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Favorite Conservative Movies?

Posted on 05/04/2005 2:51:42 PM PDT by rogermonroe

I'm a liberal but growing increasingly disenchanted with the left. I'm also a movie fan. I'm looking for a list of the movies most beloved by conservatives, movies that support conservative ideals, films that make a good argument for conservatism. I figured this was the place to go. If you were making such a list, what would be on it? Rambo? Red Dawn? What?


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To: rogermonroe

RED DAWN

It's prophetic though a bit of a wimpy version of the coming reality.


121 posted on 05/05/2005 7:38:05 PM PDT by Quix (--AVOID MERE FORM OF GODLINESS; SEEK HIS FACE. WALK IN HIS SPIRIT.)
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To: rogermonroe

Though in the coming reality, it will be Mainland China and Mexicans across the Mexican border instead of Russians.

It will be Russians taking Alaska and the East Coast.

RED DAWN

It's prophetic though a bit of a wimpy version of the coming reality.


122 posted on 05/05/2005 7:39:12 PM PDT by Quix (--AVOID MERE FORM OF GODLINESS; SEEK HIS FACE. WALK IN HIS SPIRIT.)
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To: rogermonroe

Blazing Saddles.


123 posted on 05/05/2005 7:42:22 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: LibFreeOrDie

Thank you. I never saw either one of them though.

Another film that involves a clergyman who is not sneered at is Apostle with, and by, Robert Duvall. One can argue how true to life is to portray an evangelical minister as guilty of murder (crime of passion), and the movie suffers from the stereotypical appearance of a gang of racist rednecks, but Duvall's gripping performance and overall sincere sympathy to faith sincerely felt puts the movie, in my opinion, in the positive category.


124 posted on 05/05/2005 7:49:22 PM PDT by annalex
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To: Jim Robinson

I thought I was the only Freeper male that cried at such movies.


125 posted on 05/05/2005 7:54:03 PM PDT by Quix (--AVOID MERE FORM OF GODLINESS; SEEK HIS FACE. WALK IN HIS SPIRIT.)
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To: Kenny Bunkport
While not meant to be a conservative movie, I think all conservatives love "Dr. Strangelove." Maybe it's the cavalier attitude toward nuclear war. :-)

Intelligent people of all political stripes love that movie. The reason is that it is hilarious. "Gentlemen! There's no fighting in the war room!" "But, but you can't let that Russian in here, he'll see the big board!" It's just funny. Every character in that movie is played to perfection, and I still laugh until I almost pee at Sellers' Strangelovian monologue at the end, when he's fighting against his own arm which is displaying a mind of its own with Nazi tendencies. It's priceless.

126 posted on 05/05/2005 7:55:42 PM PDT by Orbiting_Rosie's_Head
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To: rogermonroe
Red Dawn - first ever PG-13 movie.

I had thought that Red Dawn was R when it was first released, and that Dreamscape was the first PG-13 movie. I do know there have been some films whose ratings have been reassigned over the years; I don't know if there's any guide for what movies were 'originally' rated.

127 posted on 05/05/2005 7:58:11 PM PDT by supercat ("Though her life has been sold for corrupt men's gold, she refuses to give up the ghost.")
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To: rogermonroe

Friendly Persuasion

Synopsis

Jess and Eliza Birdwell (Gary Cooper and Dorothy McGuire) are prosperous Indiana farmers of the Quaker faith in 1863 Indiana, Union territory threatened by Confederate raiders. Prim, devout, and a bit blind to the worldly yearnings of her family, Eliza (an ordained Quaker minister herself) is constantly defeated by outside temptations, as represented by the gambling, dancing, music and fighting of the county fair. Her resistance is mostly in vain: her husband has a passion for unseemly buggy-racing, her daughter Mattie (Phyllis Love) is enraptured by a non-Quaker Yankee soldier, and her youngest, Little Jess (Richard Eyer) has sadistic ideas about strangling her house pet, a Goose named Samantha. When Jess brings a forbidden musical instrument, an organ, into the house, reconciling her beliefs with reality becomes more difficult. Finally, the outside world erupts into the Birdwell's peaceful existence in a way that cannot be ignored. Older son Josh (Anthony Perkins) takes up arms with the militia to oppose the Confederates, and the possibility of real war destroying the entire valley puts Eliza's principles to the test.


128 posted on 05/05/2005 8:12:59 PM PDT by Palladin (Proud to be a FReeper!)
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To: supercat

According to IMDB Red Dawn was the first released with a PG-13. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Gremlins were the movies largely responsible for the rating as both were thought to need more then a PG and less then an R.


129 posted on 05/05/2005 8:20:15 PM PDT by Mr. Blonde (You know, Happy Time Harry, just being around you kinda makes me want to die.)
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To: Mr. Blonde
According to IMDB Red Dawn was the first released with a PG-13. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Gremlins were the movies largely responsible for the rating as both were thought to need more then a PG and less then an R.

Hmm... interesting. My memory is that when I was growing up, Red Dawn played at the local theater one week before Purple Rain, and I couldn't go to either because both were rated R. I think I would have remembered if it had been PG-13, but it's possible I'm mistaken.

130 posted on 05/05/2005 8:33:31 PM PDT by supercat ("Though her life has been sold for corrupt men's gold, she refuses to give up the ghost.")
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To: rogermonroe

Braveheart, Red Dawn, Rocky IV, Iron Eagle, Demolition Man, The Running Man.


131 posted on 05/05/2005 8:43:57 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan ("Get in the ring!")
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To: annalex
Perhaps more libertarian than conservative, but still deserving a mention is "Brazil".

Good pick, although that was one strange movie.

132 posted on 05/05/2005 8:46:35 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan ("Get in the ring!")
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To: Dan from Michigan

Top Gun, Die Hard Trilogy, Last Boy Scout,


133 posted on 05/05/2005 8:49:58 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan ("Get in the ring!")
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To: Dan from Michigan
strange movie.

With the passage of time, it looks less and less strange to me.

134 posted on 05/05/2005 9:45:44 PM PDT by annalex
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To: rogermonroe

Lord of the Rings trilogy. Not only a good story in itself it is good versus evil (no "shades of gray" bull or other leftist cr@p), and Saruman and Sauron and their forces have an interesting parellell to Islamofascism.


135 posted on 05/06/2005 12:39:21 AM PDT by Paul_Denton (Get the UN out of the US and US out of the UN!)
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To: JillValentine
I can definitely see Helen Thomas rooting for the orcs. "They look almost as ugly as me! I want them to win!"

Jane Fonda not only roots for Orcs. She is so ugly (both physically and in heart) that she might as well BE AN ORC!

Micheal Mooreon clearly roots for Orcs.

136 posted on 05/06/2005 12:46:26 AM PDT by Paul_Denton (Get the UN out of the US and US out of the UN!)
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To: No Longer Free State
Best movie ever: "True Grit", which proves even a young girl can beat back the biggest, ugliest, meanest forces of evil if she merely sticks to her values, allies herself with a man of principle, and learns how to tighten her shot group.

I Love True Grit. Own that one.

137 posted on 05/06/2005 12:50:01 AM PDT by Paul_Denton (Get the UN out of the US and US out of the UN!)
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To: Orbiting_Rosie's_Head
Intelligent people of all political stripes love that movie.

That's why it's a conservative's movie! It requires intelligence to appreciate. :-)

138 posted on 05/06/2005 9:15:42 AM PDT by Kenny Bunkport
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To: Arioch7

Iron Eagle


139 posted on 05/06/2005 9:23:39 AM PDT by Sybeck1
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To: Dan from Michigan

Omega Man


140 posted on 05/06/2005 9:26:16 AM PDT by Sybeck1
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