Recipe for Oscar Nom: Trash Middle ‘Tea-Bagging’ America in the ‘L.A. Times’
by Pam MeisterChristmas Day is upon us, a day of celebration for Christians AND Hollywood: Christmas Day is the day when many blockbuster and Academy Award wannabes are released. If you’re a screenwriter jonesing for an Oscar, how do you prove you’re part of the “cool clique” in Hollywood deserving of recognition by your Hollywoodite peers? Why, by trashing the very schlubs who may be thinking of shelling out 10 bucks plus to see your new movie as a bunch of zombies, vampires and werewolves.
Were you thinking of seeing “Nine”? Well, sucks to be you, doesn’t it?
“Nine” Screenwriter Michael Tolkin
Ah yes, the Academy Awards – specifically, Best Picture. And maybe in this case, Best Screenplay. (Only the actual winners get excited about categories like Best Makeup and Best Editing.) Best Picture winners don’t necessarily reflect a movie’s popularity with the public, but often the political statement the movie makes – or, perhaps, statements made by those closest to it – like the screenwriter.
Yep, Michael Tolkin may have written a movie about an “arrogant, self-absorbed movie director” looking for meaning in his art (is this based on a true story???), but he’s positive that the bitter clingers who populate Middle America don’t have a clue either, and he’s prepared to educate the masses.
In an op-ed for the LA Times, Tolkin discusses what he calls “The Vampirization of America.” Using the current rage for werewolves, vampires, zombies and wizards in popular culture as a metaphor, his comparisons reminds us of the tedious essays that we had to write in high school, looking for hidden meaning in books we hated, like Slaughterhouse Five and anything written by Ernest Hemingway. Tolkin takes this art form to a whole new level by applying it to something he hates – those bitter clingers.
In a nutshell, those who elected Obama are part of the youthful Harry Potter “wizard brigade” who may be feeling a bit of buyer’s remorse at the moment, but can be excused “seeing as they do that they’re surrounded now by Zombies, the tea baggers, a growling mob of brain-dead idiots led by the Vampires.”
And who are these scary creatures?
“The Zombies are the muddled herd of the maggoty brain-dead, reduced by their confusion to singular obsessions. What upsets them about Obama’s origins is that he has actual proof of human birth. They are the Living Dead in George Romero’s shopping mall, no money, no credit, still shopping. They’re the embarrassing reflection of our lives…”
If you went to a Tea Party, you’re a Zombie Tea-Bagger Birther. Of course, back in the day, those who believed that George W. Bush lied about his service in the Texas Air National Guard – like Dan Rather and Mary Mapes (and Mapes actually knew the story was a big lie) – were also “reduced by their confusion to singular obsessions.” But their cause was a righteous one, as I recall.
“The Vampires are the aristocracy of the undead, who can, at least, talk. The Vampires are the fear mongers, the talk show hosts, the politicians who can’t find a way to give health insurance to children, much less adults; the bankers, Ponzi schemers, drug company lobbyists, the theologians of prosperity. We can’t understand them without first considering why they’re in a symbolic war against the Lycanthropes.”
Vampires are talk show hosts? Is he including Keith Olbermann in that mix? And the greatest Ponzi scheme of all time surely must be the government’s Social Security program, which is estimated to go bankrupt by 2037. But never mind, I’m sure he was talking about the eeevil Glenn Beck and that theologian of prosperity Rush Limbaugh. And, of course, that convenient punching bag Bernie Madoff. I do wonder how much Tolkin earned for his screenplay. Perhaps he wrote it “pro bono” so he wouldn’t commit the sin of being prosperous. Oh, and for your brain dead zombies out there, “lycanthrope” is a big word that means “werewolf.” You’re welcome.
Speaking of werewolves:
The Werewolves are closer to the Wizards than the Zombies, but are maligned by the Vampires. Werewolves are not the undead, they are the humans split between control and abandon, between society and rage. Every politician or sports figure caught for scandal is a werewolf. In the beginning years of this mythology, Bela Lugosi’s Dracula deserved the spike in his heart, he was a mournful villain, but still a villain, while Lon Chaney Jr.’s Wolfman was caught tragically by his blood disease, and knew he needed to die for the protection of those he loved. He was a hybrid, no different in that sense than Spider-Man or the Hulk or a Prius.
The Werewolves are being targeted by the Vampires because that part of them which is still human, and still alive, is the great threat to the Vampires; one may say that the alliance of the Wizards and Werewolves is all that can save us from the Vampires and their army of Zombies.
Tiger Woods is a werewolf. So was the left’s sweetheart, Bill Clinton. Poor babies. But Sarah Palin is not a Werewolf despite the Herculean effort to pin scandal after scandal upon her because…
Show me your neck!
Palinism is vampirism, as she leads her army of Zombies, who refuse to concede that carbon dioxide levels are man-made because they want the world to heat up, because they are cold and dead and want to burn or drown everyone else, because death is jealous of life.
Palinistic Vampirism controls the Zombies, and uses them as proxies to call for the massacre that the Vampires are too clever to ask for themselves. But they do want blood. There is no vegetarian vampire, and vampires are always and only liars. Werewolves, like any dog who steals from the table, may be liars, but unlike the Vampires, they don’t want power. The Vampires can’t be reasoned with.
(Pssst…Michael…here’s a tip: you aren’t supposed to end a sentence with a preposition.)
I guess Climategate was a figment of my imagination. Those scientists didn’t manipulate evidence or express private doubts of the earth heating up or suppress data, right? Perhaps Tolkin missed that story because he was living in a cave, sans heat, electricity and running water, in order to cut down on his personal ”carbon footprint.” And I suppose he’s going to quit writing screenplays because the movie industry has one of the biggest “carbon footprints” on the planet.
But don’t worry, fellow monsters, because “underneath the death cult [you're] scared, and that fear in its way is proof of [your] humanity.” So let go of your fear. Ignore the revelations of Climategate, embrace global warming and give up your right to live the way you see fit, allowing UN bureaucrats and their US counterparts to dictate your every move. Because who wants to be a zombie, vampire or werewolf?
If you want to further redeem yourself in the eyes of Michael Tolkin and his Hollywoodite friends who know so much more than you do about – well, just about everything, be sure to part with your money and see “Nine.” Fine art cleanses the soul (and your wallet).
And I’ve heard he’s already cleared a space on his mantel for his Oscar. Help a guy out, would you?
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Wait, unyielding support of a crappy President, unending dogmatic worship over carbon offsets, and infinite examples of lies to cover up their President's malfeasance and their own scam, and we're the zombies and vampires? I'm not sure this guy has any attachment whatsoever to reality. Has senility set in or something?
Ooh, ooh, but who's Frankenstein's monster? Al Gore?
Ha! Hollywood and NY Publishing foists one zombie/vampire/werewolf film/book after another onto our youth and we in middle America are to blame? Okay.
Isn't it ironic that Tolkin sounds like every other Hollywood brain-dead talking points zombie? I'm not getting much originality of thought from those quotes…
If you keep paying money to see Hollywood's crap then they will continue crapping themselves all over you.
Which is more brain-dead?
-The producers, creators and performers of Hollywood's crap or;
-The audience addicted to being crapped upon.
Americans are showing up to watch a movie which preaches the message that Americans are the force of all evil in world because the eye-candy is delicious.
Hollywood and its audience deserve one another.
Oh, but you'd want to have a good view of the mayhem. Maybe even get it on videotape for future enjoyment.
All righty then – use of the offensive epithet "teabagger" is noted. (Does no one try to explain to these people that using it in a discussion of the current political scene is like starting off a discussion of civil rights by using the epithet "ni**er?) Also noted is Mr. Tolkin's epic condescension and contempt towards conservatives, strict constitutionalists, and those who take science seriously. I might have been a little tempted to go out and see "Nine" but after reading this barrage … I will have something better to do.
For someone who is complaining about the schlocky takeover of weird supernaturalism in our culture he knows an awful lot about it. An awful lot.
So…"no money, no credit, still shopping." And he doesn't see the irony of trying to pass a multi-billion dollar health boondoggle for which we simply don't have the money!
"the politicians who can’t find a way to give health insurance to children, much less adults" …As far as I can tell (as a zombie), when one person gets something without work, someone else has to work, and get nothing..
Palinism is vampirism, as she leads her army of Zombies, who refuse to concede that carbon dioxide levels are man-made because they want the world to heat up, because they are cold and dead and want to burn or drown everyone else, because death is jealous of life.
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Yes, and the world is so close to disaster that the male Diane Chambers who wrote this drivel doesn't take his own peers in Follywood to task for their lavish lifestyles of limos, yachts, private jets, mansions, etc.
Dear Follywood, go back to your child-molesting, cocaine-snorting, bed-hopping, divorce courts, and Scientology and leave alone people who actually work for a living.
Ahhh…Michael Tolkin, a true salad tossing parasite. I hope he, and his mom enjoy his movie.
"Nine" was a Broadway hit – which I paid nice coin to see. It was well spent. I was looking forward to the movie but after reading Tolkin's latest piece of trash in the LA Tripe errrr Times, I don't feel the least bit of guilt at NOT paying a cent to see the film by downloading the movie and inviting friends and family to watch it for free at my place.
(Disclaimer: I live in Canada where downloading is legal)
Don't waste money on "Nine" however I do strongly encourage everyone to spend money to see "The Blind Side"… based on the heartwarming true story of Michael Oher & the Touhy family – a Christian family in middle America who take in and eventually adopt Michael Oher, who now plays for the Baltimore Ravens.
"The Blind Side" is an uplifting heartwarming empowering inspiring true story.
Sometimes—– Hollywood Gets.It.Right. :>)
Actually, this is the most coherent explanation of why people in Hollywood are leftists that I've ever read.
Diane Chambes was pretty hot back in the day.
I think John Kerry has that character down pat.
I always liked Shelley Long. I don't know how she was politically and I heard that she could be difficult behind the scenes but she was funny to me. I hope that her life is back on track after her marriage fell apart.
"The Vampires are … the bankers, Ponzi schemers, drug company lobbyists…"
Wall Street and the drug companies are on Obama´s side, Tolkin, you nitwit. They were bought with our money.
"…who refuse to concede that carbon dioxide levels are man-made…"
No, we concede that. I just don´t concede that it is proven to drive climate change to a degree that justifies destroying our liberties and system of governance, as well as hinder wealth creation and condemn hundreds of millions of poor people around the world to the real, deadly and proven consequences of poverty.
Gosh, I can write better than this nitwit Tolkin and I do not even get paid for it.
Salad tossing? I know what you´re Tolkin about!
An Open Letter To Mr. Tolkin-
What's one difference between (mostly conservative) Mormons and liberal American Jews?
A) The U.S. Government has never sought to exterminate Jews in America.
But you would never know this judging by the reflexive hatred of American patriotism you and many of your fellow Jews in the media and academia share.
You and many of your fellow co-religionists in Manhattan and Beverly Hills also maintain a paranoia concerning public expressions of committed Christianity, that's why you write anti-Christian hit-pieces like "The Rapture" – a tale that sinks to the levels of defamation and hatred found in "The Protocols of The Elders of Zion" or the anti-Semite rants of Hitler's Der Sturmer.
Despite the myriad hate crimes directed at early followers of Joseph Smith, Mormons remain overwhelmingly patriotic and are not afraid of being a religious minority living side-by-side with Traditional Catholics, Evangelicals, or Fundamentalist Protestants. Fortunately, they realize that evangelical Christians like myself can learn from the mistakes of American history and we all can live without fear of each other without compromising our differing beliefs.
So why do writers like yourself and the legendary Mel Tolkin (your dad- writer for ALL IN THE FAMILY) need to project your resentments of the Czar and the Russian Orthodox Church on a completely alien culture (American Christians)? I'm sorry about the Pogroms of in Russia from 100 years ago – but rest assured that I plead not guilty to having any part in this historical travesty. I am neither a marauding Cossack nor Archie Bunker.
I also plead NOT GUILTY to the anti-Semitism evidenced by the revolutionaries of the National Socialist Party in Germany- Neo Pagans and socialists in origin and character. (And as a Marine Corp vet, I'm part of a tradition that has lost a lot of blood fighting Fascist empires- real ones).
I would never resort to the dishonest calculus that equates all Jews to Bernie Madoff, Marc Rich, Ivan Boesky, or Julius Rosenberg. It would be nice for Jews like you extend some good faith back to an American Christian culture that has admirably extended open arms to more Jews than any other culture in history.
Sounds to me like some one spent way to many pre-school years watching monster movies.
I know I did, but I certainly didn't end up that screwed up.
Perhaps its a first rough draft of a monster movie he's working on, and he's trolling for a producer.
beat me to it….
Has this guy gone totally monkeyshit? Vampires?? Werewolves?? Seriously??
I wouldn't give nine cents to see nine. Nor would I give a cent to see ANY movie in the theatres today. I can't stand the little loud mouth bastards who are on the screen, why would I pay hard earned money to look at them.
Tolkin writes movies? For Hollywood?
This is one bitter middle America denizen that would have FLUNKED high school if I'd submitted purile adolescent pap like that for a grade. I'm in the wrong line of work. I can write better than that clown, but noooooo I had to be a conservative, and take a "safe" job my "maggoty" (and they mocked how Bush talks?) brain could handle, like java programming.
See? Now I'm even more bitter, and it's all HIS FAULT.
For anyone from Hollyweird to call someone else a zombie is the height of hypocracy seeing that their own industry is creatively dead. Nine is a perfect example of this, a ripoff of a Fellini film from the 60's. I suppose ripping off a so-called "cinematic masterpiece " empowers you to write pretentious op-eds in the LA Times.
I'm sorry Pam, I tried to read your whole article but couldn't. This guy is nothing but a stoner spewing idiotic nonsense while believing he sounds wiser than Aristotle.
Liberalsm in a nutshell: hatred and contempt, and a lust for control. That's all they are; that's all they got.
Thank God Tolkin's not remotely related to that gloriously conservative English author, who spelled his name with an 'e'.
They're trashing us… insulting us… won't sleep with us… gee, it's gettin' tough to be a "middle American"…
Here's what the talented TolkiEn had to say:
"I am not a ‘socialist’ in any sense, being adverse to ‘planning’ (as must be plain) most of all because the ‘planners’, when they acquire power, become so bad."
Your not anti-Semitic, just telling it like it is.
77% of American Jews voted for Obama, that's a fact. Hollywood coffers for decades have filled the campaign funds of radicalized lefty socialists whose utopian schemes are now coming to fruition. Another fact.
What will be rich in irony and the ultimate in bad judgement will be when Obama throws Israel under the bus to appease the rabidly anti-Semitic Europeans and Arabs which will translate into a horrific number of deaths there. I care if that happens and I'm not Jewish. I'm not so sure that American Jews do. How's that for irony.
Oh, right! Completely forgot about John Kerry, which is easy to do. But he is definitely the Monster.
Talk about delusional. I don't think this guy understood the metaphor lesson in seventh grade English.
Schizophrenics write more coherently than Tolkin.
OMG what a flake. When are these so called socialists going to start giving their wares away for free or at a much reduced cost? Won't be long I'm sure. Wonder how much Chavez will be charging for their movies over is his new wonderful socialist store? I can't wait to see how that turns out. Oh wait, I think I've seen the end of that movie too and it doesn't turn out good.
Oh well.
Robert Byrd is "The Mummy".
I don't concede it. Not with all the carbon dioxide suspended in the seabeds.
You get props from me for working her in. After I tried to think of a Diane Chambers
as an actual writer, the virtual slap across the noggin finally woke me. Good on ya.
OMG, these Hollyweirdos are so freakin' bass ackwards, somebody donate to their favorite charity NOW, so that they can go buy a freakin' clue.
I'm sure this was a one time event. Previous articles here provide
plenty of reasons why making these types of films, regardless of their making tons of dough,
are looked down on. You can't get invited to Streisands parties with this movie on your resume.
Another movie I can't enjoy. If it isn't the actors expressing their contempt for their audience, its the writer or director.
What other business holds its customers in such low regard?
(Pssst…Michael…here’s a tip: you aren’t supposed to end a sentence with a preposition.)
What was he thinking of? And would it be okay if we pointed out that Michael Tolkin has certain physical characteristics that might explain his views? What am I thinking "of?"
(This is my infantile DailyKos 'Retort of the Day')
Mr. Tolkin. Mikey Babe. Having a pencil neck and really bad skin as a child might have drawn negative attention from your neighborhood bully but this is hardly the time to poke not-so-dumb people in the eye. Please continue at your peril.
Merry Christmas Pam!!!!! Speak truth to power. Great work. Get rested. 2010 is the year Breitbart & Company blows the freakin' lid off these traitors. Ya know what I'm coming with! [(emphasis on preposition) and we are the idiots?]
Vampires and Werewolves; Al Gore as Frankenstein.
And Obama as The Emporer and His New Suit of Clothes!
Be my guest, Craig – I'd kinda like to get the t-word as unusable in polite company as the n-word is!
This simply supports my thesis that all Hollywood screenwriters should be forced to live someplace like Elko, Nevada for a year as a prerequisite to writing. It would clear the industry bullshit out of their heads.
I do feel the urge to help this guy out. Not by seeing his movie, of course. But I do know several qualified psychiatrists, and I'm sure that with a case this severe, one of them would be willing to donate some couch time to see that poor Michael Tolkin manages to get his head back on straight and understand that political disagreement does not equate to being one of the undead. With enough therapy, even he could probably get over his PDS and learn to debate politely.
I concede that as a Human, I convert O2 to CO2. Are we really going to write a law that could in turn be used to affect our biological processes?
People need to wake up, all Global Warming legislation leads to population control. Give politicians an inch, they'll take a mile.
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Of course you won't turn on the porch light! You don't want to add to Green House Gasses!
OK, zombies, dress appropriately: clean clothes, polished shoes, bathed bods. Don't want us mindless zombies being confused with those brainless hippies.
Conservative Zombies own guns.
Hippie Humanity owns bongs.
Hmmm, who will win?
Yep, with you there! I always try to point out that compassionate liberals shouldn't use gay slurs! Most don't even know what it means and they're horrified when they find out what they're saying – but I'm talking about normal Democrats who just don't realize their party has left them and are still clinging the Democrat Party of the 30s and 40s! The communists are fully aware of what they're saying and don't mind throwing their gay brethren under the bus!
Just another movie I don't have to see.
Tolkin may be full of hate, but I think his film 1994's The New Age is probably the best movie ever made about modern Los Angeles.
Of course..that's why that moron actress Cotillard or whatever is in the movie Nine..she's another 9/11 truther so she's obviously in good company with this Tolikn dumbass.
It never ends..
You don't have to watch the oscars. You do, however, have to pay your taxes, unless you're going for a position in His Czarship.
It must be just me, but I thought the sections of the article by Tolkin is some of the worst writing I've encountered in a long, long time. And he wants me to pay to see his work? Hmmm, I think he should pay me.
This guy is a professional writer? He must have one hell of an editor. I don't think I've read anything this sophomoric since I left 7th grade; "Dude, it's like the teachers are zombies and the principal is, like, Dr. Frankenstein."
I've seen Nine… loved the trailers and was so looking forward to it being a huge Daniel Day Lewis fan… OMG was it awful… not just the terrible songs, but the quality of the dance numbers paled in comparison to the choreography on Dancing With The Stars… and I include Tom DeLay's Texas Two Step and red crimpolene pants. It was just a lot of camera movement surrounding mainly static actors. But even more awful was the dopey script– the way it kept telling you this was "art" with a capital A… so incredibly pretentious… DDL's performance was the biggest problem of all… he played it like a depressive Irish artist, not an Italian. So morose and for all his turmoil and self-involvement, there was never a glimpse of self awareness… at least with Marcello M. you could see a glint in his eye and understand what the women saw in him… none of that here… sad to say but when Nicole Kidman's profile first appeared we both thought it was Charo. However, there is that fabulous powder blue Alfa.
This one: http://changefreak.com/Documents/calvinandhobbes%...
The L.A. Times never fails to sell space on their editorial pages to folks who just happen, ever-so–coincidentally, to have a book, show, movie that's just about to be or has just been released. La Times is shameless.
Joe S. —
As a conservative Jew, I am grateful daily for this nation founded on Christian principles – it could not have been founded on any other. Tolkin's article is despicable. His religion is the same as most Jews in America (judging by their voting record and synagogue non-affiliation/attendance) – it is not Judaism, it is moral relativism and socialism.
Tolkin is like the ungrateful teenager that rebels, scoffs at, and despises his parents despite the fact that they house and feed him.
I was going to see 'Nine' but after reading the writer's tripe I'm afraid I won't understand such Shinola. During the campaign I tell my Jewish family members who flock to visit Israel that O is pro-Palestine, Palin is pro-Israel. I went to Wright's church website, read monthly bulletins all about siding w/Palestine & against the evil Zionists. I tell them I researched ACORN, their part in the mortgage meltdown. They tell me I am ill-informed and rush to participate in this historic election. It's historic alright, it's the downfall of the uniqueness of America–our Constitution. Then I went outside & told my brick fence. "By golly,' the fence said, 'I think you've got something there!' I know anti-Semitism exists–worldwide–but I am eternally grateful to THIS particular Christian nation that I live here freely without fear. However, folks, the 3 Stooges–O, Reid & Pelosi are really an embarrassment to America. For the first time in my 80 years I'm really afraid for America–very afraid.
What a douche bag.
Bettyhere —
My great uncle was a Democrat all his life, adored FDR. He died about 10 years ago at the age of 96. He always kept a small, old, beaten copy of the text of the Constitution nearby that he'd read from time to time. He was a hard man in many ways, but would get a little misty when talking about his country.
Oh, how times have changed. Now, you can't hear a Democrat describe his or her country in glowing terms without a "yes, but" attached to it. And, we have a President whose foreign and domestic policies would make JFK throw up.
Well, how about "likely to be largely man-made"? For me, it´s not the point at all. Even if it is, and if there is warming, and if it was the main cause of warming – all of which needs to be proven – the question is what we do about it. It is simply nuts to spend trillions and give unelected bodies the power to regulate our economy and behavior (without any credible cost/benefit analysis which may tell us that it is cheaper to do nothing). The fact that they desperately attempt to do just that, and the demonization of the sceptics tells me all I need to know about their true aims: money and power.
Snip "…reduced by their confusion to singular obsessions."
Like freedom? Guilty as charged
I refuse to be lectured by the guy who wrote "Gleaming the Cube"
the only ones going to films today are liberals. Most conservatives are sitting home mad as hell trying to figure out how to take the country away from a group of socialist, communist bastards who are trying to make us all into their slaves.
That's not cool. If you don't want to pay for a movie, just don't watch it. This sort of mentality works both ways; next time a movie comes out from an openly conservative writer, plenty of liberals will download it and essentially ruin it's chances of success. I don't think there's anything wrong with boycotting or skipping, but pirating is stealing in my books.
And people wonder why Pixar, (who isn't Hollywood-based) creates such full, authentic and original stories.
Michael Tolkin seems to be projecting more than analyzing.
The ideology of the left, which requires the state to be a leech (blood sucker reference for the densest trolls) likens the right/middle to Vampires?
Kind of silly, let's be realistic and see how it works when we put them in the role they want to cast for us.
Vampires drinkers (confiscators) of blood (Wealth) from the victims (creators) and rightful owners of it
Vampires desire exercise complete control (tyranny) over their victims (citizens) we on the other hand want freedom
Vampires hate the Cross (constitution, well and the actual cross for that matter) one keeps getting shoved in your faces, the other is the real spear in your side
Obama-Zombies when asked anything scream "BUSH" (reference to the mono-response of BRAINS for the densest trolls)
We could do the above all day, there are monsters out there, they are called Progressives, Leftists, Marxists, Truthers, Anarchists, Communists, Islamists, or whatever they label themselves, regardless they are have one commonality, the love of theft, fascism and tyranny.
Sarge, If I'm a teabagger, that makes all of the demonrats/socialists/marxists/huffers/KOSsacks teabaggees. So open up for my Package- teabaggees!
Nine dollars saved by not going to see Nine
Sigh, Hollywood is making more money than ever. Are we losing the fight?
(Does no one try to explain to these people that using it in a discussion of the current political scene is like starting off a discussion of civil rights by using the epithet "ni**er?)
Yes, and they just call me a racist for mentioning the Word White People Can't Even Allude to, missing the point entirely.
Nothing changes with these leftist malcotents, they whined in the 30s, 60s and now. They hate America, capitalism and the fact that the country won't flip to their way of thinking. Why don't they all just get the hell out of America and bitch in Europe. Oh, I keep forgetting they can't make the kid of money over there as they can here in the evil capitalistic America. They are all nothing but assholes who piss and moan and live high off our money we give at the box office. Why don't we just stop going to the damn movies and put these malcontents out in the streets.
Put your money into conservative films or DVDs. just don't give it to the cultist of leftist malcontents.
I like how you think, Jack…and I agree there needs to be more support for the conservatives currently involved in making the films and the actors as well.
It's amazing to me how ignorant of basic math are these pontificators of Liberal ideas. 80% of the electorate is Christian; 40% are conservative; roughly 30% moderate; roughly 30% Liberal. Of the 30% liberal, perhaps 1/2 are the flaming type; otherwise known as radical progressives. The unfortunate part of any analysis like this is the fact that are allowing a mere 15% (if that) of the total electorate to dictate policy for the rest of us. This insanity must stop at the next election. Please, please, fregister to vote and do so; help others to the polls; especially the elderly, the really pissed off folks.
He makes a lot of sense. Good job Michael, from Middle America.
Typically partisan nonsense from those idiots in Hollywood. http://hellgazette.blogspot.com/
Does that make Pelosi a sucubus?
its called hate toward the American way and all the riff raff that got to experience it without serving worship to the liberal's hate America ideals
obozo is the latest chance for the hoi poi to worship in the LIBERAL VITRIOL AND HATE manner – and as the Real Americans dare to reject the incompetent corrupt obama, then they must be punished
so, it is not as hillary raged – it is not patriotic to argue and disagree – IF AND ONLY IF – the marxist are in power and the policy of killing the American way is in play
what role is reserved for mmoore and his buddy, castro
Joe, I suggest you cut and paste your post at The L.A. Times site. At the risk of stating the obvious, great insights. These people are continually fighting against phantoms cooked up in their fevered, bigoted imaginations.
its obamaland
and labels of Real Americans by the terrorist luving radicals of obozo
to bad America does not get on board on rejecting all the hate America movies of today's hollywood
Wow. Tokin looks like he was the goalie for his high school darts team.
Fortunately there is enough pre 70 entertainment around that I do not have to waste my money on the leftist, liberal, perverted B/S that is pumped out of Calipornia. Lack of story line hidden by special effects, big deal. Scuz by Scum. Given the economy, if Pee-Lousy and gang can't figure out a way to make everyone watch this trash ScumTown will be on the ropes soon enough.
Kind of getting tired of Hollywood looking down their noses at us.
I'm sure it's just a coincidence that these meaningless, idiotic left-wing paeans seem to be published just before the movie preview. They wouldn't be using them as calling cards to try to rope sympathetic audiences into their tiresome, pedantic, boring movies, now would they?
Not only will guys like this continue making lousy movies if people continue paying to see them, but they will also continue to express disdain for their fellow Americans who, for some reason, keep buying tickets only to see everything they believe in treated with contempt.
I haven't gone to a movie theater more than a half dozen times in the past ten years, and lately we don't even rent DVDs that often. We own DVDs of every Fred Astaire movie, as well as several British series, and catch the occasional classic on TCM. Oh, and Tom Selleck has made some wonderful TV movies. And that's plenty of entertainment.
The Oscars come along about the time I do my taxes. I still cannot make up my mind which is more painful.
Every single bigot in the history of the universe has claimed that they're "telling it like it is". If you knew you were bigoted, maybe you wouldn't be one.
Would it kill one of you guys to blame the liberal Irish-Americans in Hollywood for once? Just the one time?
Because when you single out some fairly unknown screenwriter for being Jewish because he wrote the film version of a silly musical that has nothing to do with Jews, yeah, I kinda think that's bigoted. Just a thought.
And if you wonder why so many Jews vote for liberals – maybe you ought to start by looking at posts like yours.
Tolkin like most hollywood creatures acts and thinks strictly to the Animal Farm canon "Four legs good, two legs bad" –
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I agree! The Blind side was an amazing movie. Heartfelt, down to earth, compassionate. I loved every minute of it.
Very well said Mom, I will use that as a reference in the future if you don't mind.
I completely agree even as I succumb to the urge to see Avatar with my son this weekend. Abusive relationship? Crack addiction? Yeah, guilty as charged.
I appreciate the democratizing effects of the internet, but it saddens me when I see the institution of journalism replaced by the incoherent ramblings of bloggers. It is truly tragic that the vast majority of netizens are incapable of discerning a difference.
The hell with Hollywood all the way around. I inform any enterprising soul out there that I am willing to contribute $20.00 to support an effort to spoil the Academy Awards by having all the Oscar statues surreptitiously smeared with dog$h!t just before the actual show…
I will watch that! (Can't you just see it now? Julia Roberts with a handful of poo, and in a panic she unthinkingly wipes it on Brad Pitt's tux?)
"In times of political rot and confusion and pain, one needs something like cosmic silliness, not to make sense of things, but for those who don't expect a life after death, we need an experience, in this life, of the dream of heaven. Tossed into fear, like children, we need a childish vision to restore faith in life. The worse things get, the more we need greater art.
This idiot calls himself a WRITER? The only purpose served by Tolkin's incoherent hate-filled rant is to prove that Hollywood does not choose its writers because of their skill with the English language.
'Were you thinking of seeing “Nine”? Well, sucks to be you, doesn’t it?' LOL.
First we had the racists calling other people, especially liburahls, racists. Now the people who suck are saying that it is other people who suck — especially liburahls. LOL.
Come on conservatives. Own it, embrace it. When it comes to film and entertainment, Americans know who suck.
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