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?
RED DAWN
It's prophetic though a bit of a wimpy version of the coming reality.
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.
Blazing Saddles.
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.
I thought I was the only Freeper male that cried at such movies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Braveheart, Red Dawn, Rocky IV, Iron Eagle, Demolition Man, The Running Man.
Good pick, although that was one strange movie.
Top Gun, Die Hard Trilogy, Last Boy Scout,
With the passage of time, it looks less and less strange to me.
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.
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.
I Love True Grit. Own that one.
That's why it's a conservative's movie! It requires intelligence to appreciate. :-)
Iron Eagle
Omega Man
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