Best conservative movies

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nationalreview.com compiled this list of best conservative movies in the last 25 years. Any recommendations?

1. The Lives of Others (2007)
2. The Incredibles (2004)
3. Metropolitan (1990)
4. Forrest Gump (1994)
5. 300 (2007)
6. Groundhog Day (1993)
7. The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
8. Juno (2007)
9. Blast from the Past (1999)
10. Ghostbusters (1984)
11. The Lord of the Rings (2001, 2002, 2003)
12. The Dark Knight (2008)
13. Braveheart (1995)
14. A Simple Plan (1998)
15. Red Dawn (1984)
16. Master and Commander (2003)
17. The Chronicles of Narnia
18. The Edge (1997)
19. We Were Soldiers (2002)
20. Gattaca (1997)
21. Heartbreak Ridge (1986)
22. Brazil (1985)
23. United 93 (2006)
24. Team America: World Police (2004)
25. Gran Torino (2008)
 
...how are these films conservative? Seriously, how are the majority of these films conservative in any way?
 
Basically, movies enjoyed by dickheads.

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Once in a blue moon, Hollywood releases a conservative movie, or at least a film that resonates with conservatives in a particular way. Because conservatives love movies — and especially debates about movies — we decided to produce a list of the 25 best conservative movies of the last 25 years. Our approach in selecting them doesn’t rise to the level of an actual methodology, but there was a method to it. We asked readers of National Review Online to submit nominations. Hundreds of suggestions came in, along with explanations and arguments. We considered each one, tallied them up, and consulted a number of film buffs and professional movie-makers.

We do not claim that the writers, directors, producers, gaffers, and key grips involved with these films are conservative. We certainly make no such assertion about the actors. Yet the results are indisputable: Conservatives enjoy these films because they are great movies that offer compelling messages about freedom, families, patriotism, traditions, and more.
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I would have imagined that when someone called a film conservative they meant bland, and not much going on.

If I admit to liking any of them films do I have to join the conservative party?
 
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Why can't they put Nicolas Cage above Nicolas Cage's head, John Cusack over John Cusack's head and John Malkovich over John Malkovich's head? I bet someone, somewhere, made a fool of themself because of that mix up
 
Was the song "America, feck Yeah!" too subtle for them or something?

It's almost enough to make you think all conservative Yanks are feckwits or something, excuse me while I head to the CE forum to make sure that isn't true...
 
Wonder Pigeon said:
Was the song "America, feck Yeah!" too subtle for them or something?

It's almost enough to make you think all conservative Yanks are feckwits or something, excuse me while I head to the CE forum to make sure that isn't true...
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They took the piss out everyone, to be fair. Still think the 'towel heads' got the most of it. Kim Jong was fecking brilliant, though. The only decent thing in whole film.

Durkha durka.
 
This is a list from national review in 1994

1. A Man for All Seasons
2. Chariots of Fire
3. Therese
4. King of Kings
5. The Ten Commandments
6. Johnny Belinda
7. Quo Vadis?
8. Carnal Knowledge
9. Ten
10. Tender Mercies
11. Three Godfathers
12. The Bicycle Thief
13. My Left Foot
14. Stand and Deliver
15. Lean on Me
16. Meet Me in St. Louis
17. Little Women
18. Since You Went Away
19. Penny Serenade
20. How Green Was My Valley
21. Fort Apache
22. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
23. Rio Grande
24. The Quiet Man
25. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
26. A Canterbury Tale
27. I Know Where I’m Going
28. Dumbo
29. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
30. You Can’t Take It with You
31. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
32. Meet John Doe
33. It’s a Wonderful Life
34. My Darling Clementine
35. Sergeant York
36. Yankee Doodle Dandy
37. Red Dawn
38. The Hanoi Hilton
39. Rambo: First Blood Part II
40. The Deer Hunter
41. Heartbreak Ridge
42. Wake Island
43. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
44. That Hamilton Woman
45. King’s Row
46. Knute Rockne All American
47. The Inner Circle
48. Ninotchka
49. Marie Antoinette
50. A Tale of Two Cities
51. Viva Villa
52. There Was a Crooked Man
53. The Next Voice You Hear
54. Going My Way
55. The Song of Bernadette
56. Lilies of the Field
57. High Noon
58. The Fountainhead
59. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
60. The Yearling
61. I Remember Mama
62. Father of the Bride
63. Father’s Little Dividend
64. Sounder
65. Baby Boom
66. Judge Priest
67. State Fair
68. Shane
69. Drums Along the Mohawk
70. Ruggles of Red Gap
71. To Kill a Priest
72. Man of Marble
73. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
74. Animal Farm
75. Eleni
76. Dr. Zhivago
77. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
78. Ghostbusters
79. Too Hot to Handle
80. White Nights
81. Forbidden Planet
 
A great deal of these movies arent even meant for conservatives
The right wing dickheads in this country are just so self absorbed they see something they like in a movie and assume its made for them
 
UBERScholes said:
Why can't they put Nicolas Cage above Nicolas Cage's head, John Cusack over John Cusack's head and John Malkovich over John Malkovich's head? I bet someone, somewhere, made a fool of themself because of that mix up
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I think just the biggest name comes first. It annoys the heck out of me too though.
 
UBERScholes said:
Why can't they put Nicolas Cage above Nicolas Cage's head, John Cusack over John Cusack's head and John Malkovich over John Malkovich's head? I bet someone, somewhere, made a fool of themself because of that mix up
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They do it all the time. More often than not I'd guess.

Perhaps it makes you look at the poster for longer or something.
 
I remember Mama
Fireproof
Salo: 120 last days of Sodom.
It's a Wonderful Life

All conservative and good for a couple of hours of good family wholesome fun.
 
UBERScholes said:
Why can't they put Nicolas Cage above Nicolas Cage's head, John Cusack over John Cusack's head and John Malkovich over John Malkovich's head? I bet someone, somewhere, made a fool of themself because of that mix up
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here's another
 
1. The Lives of Others (2007) *
9. Blast from the Past (1999)
20. Gattaca (1997)
22. Brazil (1985)
24. Team America: World Police (2004)


Are all told from a Liberal perspective bashing far right, reactionary Conservatism and it's effects on people and society...(although Team America was just bashing everyone)

* The Lives of Others was obviously dealing with Communism, not conservatism, but it's theme is far more Liberal than Conservative. The KGB man uses extreamely conservative methods to spy on and frame a overtly Liberal man. You could easily swap Cold War Russia for Third Reich Germany or even McCarthy era America and the plot would remain in tact.

Are they stupid?
 
To clarify my point a little...

I'm a little sceptical with, for example, Team America. Did those conservatives who rated it think the admittedly superb Dicks, Pussies & Arseholes speech was conservative truth, but skip over all the anti-conservative anti-war stuff that comprised most of the film...For example did they see the way they portrayed Muslims in that film as funny, or did they see it as a clever swipe at those in America who see Muslims that way?
 
Right, this is an odd bump admittedly, but I didn't want to put this in the "Movies I want to see" thread, because I don't want to see it.

Plus re-reading this thread and it's link from the OP is absolutely fecking gold anyway*

Basically, they've re-made Red Dawn. Or they've re-made Red Dawn 3 years ago, realised it was fecking stupid, and so they've re-made it again even sillier in the hope of selling it to the Chinese. And unsurprisingly, it looks like a wet dream for tin foil T-partyers and nostalgically reminds us in the post pan atlantic liberal glow of Obamas re-election, of why deep down we all hated America when we were at University.



My question would be, if that "Sam Facile" can make an utterly terrible, deliberately jingoistic and incomprehensibly implausible film about the Prophet Muhammad (DVLA) and be threatened with murder, can we justifiably threaten to kill the director of this film?

* And now, for want of anything better to do at 3 in the morning, some brilliant quotes from the OP

Forrest Gump: It won an Oscar for best picture — beating Pulp Fiction, a movie that’s far more expressive of Hollywood’s worldview. Tom Hanks plays the title character, an amiable dunce who is far too smart to embrace the lethal values of the 1960s.
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300: During the Bush years, Hollywood neglected the heroism of American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan — but it did release this action film about martial honor, unflinching courage, and the oft-ignored truth that freedom isn’t free.
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Groundhog Day: 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.
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Blast from the Past: Brendan Fraser plays an innocent who has grown up in a fallout shelter and doesn’t know the era of Sputnik and Perry Como is over. Alicia Silverstone is a post-feminist woman who learns from him that pre-feminist women had some things going for them.
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Braveheart: Braveheart taught that freedom is not just worth dying for, but also worth killing for, in defense of hearth and homeland. Six years later, amid the ruins of the Twin Towers, Gibson’s message resonated with a generation of American youth who signed up to fight terrorists, instead of inviting them to join a “constructive dialogue.” Liberals have never forgiven Gibson since.
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe: The White Witch runs a godless, oppressive, paranoid regime that hates Santa Claus. She’s a cross between Burgermeister Meisterburger and Kim Jong Il. The good guys, meanwhile, recognize that some throats will need cutting: no appeasement, no land-for-peace swaps, no offering the witch a snowmobile if she’ll only put away the wand. Underlying the narrative is the story of Christ’s rescuing man from sin — which is antithetical to the leftist dream of perfected man’s becoming an instrument for earthly utopia. The results of such utopian visions, of course, are frequently like the Witch’s reign: always winter, and never Christmas.
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UBERScholes said:
Why can't they put Nicolas Cage above Nicolas Cage's head, John Cusack over John Cusack's head and John Malkovich over John Malkovich's head? I bet someone, somewhere, made a fool of themself because of that mix up
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It usually is due to contractual obligations. Each main actor will have had conditions written into their contracts about the size an positioning of their billing on things like movie posters. Sometimes this will mean that to fulfill the contract the names can't be in the order that the art department made the poster (poor planning) or because there are conflicting contract conditions for each star regarding font sizes, picture location and/or combinations of these factors. I also wonder if it is done to make you look at the poster for longer which will hopefully make you more likely to watch it.
 
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