Posted on 01/15/2009 6:53:12 PM PST by SeekAndFind
That movie didn't 'glorify' AIDS. It clearly showed the loss, to AIDS, of Forrest's only love, because of the promiscuous lifestyle she pursued after getting away from her abusive father.
Come to think of it, I haven't watched them in a while. I'll have to do that!
Mal: "I mean to mis-behave."
Yeah. Some liberals crowed that it was anti-weaponry, but that’s clearly not the case. Tony never said he would stop manufacturing and selling weapons permanently. He said he would halt operations until he could make sure the weapons weren’t falling into the hands of terrorists and being used against Americans.
I’m not sure they were giving it liberal overtones. I rolled my eyes when the Jimmy Carter speech began, but it was so pathetic and defeatist that I have to think the filmmakers were intentionally casting him in a bad light.
Herb Brooks was a Republican.
It was an excellent series, and the first I ever saw that addressed the fact that women and children were held prisoners in Japanese concentration camps. I had never know that, before.
In the mid-80's, there was a series on A&E called "Tenko", which dealt mostly with Japanese concentration camps for women and children. The movie Paradise Road dealt with the same subject, but focused on a group of women who used music to get themselves through the misery. We have the soundtrack, and the chorus that was formed out of that experience was wonderful.
I liked Pale Rider, myself. ;o)
I liked the idea that when they went to the Ministry of Magic, they didn't have to turn in their wands, they only had to let someone know they had one on their person. ;o)
Something tells me you've never read the Trilogy, NOR seen the movies, or at least weren't paying attention, if you did either.
Actually he said, "I will find you, no matter what occurs." It sounds stilted to our modern ears, but it was the way some folks talked back then, even, I daresay, backwoodsmen, who were raised on the formal language of the Bible.
It is a lovely soundtrack, and one that I don't have. I'll have to rectify that! ;o)
Martin Sheen was trying to do Shelby Foote’s accent, and failed miserably!
Truly a WONDERFUL film!
If the dialogue of the whole film had been that way I would agree. There were just a few lines like that which sounded very out of place.
I agree about the soundtrack. It is excellent.
GREAT poster!!
Nick Cage movies like Family Man & National Treasure have numerous conservative themes.
Respectively: family values are more important than material success, appreciation for history, the brilliance in the founding fathers’ documents, and the sacrifice of our forefathers...
Agree?
The Right Stuff
Apollo 13
How could this gem be missed?
Hopkins: "You can make fire from ice."
Baldwin: "Huh?"
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Screenplay by David Mamet by the way -— “The Edge”
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