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by Ben Shapiro
This is the longest show in human history. This is longer than Benjamin Button’s entire life, shown minute by minute.
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“Our silly gods cost the world too greatly?” Bill Maher, intellectual giant. So glad he could stop by. The brains of a billy goat in the body of a slightly lighter Joe Biden.
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This sure is an eminently talky Oscars. How about showing some clips rather than the filmmakers talking about the clips? If I want to watch somebody talking, I’ll watch Ann Coulter’s interview with Joy Behar again.
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Good, Ledger deserved the Oscar. Where’s Michelle Williams, the mother of his child?
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The Bertolli commercial had more musical merit than the Jackman spectacular.
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The Big Problem With Variety Numbers
by Ben ShapiroYou need somebody who can actually put musical numbers together. Slapping together a few bars from a wide variety of random songs doesn’t cut it. I’m all for big musical spectaculars, but this was pathetic.
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Is anyone else reliving that scene from “Blazing Saddles” with Dom Deluise? “Come on, girls!”
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According to that Coke commercial, we’re actually drinking from bottles that were unwashed refuse. Well done, Coke.
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Well, that was a riveting segment.
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Okay, Dark Knight should have won that one in a walk. This is Hollywood bias against movies people have seen.
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I can’t watch one of these montages without flashing to the song “Montage” from “Team America.”
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Sarah Jessica Parker…
by Ben ShapiroThe ugliest woman ever to become a Hollywood star. Including Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie.
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Another Look at the 25 Best Conservative Movies
by Ben ShapiroOver at National Review Online, they just finished going through their top 25 conservative movies of the last 25 years. Overall, it’s a decent list. Still, there were many films left off and several that would not have made my cut. Here’s their full list, with brief comment:
25. Gran Torino: Fair enough.
24. Team America: World Police: This should rank higher, if only for Hans Blix being eaten by a shark and a parody of Matt Damon that will forever wreck his political future – a service for which we should all be grateful.
23. United 93: Again, this should rank higher, but the truth is that the story itself is conservative. Americans didn’t apologize for foreign entanglements or the American way of life on Flight 93 – they just rolled. The movie is almost a documentary. (more…)
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8 Reasons ‘24′ Has Jumped the Shark
by Ben ShapiroI used to count myself among the biggest fans of 24. A friend recommended 24 during Season 2, and I went back and rented Season 1. It was addictive, fast-paced, genuinely adrenaline-pumping. The first half of Season 2 was almost as good. Season 3 was similarly excellent, and while Season 4 dropped off in quality a bit, it still kept the blood moving. The much-derided Season 5 was more than half decent, despite its Nixonian tinge. Season 6, of course, was a full scale disaster.
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But I was hopeful that Season 7 would provide redemption. Tony Almeida was back. Sure, it was Joey Tribiani-esque soap opera reappearance, but Tony was Tony and I was happy to see him, even if they wheeled him in Bernie-style. Jack Bauer was back to his old ways, making impossible shots with a handgun while shouting brilliantisms like “Dammit!” and “We’re running out of time!” The Palmer family was gone, once and for all. So was the Bauer family, from James Cromwell’s insipid dad to Elisha Cuthbert’s horrifyingly dull daughter. Jon Voight would pop in. It was a recipe for a good time. (more…)
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John Updike’s Dead: Do We Still Have To Pretend To Like His Books?
by Ben ShapiroFor the last few years, we have been treated to a bevy of columns and articles lionizing John Updike. It is certainly a tragedy that he is gone – he had massive literary potential. But since the media has been busy writing his eulogy for years, it does not seem unfair to add a note of reality: Updike was not a great writer. He was not even a very good one.
It has always puzzled me how the media selects “great writers.” I, for one, would consider Frederick Forsythe’s driving, brilliant action novel “The Day of the Jackal” far better literature than Don DeLillo’s pointless and meandering “Underworld.” I think Leon Uris’ “Mila 18″ is far more compelling than the Cormac McCarthy’s purposefully obscure “Blood Meridian.” It isn’t that I don’t enjoy the occasional psychological novel – it’s tough to argue with either Tolstoy or Dostoevsky. But the gauge of authorial greatness shouldn’t be the ability to pen 600 pages of plot-less description of characters who would bore you to death or repulse you in real life. (more…)
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Top 5 Conservative Characters On “Lost”
by Ben ShapiroI first got into ABC’s hit TV show Lost about two years ago. A friend recommended it, and by the time I got to the end of Episode 4 of Season 1, I was completely hooked. (This, by the way, is my Recruitment Rule for Lost: watch the first four episodes. If you don’t like it by then, dump out.) I am so hooked, in fact, that I often tout Lost as the best show in the history of television. I don’t simply love Lost for its terrific acting, wonderful writing, quirky plotting, or mind-boggling twists. I also love it because of its subtle conservatism. Here are the top five conservative characters on Lost. Beware – SPOILERS INCLUDED:
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1. Sawyer: Josh Holloway’s Southern con man, James “Sawyer” Ford, is the best conservative character on television, bar none. Sure he sleeps around – what con man worth his salt doesn’t? But he votes Republican – in Episode 16 of Season 1, Outlaws, Sawyer admits that he has never voted Democrat. He’s a proud gun-toter, carrying rifles and pistols with equal authority. He’s a true capitalist, buying and selling like Warren Buffet at a flea market. And he hates communism. When one female character suggests that everyone share a cache of food, Sawyer sneers, “Oh sure, Moonbeam, and then maybe we can all do Trust Falls and sing Kumbaiya.” Sawyer is the first to engage in racial profiling – he labels fellow crash survivor Sayid a terror suspect in Episode 1, Season 1 – but he also develops a deep friendship with Sayid as the show progresses. And boy is he tough. In Season 2, he rips a bullet out of his shoulder with his bare hands. Ask Al Franken to do that.
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Can Movies Lose Wars?
by Ben ShapiroThis is a tale of two cultures. Both cultures are faced with the threat of Islamic terrorism. Both have watched their soldiers fight and die. Both have watched their citizens burn alive.
But one culture has rejected a far-left film establishment that seeks to undermine its war on terror – the other has embraced it.
The first culture – the culture that rejects its morally relativistic artists – is America. The second culture – the culture that accepts and encourages its morally relativistic artists – is Israel.
Hollywood may make tons of movies like In the Valley of Elah, Rendition, and Stop-Loss, but those movies tank. Tel Aviv makes similar movies, and those movies are considered the greatest film achievements of the Jewish State.
There’s a reason for that: while Hollywood believes American exceptionalism is passé, most Americans disagree. By contrast, Tel Aviv believes that Zionism is passé – and that post-Zionist attitude has infected much of the Israeli populace.
It’s no wonder that America is winning its war on terror, while Israel is losing hers.
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