Posted on 12/15/2005 11:49:16 AM PST by paltz
Ranked by the staff of the Leadership Institute’s Campus Leadership Program.
1. The Passion of the Christ
The testament of Christ, the basis of all Western thought and tradition, the most important moment in history.
2. A Man for All Seasons
Thomas More defies the will of the King by refusing to attest to the sacredness of the King’s marriage, and pays with his life.
3. Lean on Me
Morgan Freeman is a principal at a dilapidated New Jersey high school that he reinvigorates through hard work, achievement and stern discipline.
4. Cheaper by the Dozen
A fun family film extolling more virtue than Hollywood has produced in a long time.
5. Death Wish
After his family is destroyed by thugs, Charles Bronson decides to teach criminals the lesson that the liberals can’t through courtrooms or mediation.
6. Red Dawn
Communists invade the heartland, and a band of boys take to the hills and start an insurgency against the invaders.
7. Dirty Harry
Much in the same vein as Death Wish, Clint Eastwood is a police officer doing what it takes to fight crime against the liberals who worry more about defendant rights than the victims.
8. The Outlaw Josey Wales
Clint Eastwood is a soldier who fights those who took everything he cared about.
9. Zulu
Heroism in the face of overwhelming odds, 139 Welshmen fight off 4,000 Zulu soldiers.
10. PCU
The state of modern colleges, summed up in an excellent comedy showing the ridiculousness of the politically correct mob.
I think you hit the nail on the head there. Trust me, "Tommy Boy" is more popular with conservative college students than any the LI just mentioned.
I suppose. I just thought it was typical hypocrisy of the hollywood left to call something PCU and pretend to make fun of political correctness but then incorporate a bunch of PC "conservatives are a bunch of homophobic anti-semites" into the film, even making the conservatives the purveyors of political correctness and the main target of the rebels who fought against it.
yes sir. It's the new name Im giving it.
No "BraveHeart?"
or "It's GUTTER, man!"
Raw Hind? ROTFLMAO!
"Patriot" was an amazing film that the liberals hated with a passion because it showed young boys killing government soldiers, citizens defying their government by force of arms, and people who were preferring to die than to live in continued tyranny.
Too many liberals, I would imagine, envisioned themselves on the receiving end of Mel Gibson's attentions for Timothy Dalton's character at the end of the film.
And rightly so.
So is Death Wish, for that matter.
I thought its sequels were hilarious, though. They had to work throught the man's entire family, then introduce new characters just so that they could get killed in some awful way and trigger his vigilante rampage again. First movie, wife killed, daughter raped. Second movie, daughter raped and killed, plus housekeeper. Third movie, old friend killed. Fourth movie, daughter's friend killed. Fifth movie, he's engaged! Guess what happens to her.
I think you mean Jason Isaacs. Dalton was not in that movie.
Anyone under the impression that single shot cartridge rifles were not effective weapons should take a look at the devastating advancing two line volley fire and the three line (abet Hollywood) stationary fire scenes and take note.
Interesting list, but no Braveheart? Patriot?
Ping for later.
Nah, Dirty Harry was a great flick. Hollywood hated it. I'm surprised it got released. Dean Wormer was great as the mayor.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036868/
Eastwood has said that Don Siegel had that in mind. How well it comes off is another matter. Harry Callahan is not supposed to be an entirely admirable figure.
Droz: "You remember Rand, he skippered Hitler's catamaran during the war."
"Are those little snails? They look like snails."
I thought it was "Bareback Mountain"?
"The information, Republican!"
"Madras ties, suh-weet!"
My daughter, who is one of the most conservative college students you will find, would also add Dodge Ball to that list. Not intelligent but funny and also most Mel Brooks films.
What about the vegans? The womynists? The gay guy who proclaims himself subject to ridicule and oppression wherever he goes?
Rand and the neocons put them all up to it?
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