies are entertaining. About the only movies my husband and I look forward to, HOWEVER, there is a movie, BROTHERS AT WAR which isn’t getting much distribution that I’d like to see....documentary. We like documentaries and historical films, also...as long as they are not, “polluted”
with PC.
They’re crap.
The leftists in Hollyweird can use their celebrity to rail against America but they won't be doing it with my money.
Star Trek wins four of five stars from me.
Yah. What you said.
Bruce Willis, hands down. Fun movies, he’s a conservative who doesn’t talk about politics unless pressed, and again fun movies!
Yeah, about every 5 years or so now, a decent movie sneaks out. They need some competitio over there.
Maybe the advent of the technology being accessible to the little guy will give them that much-needed competition.
I’m 50 years old. I would be truthful and say that nothing much has changed over the past forty years.
There were titillating and raunchy movies in the 1970s...just beyond the level of decency...which is pretty much what you see today.
There were big-budget movies in the 1970s and 1980s...which were total failures just like some movies of today.
There were actresses and actors in the 1970s and 1980s....who could not act, yet were pronounced ‘stars’...pretty much like you have today.
The changes? Disney isn’t Disney anymore....drive-in movies were probably better than the 2-star movies of today...we were lectured with actual real moral dilemmas versus the bogus dilemmas of today...we sometimes got 5-stars movies out of minor league vehicles (Ole Yeller) unlike today where minor league movies are simply minor league movies....and finally, the one and only improvement is that there are foreign films which are more readily available today which tend to be better than some of the trash produced in the US.
braveheart, gladiator, black hawk down, and enemy at the gates come to mind.
Generation Kill.
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