Posted on 07/02/2004 5:53:40 AM PDT by bobjam
The Searchers
You've Got Mail
Sea Bisquit
Dirty Harry
Patton
When Harry met Sally
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
The Dear Hunter
Rocky
Forest Gump
Last of the Mohicans
Taxi Driver
To Kill A Mockingbird
Ferris Beullers Day Off
Seven Days In May
Singing in the Rain
The Wizard of Oz
Frankenstien
Continued:
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Black Hawk Down
The Magnificent Seven
Kelly's Heroes
I suppose that poses something of an ethical dilemma: Are we allowed to enjoy marxist art in the event that it backfires on them?
On a not entirely unrelated note, as an adult, I was rather surprised to learn how much of the literature I was forced to read as a teenager [in government schools] had been written by out-and-out marxists: Upton Sinclair, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway...
Heck, even most of the prominent children's authors of the twentieth century were, if not marxists, at least proto-marxists: Beatrix Potter, H. G. Wells, Ursula K LeGuin, Theodore "Dr. Ted" Seuss, Bill Peet...
And if you go into a Borders or a Barnes-N-Noble [or even a public library - but look out for the sodomites waiting for you in the bathroom], searching for a book to give a child, you'll find that 100% of all children's literature written in the last 30-40 years is pure, unadulterated, politically-correct, marxist-fascist claptrap.
1776 SOUNDTRACK LYRICS
The Egg
Adams:
It's a masterpiece, I say!
They will cheer every word, every letter
Jefferson:
I wish I felt that way
Franklin:
I believe I can put it better
Now then attend, as friend to friend
On our Declaration Committee
For us I see immortality
All:
In Philadelphia City
Franklin:
A farmer, a lawyer, and a sage
A bit gouty in the leg
You know it's quite bizarre
To think that here we are
Playing midwives to an egg
All:
We're waiting for the chirp, chirp, chirp
Of an eaglet being born
We're waiting for the chirp, chirp, chirp
On this humid Monday morning in this
Congressional incubator
Franklin:
God knows the temperature's hot enough
To hatch a stone, let alone an egg
All:
We're waiting for the scratch, scratch, scratch
Of that tiny little fellow
Waiting for the egg to hatch
On this humid Monday morning in this
Congressional incubator
Adams:
God knows the temperature's hot enough
To hatch a stone
Jefferson:
But will it hatch an egg?
Adams:
The eagle's going to crack the shell
Of the egg that England laid
All:
Yes, so we can tell, tell, tell
On this humid Monday morning in this
Congressional incubator
Franklin:
And as just as Tom here has written
Though the egg may belong to Great Britain,
The eagle inside belongs to us!
All:
And as just as Tom here has written
We say to hell with Great Britain!
The eagle inside belongs to us!
and he was invented by a Canadian...
As comedys go how about Stripes? … You got to love the Bill Murray goofball “Were Americans” speech at the drill practice in the motor pool
The Fabulous Baker Boys.
Michelle Pfeiffer in that red dress...
Well, it's SET in America.
See, the movie is a farce about what would happen if, one day, all Latino immigrants were to suddenly disappear. It has hilarious scenes of rich white people fumbling with garden hoses and can openers, lawns growing shaggy because nobody knows how to mow them, burgers not being flipped, that kind of thing. It's a charming, heart-warming look at the immigration situation in the border states.
But that last scene really ties it all together. Governor Schwarzenegger comes out onto the steps of the California State Capital in Sacramento, and announces that our disastrous State budget shortfalls have mysteriously disappeared... overnight! Our schools, suddenly, are no longer so crowded that they can't teach. Expenditures for social services have dropped so far so fast that the State can't spend all the money it's taken in. Police across the State report staggering drops in street crime, and our prison population has just been reduced by 30%. A fun, funny, pro-America movie, with a message!
At least... I assume it ends that way...
Red Dawn
What exactly would you tell a Euroweenie who accuses us of acting like cowboys who believe life is like a movie?
A classic
In Harms Way is awesome. Did you see the SciFi remake of 'Battlestar Galactica?' It seemed to me to borrow heavily from IHW, down to characters and situations. A classic never goes out of style.
You know, I've never watched that movie all the way through from beginning to end.
In fact, about all I can remember is them drinking the stag blood near the beginning, and then returning to town.
A couple of the later comments I must add to: Modern day liberalism is Euro-Asian socialism exported here. Therefore, it has a global collectivist ideology, and, by definition, is anti-American. No modern day liberal truly believes America is an exceptional, good nation. However, earlier in America, say, 40’s and prior, everyone was patriotic, or patriotism was the norm, to say the least.
On a secondary note, while the war movies are interesting and show a historic aspect, are there any good patriotic science fiction movies out there? Closer to the modern day? Independence Day and Armageddon are two good examples (America leading the way in defeating an alien enemy, America outright saving the world.)
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