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By: Top 25 Conservative Movies (1984-2009) « POPCON

Top 25 Conservative Movies (1984-2009) « POPCON — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:31:27 +0000

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By: WtheBureaucrat

WtheBureaucrat — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:50:29 +0000

"Animal House" and the scene in which Belushi trashes the hippy weanie's guitar ranks among my favorite movie scenes depicting my brand of conservatism – fun conservatism with babes, booze, and hormones.

"The Life of Brian's" coliseum scene during the argument over the PLO, the LPO, the OPL, etc., and which of those "liberation" organizations had legitimate claim to liberation leadership – a great poke in the progressive eye.

"Serial's" many scenes satirizing "lifestyle" trendiness among the limo libs: Sally Kellerman's wedding vows: "I-ness, You-ness, We-ness, Us-ness, Happiness" followed by Martin Mull's aside, "Sickness."

There are so many wonderful scenes in what some might otherwise call liberal movies in which it seems that the writers have to subscribe to Hollywood's liberal formula to get funding, but in which writers appear occasionally to insert lines revealing their true feelings on the subject. I enjoy them immensely.

Great art, IMHO, not only informs, reveals, challenges, it also elicits a smile or a laugh.

By: AndrewPrice

AndrewPrice — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:39:33 +0000

Was he perfect? No, but no one was. But I think it comes down to this. If Lincoln had failed, the US would have split into two similar nations, which I think would have soon developed a relationship like the US and Canada have today. I also think slavery would eventually have ended. On the other hand, if Reagan failed, we (and the world) would be much more socialist today (and much poorer for it) and I think we would have lost the cold war (or would still be fighting it). In effect, the American century would have ended in failure. On that basis, I think Reagan's achievements are more important.

By: Cronk

Cronk — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:37:30 +0000

Great Art = Art that sells, whether it's in the artist's lifetime or not doesn't matter…

By: THE UNDERLING

THE UNDERLING — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:31:35 +0000

Agreed. If the rising see level didn't kill you first ; )

By: AndrewPrice

AndrewPrice — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 07:38:16 +0000

That's actually a difficult question to answer because I've only known the US since Lincoln did his thing. I suppose if I were alive in 1840-1880, I would have been pretty upset at what Lincoln did. Under him, the Republic that we were died and was replaced by the more centralized United States we became. Yet, in the long run, those changes seem to have worked out for the better. BUT from my perspective, those changes aren't a big deal because they were already in place long before I was born.

The things Reagan did changed the country that I lived in. So to me, Reagan's accomplishments FEEL greater. In fact, I'll tell you, I closed my office so we could watch his funeral. Everyone of us cried. That was when I realized how personally, he'd affected me (and how many millions more felt that way).

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By: AndrewPrice

AndrewPrice — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 07:13:27 +0000

Dude, what was so liberal about the Abyss, unless you mean the TWENTY MINUTE TIRADE at the end about nuclear weapons? Bitter, no, not at all, why do you ask…

By: Aetius

Aetius — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 05:52:32 +0000

Yeah, I wouldn't exactly call Pol Pot a shining moment in the history of the left.

By: mishu

mishu — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 05:41:26 +0000

I think the criteria was "in the last 25 years". Some folks bring up movies that are 50 years old here. One movie NRO forgot was "The Aviator", the story of Howard Hughes. That scene Howard has lunch with the Hepburns in the Hamptons was priceless.

By: Hucbald

Hucbald — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 05:36:33 +0000

"And I was very impressed with your command of logic and detail exhibited on your site."

Mega thanks!

I'll tell you what, starting up that little MMM "vanity blog" – I get 100-150 hits per day after nearly five years LULZ!!! – has been one of the best things for my composing ever, precisely because I use it to explain the logic behind the music I write as if I was a professor teaching a class.

I'm betting artists and writers of all stripes could benefit from a weblog that they use to explain some of the thinking behind their work. Now, if we'd only band together to create our own alternate university system where we could share our understanding – which I'm happy to find I'm not the only one who slaved and sweat for.

One of my favorite old saws about art goes, "Art is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration." Whoever came up with that saying was a genius, because it's so right that it rises to the level of a truism.