movies

[Michael]

Michael, I have my fingers crossed that the West leaves Battle Royale alone.

Normally I'd agree with this sentiment, but under the right director I could see a really cool subversive film being made.

[Leroy]

Black Dog.

[Arthur Dent]

The National Review is publishing a list of the best conservative movies of the last 25 years. List taken from here.

1. The Lives of Others (2007)

2. The Incredibles (2004)

3. Metropolitan (1990)

4. Forrest Gump (1994)

5. 300 (2007)

6. Groundhog Day (1993)

7. The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)

8. Juno (2007)

9. Blast from the Past (1999)

10. Ghostbusters (1984)

11. Lord of the Rings (2001, 2002, 2003)

12. The Dark Knight (2008)

13. Braveheart (1995)

14. A Simple Plan (1998)

15. Red Dawn (1984)

16. Master and Commander (2003)

17. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (2005)

18. The Edge (1997)

19. We Were Soldiers (2002)

20. Gattaca (1997)

21. Heartbreak Ridge (1986)

22. Brazil (1985)

23. United 93 (2006)

24. Team American: World Police (2004)

25. Gran Torino (2008)

[thrill]

The National Review is publishing a list of the best conservative movies of the last 25 years. List taken from here.

1. The Lives of Others (2007)

6. Groundhog Day (1993)

10. Ghostbusters (1984)

11. Lord of the Rings (2001, 2002, 2003)

12. The Dark Knight (2008)

13. Braveheart (1995)

15. Red Dawn (1984)

Good stuff.

[cpebbles]

How in the wide, wide world of sports is 'Brazil' within even sniffing distance of that list?

Because conservatives have convinced themselves that welfare programs = totalitarianism.

[JL21]

I'm surprised Narnia isn't #1.

[clevername]

wait, when did conservatives get the right to lay claim to movies?

It's kinda funny seeing Juno on that list. Yeah, she avoids abortion and goes the adoption route, but I'd wager my year's salary that most of the folks on that set were liberal.

[cpebbles]

Very early in his career, Oliver Stone was reportedly considered a far-right conservative because of his screenplays, and it wasn't until Platoon and then Wall Street that his liberal personal leanings really came out. I wonder if the National Review would be willing to consider a movie like Midnight Express, or if Stone just gives them the fits in a way that the Reitman family doesn't.

[JL21]

wait, when did conservatives get the right to lay claim to movies?

It's kinda funny seeing Juno on that list. Yeah, she avoids abortion and goes the adoption route, but I'd wager my year's salary that most of the folks on that set were liberal.

I kind of thought about that too.

Here's the liberal list:

Everything else

I'm very surprised that the Dirty Harry movies and the French Connection didn't make the list, either. Basically all of the 70's movies that functioned as the backlash against the 60's.

[Popeye_Card]

Wait, where was Birth of A Nation? Maybe that movie transcends this list.