Sean Penn and His Buddies Will Sink Hollywood
by Ted BaehrThe Academy Award members painted themselves as a bunch of Commie rats last night, when they applauded madly during Communist sympathizer Sean Penn’s gleeful greeting to them after winning an award for portraying an assassinated homosexual leader, “You Commie, homo-loving sons of guns!”
In the past, Penn has expressed support for Hugo Chavez, the Neo-Marxist dictator of Venezuela, and Communist dictator Fidel Castro of Cuba.
What Sean Penn and other Communist sympathizers in Hollywood refuse to recognize (at least publicly) is that American moviegoers usually reject movies that unabashedly promote a Communist or socialist viewpoint.
For seven years, MOVIEGUIDE® has been looking at the political content of the Top 250 English-language movies that open nationally each year in the United States. An examination of the domestic box office averages for movies promoting an unabashedly socialist or Communist viewpoint shows that such movies averaged only about $15.5 million and $7 million per movie from 2002 through 2008.
And, that includes the pro-Communist, socialist diatribes of Michael Moore, whose success at self-promotion leaves all other lefty filmmakers in the dust!
In fact, this year, MOVIEGUIDE® calculates that movies released in 2008 coming from a more liberal or leftist sensibility (including Steven Soderbergh’s movie honoring Che Guevara, “Mamma Mia!” and Bill Maher’s “Religulous”) averaged only $11.4 million at the box office, but that movies with more conservative content, including the new Indiana Jones movie where the villain is a spy from the Soviet Union, “Prince Caspian” and the Christian movie “Fireproof,” which attacked the porn industry, averaged $81.2 million.
American moviegoers reject the radical left and its policies. Only when the left is able to successfully hide its agenda from the American people is it able to fool America’s citizens.
Commie rats will sink the entertainment industry if Hollywood continues to listen to them and applaud their propaganda.
Note: Dr. Ted Baehr is Publisher of MOVIEGUIDE® and www.movieguide.org, which the New York Times noted is the most conservative, traditional movie review website. Dr. Tom Snyder, Editor of MOVIEGUIDE®, contributed to this article.
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And in the biggest scam of all, we elected a full-blown socialist into office who is ramming a socialist agenda through as fast as he can get Congress to write and vote. And still people keep saying we need to give him a chance … Is that script a tragedy or a comedy and how big is the take on this one so far?
I'm confused, at the Oscars, a movie set entirely in Mumbai that didn't mention American politics ONCE, won 8 Oscars. Oh, yeah, and that movie has pulled in $100 million in the US alone. You'd swear reading this blog that it had been Milk winning 8 Oscars and Slumdog 2 instead of the other way around.
I believe it to be the case that the corporate taxes paid by movie production companies are calculated upon the aggregate earnings over a given year. If that is, in fact, the case, then it actually makes good business sense for these companies to produce a reliable string of losers, to offset the earnings from movies that the public actually attend.
That they also get to crank out drivel that supports their political viewpoint may be merely an added bonus.
Watching these people, so oblivious to how offensive they are to most Americans, drive themselves and their industry off a cliff is fascinating. One wonders how they manage to get financing for these projects. The only reason I can think of is that they offer some kind of tax write-off an otherwise profitable investor may need. Their hubris is breathtaking. Perhaps these films are funded by money launderers or Venezuelan dictators who know the power of film? The implicit arrogant assumptions about sex, politics, stereotypes, social positions, etc., that seem to be the premises of their films, assumptions that they appear to believe potential viewers to share, are astonishing.
[...] Who knew? [...]
Having not watched the show, or caring enough to read about the results, I can't answer. Did any of the Slumdog cast or crew trash America on stage? Maybe that's the reason for the attention being paid to the others.
Will sink? I thought Hollywood was already sunk.
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Milk lost the Oscar because it was of TV movie quality otherwise it would have won easily. If you want to win an Oscar, you have to make some attempt at quality. The next Oscar movie will be a gay communist dictator being picked on by some evil capitalist – BUT it will need to be of good quality. Nobody will watch it but the movie will send a chill up the legs of the Hollywood dbags. After winning the Oscar, they will slap themselves on the back because they brought awareness to the plight of gay communist dictators.
Everytime I see that photo of Del Toro my stomach lurches…not in a good way.
WILL SINK? HA! Everyone I know refuses to spend money with them already. While there is still participation from the masses for an escape – most people have become tired of these folks for awhile.
I believe the boat is already under the water line – the mast may still be sticking up – but their hopes are dashed.
LOL! Writer X – sorry to have duplicated – didn't read em all first
Read The Creature from Jekyll Island. All this talk about "communism" is largely a show. The evil globalist elite are the real threat and they don't care if they deal with a communist or Bush so long as they do what they are told. That is the REAL reason for this propaganda against Iran, Venezuela and Russia – they aren't going along with the plan.
"Prince Caspian" was a flop. Why do you think Disney dropped the movie. "Mamma Mia!" , on the other hand, is one of the most successful movie of the year.
Seems par for the course, movies nobody sees, seem to win these days. Slum Dog is suppose to be a good move, and The Reader as well, Micky Rorke should have won, but he didn't instead he has come back and will make movies people will want to see, and in the end, he will have the last laugh and a much better pay check. I never cared for Penn as an actor, or for that matter pay money to see anything he is in. That is just me. He is not going to have the Staying power of say Paul Neuman. In thirty years its going to be Oh that guy, the fag movie. While guys like Neuman , people will stay up to 3AM to catch one of his. I didn't watch the Ocars, I have not since Bob Hope was not MC ing the event. That is so telling, How many MC's have they had since?
Chris Johnson & WTFO: please explain how it makes good business sense for movie studios or investors to lose money on movies to save on taxes? Do you even understand how taxes work? If you invest $1,000 in a movie and get nothing in return, you can write off the $1,000 and reduce your taxable income. You would save 35% of the $1,000 in taxes (or $350). However, you still lost the initial $1,000, resulting in a net loss of $650. If you never invested the $1,000 you'd have to pay $350 in taxes, but you'd still have $650 left over.
Let's have a rational discussion on how these movies get made, not some nonsense.
How is "Momma Mia!" in any way considered a leftist movie? While not nearly as entertaining as the show, you are way off base with your comparisons.
I haven't been to a movie theatre in over a year.
Hope Sean and Del Torro are not counting on this capitalist to support their lifestyles.
Still waiting for the Great One to increase taxes on the rich to 90% (their fare share). Then we will see how long they still love him.
American moviegoers reject the radical left and its policies. Only when the left is able to successfully hide its agenda from the American people is it able to fool America’s citizens.
Nothing makes me happier to see conservatives wallow in their own overinflated egos and exalted stupidity like this. You couldn't possibly get this more wrong. Kudos! AS IF we feel like we have to hide who we are from you! ROFL! You still think we have to answer to you! You still think you have some sort of power! LOL.
If I WERE a Communist – wait for it – I WOULD SAY SO! The notion that I would feel any kind of shame about who I am is preposterous. YOU have failed this country, not me, Dr. Ted Bundy. You're not coming back until YOU (as in not me) begin to feel some shame and take some responsibility.
At last something I can agree with Sean Penn about.
Hollywood IS a bunch of commie, homo-loving sons of guns!
First off, no. Hollywood is not sinking. And despite being a conservative, I love movies and I don't want it to. And you look ridiculous stating such a thing. If none of your friends have spent any money on Hollywood recently, I would suggest you get a more exciting group of friends. I mean what do you do for fun, sit around in a circle and read The Bible to each other?
It is funny, if Sean and his buddies find Cuba and Venezeula such Paradises, why aren;t they locating at least their summer homes there. Answer: They will be stolen from them whenever it suits the dictators there.
Ditto any income they would derive. So, theres is a SLIGHT sense of hypocristy here, no?
Also, if Sean were to do some homework, he would see that there are only a handful of countries in the world that allow homosexual marriages. Cuba and Venezuela are not two of them.
Where is the outrage?????????
Imagine, Sean criticising Islam for ritual female genital mutilation and the like. Can't he find any outrage over this?
I’m amazed you Obamabots are off your knee’s seeing that the most merciful, “One,” had only finished his blessings at around 10 eastern. Your love of the Magic “O” has no bounds, blessed be the Messiah, for he has spoken, and you as a brave disciple fearlessly attack productive Americans, to be certain that your $13.00 a week are not diminished. While you mindlessly flog away where you’re not wanted, you pray for a fulfilled life of worthless mediocrity, and government servitude, that one day, maybe you can be Section eight’ed near the blessed “One.” So charge on you, “useful idiots,” and spread misery across, “the fruited plain,” and know that your love of the Imperial Federal Government is greatly appreciated, and the “O” gives you a smile, and a hearty thumbs up. Masa’ Soros says, “now, back on your knee’s slave, and grovel!
Ha-ha! I've heard of this guy. He call himself "Dr. Ted Baehr" but he's not a doctor of anything. Great. Another faux-conservative opinion from another conservative poser.
You make less sense everytime you post here. What is up, off your meds? And if you are a communist, it just means you don't know anything about history. That is nothing to be ashamed of, right?
America fought the wrong enemy in WW 2, and the chickens have come home to roost.
[...] Via Big Hollywood by Dr. Ted Baehr [...]
Funny, my nine year old daughter was so jazzed about the Caspian film. She saw Disney's first Narnia installment, and was unimpressed. "They changed it from the book" she said. (Which they did, in parts.) …But when she heard that Disney had Lucy have a crush on Caspian in the new film, she refused to see it. I had it in my hand, and sent it back to Netflix unwatched. …Heh.
That was a bit of a diversion away from the topic, but there y'go.
How is sitting in a dark movie theater with a bunch of people being quiet an exciting group of friends? When I'm out with my friends, we go to dinner and talk and laugh and have a good time. If we want something a little more exciting, we usually play board games. That way, we can still talk, laugh, and have a good time. Hollywood needs/will get none of my money for the drivel they make.
Actually, Penn and his ilk are giving self respecting communists a bad name… all of these losers go home to their Brentwood or Malibu estates and consume, consume, consume… the sheer hypocrisy is breathtaking!
That's why when you have an Ed Begly Jr you gotta respect him 'cause at least he walks the walk…
I'd love to see the criteria Dr. Baehr uses to judge a film's "political content."
Given the three choices he lists, you could also argue that two were extremely boring movies, and one featured the music of ABBA, (which may, in itself, have driven people away from it.)
There's no denial, though, that the play "Mama Mia" is a big hit, so it's not the content that is the problem. Perhaps it is the fact that the people who wanted to see it already saw it on Broadway. You don't know that for sure until you do some deeper research.
It's a bit reckless to lump disparate films together and say "this category sells" and "this category doesn't." That would be like saying, "Iron Man" and "Dark Knight" did well because their comic book-based movies, but "the Spirit" bombed because it was a comic book-based movie, and now all comic book-based movies will bomb. This kind of judgment disregards items like the quality of writing, direction, and the stars in the film.
So, Benicio flips ya' stomach?
Good Lord, now you've got thinwits pimping web sites? C'mon, John. Exercise just the tiniest amount of editorial control. You're turning the place into a virtual soap box where anyone, no matter how deluded, is welcome to rant. On the other hand, maybe "commie rats will sink the entertainment industry" is the level of discourse you both understand and are looking for. Sometimes I wonder.
Oh, wait. I get it. You were impressed because he's a 'doctor.' Heh.
They're not "losing" the $1,000, they're spending it as they wish as opposed to paying additional net taxes.
The same principle applies to corporations paying bonuses at the end of the year, or buying new company vehicles, or other equipment, etc. They pay taxes only upon the net earnings after all business expenses. In the movie business, those expenses can be lavish salaries for actors and filmakers that produce movies that need not be expected to attract audiences, at least in the American market. I have no idea if they have to include earnings overseas in their U.S. income, though I doubt it.
I'm just looking for some logic that might explain what appears on the surface to be poor business practice. What is nonsense is the constant outflow of product that does poorly at the U.S. boxoffice. That be be rationally explained if corporations wish to reduce earnings in a country that has comparatively high corporate income taxes and boost earnings in countries that have more favorable tax laws. I'm no expert in this, but I'm willing to bet that there is an aspect of this in play when decisions are being made.
Ouch–I made two mistakes in my last post. I assumed from the context that Mamma Mia was not a hit. After looking over the MovieGuide article, I see it was in the top 25 of the year.
Second, the article listed the criteria Movieguide uses. Many of its "objective" ratings depend on taking scenes (i.e., nudity) out of context, or assuming the movie projects a certain worldview that I have often found is subjective among reviewers. Not very useful, but at least now I understand the criteria.
Bozo
I'm going to guess you're not a doctor, nor a Timelord either.
Theatrics aside (pun intended), the author of this piece has a point. It's not about whether the films are entertaining, it's about what makes money. 81 million vs. 11 million, on average? The boards of directors of the big entertainment corporations don't care too much about the politics or content of the movie, they care about whether the darn thing will make a buck. Miley Cyrus is making a lot more money than Michael Moore, or Sean Penn, for that matter. So, in a time of recession (which Mr. Obama is emphasizing more every day), the films that are not certain moneymakers will just not be made. The movie moguls will go with the sure thing every time.
The politics of Hollywood are not right or left, they are the politics of money, because Hollywood is a capitalist town. Come visit sometime and see for yourself; we'd welcome your tourista dinero.
And another thing you damn kids. GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!
Everyone you know! That ought to show those supercilious Hollywood marketing muckety-mucks. "CommonSense's" friends don't patronize Sean Penn movies. He's BOX OFFICE POISON!
Are you guys M. D.s or Ph. Ds or exactly what kind of "doctors" do we have here? Movie doctors who are somehow qualified to post a warning that Hollywood will SINK? Are you kidding me? Let's have some qualifications, "Doctor", then let's have some information from some reputable sources beyond the one you write. You know, real scholars and medical doctors base their conclusions on peer-reviewed, carefully designed, research studies with control groups, etc. Why not give that a try and report back? OR…might it be too late? Blub, blub, blub, down I go….
Amen, Harley. Earth to John: what will sink Big Hollywood are nuts like Dr. Whatever ranting like it was 1950-something. Next he will be asking for "lists of names". Please….intelligent discussion. or none.
You could not make it up! Now Penn is to play Joe Wilson in the new Valerie Plame movie/PROPA-GANDA-RAMA!
No problem. Glad I'm not the only one who feels this way.
In the words of my very wise Dad; The bad-seed has taken power.
I have not yet seen the movie (my wife loathes ABBA songs), so could someone please tell me what makes Momma Mia leftist?
It might be a data point that it's not necessary to promote liberal politics in order to win Oscars… but it's also a data point that the movies that make money don't trash America.
It is also another very interesting data point suggesting that "Hollywood" is sinking… it wasn't a Hollywood film. Mumbai dwarfs Hollywood in the world in any case, even though Bollywood is generally off our radar.
It's worthwhile to point out that what determines a movie's profit isn't what it brings in, it's also what the movie cost to make. So Fireproof is arguably more successful than most of the top 25 because of its return on investment.
It's also worthwhile to point out that many movies make more money on DVD rentals than they do in theatres, so this "report" ignores the true gross of these movies.
You really identified with Lucy in those old Charlie Brown cartoons, didn't you? I can see you now… pounding your fists… crossing your arms… face turning red… kicking things…
"Listen, all of you! You've got to take direction! You've got to have discipline! You've got to have respect for your director!"
THanks for the meMORies!
Commie rats have an unraveled ability to destroy everything good. You are right on, Dr. Baehr. I am a fellow contributor to Big Hollywood and I write a lot on the subject of coummie/leftist infiltration of Hollywood and their destructive power. http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/?s=Kochar
Agreed, Ed does what he says, which is more than you can say for the rest of the twerps.
Well if you think being physically ill upon seeing such a visage as HIS is good? I mean hey maybe you Cuneo also have an addiction to Exlax? Visual exlax….Del Toro …I think it works.
wow… no one has overinflated egos quite like the left- they're absolutists- and therefore cannot see their own stupidity. Stalin, when asked what weapon the west had that he most coveted said "Hollywood'"…
they routinely hide leftist messages and deny a voice to mainstream America. I know- I worked there…
Prince Caspian was only a "disappointment" because the first Narnia movie was so wildly successful. Caspian is still a blockbuster by any standard. Not surprisingly, rival studio Fox quickly picked up the franchise.
In retrospect, Caspian was hurt because it was released around the same time as Iron Man, which appeals to the same audience. Incidentally, the blockbuster success of Iron Man proves Movieguide's research that conservative films do WAY better than Far Left fare.
As humorously portrayed in "An American Carol," liberals like Penn won't dare criticize Islam for fear of being beheaded.
So much for being "courageous."
Good article except you forgot to mention the Anti War movies which have one after another lost money. __Yet I understand a movie is being made of Navy Seal, Marcus Latrelle's, heroic autobiographical Lone Survivor which will make a "killing" at the Box Office.
I think Dr. Baehr's report may have hit too close to home for some people. If you think "conservative = lousy flop," then you're truly shocked that the superb blockbuster Dark Knight really leans right.
you call that a comeback?
I'm not going to take being referred to as an Obamabot by polesmoking Republican fluffers like yourselves. Really, you people could not have inserted yourselves farther up George Bush's Freedom Canal and you think that you're making some kind of point with your fake alarm over the popularity of Obama. You're not convincing anyone besides yourselves.
The One, huh? Ok, bootlickers.
He's off to a good start bitching about "commies."
"…exactly what kind of "doctors" do we have here? Movie doctors who are somehow qualified to post a warning that Hollywood will SINK?
Hey, Sheldon…
Dr. Baehr holds a degree in literature from Dartmouth and a Juris Doctor from the New York University School of Law, as well a resume that includes director of the television center at the City University of New York.
Took 15 seconds to find this information, dumbass. (For future refence, it's called Google. You'll have to find it on your own, tho.) Somehow I'm guessing you really aren't that concerned with credentials. Last I checked Sean Penn barely escaped high school with a diploma, so…
No I don't call it a 'comeback'. It was an observation. It obviously found ground with you as you seemed to have overcorrected.
So if conservative movies are making more money than movies from teh far left as DOCTOR Ted Baehr concludes, doesn’t that contradict Big Hollywood's mission to prove that unwashed Chavez-loving commie liberals control the entire entertainment industry?
Or is it that Big Hollywood has to superimpose liberal smackdown scenarios ("And Slumdog wins! Milk's feeling the snub." Wait, what?) onto any event before they can relax and enjoy. But at least, in their emotional crippled way, they're having fun.
No, no, Lola, I was making a reference to The Usual Suspects, when during the police investigation, BDT says, "I'll flip ya'."
"LEFT LEANING; newspapers, tv and cable news, radio talk shows, and Hollywood are all tanking. For 8 years they
tore apart an economy that had one of the best unemployment numbers on record. They showed their hate for
Bush whenever they could, truth be dammed. Now they are paying the price for it and it's about time.
"…doesn’t that contradict Big Hollywood's mission to prove that unwashed Chavez-loving commie liberals control the entire entertainment industry?
Not remotely. It's a matter of public record that liberals control the entire entertainment industry. (Literally. Check the campaign donations ratio.) They just know what side their bread is buttered. Truly conservative movies slip through from time to time (Dark Knight, 300, Passion of the Christ) but the bulk of films Ted Baehr is talking about could also be termed traditional, family-friendly, non-liberal movies.
Hollywood is still capable of entertaining. They have to be in order to support their addiction to message movies that don't make a dime but do give them a false sense of purpose in life.
I have seen 2 movies in the town theatres this year: Gran Torino and Taken, both great. Gran Torino was, in fact, magnificent.
I watched 'Apocalypso' via DVD at a friend's home… he is of the opinion that it is a work of genius. Truly, it is most beautiful. I will never forget the images of the glittering walls of leaves.
It is a great mystery to me as to why there continues to be money for a George Clooney rant against Amerikkka. Perhaps it is a combination of being able to feed off bloated 'expenses', plus people will put up money to invest in a Clooney movie because they get to meet the glamorous acting crew? If so, then we may see such silliness disappear as such investors recede to the breadlines.
Anyway, I think much of the really good work is going on in series TV. Example? NCIS. Foyle's War. The Closer.
This Big Hollywood site, by the way, is expensive for me. Amazon has just received ANOTHER list of DVDs that I want to purchase, all because of reviews on this site.
I think because the mom was promiscuous and does not know which of three men is the father of her child—and whatever stems from that that might glorify her lifestyle, rather than giving her daughter a father. I have not seen the movie, because I love ABBA songs, and my ears still hurt from hearing Brosnan destroy one in a clip. So, just a guess.
Heather, part of me wants to suggest you try your local library, where movies are often borrowed for free; but that is where I get films of people I don't want to get my money (Julia Roberts, Clooney) sometimes even they make a decent film…..
try half-ebay.com for some deals, and enjoy! While I know quite a bit about classic cinema, even I have learned a bit from this website.
Nope. The success of conservative films is the result of moviegoer support not who runs Hollywood.
For example, Hollywood eagerly promotes gay "romance" films while still freaking out over a Black actor kissing a Black actress. This is amusing since Black romance films on average are more lucrative than gay "romance" films. However, due to racism and heterophobia, many Hollywood bigwigs can't accept these trends in moviegoer tastes. So, Tinseltown keeps pushing Far Left films that their audience doesn't like.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result.
Every time I hear a Shawn Penn or Bill Maher wax poetically about how stupid Yale and Harvard grad Bush is, I always wonder just what their educational credentials are, if any. There was once a time when you had to have achieved some educational standing to be taken seriously. High school class clown doesn't qualify. BTW If they want to make a movie about what's happening right now in the financial meltdown, they should check out a book I read called A Distant Crossing. Fiction has become fact.
Ed is also humble about his beliefs and lifestyle. You won't catch him on a soap box, telling people he is better than them. He believes energy conservation is the best way, then lives that lifestyle. It's a very effective way to forward your cause.
My family and I recently finished watching the entire run of Little House on the Praire. The final episode proved to be one of the best. How refreshing it was to watch a show which promoted the sacrifice of our forefathers, the importance of property and the value of doing the right thing in the face of dire consequences.
I wish Hollywood understood that I want to see more programming like that, not pro-commie garbage. The only thing I've seen remotely close in recent years was Jericho. That show stirred my pride in America.
BTW, Fireproof rocks! It'll challenge any husband to be better.
Funny how Liberals always tell us that Conservatives are against higher-education, yet the second someone with one writes or says something they disagree with, it's the first thing they attack. Just like with minorities, who are called any number of hateful slurs by the "Tolerant Left" when they don't think "the correct way."
I love it! Sean is the anchor that Hollywood is clutching to its bosom as sinks to the bottom. Good riddance.
I see where people are mourning the fact that a wholesome film like 'Caspian' did not do as well at the box office as predicted. Ironically, I see 'Caspian' as a success story. I saw the film and – trust me – it deserved not to do well because it was not a well made film – poorly acted, directed, lousy dialogue, timing, etc. Yet, with all that going against it, the film made a very good profit. Why? Because the audience for wholesome, decent films that honor moral values, faith and which have respect for the audience will sell no matter whether they are well made or not. THIS is the fact which Sean and his ilk are utterly blind to. Which is why Sean and his ilk are sinking Hollywood to the bottom of the ocean.
Good. I couldn't think of a bunch of jerks who better deserve their fate. Bon voyage!
Welcome to BH ! Hope to see your articles often.
Benicio Del Toro was in a movie called "Christopher Columbus: The Discovery" where he gets speared to death. That was the 2nd best part of the movie. The best part were the naked native women….
This is classic "whistling past the cemetary" blather. Or maybe TEHSTUPID really is. Or maybe it depends on what the definition of is "is". Or….
I watch everything from Saw to Amelie to I am Legend to Born into Brothels to the Wrestler, but there are plenty of movies that I won't watch. Anything with an obvious agenda. I and the public have seen enough of Syrianna, Sicko and Che to last an eternity. Judging from the poor box office receipts so has everyone else. I'm not a bible-beater with only a passing interest in films outside of religious films. Nor am I a movie-going teenager buying a ticket to the latest crapfest action flick. I have a varied taste, but I won't give any money to Redford, Sarandon, Clooney, Penn and all the hatemongers who forcefeed their agendas via their crappy films.
On a side note, the latest Friday the 13th remake (aren't they all remakes really??) made more money in one weekend than MILK, The Reader and Frost/Nixon will make in their entire run combined. That's gotta frost them.
Sorry, I gotta laugh anytime anyone asserts that "Dark Knight" is a conservative film. I know some columnist claimed that Batman = GWBush, but I didn't think anyone actually took that seriously.
All the elements of that film have been explored in the comics since the '40s, so it's a mistake to push "conservative" or "liberal" absolute values on the movie.
The one new item (and the one I think conservatives can claim) might have been the cell phone monitoring computer batman used to monitor the entire city at once. However, he recognized the moral trap and destroyed the device once the danger was over (which is a conclusion that liberals can use to claim "Dark Knight" as a liberal film).
Des! I get that, and I have no problem with any group reviewing movies according to their own world view. But two things. John Nolte wouldn't take the man's organization seriously if you put a cap gun to his head. But worse? My primary complaint is with the astonishingly stupid "commie rats' line of thinking, and it's a stretch to call it thinking. It's the worst kind of generalization, if only because it betrays an almost complete lack of familiarity with the town (I can say with some surety that folks here are much more interested in money than Marx), and is the kind of thing that incites people to absurd and sometimes dangerous degrees.
How'd you like the comment about America 'fighting the wrong enemy' in WWII? That's what this kind of stuff leads to.
"Judging from the poor box office receipts so has everyone else:"
Sicko: Production Budget: $9 million / Worldwide gross: $35,767,758
SYRIANA: Production Budget: $50 million / Worldwide gross: $93,974,620
You are absolutely correct, but what I find hilarious is that communist regimes tend to criminalize homosexuality. The hypocrisy and stupidity of Sean Penn and his followers doesn't surprise me, but I do love pointing it out!
Under the article title one may click on the author's name that is underlined in red. If you click on Dr. Baehr's name underlined in red his resume comes up.
Probably the longest resume of anyone writing for this site. I have read his articles elsewhere. Most conservatives know who he is.
It was so long this comment section wouldn't allow me to post it all.
thanks for using the words "commie rats" I use it on occasion myself- just to see the startled look on peoples faces !
Sarah, Not interested in the politics of the article but merely wanted to point out that Narnia grossed $419, 651,413 worldwide in 16 weeks after costing approx. $200 million to make. All the profits from Home DVD's and game sales are not included in this total.It is becoming more aparent recently why Disney chose to drop the movie particularly the pressure they received after marketing the first Narnia untraditionally to the christian community. The fact that it made this amount of money despite PC overkill speaks volumes to the market for spiritual family entertainment. Fox has no such qualms and there will be more artistic freedoms to make the movie closer in intent to the original text I believe. Final word: Disney were complete idiots to drop this franchise and they know it now.
As a Christian who LOVES to read God's Word, especially in groups of friends, I would have to say that: yes, reading the Bible is fun!
Of course, to me so is watching Christian movies such as Fireproof, or movies based off Christian licenses, such as The Chronicles of Narnia, or geeky movies that have comic book heroes, giant robots, fantasy or sci-fi.
So was Taken.
So what's your point exactly? That you have to watch movies to be considered exciting? I don't need useless drivel thrown into my cranium to have an exciting life; as much as I LIKE those movies, I don't need them. Our Creator has plenty of excitement for me
Rexter is right. "The Creature from Jekyll Island" is an AMAZING book. If you think Bush or Obama or Republicans or Democrats are really in control, you're wrong. The ultimate power in this country is weilded by the banking cartel known as the "Federal Reserve". Peter Jennings even ADMITTED this on the air (probably by mistake) back when W took office; the first thing W did was meet with Alan Greenspan, then Chairman of the Federal Reserve, whom Peter Jennings referred to as "the most powerful man in America".
Late reply, but have to agree with neocon – the attempt to label Mamma Mia as a "leftist" movie is spurious at best. BORING – yes! Longest two hours I ever spent anywhere. Turned to my wife afterwards and told her "Now you have proof positive of how much I love you!"
Where does it say anything about Slumdog Millionaire in the article? That's right, nowhere. The article is about the audience applauding Sean Penn's remarks. Nice try attempting to avoid that argument. Next you'll probably bring up Joe the plumber.
I quit going to the movies a few years ago. These idiots don't get any of my money. I'm waiting for Obama to put a $500,000 cap on those idiots for a years worth of play acting.
Moderation? Why? It's because of the "brown shirt" crack, huh. Sorry!
Wow, I'm humbled…I prostrate myself before the administrator…."I'm not worthy, I'm not worthy…"
I did that at Fantasia one time….great animation, LOOOOOOONNNNGGGGG. Fell asleep in the aisle…embaressing…
As for me, if the movie is entertaining, I'll watch it. If the movie's message / agenda / presentation style falls over the line I call "offensive", I won't watch the movie – in the theater or at home.
Let's leave Hollywood out of this argument. I don't cast blame at an entire city associated with the entertainment industry; I'm much more precise in tattoo-ing individual actors and producers as social misfits and merchants of trash.
To Penn, Moore, and whoever ; ) my best wishes in whatever you do. But don't lose any sleep waiting for a royalty check for when I watched any of your crap.
That would explain the runaway success of BigYahtzee.com. And that would also explain you're over here posting instead of over there.
So you're saying you don't believe in the market. You think big brother should dictate their earnings based on what you think their public worth is rather than the dollars they bring in? Hm.
I agree. Who finances these propoganda pcs? It is clearly someone who doesn't care if he loses money and no one bothers to watch the likes of Rendition, Milk, etc. No one goes and yet these expensive turkeys still get made – it can't be Soros financing them all?
Wait. This conflicts totally with what my Secret Obama Decoder Ring told me. I got something about badger taxidermy… and frozen yogurt. I think.
No, skillet's telling me I'm all wrong. Never mind.
Well, I didn't claim the guy is agenda-free (or even a particularly great thinker). I was just responding to the knee-jerk reaction that he shouldn't be writing here. I think that perspective is really important (although I could live with some toned-down rhetoric), because it allows us to ask the questions (and possibly get a few answers). It's not the generalizations that incite people, it's the segregation from those who think differently that allows them to easily depersonalize the individuals or groups. It's easy to hate someone you don't know (or want to know). That's why I find some groups on the Left particularly distasteful. Dennis Prager was speaking about an East Coast "Intellectual" he knew (a female writer) who told him that she'd "never met a Conservative."
Seriously, anyone who is that vapid and shallow shouldn't be writing for a living, they should get a real job (or at least make an effort to seek out people who disagree with them so they can find an understanding of the perspective). People who seek out a bubble of like-minded individuals in order to exlude those they disagree with are the very definition of a bigot.
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