NRO's Top 25 Conservative Movies

I'd rather vote on the defenses of said films than the films themselves.

300 is a conservative defence of bromance, presumably.

K-lo's film commentary is not to be missed.

brazil?!

Air Force One, Amazing Grace, An American Carol, Barcelona, Bella, Cinderella Man, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Hamburger Hill, The Hanoi Hilton, The Hunt for Red October, The Island, Knocked Up, The Last Days of Disco, The Lost City, Miracle, The Patriot, Rocky Balboa, Serenity, Stand and Deliver, Tears of the Sun, Thank You for Smoking, Three Kings, Tin Men, The Truman Show, Witness

America in "making movies with Consservative values" shocka...

xpost yeah, Brazil apparently a vision of totalitarian govt. Which is obviously not a right wing one ohno...

METROPOLITAN?!

(that film is totally awesome btw, and I'm probably gonna vote for it just 'coz)

Are we votin' for our favourite, rescuing a movie, or voting the most 'conservative' here?

He brings us to see what is admirable and necessary in the customs and conventions of America’s upper class.

I'd say he brings us to see what is admirable and necessary about young friendship, and what is confusing, self-contradictory, mutable, funny, shameful and transient about privileged youth

Groundhog Day (1993): This putatively wacky comedy about Bill Murray as an obnoxious weatherman cursed to relive the same day over and over in a small Pennsylvania town, perhaps for eternity, is in fact a sophisticated commentary on the good and true. Theologians and philosophers across the ideological spectrum have embraced it. For the conservative, the moral of the tale is that redemption and meaning are derived not from indulging your “authentic” instincts and drives, but from striving to live up to external and timeless ideals. Murray begins the film as an irony-soaked narcissist, contemptuous of beauty, art, and commitment. His journey of self-discovery leads him to understand that the fads of modernity are no substitute for the permanent things.

"putatively wacky"

I mean there's quite a few good movies in here, but the grouping, and the definition, is grasping at best in at least half of cases here

lol i knew this was coming

Some of these are obvious, but it seems like the editor just thought "here's a bunch of movies I like" and left it at that.

ust as significantly, Greengrass provides a clear depiction of our enemies. United 93 opens as four Muslim terrorists pray in a hotel room.

Fuck those praying jerks.

The Pursuit of Happyness (2006]... They’re black, but there’s no racial undertone or subtext.

hahahahahahaha waht

The Incredibles (2004)... In one scene, son Dash, a super-speedy runner, wants to try out for track. Mom claims it wouldn’t be fair. “Dad says our powers make us special!” Dash objects. “Everyone is special,” Mom demurs, to which Dash mutters, “Which means nobody is.”

BITING

Murray begins the film as an irony-soaked narcissist, contemptuous of beauty, art, and commitment.

so he begins the film as a Republican congressperson?

Ghostbusters (1984) ... you have to like a movie in which the bad guy is a regulation-happy buffoon from the EPA, and the solution to a public menace comes from the private sector.

yup, i've said all along that ghostbusters is on some conservative/ronnie reagan shit. it's still a good film.

Juno bcz she doesn't get a gogortion, right?

surprised that there aren't any dirty harry films here, or death wish ... or are those films too nixon-era/archie bunker conservative?!?

"The film has its faults, including a number of crass moments and a pregnant high-school student with an unrealistic level of self-confidence."

I mean:

Team America: World Police

I suppose somebody's got to like it...

.. shows a respect for authority and the chain of command structure when the main character gives his commanding officer a bjob...

.. to be able to resume his position and activities...

missed opportunities:

Smokey and the Bandit. Beer, trucks, car racing, fast cars. If we ignore the running from the law part, we have fast muscle car leading the way for a big rig full of beer going back to a NASCAR race. Not to mention Fred. How many liberals would own a Basset Hound? If Michael Moore made the movie, the dog would be a poodle.

William Teach on January 15, 2009 at 4:53 PM

... that's more Clinton Democrat surely? (xp)

Bahaha "The Exorcism of Emily Rose" as an also-ran...I'm surprised that didn't make the list, the film in which it is basically determined in a U.S. court of law that god is real and loves us all.

How many liberals would own a Basset Hound?

???!?!???A??!$@!$???

Also I know this shouldn't be weird to me, but it is: how they seem to use 'conservative' and 'Christian' interchangeably.

I goggled at Brazil at first, but I suppose they're assuming its dystopian in a 1984 sense, and hence anti-communist. Which I don't think it is at all, but then the first time I read 1984 (before I knew anything about it aside from it was supposed to be good) I totally read it as a tract against the current society, which would obviously make it anti-capitalist. So I think I just read EVERYTHING as woo-woo let's be Marxists, and therefore can't really comment.

Anyway, it's between that and Ghostbusters for me, I think.

voting on the defenses given rather than the movies themselves

thus, it's 'pursuit of happyness' vs. 'united 93' b/c of those two lines i quoted upthread

surprised that there aren't any dirty harry films here, or death wish ...

exactly what i was expecting to see when i clicked on thread.

I was under the impression that the bad guy in "Ghostbusters" was a dimension-hopping evil demon named Gozer. Silly me.

Will not click on that link. What is "The Edge"?

How many liberals would own a Basset Hound?

http://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/graham_alex/graham_alex_fred_1984.jpg

The Edge is that Mamet movie where Alec Baldwin and Anthony Hopkins fly to Alaska and fight a bear.

Bahahaha what is the story behind that? xp

I'm still lolling @ "If we ignore the running from the law part" from the Smokey and the Bandit blurb. That's the whole movie's point!

(that's a fakey one, dude!)

"The Edge is that Mamet movie where Alec Baldwin and Anthony Hopkins fly to Alaska and fight a bear."

The bear = libearals

Don't you remember, Alex? There's a bear in the woods.

Some have interpreted the film as a Cold War allegory because it features a menacing bear.

Heartbreak Ridge: Clint Eastwood’s foul-mouthed Marine sergeant Tom Highway makes quick work of kicking Communist Cubans out of Grenada. And, boy, does “Gunny” hate Commies. Not only does he kill quite a few, he also refuses a bribe of a Cuban cigar, saying: “Get that contraband stogie out of my face before I shove it so far up your a** you’ll have to set fire to your nose to light it.” A welcome glorification of Reagan’s decision to liberate Grenada in 1983, the film also notes how after a tie in Korea and a loss in Vietnam, America can finally celebrate a military victory. Eastwood, the old war horse, walks off into retirement pleased that he’s not “0–1–1 anymore.” Semper Fi. Oo-rah!

Mario Van Peebles is hilarious in that film.

Some have interpreted the film as a Cold War allegory because it features a menacing bear.

that's as funny as their rationale that falco's "der kommissar" was anti-communist/conservative b/c, like, "commissar" is a russian word and shit.

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

I figured you would go there.

so this list is less bothersome to dan than the idea of ferret rimjobs?!?

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlLA/original/jeff-gannon1.jpg

article by KLo.

Also important, VERY important, to remember about Brazil: Gilliam is British. The bureaucracy he has known doesn't really apply stateside.

Also important, VERY important, to remember about Brazil: Gilliam is British. The bureaucracy he has known doesn't really apply stateside.

unless yer talking about the DMV office

Yeah, but largely I have never felt like I was going to be wrapped in paperwork and disappear.

Gilliam is British.

Gilliam is Minnesotan.

lol I was gonna say! Born and raised in Saint Paul!

i hear that those minnesota bureaucrats are some nasty mofos.

Damnit, I knew that, too!

Well anyway, the movie has a pretty British POV.

brb, I think the egg on my face may require a full shower.

bukake kenan

Oh, must you?

ugh okay I didn't need to see the Jeff Gannon pic of him with the rifle in front of the American flag

Are you sure that's worse than the image of Kenan bukkake?

Depends on the quality of the rifle.

mad at all of you

bukakke bullets

oh noez a shirtless man!!!

grow up now plz

ws gannon btw

Master and Commander

what did I tell you people

Gannon does the gokkun glug glug glug

guess what college terry gilliam went to

British college?

No Wall Street, No Credibility.

Groundhog Day: "Yet why should poor Rita be forced to relive this miserable day just to give Phil a chance to evolve from crafty Casanova into selfless swain?...This sexual shell game, these moral tergiversations, attest to the film's queasily exploitative values. In the end, all is contrivance..." John Simon, April 12, 1993.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MWEyNmRkOWMzMGM4NTgzOGFhNjA1OWI4NmM0MGQxYzU=

United 93: "[R]eal art, especially art that takes on events whose wounds are still unhealed, needs to do more than stir up strong emotions in its audience. United 93 buys its power cheaply." Russ Douthat, May 22, 2006.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OTcwNGNmZjk1YTYwYzRhMzVkZWMyYmYxZTA3YTlhY2U=

Team America: World Police: "The movie is not a clear success, being too crude, for one thing. (By 'crude,' I don’t mean dirty, which it is, to a revolting extent. I mean not clever enough.) In truth, the movie, slam-bang and brief as it is, is a little dull." Jay Nordlinger, November 8, 2004.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OTEyY2RjMWVhZDk5MTM4Yjc5YWRjZGYzNDZhYTUzMjk=

Forrest Gump: "[T]he movie captures only the random side of [life] fully, and two and a quarter hours of randomness can wear pretty thin. If a millionaire decides to run around for a couple of years, wouldn't he at least have a backpack? I can respect an idiot savant, but not one who doesn't brush his teeth for three years. Even fantasy has to play by some sort of rules, however fanciful...[Technology] can be a lot of things, but is rarely heartwarming. Yet that is what the movie strives to be. It emerges, rather like its hero, idiot-savantish." John Simon, August 29, 1994.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDJlY2FmNjEwYzA0M2M1ZTA4NjE0ODBhNThiMGZiYmE=

It's all very urban-suburban avant-garde.

oh noez a shirtless man!!!

yeah clearly my problem was with the fact that he's shirtless, not that he's humping a gun in front of the American flag

Where's that pic, I only see a picture of a shirtless man, no gun or flag?

GIS Jeff Gannon, you will find it

I was googling him for lulz and found jingoistic grossness, sorry for not reposting it here

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlLA/original/jeff-gannon1.jpg

(x-post)

Ah, okay, I think Elmo thought people were shocked by the pic above.

ugh okay I didn't need to see the Jeff Gannon pic of him with the rifle in front of the American flag

how the hell could this possibly be taken as a description of the picture on this thread

I'd hit it

you googled a porn star/male prostitute and were surprised when you found a picture of naked?

no, dumbass

what about the word "jingoistic" is unclear here and how does that imply surprise

your problem is the rifle and the flag?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2009/feb/20/1

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The Lives of Others? Only Conservative in the sense that it is anti-East German communist oppression. The techniques it criticizes are also highlighted in Taxi to the Dark Side ...i.e. used by GWB and defended by conservatives.

I've gotta give the National Review people props for favoring Lives of Others and Brazil over more strictly conservative movies like Die Hard and Lethal Weapon. I wonder if William F. Buckley liked American Psycho. Is American Psycho a conservative movie?

Apparently, in the source material for Master and Commander, the bad guys were Americans, not Frenchies! Dunno if that fact woulda affected their reading any...

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I didn't realise that us Brits are lucky enough to have our own right wing culture vultures. And, hey, they're looking for "films that go against the grain" - which seems even more meaningless than the NRO list.
http://www.newcultureforum.org.uk/home/?q=node/479

Gregory's Girl.

A perfect, delightful, enriching balance of humour, yearning, disappointment and friendship.

I saw the trailer for this Mag Gyllenhaal-Viola Davis charter-school propaganda flick and wanted to puke.

http://www.salon.com/2012/09/26/wont_back_down_why_do_teachers_unions_hate_america/

everyone who appears in that movie should should have their sag cards taken away

I wonder if both leads were counting on SAG Award nominations.