They tend to offer cartoonishly simple and violent solutions to complex problems...
You mean like...?
Oh wait! Those were on Hillary's watch.
They’re good.
They’re not woke.
Current movies are so computerized green screen fake I don’t how people can sit through them
Poppycock!
Ronald Reagan said: They say if we'll only avoid any direct confrontation with the enemy, he'll forget his evil ways and learn to love us. All who oppose them are indicted as warmongers. They say we offer simple answers to complex problems. Well, perhaps there is a simple answer - not an easy answer but simple: If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right.
We cannot buy our security, our freedom from the threat of the bomb by committing an immorality so great as saying to a billion human beings now enslaved behind the Iron Curtain, "Give up your dreams of freedom because to save our own skins, we're willing to make a deal with your slave masters." Alexander Hamilton said, "A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one." Now let's set the record straight. There's no argument over the choice between peace and war, but there's only one guaranteed way you can have peace - and you can have it in the next second - surrender.
Admittedly, there's a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson of history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face, that their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and it gives no choice between peace and war, only between fight or surrender. If we continue to accommodate, continue to back and retreat, eventually we have to face the final demand, the ultimatum. And what then, when Nikita Khrushchev has told his people he knows what our answer will be? He has told them that we're retreating under the pressure of the Cold War, and someday when the time comes to deliver the final ultimatum, our surrender will be voluntary, because by that time we will have been weakened from within spiritually, morally, and economically. He believes this because from our side he's heard voices pleading for "peace at any price" or "better Red than dead," or as one commentator put it, he'd rather "live on his knees than die on his feet." And therein lies the road to war, because those voices don't speak for the rest of us.
In the 80s men were men, women were women, and no one was confused about the two.
Chuck Norris, “Eye For An Eye,” “Missing in Action.” Stallone as Rambo. The Gipper in office.
I watch numerous old TV series from the 80s and 90s. The ‘wokeness’ was creeping in even then.
I watch some foreign-English-dubbed TV series. They are about as ‘woke’ as the American TV, except that the leftist politics seems to be less obvious.
I usually record anything I watch or stream so I can fast-forward through the ‘woke’ crap. Some TV shows get reduced to 30 out of 42 minutes by zipping through the crap sections.
Commando is on YouTube for free now. Watched it a few weeks back. Still a great popcorn flick.
mindless escapism wiout being scolded for 90mins
Yippie-kay-Yeah, MF-er.
None of the movies made in the ‘80s would survive the current cancel culture. That’s why we seek them rather than the new ones.
Fubar is good name for a movie about the woke.
They tend to offer cartoonishly simple and violent solutions to complex problems...
You mean like...?
Oh wait! Those were on Hillary's watch.
Same pathologies that were present in the ‘80s are back. Rampant crime. Urban decay. Feckless government unconcerned about real problems that effect real people, with head in clouds in lala land. Administrative state designed to crush the soul out of free men. Schwarzenegger even got with the times and did a mini-series called FUBAR. New stars are coming forward now. Old stars still have some game.
The quality of popular films and music seemed to drop precipitously after about 2006.
Is there really nostalgia for 80s action films?
Maybe people just got sick of all the superhero comic book garbage.
“and remind us that in real life we shouldn’t wait for someone else to save us.”
Like this snowflake puke waits on the government.