I think you and rockscar are both right sort of. Without any conflict, complication, or confusion you wouldn’t have a movie. but I do believe a film maker’s bias will show through. How wouldn’t it?
I’m a gun toting conservative. In my action saga environmentalist or some other liberal whacko according to me. And the good guys will win. It’s just the way it is.
I’ll read about a movie and go see based on a few things, acting, the director, the plot, reviews and so on. If I think it’s to politicized, I won’t go see it. It’s that simple.
I’m looking forward to Taken a lot. I like Liam Neelson and just thought his little speech in the trailer is pretty neat. Very few things beats a righteous revenge oh know you didn’t just piss him off movie to me.
As for Clint’s character being racist in Gran Torino, I wouldn’t say he was. He seemed to be the typical old guy cranky at the wrong things int he world. He like a lot of people used slur words to describe nitwhits of various groups.
But his actions showed him to be a pretty caring person. A lot of people talk nice but will never do anything to help someone, while some people w9ill give the shirt off their back.
[quote]forlife wrote:
I love how it is a “comment” when you bemoan the liberal Hollywood agenda, but when gays campaign for equal rights it is dismissed as “whining”. I guess free speech is only acceptable if you agree with it.[/quote]
Why would someone campaign for equal rights when they already have them?
Don’t white Christians ever do anything that a movie could portray?[/quote]
I dunno… do non-whites ever do anything even remotely negative that Hollywood could portray? Like maybe how some black and Hispanic youths in large cities enjoy gang raping women for example.
[quote]Headhunter wrote:
“Instead the focus, in movies for e.g., is on minorities. Clint Eastwood’s “Gran Torino” is about a redneck who learns to love Asian immigrants kids. Oscar nominated “Slumdog Millionaire” is about Bombay street kids. Sean Penn’s “Milk” is about a crusader for homosexual rights. Oscar nominated “The Reader” combines pedophilia and German guilt for the Holocaust. “Revolutionary Road” presents a negative view of marriage and the 1950’s, a period when the nuclear family recovered. (I liked this movie, but not the message.) “Doubt” is about homosexuality in the Catholic Church. French Best Foreign Language nominee “The Class” is about immigrant youths and how lovable they are.”
Don’t white Christians ever do anything that a movie could portray?[/quote]
Those movies are all about intersting topics of substance. And in many cases about people of substance overcoming adversity and the odds. That makes for a good movie. That there are minorities involved is incidental. What would you like to see a movie on?
[quote]Rockscar wrote:
Even the latest Comedy movies go too far…
Pineapple express… “Dude…I want to feel myself inside you”
Superbad had VERY gay underetones as well.
To top all this off, most comedy movies portray straight men as stupid people who can not help themselves worth shit.
It’s a trend and I hope it stops soon. 10% of the world is gay, yet 90% of movies poke fun at heterosexuality and masculinity.
There’s definately an agenda here…
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Gimme a break. You really have to have gone a little bit off the deepend to think Superbad was pushing a homosexual agenda. Superbad was hysterical.
90% of movies poke fun at heterosexuality and masculinty? Ludicrous. Comedies poke fun at EVERYTHING. As they should. For some inexplicable reason, that’s just an issue that’s on your radar. But what comedies do YOU think are funny?
[quote]jsbrook wrote:
Headhunter wrote:
“Instead the focus, in movies for e.g., is on minorities. Clint Eastwood’s “Gran Torino” is about a redneck who learns to love Asian immigrants kids. Oscar nominated “Slumdog Millionaire” is about Bombay street kids. Sean Penn’s “Milk” is about a crusader for homosexual rights. Oscar nominated “The Reader” combines pedophilia and German guilt for the Holocaust. “Revolutionary Road” presents a negative view of marriage and the 1950’s, a period when the nuclear family recovered. (I liked this movie, but not the message.) “Doubt” is about homosexuality in the Catholic Church. French Best Foreign Language nominee “The Class” is about immigrant youths and how lovable they are.”
Don’t white Christians ever do anything that a movie could portray?
Those movies are all about intersting topics of substance. And in many cases about people of substance overcoming adversity and the odds. That makes for a good movie. That there are minorities involved is incidental. What would you like to see a movie on?[/quote]
The movie ‘Defiance’ was about Jews resisting the Nazis. All well and good. How about the 15000 Polish officers (who were also teachers, profs, doctors, and so on) who were killed by the Russians for refusing to denounce God, and would sing praises to God? All they had to do was embrace the Communist Russian masters and they would have lived. Instead, they wouldn’t quit singing.
[quote]Headhunter wrote:
jsbrook wrote:
Headhunter wrote:
“Instead the focus, in movies for e.g., is on minorities. Clint Eastwood’s “Gran Torino” is about a redneck who learns to love Asian immigrants kids. Oscar nominated “Slumdog Millionaire” is about Bombay street kids. Sean Penn’s “Milk” is about a crusader for homosexual rights. Oscar nominated “The Reader” combines pedophilia and German guilt for the Holocaust. “Revolutionary Road” presents a negative view of marriage and the 1950’s, a period when the nuclear family recovered. (I liked this movie, but not the message.) “Doubt” is about homosexuality in the Catholic Church. French Best Foreign Language nominee “The Class” is about immigrant youths and how lovable they are.”
Don’t white Christians ever do anything that a movie could portray?
Those movies are all about intersting topics of substance. And in many cases about people of substance overcoming adversity and the odds. That makes for a good movie. That there are minorities involved is incidental. What would you like to see a movie on?
The movie ‘Defiance’ was about Jews resisting the Nazis. All well and good. How about the 15000 Polish officers (who were also teachers, profs, doctors, and so on) who were killed by the Russians for refusing to denounce God, and would sing praises to God? All they had to do was embrace the Communist Russian masters and they would have lived. Instead, they wouldn’t quit singing.
Read the link for more on that.
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That would be a good movie too. And a story less told. Maybe someone ill make it.