Academy Award time: What's the most liberal movie of all time?

[cincinnati65]

Which movie (past or present) embodies the most liberal message?

[Rick_Hunter]

I would leave that one out of your list. It's based on an obvious lie (or crass distortion at best) and sounds buffoonish, thereby casting doubts on the credibility of the rest of your list of caricatured generalizations.

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Oh look, more petulant snivelling from another smug Drug Warrior. You guys really give a whole new meaning to true-believer syndrome, you know that?

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

An absolutely impossible task - to choose just one.......thanks for the ping.........

[Lancey Howard]

...more violent criminals are let out of prison early to make room for non-violent drug offenders.

LOFL !!!
Don't be pathetic.

[cincinnati65]

My point being that the "rules" being talked about in this case were the Christian view that abortion is morally wrong, and the fact that abortion was illegal at that time. Those were the rules he was gonna tear down, so he could make his own rules. Tearing down Christian standards of morality and creating humanistic standards of morality is what liberalism is all about.

[sixmil]

The only liberal idea in Chocolat was the mayor using his power of office against a small business.

What about using his power against the poor, or immigrants, gypsies even? How's about a single mother that fights the man, the old power structure? That film was full-on propaganda.

[Voltage]

Yes! I have seen it a couple of times, very cheaply produced and shallow....I doubt the writers realized the humor. But its possible I guess that they were really libertarians and were having a big joke at the public's expense. But not likely.

[mamelukesabre]

Just one point...Klinger was not gay. Guess you couldn't see past your generalizations.

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It doesn't really matter if klinger was gay or not. That kind of behavior is not considered humorous in real life.

[oldcats]

Then just change the channel.
Oldcats

[oldcats]

It doesn't really matter if klinger was gay or not. That kind of behavior is not considered humorous in real life.
It DOES matter since YOU were the one that said "portrayed homosexuality as a humorous thing"
It was never implied in the show that he was gay...if you would have payed even the least bit of attention, you would have realized that he had a wife in Toledo, and after the divorce was shown with a number of different women. But then again, that was just a cover for his true self...right?
Oldcats

[mamelukesabre]

It doesn't matter. You're splitting hairs.

I will admit that I have found the show entertaining and I have watched it. But I learned to ignore the messages and just listen to the jokes.

[js1138]

There is one great line in the movie: When Michael Caine's character is grumbling to two of the orphan kids how nobody wants them and how miserable their lives are, the kid played by Toby McGuire says - "Well, it beats the incinerator."

So in twenty or fifty years, when the Dred Scott sentiment has passed, Hollywood will point proudly to this line as proof they were pro-life all the time.

[bigjoesaddle]

The Shawshank Redemption. The prison inmates are universally noble and good, the prison administration is universally corrupt and evil. Plus numerous gratuitous shots at Christianity.

I know you're right, but when that show is on TNT I can't turn it off. I love that frickin movie. I've seen it over 20 times easy.

[js1138]

If you want to see a movie that bashes the Right Wing, Christians, Guns, gun owners, and southern familys all rolled into one, then this is the movie for you!

Reminds me of Easy Rider. I was disappointed when people didn't stand up and cheer the ending.

[Landru]

...don't forget, "Seven Days In May."

The Leftist demonization of patriotism in that one was breathtakingly state-of-the-art.
No wonder we had the counter-culture of the 60s.

Beginning with crap like that one extruded outa Hollywierd's Leftists almost continually, nonstop ad nauseum?
It'd have been even stranger had the society not gone nuts.

[js1138]

Strangelove is not only Kubrick's masterpiece -- the only one of his films that is completely flawless -- it also belongs on anyone's all time top ten list.

It does poke fun at the military -- but only that part of the military that is ruled by politics. The actual soldiers are intelligent, competent, and completly loyal to their duty.

(well, most of them, anyway)

[js1138]

By the way, Spielberg has PC adjusted his re-release of ET. The police in the film will not carry guns anymore. The guns are being replaced with walkie-talkies.

The DVD will have both versions, classic and new coke. I personally don't care for the movie.

Interestingly, Sweden (is there a more liberal country?) disapproved of ET because they thought it made adults seem like the enemies of children. I thought so too, and found it odd that only Sweden noticed.

[oldcats]

Splitting hairs?
You make a wrong assumption...based on your bias...I prove it wrong...and I am splitting hairs.
OOooookay.
Oldcats

[mamelukesabre]

My favorite Micheal Cain quote is: "that's shocking". He said that on the telephone after being told by a police officer that his wife had just died of electrocution.

[texson66]

Yes, "Grapes of Wrath" was a three-bucket hurler of a liberal, clap-trap story line, which could have easily been writen in Moscow. (notice that the movie ad is on the "LEFT" of your screen!)

[f.Christian]

The Michael Douglas movie...Breaking point(?)---

immediately I knew they had to portray a white conservative doing the LA--oj--beserk thing!

Was that about Denny's--racial profiling too?