Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Best Conservative Movies

Cinematical points me to a National Review article that offers an annotated list of "the 25 best conservative movies of the last 25 years". I'm trying to wrap my mind around the concept of Brazil, say, or Gattaca as examples of "conservative movies". About Brazil they say,
Terrorist bombings, national-security scares, universal police surveillance, bureaucratic arrogance, a callous elite, perversion of science, and government use of torture evoke the worst aspects of the modern megastate
but doesn't that describe the past 6-8 years under a conservative majority? They try to frame Gattaca as an anti-abortion film, but I don't see it. They were looking for films that "resonate" with conservatives, and describe the results of their survey this way:
Conservatives enjoy these films because they are great movies that offer compelling messages about freedom, families, patriotism, traditions, and more.
I feel I want to state this, even though it's obvious: There's nothing exclusively conservative about "freedom, families, patriotism, [and] traditions." Sheesh.

The list:
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 (2005)
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)

2 comments:

  1. Keith Olbermann is Wormtongue? I don't think they were watching the same movies as I was. And I think they missed the point of "Brazil."

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  2. Yes, I think they missed the point of Brazil entirely. Maybe the saw what they wanted to see.

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