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The worst political movies of the last 50 years « Top Daily Digest Reading — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:25:55 +0000

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By: Best and worst political movies — The Political Class

Best and worst political movies — The Political Class — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:32:15 +0000

[...] Captain Ed of Hot Air, in honor of the impending inauguration of Barack Obama, is soliciting suggestions for the the worst explicitly political movies of the last 50 years. He ventures a few suggestions to kick off the discussion, such as The China Syndrome and The Day After Tomorrow. See here to discuss and vote in the comments. [...]

By: Brains

Brains — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:21:01 +0000

The Happening has to be one of the top contenders for worst movie of all time.

By: Brains

Brains — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:17:51 +0000

Also, I can’t agree with V For Vendetta. Another dystopian theme, but its based upon a comic book

No no no. Look into the differences between the comic and the movie and Alan Moore’s reaction to it.

By: Brains

Brains — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:14:47 +0000

V for Vendetta was awesome!

It was an immature conservative hate fest, portraying patriotic and religious people as tyrants. Are we talking about two different movies?

By: Cr4sh Dummy

Cr4sh Dummy — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:31:22 +0000

V for Vendetta was awesome!The top 5 worst political movies of all time included The Day After Tomorrow, JFK, Nixon, Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 911

By: Wino

Wino — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:17:30 +0000

where trees take revenge on mankind by releasing deadly toxins to “fight back” or some such nonsense…

Ozprey on January 20, 2009 at 12:11 AM

Didn’t they throw apples at Dorothy and the Scarecrow?

By: Ozprey

Ozprey — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:11:20 +0000

I haven’t seen the movie and it was probably already mentioned but how about The Happening, where trees take revenge on mankind by releasing deadly toxins to “fight back” or some such nonsense…

By: Branch Rickey

Branch Rickey — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:04:48 +0000

I really surprised nobody mentioned WAR INC. The John Cussack movie. I would also say the movie about how kids become eco terrorists to save an owl.

Patricksp on January 18, 2009 at 7:15 PM

If anyone is like me they have never even heard of it. And, “that’s a good thing.” – Martha S.

By: shazbat

shazbat — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:53:39 +0000

V for Vendetta was a vile, vile movie. Don't let the libertarian window dressing fool you, it was a witches brew of anarchy and a borderline pro Al Qaeda movie. "Sometimes blowing up a building can change the world!" as a tag line? Please. Satanic. The Contender: Nauseating. Gary Oldman was sandbagged as the conservative in the film. He was upset that that they cut all his scenes that made him more than a two dimensional character. The American President: No. Dreck, but not offensively so. A spoonful of screenwriting sugar can make me eat my spinach. Or something like that. Munich. Morally inverted. I enjoyed seeing the PLO get offed even though Spielberg didn't want me to, so there's that. The Constant Gardener Would be yes, but for the fact that the movie is a laugh a minute. I was laughing at every scene where Ralph Fiennes was crying. Which means I was laughing quite a lot. Children of Men Bad, but had some redeeming value. Book was very good. Of course the Hollywood adaptation of the book would miss the point of the book: the suicidal tendency of the West. Worst of these? V for Vendetta. By a mile.

By: Reaps

Reaps — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:34:49 +0000

Reality versus actuality in action, folks.

I bet there isn’t a movie out there that SOMEone here manages to find an offensive liberal/anti-republican ‘theme’ in..

By: Wino

Wino — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:10:27 +0000

Here it is… the absolute WORSTEST movie EVAH… although it hasn’t been made:

Michael Douglas and Jane Fonda are the lead protagonists (nope, not China Syndrome). Michael’s character is gay, and beaten up by some nazi-republican-rednecks. His nurse in the hospital, Fonda, chases down the crooks by following the money in their big oil scheme to take over the US and enslave everyone who isn’t white and male, and between 21 and 50.

It is co-written by Al Gore and Robin Williams; directed by Michael Moore; released under Disney label, with the CEO of Pepsi doing the introductory footnote before the movie.

Oh, and there’s some enviro-warming twist, and some whale killing in it, too.

By: Brains

Brains — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:46:58 +0000

I’m calling it now: At some point Hollywood will roll out an Obama movie and Will Smith will play Barack Hussein Obama. It’s going to be the biggest puff piece imaginable.Only question is how long will they be able to restrain themselves from making it.

gumble on January 18, 2009 at 12:06 PM

Why Will Smith? I Am Legend was one of the most refreshingly conservative and optimistic movies in recent history.

By: Branch Rickey

Branch Rickey — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:46:10 +0000

another vote: Erin Brokovich

GLADIATOR. Come on. Gladiator kicked ass. jimmy the notable on January 18, 2009 at 2:09 PM

sorry jimmy, I fell asleep faster in that then I did in Patch Adams. Speaking of which: Patch Adams....

By: Brains

Brains — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:43:56 +0000

V for Vendetta movie was a bastardization and an immature Bush hate fest. Even Alan Moore who’s pretty lefty criticized the idiot film makers for making it into a story of American liberal values vs. American conservative values when it was supposed to be a study of anarchy vs. tyranny in Britain.

By: scrubbiedude

scrubbiedude — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:40:52 +0000

Pretty much anything by Spike Lee.

By: sothinbelle

sothinbelle — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:40:40 +0000

Anyone remember Soylent Green…Massive overpopulation and greedy rich industrialists ruin the planet. The elderly are encouraged to submit to euthanasia to reduce the population. Evil powerful corporation reuses human corpses in the food supply to dupe the poor starving masses into cannablism. The only redeeming characteristic of this movie is the performance by Charlton Heston.

By: Branch Rickey

Branch Rickey — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:35:02 +0000

Reds: Overwrought, over acted piece of garbage. Incredibly long and bad. I believe it actually helped Reagan make his case of the Soviet Union as an evil empire. I don’t think that is what Beatty intended.

Finally, figured out what movie others were referencing. I was in my teens when that came out and went to see and laugh through it and pissed off my hippie aunt. She got over it that I am a conservative. I vote this too. How many votes do we each get Ed? Aye Aye Capt.

By: Branch Rickey

Branch Rickey — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:02:28 +0000

We watched it as a dorm and had a “teach-in” type lecture. It does not get more political than that. dentalque on January 18, 2009 at 12:48 PM

or as annoying as that! Feel for ya dentalque!

By: Branch Rickey

Branch Rickey — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:14:33 +0000

“The English Patient” – just hear me out. I hate hate hate this movie. But here’s the problem with it: Main characters are English. Setting is WWII. When the story is finally fleshed out, it turns out that the main guy betrayed the English to the NAZIS!! So essentially the movie is saying, it doesn’t matter if that you are betraying your own country to the worst kinds of criminals in the world because you’re in LURVE!!!!! Talk about the exact opposite storyline to the one in “Casablanca.”

mjk on January 18, 2009 at 12:20 PM

Thought I was the only one with the ?Patient. What a load of crap!

By: Branch Rickey

Branch Rickey — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:47:45 +0000

I’m calling it now: At some point Hollywood will roll out an Obama movie and Will Smith will play Barack Hussein Obama. It’s going to be the biggest puff piece imaginable.Only question is how long will they be able to restrain themselves from making it.

gumble on January 18, 2009 at 12:06 PM

12:17 – 20 Jan 2009?

By: Branch Rickey

Branch Rickey — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:46:06 +0000

and Hugh Grant in “Love, Actually”. Ruined both films for me. Renwaa on January 18, 2009 at 12:05 PM

+1 You Have No Idea!

By: Branch Rickey

Branch Rickey — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:42:35 +0000

BR's VOTE: The Queen Blatant misuse of the tragedy of a young mother dying, i.e. the death of Princess Diana to verbally slap Tony Blair {a.k.a. "W's 'Lap Dog'" LOL}; - a well-acted movie and some good film angles etc. but it's all just a lead-up to give a back-hand to those who HAD to carry out the tough decisions after Sept. 11th.

By: wkgdyw

wkgdyw — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:29:42 +0000

> I forgot, what do people think about Dave?
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‘Dave‘ wasn’t a bad movie at all. Kevin Kline brought it to life. I thought it showed GHW Bush as having bigger stones than he really did, but the portrayal of Bush wasn’t the point at all.
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The point of Dave was the ‘one good man can make a difference’ theme (the validity of which is about to be tested, starting tomorrow). It was easy to see this one as light comic fiction with some stupid parts, and nothing more.
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Another movie I liked that most of my friends hated was ‘Clear and Present Danger.’ I thought it was very well directed and photographed, and the producers went to the trouble of hiring a decent screenwriter to reduce a 1000 page book to a comprehensible movie. My friends couldn’t get past the jar of jelly beans on the president’s desk.
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By: wkgdyw

wkgdyw — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:07:26 +0000

I confess I haven’t read all the comments either, but one that really pissed me off was Falling Down, the post-cold-war tale with (again) Michael Douglas, as a laid-off defense worker, irrelevant but still dangerous, who finds a bag of guns, and when he gets tired of shooting at the world in general, goes (for no particular reason) after his wife and kid. Pure hatred of Reagan-era America. We expect this crap from Douglas (China Syndrome, American President), but Robert Duvall Should be ashamed. Ashamed!!