Posted on 02/09/2008 4:42:35 AM PST by PJ-Comix
Last night I watched on cable for the first time, The Lost City. It was directed by and starred Andy Garcia. This movie was about a nightclub owner at the time prior and after the takeover of Cuba by Fidel Castro. It was the most realistic portrayal of the Fidelistas I have ever seen and therefore one of the best, if not THE best anti-communist movie ever made which is why it was shunned by Hollyweird.
Despite the rarity of anti-communist movies from Hollywood, there have been a few. Which of these anti-communist movies do you think is the best? Some of these movies were so campy, such as My Son John as to be FUnnie. Others, like Big Jim McLain starring John Wayne were just okay although there was one great scene where Wayne's VO talks about the James Arness character who was killed by communist thugs in Hawaii. Dr. Zhivago was more of a romantic flick than political although it did have some interesting portrayals of the Bolsheviks. Red Dawn was a good action flick but it was a bit too comic book to be a great anti-communist movie.
So I'll toss it out to you folks. Which film do you think was the BEST anti-communist movie ever made?
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THE BEST anti-communist film ever made will be a 2009 film (ie ‘the next one’) about 2008-The Year that EXXON took on Jugo Chavez, the world’s #1 economic terrorist....Jugo just found out why economic terrorism doesn’t work!
PEDEVESA just got ‘chavezed’
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080209/venezuela_exxon.html?.v=2
I love Exxon!.......finally a productive use for lawyers and oil money!
Now if Oil Barron Bush can just convince all the other US Oil Companies that Jugo is raping and pillaging we’ve got a horse race! I believe Boosh can beat Jugo at his own game.....ie,
WE WIN, THEY LOSE! I love President Bush....aka little reagan.
“In a Jan. 24 “freezing injunction” by a British High Court, the court said that “until the return date or further order from the court,” PDVSA “must not remove from England or Wales any of its assets which are in England or Wales up to the value of $12 billion.”
The court also said that if PDVSA disobeys the order, it could be held in contempt of court and be fined or have assets seized.”
“...most of PDVSA’s assets are located in Venezuela and the United States, where the company has refineries.”.....looks like EXXON may be ‘acquiring’ new refineries after all!
Americans need to DEMAND that EXXON and ConocoPhillips WIN, and WIN substantially...feel free to write your Congressman!
This should be the 2008 Good v. Evil poster child for capitalism v. communism....all the way to Election day. And Congress, The White House and the Judiciary needs to be fully engaged!
Another vote for Other People's Lives which I've heard great things about but haven't seen yet.
The Lives of Others. Clearly, in my opinion.
I think Fountainhead ranks pretty high up there. Also, From Russia with Love wasn’t too bad. On the other side of the ledger, I’d nominate just about any movie ever made by that lying commie pig Henry Fonda as among the most communist.
ML/NJ
Rocky IV as well! They even managed to get a newly installed Gorby look a like in the film.
Red Dawn
You must see this movie! It has one of the best endings ever in a film, very touching.
Other movies,
Goodbye, Lenin!
The Inner Circle
Dr. Zhivago
The Lost City
Most of the anti-commie movies of the ‘50s — My Son John, Big Jim McClain, I Married A Communist, I Was A Communist For The FBI — were pretty awful. The best of these were probably the films of Samuel Fuller, notably Pickup On South Street.
Also notable is Man On A Tightrope, directed by Elia Kazan right after he testified before HUAC (and just before he made On The Waterfront). Although forgotten today, it was one of the better films in this group, perhaps because it was more of an escape thriller than political tract.
Animal Farm?
“The Unbearable Lightness Of Being” is a good one. I don’t know if it is obvious, but there is a subtle but very anti-National Health Care tone to this. I don’t know if this was intentional or not, since it mainly shows the general folly of Communism and Socialism.
Sometimes they can be about as accurate as wiki. Haven’t seen it but I think this is it
http://www.sonyclassics.com/thelivesofothers/
Go Get it. Great movie.
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