Limp 'Biscuit' [Review of 'Seabiscuit' with political shot at Republicans and conservatives]

Fort Worth Star-Telegram ^ | July 25, 2003 | Christopher Kelly

[Lopeover]

Ya know what? Chicks are people too and we watch movies. The nerve of that SOB! Hey bud, quit the biz cuz you are no good at it!

I am so profoundly irritated with leftist trolls and their moronic opinion of what I should prefer in a movie!

If I don't like movies that show young stick-like women as sex objects, bumping and grinding their pelvic bones or people having gratuitous sex and nudity, violence, drugs, guys with big dicks, fat heads and stupid BS bravado dialogue, carrying big guns & crashing cars then I am glad to be in the tasteless group!!

What a wonderous day when Hollywood's grotesque elite will get back to telling a good story instead of remaking oldies and mass producing the same old same old assembly line sex & violence crap!

Sign me a fan of Seabisquit

[Donna Lee Nardo]

"...how things used to be"...

Gosh, and liberals just abhore "how things used to be," don't they? They just hate good old traditional moral and family value living, don't they? I hate them all.

[Steely Glint]

"You may not realize that the movie played pretty lose with the facts in order to play up the 'Rocky' aspects of the story."

You don't have to change any facts to make Seabiscuit look like Rocky. The horse had HEART.

Seabiscuit was undersized, knobby, had bad conformation, had a bad knee, and was legendarily willful. Despite all this Seabiscuit became the top money-winning horse of all time. He won over a third of races he was ever in and either placed or showed in most of the rest. He beat Ligaroti, Bing Crosby's speedster, in a match race giving away a lot of weight and then he beat Triple Crown winner War Admiral by four lengths going away in a race in which the conditions were specified by War Admiral's owner to favor War Admiral. In his last race, overage and with one knee gone, recalled from an honorable retirement, Seabiscuit still won by a length and a half and set a new track record while doing it.

It doesn't get much more Rocky-like than that.

Are courage and overcoming great odds now only Republican virtues? Are Democrats opposed to those who work hard and thereby achieve greatness? Thank God I'm a Republican.

[Denver Ditdat]

Are Democrats opposed to those who work hard and thereby achieve greatness?

Why yes, they are.

People who work hard, sweat, and persist hold the keys to success in their hands and are unlikely to sit passively on the sidelines bleating for the government to "help" them.

It's the very antithesis of everything the Democrats have come to stand for. Should too many people adopt this kind of attitude, drunken fops such as Patrick "I've never worked a day in my life" Kennedy would have to get real jobs and work hard, too. Horrors! Perish the thought!

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Nothing wrong about the "underdog" making it big in the USA! That, my friends, is what the story of America is all about! As for "underdog/hero" films, "Spiderman" sits on top of the heap with $603 million bucks worth of sales! I bring up Spiderman because it is rarely noted that the film opens and closes with the American flag flowing and proudly displayed! My wife and I will be going to see Seabisquit this weekend! God bless America and all who love and cherish her!

[HurkinMcGurkin]

You forgot "Steel Magnolias" and "Ghost". Two prime examples. How could you!!!!! ;-)

[MrConfettiMan]

Say what you will Princess Leah, but I don't remember a single black person being in your first film...though I do recall there being quite a few illegal aliens.

[discostu]

Ahhhhh!!! More movies I don't want to think about.

Steel Magnolias is covered by my Julia Roberts clause (you made me look it up at IMDB, you should feel shame).

I actualy watched 5 minutes of Ghost once, the horror, I a barely had the strength to change channels when the commercial saved me.

I'll never understand why people watch movies with the sole purpose of making them cry. For one thing you miss the last 20 minutes of the movie because your eyes are filled with tears and you're blowing your nose. If a person's life is made complete by missing the last 20 minutes, they should just walk out early. And as for anybody trying to pass off the idea that chick flicks tell stories: BS. They're just as superficial and stupid as any other Hollywood movie, they just have fewer explosions to distract from their idiocy.

[altura]

Cute! Thanks for taking my question seriously? I was kidding, but your answer was interesting!!!!

Never heard of the male equivalent before.

[L.N. Smithee]

This movie wants us to cherish "how things used to be," and it's made with so much elan that we may not notice that its version of the truth is nothing but hogwash.

I read the entire review, and was surprised, because the final paragraph came out of nowhere. Writer-director Gary Ross would probably either laugh at or be insulted at such a notion of a "neo-conservative undercurrent" in one of his movies, because he is a former Clinton speechwriter. He is also the writer-director of Pleasantville (1998), a movie that not only didn't "cherish 'the way things used to be,'" it suggested that the 1950's would have been better if teenagers and housewives were promiscuous.

[L.N. Smithee]

I'll never understand why people watch movies with the sole purpose of making them cry.

Amen -- and I also don't understand why people watch movies with the sole purpose of scaring them to death.

[js1138]

But blacks are never allowed to be criminals.

Except when they're in the military.

[discostu]

Yeah, for horror I've always prefered books, they're easier to take a break from when it gets nasty. Of course I love slasher flicks, but they're comedies, the most recent ones are self-referential comedies. Actually a lot of Hollywood horror winds up comedy, they really aren't good at being scary, too reliant on formula. Fear rellies on the unexpected, if you've seen this template a dozen times before it's not unexpected.

[Zack Nguyen]

LOL.

[Zack Nguyen]

Oh, would that ever be a cardinal sin to cherish those things that made America great.

Ah, but leftists despise America, and think that nothing makes her "great". Rather there are only things that made America racist, imperialist, and homophobic.

[John O]

I'd completely forgotten Sleepless and While... until some #$%^ went and reminded me! Thanks loads! ^&*(!

Don't mention it. I just wanted to help my fellow FReepers stay well informed. (My work here is complete. On to spread joy and sunshine elsewhere!)

[bneal]

Being a Ft Worth residence, I can tell you that Kelly is an idiot. His reviews are ridiculous at best. Any trash film that come along, especially with gay themes, he gives rave reviews to them. Anything that has a conservative slant of any kind, he slams it.

[discostu]

LOL

[John O]

You know, reading your posts I think you are a closeted chick flick fan. You seem to have seen quite a bunch of them. You also seem to tear up pretty easily.

Come on discostu, fess up. Repeat after me:

"Hi, I'm discostu and I watch chick flicks (when no one else can see me)"

Hi discostu!