I agree.
I don't think there is any other movie of this genre that causes liberals to come so quickly and utterly unglued as the original Red Dawn.
Posted on 07/03/2015 6:16:56 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
With the fascist left on a fascist rampage, why not add a little defiance to your 4th of July by watching five patriotic movies that piss off The Man. The Man of course being the dominant Left-wing political culture that is currently banning “The Dukes of Hazzard” and hoping to get its tyrannical hands on “Gone With the Wind.”
The Green Berets (1968)
Because he loved America and freedom and didn’t want to see either lose a vitally important war, John Wayne spent a lot of his movie star capital directing and starring in “The Green Berets” for Warner Brothers. Critics blistered him in ways unseen until Mel Gibson dared bring the Gospels to life in “The Passion of the Christ.” Audiences, however, showed up in droves, and were treated to a marginal but entertaining movie, and most importantly, a prophetic one.
In the film, Wayne predicts that if the Left wins and America abandons Vietnam, other countries will fall to communist tyranny, and our Vietnamese allies will be murdered and tortured.
And that is exactly what happened.
John Wayne was 100% correct, he had their number, and that makes the Left angrier than anything.
BONUS: Watch racist George Takei sell his left-wing soul for a small role in a right-wing propaganda film.
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Hollywood never gets the uniforms right. Or haircuts.
Yes! The Patriot and Red Dawn (the original one with Patrick Swayze) are pretty much my two favorite movies of all time.
Do Dinish D’Souza’s documentaries count?
No. Too boring especially the movie “America”.....if you are going to make political right movies at least make them good. His first one was decent, the second one was dreadful and don’t get me started on American Carol....worst movie in history.
The movie Patton, in deference to an old guy I knew who didn't think well of Patton, was actually pretty danged good and was scripted from a real biography of him.
Speaking of Gary Cooper, he was in a movie about WWII naval aviation called "Task Force", with Walter Brennan and I forget who else. Probably doesn't get much show these days because of a rather politically incorrect snippet with some black sailors.
Also I thought Midway, with Harlton Cheston was good.
Let's see, what else...
Well, anything with John Wayne in it... The Sands of Iwo Jima, The Fighting Seabees.
"Battle of the Bulge" was rather insipid...
Oh, yeah... Twelve O'clock High.
I'll think of some more.
And more recently, American Sniper gets five stars.
I must be more easily entertained as I did not think it was boring. Perhaps if he did them ala Michael Moore or like some of those awful dramatizations of history on cable?
“The Final Option” (aka “Who Dares Wins” in Britain) was also a good pro-western movies made in the 80’s. It was set in the cold war climate in which it was made. While it takes place in England and the main hero is British, it has a pro-American/pro-western message which was rare for the time, and even rarer now. Liberal film critics hated it, so that tells alot.
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I agree.
I don't think there is any other movie of this genre that causes liberals to come so quickly and utterly unglued as the original Red Dawn.
THAT movie wants to make you thank a WWII vet.
Did you like American Carol too?
How about John Wayne’s “Hondo”. The left hates movies about tough, self-reliant men. Or the John Wayne classic “The Searchers”. Never forget when John Wayne finds the young girl he’s been looking for, played by Natalie Wood in one of her first roles, she does not want to leave the Indian who kidnapped her five years earlier. He looks at her in disgusts and tries to shoot her. Not too many liberals going to like that one. She’s been with an Indian, don’t bother bringing her back, just shoot her!
The combat scene in Forrest Gump in Vietnam, with all the tracer bullets and resulting carnage made me cringe.
Then it made me angry that the Dems lost that war for us.
GWTW? That doesn’t rate in this collection AT ALL!
I love the movie, but even with the joy of angering liberals, it doesn’t even rate a mention in a list of patriotic movies.
Never saw it or anything he has done. I don’t care for Moore. I was teasing you. His TV Nation was mildly entertaining but his smugness is intolerable.
I remember him being on Donahue (It was on in the barracks or on ship or something). They did a show in Flint, MI after Roger and Me came out. That audience of auto workers nearly ate Moore up. They wanted the money he was making on that alleged documentary to be given directly to them. Moore genuinely looked scared.
If series count, what about Band of Brothers? I also liked The Pacific and I think of From the Earth to the Moon as a patriotic flick.
Wow, funny you should bring up ‘Hondo’. I just watched it for the first time a couple days ago. Great movie. There’s nothing like a good John Wayne movie. ‘Big Jake’s another great one. I haven’t seen ‘The Searchers’ but I’ll make sure to check it out.
True....he is such scum and I don’t say that about very many people......I even put Moore under the President. I just hate him. He paid for that nasty woman who took down the Confederate Flag this week to get her out of jail and pay all lawyer costs. I despise him.
Happy 4th of July!!!!
7. Gods and Generals. REALLY pizzes them this year.
Independence Day viewing schedule in my household:
July 2 = Gods and Generals
July 3 = Gettysburg
July 4 = 1776
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