Name some films that RWers would LOVE

[leftofthedial]

The Green Berets

your turn

[Quixote1818]

1. The Stepford Wives nt

[leftofthedial]

6. they think it's a documentary

[Quixote1818]

15. They liked Plesantville until it turned to color. Then it bacame evil! nt

[leftofthedial]

19. LOL

but I think you're right

[Archae]

2. (Bleep)-ing "Red Dawn."

That and this TV miniseries from the 1980's, "Amerika."

[HawkerHurricane]

9. Beat me to it.

How about... ummm....
Commando

[leftofthedial]

16. What's Commando?

I don't know that one.

[Archae]

Ah-nold, guns, and stuff going boom.

Any questions? :-)

[leftofthedial]

27. Ah-nold, guns and stuff going boom

doesn't narrow it down much in Ah-nold land . . .

I thinke he's only ever made two movies

the guns and stuff going boom and the one with Danny Devito.

[leftofthedial]

17. What's Commando?

I don't know that one.

[leftofthedial]

14. I once knew a militia RW wack job guy who loved Red Dawn

I think he even had a tattoo of Red Dawn.

[AntiCoup2K4]

30. Ironic thing about Red Dawn is that it's actually happenned

It wasn't the commies parachuting into the midwest though, but a fascist invasion from within. And just like in the movie, "Free America" is on the coasts while the interior is occupied by the enemy.

Even the part where the Russian guy "translated" the writing on the national monument - and totally made up his own version - has been done here in the form of the corporatist whore media.

How long before the wolverines start showing up for real? I'd say one more fixed election should do it. :(

[HawkerHurricane]

3. Red Dawn

only one per post, right?

[leftofthedial]

8. knock yourself out

name all you like

[ThoughtCriminal]

13. Mentioned the perfect counter-movie earlier

"The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming!" is to "Red Dawn", what "Dr Strangelove" is to "Strategic Air Command"

[Writer]

4. I Have a Small Penis and Carry a Gun n/t

[leftofthedial]

10. I think I'll wait for the book to come out

LOL!

[RandomKoolzip]

5. Wizard of Oz.

Dorothy and her odd-looking rural cohorts look for a hand out from "Big Father" Oz, only to be taught a lesson about balloon-straps....uh, I mean BOOTstraps.

Seriously, the subtext is a total Grover Norquist wet dream.

[leftofthedial]

12. I never really got that.

Hmm.

[RandomKoolzip]

23. Watch it again.

There'a all sorts of RW talking points in there, subtly hidden by metaphor.

[leftofthedial]

29. I nearly left Lion King about halfway through

because it is so racist and reactionary. I usually pick up on those kinds of subtexts

[davidinalameda]

31. could you expound or explain or ex-whatever

I've seen the Lion King several times and even saw the musical on stage and didn't get that

I've heard that before but never received a good explanation why

[leftofthedial]

34. in the movie version

All the "good guys" are blond and their voices are white American actors

All the "bad guys" are darker and smaller (e.g., hyenas) and their voices are African American or hispanic actors.

The main villain's voice is Jeremy Irons (if I recall correctly), speaking with an exaggerated caricature gay lisp.

[davidinalameda]

49. are they?

in the stage production that I saw, Scar was played by a white actor

but in the movie, I didn't get the "gay lisp" but then again I'm hard of hearing and I depend on subtitles

but didn't James Earl Jones provide the voice for Simba's father?

[kick-ass-bob]

54. James Earl Jones is white?

:shrug:

Evil has always been portrayed as darkness - I don't think it has anything to do with race.

(Like people are afraid of the dark, not the daylight, etc)

[leftofthedial]

55. check out Dumbo for more Disney racism

[Robeson]

7. Die Hard.

[despairing optimist]

11. Patton, Top Gun, Rambo series, most Westerns, and of course

The Passion of the Christ.

I wonder what Mel Gibson will name the sequel.

[Robeson]

20. "I wonder what Mel Gibson will name the sequel".....

You haven't heard? I've got the inside scoop...."Bush, Brother of Christ, and Son of God!"

[leftofthedial]

24. Older Brother of Christ

no doubt

[Robeson]

25. No doubt.

[despairing optimist]

26. Bush only the son of God? Why not top billing?

He creates his own reality after all. How more godly can he get?

[Robeson]

28. Yes....

...I can see it on the marquee..."There is no other God, but Bush!"

[leftofthedial]

21. The Rambo ones and all the Arnie versions of it too

Total revisionist Viet Nam history

in which the Viet Namese have all the high tech weapons and the fancy uniforms and the Murkans are outnumbered, outgunned guerilla fighters.

[despairing optimist]

22. Thanks for reminding me of Conan the Barbarian!

How could I have forgotten that one?

And the Rocky series. Sly Stallone is cool with the RW set too. Check out The Contender series on TV if you can stand it.

[ghostsofgiants]

33. Watch Family Guy on May 1

Or download the episode.

[Montauk6]

48. Passion II: The Heretic

or

The Passion Never Dies

or

Return of the Christ

or

Sweet Jesus's Badasssssss Psalm

[ThoughtCriminal]

18. The Ayn Randbots

Can't get enough of "The Fountainhead"

[leftofthedial]

32. I don't think I've ever seen that one

[Hardrada]

35. Triumph of the Will

[ForrestGump]

36. My thought, too. That and "The Eternal Jew"

(though the latter, ironically enough, not so much for the neocon bigwigs of Jewish heritage).

[leftofthedial]

37. yow

especially the bushgangsters

[VOX]

38. "Braveheart." RWers go nuts over this flick.

Not only does it star one of their favorite icons, Mel Gibson, but they enjoy imagining themselves as the embattled Scots versus the "effete," big-government English. Plus, it's got lots of gore and a spiffy public torture-and-execution that has become a Gibson specialty. To see how articulately and eloquently freepers will defend "Braveheart," note the following exchange from IMBD:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112573/board/nest/16581734
Empire Magazine recently named the top 10 worst Best Picture Winner's at the Oscar.
by - livethematrix (Sat Mar 12 2005 13:28:00 )
1. Braveheart (1995)
<snip>
Re: Empire magazine 'Braveheart is Worst Best Picture Oscar Winner'
by - rtodd110 (Tue Mar 22 2005 12:03:29 )
empire magazine can suck my dick
braveheart is one of the best movies ever made
so suck dick you fagget

[LiveWire]

39. I think you are all forgetting a movie called Red Dawn

About a fictional invasion of America by Soviet forces led by the evil Cubans! WOLVERINES!!!!

[Richard Steele]

40. I can't believe no one mentioned "Dirty Harry" yet...

That (imho EXCELLENT) film was best known for the phrase used in one of its initial newspaper reviews:

"A fascist masterpiece"

(hey, you didn't ask for films that ONLY RWers would love!)


"The GREEN BERETS":
On a side-note....my DAD was actually doing his service on a firebase IN VIETNAM when he saw "The Green Berets"....
Since it was made as Pro-'Vietnam War' propaganda, some GENIUS thought it would be a good idea to distribute it to our troops while it was still in theatres stateside.

Everyone was pretty psyched when they heard they were getting a first-run John Wayne flic for movie night!

And then they watched it...
at night...
on a remote firebase in Vietnam...

My dad (like most of his Army buddies who were there that night) doesn't remember ANYTHING about that film,
except the ONE scene:
the scene where all the VIETCONG in the world OVERRUN the ARMY BASE!
None of them SLEPT for a goddamn week after that!

I bet the 'marketing genius' responsible is currently working for the B*SH Administration...or George Lucas.

[leftofthedial]

41. I'm a fan of Dirty Harry too. But it is pretty RW

Great Green Berets story. I'm sorry for your Dad and the others. That does sound like a bushian move.

[baldguy]

45. The Green Berets

At the end of the movie John Wayne walks on the beach with the sun setting over the ocean.

In Vietnam, the sun doesn't set over the ocean - it only rises.

[leftofthedial]

61. that objection is so reality based

they can't get anything right, can they?

[deutsey]

42. True Lies

It has everything fascist fucks love: Ahnuld, misogyny, lots of dead brown-skinned people, and lots and lots of phallic symbols and ejaculatory explosions that make them think they aren't so impotent after all.

[Spider Jerusalem]

43. "Triumph des Willens".

("Triumph of the Will" in English.)

Glorification of militarism, mass conformity, subjugation to a clearly insane leader who rallies his followers by playing to their base instincts of hatred and chauvinistic nationalism...any of this sound familiar?

[leftofthedial]

52. their ultimate film

[HughBeaumont]

44. Team America: World Police

I don't buy this "they make fun of EVERYone" bullshit.

[mark414]

51. i loved that movie

those damn celebrities deserve to be made fun of anyways

[HughBeaumont]

53. I know people who deserve to be made fun of more

Brings back the question - "Why is it bad and unintentionally hilarious to be too liberal but it's OK to be too conservative?"

[Deja Q]

46. The Ten Commandments

They won't follow them, but they love 'em.

[Montauk6]

47. Joe (with Peter Boyle)

Rambo, First Blood II (where John turns his wrath on commies instead of hick cops)

The Birth of a Nation (though they might object to having to read the title cards, in which case, there's...)

Gone With The Wind ("Birth of a Nation" without the guilt trip)

Walking Tall

Heartbreak Ridge (a film which tried desperately to turn Grenada into as compelling a conflict as Normandy or Iwo Jima)

Wag The Dog (a film which was supposed to be based on the aforementioned Grenada romp, which was a distraction from the bombing in Beirut; but unforgiveably used Monicagate as the launching point and, thus, botched the message to the viewer)

Storm Warning (G-Man Ronald Reagan takes on the KKK, which is depicted as nothing more than an overly aggressive street gang that beats up white folks)

Jungle Fever (a movie that would re-affirm for them that there's no good that can come of interracial dating)

Falling Down (they'd, of course, miss the point about downsizing and corporate burnout)

[onager]

50. Amerika!

I could rant about this POS for hours, even though I haven't seen it since it originally aired as a TV mini-series over 20 years ago.

Amerika makes Red Dawn look like The Battleship Potemkin.

How It Got Made: "Written" by Ben Whine...er, Stein. After YEARS of bleating, whining and caterwauling about The Lib'rul Media, Ben Stein finally got his chance from that Evil Left-Wing Komsomol that runs all the TV studios.

And THIS is what he came up with!

If you can find "Amerika," it's worth watching as a sort of Compleat Guide to right-wing Tinfoil-Hattery. The UN is shown taking over the US and forcing it into a One-World Government...mainly by sending its Dastardly U.N. Agents into...you guessed it...the public school system.

Imagine several hours of a televised Ann Coulter rant, with scenery that changes occasionally.

[youthere]

56. Deliverence.

n/t

[leftofthedial]

62. squeal like a gannon

[youthere]

64. starring bush as banjo boy

[leftofthedial]

65. he has such a purty smile

[sniffa]

57. birth of a nation

c'mon, it's obvious.

[TheMightyFavog]

58. Any one of the Death Wish Movies

Especailly Death Wish 3. It's practically an NRA propoganda flick.

[leftofthedial]

63. bronson kicks liberal ass

and rubs out all those he decides are bad

the gun is the solution to every problem

[sakabatou]

59. Cabaret, especially after the 2nd act

[SmileyBoy]

60. Red Dawn

Made by RW'ers for RW'ers.