Posted on 07/02/2004 5:53:40 AM PDT by bobjam
With all of the publicity and hype over Moore's Bush hating and America bashing "documentary", it might be good on this Fourth of July weekend to sit back a reflect upon those movies that make us pround to be Americans. My suggestions are:
1) Midway- the Navy at its finest. Nothing beats the way the movie incorporates actual footage of the battle.
2) Last of the Mohicans- this movie captures the difficulty faced by frontiersmen, the British attitude towards them, and the spectacular beauty of the American wilderness.
3) The Alamo- the John Wayne version. The courage it took for the vastly outnumbered Davey Crocket, Jim Bowie, et al to stand up to Santa Ana was legendary.
What are some of your suggestions?
Why all the fiction? Cut to the chase, the most patriotic American film ever made was Victory At Sea.
BigBlockk
Later.....
We were soldiers, Tears of the sun - two phenomenal contemporary war movies, the latter which came out in March of '03 was lambasted as being Jingoistic propaganda by the same liberal whores who are giving Farenheit ****.
I used to think the same thing, until I discovered that the "allegory" is something along the following lines: Ian MacDonald/Sheb Wooley/et al, as Frank Miller/Ben Miller/et al, are the evil Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Affairs Committee, and Gary Cooper, as Marshal Will Kane, is the valiant Hollywood Marxist, bravely battling the forces of GOP tyranny and oppression.
PS: I kid you not.
No problem...
"Yankee Doodle Dandy" needs to mentioned more than once. LOL
In fact every American family should have a copy and show it to their children every 4th of July!!!
Semper Fi,
Kelly
I loved the Patriot!
Believe it or not - it protrays the 1960s peace movement as a bunch of thugs, communists, and woman beaters.
In a similar vein, I'd nominate Groundhog Day.
[By the way, I once heard that Zemeckis et al saw their movie "Forrest Gump" as an humiliation of small town America, and were shocked when audiences instead took it to heart as a glorification of small town America.]
For science fiction, you can't go wrong with Bruce Willis in either The Fifth Element or Twelve Monkeys.
What was I thinking? Gotta put The Outlaw Josey Wales near the top of the list.
I thought we were doing patriotic movies that make you proud to be an American here. Wasn't Braveheart about Scotland?
BigBlockk
Later.....
Ok, I gotta get in another vote for the Patriot, since my Dad was in it.
But I can't believe nobody has mentioned one of my all time favorites:
Rudy
I believe this film captures one of the greatest aspects of the American character: the underdog who succeeds through sheer desire, persistance, and heart.
..all are great films...might I add, Uncommon Valor.
Halls of Montezuma.
It even ends in a monologue about how America is on God's side.
Awesome movie.
I never heard that before! Well, that may have been the way the producers thought of the film, but I still think it works as an allegory of the rest of the world vs. the US. I just won't mention the psycho-Hollywood viewpoint... ;-)
Not a Stallone fan but,
The Rocky Series (underdog coming back and Rocky IV against the USSR although the speech in the end was a little much) and Rambo II and III
The Hunt for Red October was pretty good also although the books were better.
An American President. What the Klintoon administration would have been like without Hillary's baggage. I'd like to see them make a movie about what the Klintoon administration would have been like without Klintoon.
I like Solo Voyage
Little Moe
The Patriot.
Black Hawk Down.
Although the MacKinlay Kantor screenplay tossed in some poorly disguised attempts at leftist propaganda, THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946) was a great motion picture!
Different oppressee.
Same oppressor.
Although about Scotland, the movie's main message is the courage one must have to preserve their freedom. The patriotic messages and similarities in this movie to our own struggle SHOULD make you proud to be an American.
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