Posted on 01/14/2013 7:49:45 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I admit to using the word "conservative" loosely -- we are talking about Hollywood, after all. It here refers to those films that are at least respectful of the American experience and generally supportive of faith, family, and/or country. A film can score as much as 50 on the quality scale and 50 on the conservative scale, the latter graded on a Hollywood curve. The two values are equally weighted. Although it may not seem obvious, 2012 was a better year than most.
10. Dark Knight Rises 75
In the third of Christopher Nolan's trilogy, Batman comes out of retirement to battle "Bane," the kind of action hero only an Occupy Wall Streeter could love. In full OWS mode, Bane schemes to overthrow the ruling class and blow up Gotham City until thwarted by one-per center Bruce Wayne, a.k.a. Batman. Indeed, not even Scrooge McDuck had a butler. Q 35, C 40.
9. Hitchcock 77
This underappreciated film chronicles Alfred Hitchcock's ordeal as he attempts to make Psycho, a movie that would have made no conservative's list when released 50-plus years ago. What commends this film is its surprisingly sensitive portrayal of the Hitchcocks' marriage. I say "surprisingly" because marriage is a subject with which few in Hollywood have any lasting experience. Q 40, C 37.
8. Anna Karenina 78
The new movie version of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina might be a bit stagy for some tastes, but any movie that -- a) stars Keira Knightley and b) allows Leo Tolstoy's contempt for liberalism to play itself out on screen -- is surely worth watching. In the novel of the same name, Anna's feckless brother adopts a liberal attitude in the same spirit he smokes cigars, says Tolstoy archly,"for the slight fog it diffused in his brain." Not much has changed.
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Keira Knightley.
Yum.
This author sucks! The TWO most conservative movies were Courageous and Last Ounce of Courage are the best conservative movies of 2012! And that my FRiends is no joke!!!!
Haven’t seen a couple, but “Flight” and “Lincoln” and “Act of Valor” are terrific.
The remake of Red Dawn??
“10. Dark Knight Rises”
Saw that just last week. IIRC Batman makes a statement about not liking guns or something to that effect.
Also, I understand Anne hathaway is a big anti gun lib. I guess she can overlook all the violence in this movie to fatten her bank account. What a hypocrite.
Personally, I liked “The Greater Glory” (Viva Cristo Rey). It’s hard to translate conservative/liberal into the politics of another country (especially through the lens of history), but I think Greater Glory qualifies as conservative because it depicts the struggle of Christians against autocrats who tried to limit their freedom to worship.
Lincoln...the beginning of the end of America. Birth of a liberal nation. The only thing that surprised me was that they didn’t have him “rise again on the third day.”
My favorite was “Seven Days in Utopia” with Robert Duvall. it should have been included.
But he killed lots of vampires, with an axe!
LOL!
Slavery was not the important issue to Lincoln—power and control over the lives of others were issues that drove him. I’m a tax slave myself and I don’t like it. If we put the 650000 young boys ordered to death by this tyrant in the perspective of today’s population, I don’t support sending 6.5 million boys to kill each other for the aggrandizement of some power-infested politician. I place no greater value on Lincoln’s life than I do any of some of those 15 and 16 year kids that were enslaved to kill each other. No mans life is worth more than another.
RE: But he killed lots of vampires, with an axe!
One of the worst movies of the year.
SPOILER ALERT... DON’T READ ON IF YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW ANYTHING ELSE ABOUT THE MOVIE...
I was willing suspend disbelief and grant the premise of the movie, but VAMPIRES LIVING IN DAYLIGHT turned me off.
I hate it when they change the characteristic of vampires. I want them to be like Dracula.
Batman has most always been “anti-gun” ... though its a personal code rather than a political statement.
There’s a different dynamic when you’re a vigilante, as opposed to an innocent. He’s technically a criminal himself. He needs a code to separate himself from the murderers he hunts. So, he won’t execute criminals on site, and he won’t use a gun. It is a point of differentiation between his criminality, and theirs ... not really a statement on guns themselves.
SnakeDoc
I’d rather they be like Barnabas Collins...
You’re off by a few generations. Introduction of slavery and the support of it by a corrupt DEMOCRAT Party was and is the problem. Today, the only people who want to (still) enslave anyone are Dems. Only the REPUBLICAN Party under Lincoln had as the top of its platform the ending of slavery in the territories. Neoconfederates just can’t deal with the simple truth that their section of the country not only believed in slavery, but put it in their constitution, not once, but thrice.
Didn’t I see you on “big bang theory”? lol
You know this because - you meet him at a seance or something?
Democrats do not believe this any more today than they did 150 years ago.
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