Conservative Film Buffs not keen on the new Che Guevera movie

[LynneSin]

http://www.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix/pagesix.htm

February 13, 2006 -- CONSERVATIVE film buffs are disgusted that director Steven Soderbergh has Benicio del Toro playing Communist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara as a hero in a movie shooting all over New York.
They fear that the untitled flick, co-starring Benjamin Bratt and Ryan Gosling, will glorify the rabble-rouser whose face graces millions of T-shirts sold to young people unaware of his history.

"Most Hollywood films about people like Che Guevara tend to shy away from the controversial things, like the fact that he presided over firing squads and executed people," said a spokeswoman for the Cuban-American National Foundation.

"Even in history books, these things aren't properly documented, so we'd be surprised if this movie does portray the truth accurately. But is a great filmmaker, so we'll wait and see."

Nationally syndicated radio host and movie critic Michael Medved told PAGE SIX: "I think to romanticize a mass killer and commie thug is terribly sad. With 'The Motorcycle Diaries' , at least they could say it was about when he was a young man - before he had power and abused it. But it sounds like this film will be like the 1969 Che movie, with Jack Palance as Fidel Castro and Omar Sharif as Che, which was one of the worst movies ever made."

Hey, anything to piss off conservatives!

[Kerrytravelers]

1. Aw, is michael medved unhappy?

I know I have an empty feeling inside now. :eyes: That guy is such a fool. But, he is a CONservative, so being a fool is a prerequisite.

[Deep13]

10. Yah, know, for a guy who is so critical of "gay culture"...

that Medved guy is awfully light on his feet.

[jmowreader]

2. If Michael Medved hates this, it's probably great!!!

[LynneSin]

3. There's a billboard for his show along 95N between Wilmington and Philly

Seriously - can we find a worse toupee!

[Initech]

4. These guys have apparently forgot that there's already a Che Guevara movie

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318462/

[LynneSin]

5. Well that was last year and Brokeback Mountian protest losing steam

so we have to find new movies to have a hissy fit over!

[Initech]

6. Ah, of course!

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. "conservative" and "film buff" are oxymorons.

In fact, "conservative" and any kind of art buff are oxymorons.

The only connection that be made between "art" and conservatives is this:

conservative propaganda buffs.

[Radical Activist]

8. As opposed to the thugs and mass killers conservatives idolize

like George Bush and Henry Kissinger. Those hypocrites can go to hell.

[jakefrep]

9. If Medved is going to gripe about this...

...when is he going to criticize Mel Gibson's snuff film about the Crucifixion (Passion o' The Christ) for avoiding controversial concepts like, oh, I dunno, "Love Thy Neighbor"?

[Montauk6]

11. Funny they never seem to pre-protest movies about Hitler or Mussolini