Poll: Best conservative movies in the past 25 years

OK, I can stretch the imagination and see why most of the movies are there. I think some of the older classics are left out, but the timeline was last twenty five years.

Some I can’t imagine why they are on the list. Forrest Gump. Message to the people? The only person in the nation who does the right thing all the time is a mentally disabled guy from Alabama. Granted, this is different than the inbred racist homophobic hate mongering bible thumper stereotype that normally comes to mind in Hollywood when you mention Alabama. However is it a conservative movie?

Independence Day? Liberal version of appropriate war. Only when the world unites against big scary aliens who are here to destroy the environment can we be allowed to go to war.

I don’t understand why the Hunt for Red October is not doing better. Look, Conservative Investment Banker Jack Ryan who has joined the CIA because he was bored making money is the only one of the Political Experts who sees what is right before him. The Evils of the Soviet Union are so awesome that the most trusted people in the nation, the crew of a Soviet Nuclear Missile Submarine decide to defect, for freedom’s sake. Hello, those are every single principal of the Conservatives rolled into one movie, and book.

Air Force One. a former Military man, who won the Medal of Honor, is now the President. Apparently a Democrat since everyone knows that no real hero would ever join the Republicans. The Vice President, a woman, stands firm against the Cabinet and refuses to take the power of the Presidency from a man who is currently captured by enemy forces. Hello? I hope he’s a Democrat, because I’d hate to think that any Republican would rather not declare a period of temporary incapacity if the President is held HOSTAGE.

Executive Decision? Come on, a think tank genius is sent along on a rescue mission? HELLO people. Think Tank folks would rather conduct a study than actually participate in a raid. They might get their hair mussed.

So many of these movies are an affront to Conservative Principals, that I wonder if we have any principals left. I grant that the image out of Washington lately is NO we have no principals, we can’t afford them.

Red Dawn, simple peaceful town, attacked with no warning, no military value to the town, and thousands are slaughtered by the left wing forces of socialism. The freedom loving kids fight back, and survive by luck, back woods ingenuity, and help from their community. They fight the forces of Socialism, and later, when the war is over, the kids, these Wolverines are considered heros, and a park is commemorated to their memory.

So that this nation, shall not perish from the face of the earth. Classic Conservative ideas and principals. We fight against Socialism, because socialists are nothing more than dictators with a cute job title.

I am thinking. I should cancel my membership in the Republican Party, and join the Democrats. I think I’d have a better chance of moving them right, than I would of slowing the run left by the Republicans.

Snake307 on January 15, 2009 at 8:09 PM

I for one try to be optimistic. The remake might be decent, maybe better. Either way Communists will die. Who can argue against that?

starkc on January 15, 2009 at 7:29 PM

The way our luck runs, this time the enemy will probably conservative church going right wingers who wish to take over the world. They’ll be fought by people wearing berken stocks and were merely enjoying a simple common life of communal living when they were viciously invaded and the right wing nuts began to brainwash them.

Not too many true communists left in the world. The Chinese are about all that is left, and if they invade, it won’t be a short war. LOL. Although, with a little luck on our side, we might kill enough of them to get the government to abandon the one child policy.

Snake307 on January 15, 2009 at 8:17 PM

apollyonbob on January 15, 2009 at 8:11 PM

The story was interesting. It was a glimpse into a future where everyone sang from the same sheet of music. Even the civilians believed in corporal punishment for criminal acts. There were no mass protests against this or that. No hysterical left wing lunatics who denounced the military industrial complex. They were people and they all agreed that criminal behavior could not be tolerated.

Johnny’s father spanked him for breaking a vase. He tells the boy later that you didn’t understand the value of the vase, so I didn’t punish you for that.

Also the book gives one of the most well considered explanations of value I have ever read. It completely destroys Marxian Economic Theory, and should be enough to destroy the current efforts of the Congress to create a centrally controlled economy, but it won’t be.

Snake307 on January 15, 2009 at 8:23 PM