‘Taking Woodstock’ Opens Today

I was part of that generation and loved the music at the time. That said, I am extremely tired of "inspired by a true story" movies because they seem like just another opportunity for some liberals to revise history and insult half the population. That may or may not be the case, but I hate that I have to be suspicious

Definitely a Redbox Special…

What's the over-under on whether or not the coverage of this movie here is actually about the MOVIE and not more attempts to "reclaim" history…

Will Baby Boomers ever get tired of trying to sensationalize their lives to inflate their own significance? Has there ever been a more narcissistic generation of people in human history?

I saw this when it was called "Woodstock" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066580/) and really don't want to see a sensationalized version of events as told through the pot haze of rose colored glasses.

Yeah but that doesn't mean his stand-up has become political.

I'll always associate Woodstock with the movie film which I never saw the end of because two *bikers*, wannabe "Banditos" a 1%er type biker gang in Texas, attempted to murder a buddy I was with-DURING THE MOVIE! He barely survived and many months later I was the *star witness* for the prosecution…ya right. They were acquitted, and I had to go into exile…in Midland Texas…not long after a unknown with a semi-famous name ran for Congress…W…the odd and funny twists and turns of life…

You mean these guys?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6JLHZ3eJZs

"single Mom…?"

Correction: topless single mom.

I KNEW I SAW IT!

…And I [b]used[/b] to like Demetri Martin because his humor was not political.

A drug and alcohol induced rock and roll bender that defined a reckless generation.

Say….. isn't this the same generation that has wrecked our economy and is straddling their children with monumental debt and an unparalleled absence of freedom?

Just curious… No! Wait!! Don't answer that… I can't stomach the psychobabble.

I remember that one, I think…hitchhiker stays at house, kid perspective, single Mom…?

Pass.

Gaua

You have to understand why Woodstock is important to liberals. It is probalby the last time that lifestyle seemed to hold any promise. Yes you can just aimlessly wander around in your youth taking acid and smoking grass but eventually that leads to some hard realities and you have to abandon those juvenille notions or you end up homeless and crazy. This is why they lionize Woodstack.

The movies only response to the lawsuits and after effects of the event was to have the two main characters at the end in a conversation say "Yeah, probably we will all sue each other but man it was Groovy." I think that spoke volumes for the film. Other than that the film was not really political as it was more a twisted support for the "Hippy" lifestyle.

Hey it's peace and love man! Ok I need breakfast so …. But Man Love is all you need….. OK OK I get it Peace and Love fine but who's goona get breakfast…………. That's the problem with trying to live out liberal euphamisms…. In the morning you still have to feed yourself.

They had to be, they raised the baby boomers, remember?

I like to go to a lot of movies and unless someone warns me ahead of time is overtly political I'll go see a leftist movie. It just kept trying to show the hippies as groovy and how every ends up liking him even the cop who come up there to bust a few heads but found out how polite they all were. Whatever.

The only thing that is hard to endure is all the men kissing. I know we’re supposed to be accepting but as a heterosexual man I cannot bear to watch that even if I understand the reaction is wrong. It's ingrained in the libido. The level of we are all "gay" was really ramped. I think the hippies in the 60's had the same hang ups with homosexuality anyone else did at the time. If anything you get the sense that the movie is divorced from reality. You just can’t believe a woman with 97 grand under her mattress would let banks start foreclosure procedures for 5 grand not paid. The politics is more just stupid than offensive so it is more palatable. I think it is an Oliver Stone version of Woodstock but not in a negative way. Just in a "its all a fabrication of history" way.

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