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Today we learn that a right winger is founding a new movie studio to make movies Hollywood wouldnt touch. So...what is your favorite conservative movie?
My choice: Nice Dreams. It is the heartwarming tale of two hardworking young men who run a successful small business, and lose it all thanks to the evils of drug use and the corruption of socialized medicine. (And you thought it was about two hippies who sell defective weed out of an ice cream truck.)
enid602
(8,652 posts)Any of the 'Left Behind' movies. Nicholas Cage, Kirk Cameron; so much great acting, so much talent.
Celerity
(43,498 posts)Nicolas Cage was superb.
However, in what respect is Leaving Las Vegas a conservative movie. Not that I really understand what constitutes a conservative movie.
Celerity
(43,498 posts)I only meant Cage was great in it.
I have no idea what a conservative movie is. I would say some cheap 'n shoddy forced birther scare tactics you tube bollocks.
Boxerfan
(2,533 posts)Over the top puppeteering including a sex scene. WTF?.
Docreed2003
(16,875 posts)Despite the puppet sex scene, it was pretty good satire from the Bush years
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)They seemed to be satirizing the anti-war reactions like liberal Hollywood actors more than anything Bush was doing wrong. Their acronym spelled out Film Actors Guild.
The creators are libertarians so I don't expect much social commentary from them.
Docreed2003
(16,875 posts)The flip side is they're a "Team" that goes around mindlessly causing havoc all over the world and with songs like "Freedom isn't Free (It Cost $1.25)" it was certainly roasting the Bush mindset of "We're going to fix the world cause we're America" mindset of those times.
Amishman
(5,559 posts)It might be offensive to quite a few groups (same could go for is Blazing Saddles), but I can enjoy it for the over the top absurdity that it is.
TheBlackAdder
(28,211 posts)jmowreader
(50,562 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)Nuff said.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I'd say that "On the Waterfront" or "Absence of Malice" are good movies that champion a conservative point of view.
no_hypocrisy
(46,182 posts)Peter Boyle
Susan Sarandon
Mz Pip
(27,453 posts)The end was a real punch in the gut.
MotorCityBeard
(201 posts)This was in 1983. Big movie fan, but never saw it. I had heard about it and knew what it was about. I can guess what the problem was. This movie was made in 1970, and I am sure it had gay characters that were the absolute dregs of society, like a lot of movies did at that time. I'm sure he thought that that was how I would turn out.
My dad was always a big liberal, but had issues with his own son being "that way". He came around eventually, but it took time.
Dial H For Hero
(2,971 posts)A guilty pleasure.
chriscan64
(1,789 posts)It's the story of a plucky ex-actor who becomes president. He cuts taxes for the rich which he says will help everyone. But as his budget director, David Stockman put it, "It was always about the right to get rich and keep the money."
lame54
(35,321 posts)hunter
(38,326 posts)Okay, how many movies are not "conservative?"
Is there a movie about a mild-mannered and very polite English professor teaching at a community college who saves the world?
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)Initech
(100,102 posts)Which makes me wonder if it took place in this reality, Tony would be part of the billionaires who have taken the Red Pill Truther movement too seriously.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)And ultimately ends up harnessing clean energy over the arc of the franchise.
kimbutgar
(21,188 posts)What would have happened if the south won the civil war ? I have a copy of this DVD. They rarely show it on tv nowadays.
LeftInTX
(25,551 posts)I really like that movie, but it's satire.
kimbutgar
(21,188 posts)lame54
(35,321 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,475 posts)With chickenhawk John Wayne.
LeftInTX
(25,551 posts)I've never seen it and was never interested.
Never a JW fan. Never liked war movies, especially GB.
Aristus
(66,462 posts)Making that vision of conservative ideology as connected to the real world as the rest of it...
aka-chmeee
(1,132 posts)Group of patriotic Christians doing their part to remove the scourge of adulterers and other sinners from their world.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Butt fucking rednecks get drown out of their tarpaper shacks. Thats progress boys.
Initech
(100,102 posts)Asshole actor plays controversial blackface role, while asshole movie studio executive threatens to destroy them and derail the movie so he can upgrade his private jet.
lame54
(35,321 posts)The soulless agent is the good guy
Initech
(100,102 posts)JHB
(37,161 posts)What can I say? I was the right age to enjoy its cheesiness.
And I knew just how absurd its premise was, steeped in wingnut paranoia and addled view of real Soviet capabilities vs ours, so I enjoyed the cheese without taking it seriously.
Docreed2003
(16,875 posts)There's even a line in "Iron Eagle" saying they should fear the Russians because America had "Ronnie Ray-gun"
LeftInTX
(25,551 posts)Are we looking at movies made be RW directors, like Clint Eastwood?
Are we looking at movies that promote RW characters or themes? Like Christian movies?
Or are we looking at movies that feature RW characters like Joe? Lots of good movies like that.
I guess my current fave RW director is Clint Eastwood.
I think Cecile Demille was RW. I like Sunset Blvd. Gloria Swanson was RW. (I think she was an Ayn Rand supporter) The movie doesn't feature RW characters though.
Iggo
(47,565 posts)jmowreader
(50,562 posts)"Nice Dreams" is a Cheech and Chong movie about marijuana dealing. Hardly conservative at all.
Cha
(297,655 posts)other way.
So the poster who said it was "confusing" was right!
LeftInTX
(25,551 posts)interesting WW2 documentaries
I think John Huston was RW.
DW Griffith was the ultimate RW. Way Down East was good. He made a pretty good talkie about alcohol.
Mendocino
(7,505 posts)was a founder of The Committee For The First Amendment, set up to combat the HUAC hearings. He served in the Army making films that the military censored, blocked, or outright banned as "demoralizing". JH wasn't RW.
LeftInTX
(25,551 posts)JonLP24
(29,322 posts)I'm thinking of films like Enemy of the State and The Rainmaker but he always plays a good conservative.
Takket
(21,625 posts)Iggo
(47,565 posts)Honorable Mention...
"Sicario: Day of the Soldado".
Liberal In Texas
(13,574 posts)arsenals in a guerilla war against the Ruskies. Now days, the'd be helping the Ruskies.
Iggo
(47,565 posts)🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
My, how times have changed!
dustyscamp
(2,228 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,856 posts)... the money-obsessed conservatives and their useful evangelical idiots.
The businessman pretending to be a Christian to get what he wants from the gullible:
And the later retribution against the leader of the gullible fools, demonstrating their actual social hierarchy:
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Raine
(30,540 posts)wild, sexually active, hard drinking, doping spoiled teenagers terrorize an all American family as they travel thru the California desert in the late 1960s. I have to watch it whenever it's on and I always laugh till my jaws ache.
Iggo
(47,565 posts)Probably on the 3:30 Movie or Ben Hunter or something.
Have some:
Raine
(30,540 posts)Hotler
(11,445 posts)That Corvette was badass and cheesy. I may have built that model at one time.
lame54
(35,321 posts)Starting with the title
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,364 posts)It followed the first half of the book "We Were Soldiers Once ... And Young" pretty well, then threw in a "happy ending" gunship helicopter attack that helped win the day for the Americans.
That ending victory didn't happen, not really, and not in the book. But it was a fine "Deus ex machina" way to hold a six-hour movie down to two hours, and send the audience away happy.
I think the first half of the book was the easy part.
Shrek
(3,983 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,437 posts)I would assume for its negative depiction of the EPA and the pencil-neck paper pusher who gets the containment area shut down, leading to the explosion that unleashes all of the ghosts towards the end of the movie and threatens the apocalypse.