RW movie you love!

[Archae]

How about a RW movie you enjoy?

For me, it's ID4.

[Celeborn Skywalker]

1. The terminator series.

*puts on flamesuit*

[GoddessOfGuinness]

5. I liked the first one...

And the second was not too bad.

But the rest suck.

[Robeson]

2. Can't think of any....

...Sorry. :shrug:

[leftofthedial]

3. I don't know if these count as RW movies

but I love the WWII historical epics:

The Longest Day
A Bridge Too Far
Midway
Tora, Tora Tora

[GoddessOfGuinness]

7. Patton was well done...

What an odd dude he was!

[leftofthedial]

12. Patton

one of a generation of incredibly rabid anti-communists

I've never fully understood why Patton and LeMay and so many other WWII and Cold War leaders were so virulently anti-Communist.

[lenidog]

16. Maybe because the remembered Stalin or lived with Stalin as

leader of the Soviet Union and we had Brezhnev and Gorbachev. Big difference in leadership.

[lenidog]

14. You got to see the watered down Hollwyood version of Patton

Don't get me wrong it was a great movie but that was only half the story. That speech at the beginning that was the edited version. You couldn't get the original past the censors at that time.

[RoyGBiv]

18. A Bridge Too Far ...

That one in particular would have trouble qualifying as a RW movie, I think, because it highlights the fallibility of the military and highlighted some of the horrors of war.

I like all those on your list, FWIW.

[CanuckAmok]

4. Air Force One.

Total jingoistic crapola, but I loved every minute of it. Wolfgang Petersen sure knows how to throw a party!

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. The Green Berets

Mr Sulu as a Vietnamese guy, and "punji" sticks. Did I dream this?

[lenidog]

11. Though it is scary you did not dream of Sulu

being a bad ass ARVN commander and the punji sticks.

[ThoughtCriminal]

8. Strategic Air Command

I guess some would consider it RW, but nuclear deterence was pretty much accepted by both Republican and Democratic leaders of the era.

Anyway, I like it because it has great scenes of the B-36 and Jimmy Stewart (A real hero).

[davidinalameda]

9. I liked Red Dawn

when it first came out

who's not going to like a bunch of high school jocks in tight jeans

yum!

[Jeebo]

17. I think "Red Dawn" is a LEFT-wing movie...

Substitute the U.S./British/"Coalition of the willing" forces for the Russian and Cuban invaders, and substitute Iraq for the U.S. as the invaded and occupied country, and substitute the Iraqi resistance for the "Wolverines," and "Red Dawn" becomes, essentially, our invasion, conquest and occupation of Iraq. And it becomes an anti-Iraq war movie.

Think about it.

Ron

P.S. -- If somebody thinks I'm sympathizing or siding with the people in Iraq who are blowing our boys up, I'm not. I'm saying that the Russian and Cuban invaders in "Red Dawn" HAD NO RIGHT to invade and occupy OUR country, and WE HAD NO RIGHT to invade and occupy Iraq. It was the WORST thing MY country has EVER done in my lifetime. I'm saying the Russian and Cuban invaders should not have been here in the first place, and we should not have invaded Iraq in the first place. I'm saying that the guerrilla resistance that is costing so many American lives is an inevitable and predictable consequence of our militarism. "He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword." Right-wingers often quote that in support of the death penalty, but I think what it actually means is that if you pursue violence, if you immerse yourself in those kinds of activities and move in those kinds of circles, you're bound to find yourself at the SHARP end of that sword, sooner or later. "He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword" is not a statement of the moral rightness or wrongness of that, but just a recognition of its inevitability. Oops, I'm getting off on a tangent here, I'll shut up now. But I just wanted to be sure nobody thinks I'm saying it's all right for terrorists in Iraq to be blowing our boys up; I'm saying that we shouldn't be there at all.

[tridim]

10. I'm watching "The Running Man" right now

Does that count?

[Fenris]

13. "Patriot Games" "Air Force One" "Clear And Present Danger"

Horrible patriotic pablum, but dammit if I'm not a sucker for Harrison Ford.

[Fenris]

15. I also concede that "Invasion USA" is one of the great unintentional

comedies.