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jmowreader

(50,452 posts)
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 12:49 PM Jul 2020

What is your favorite conservative movie?

Today we learn that a right winger is founding a new movie studio to make movies Hollywood wouldn’t touch. So...what is your favorite conservative movie?

My choice: Nice Dreams. It is the heartwarming tale of two hardworking young men who run a successful small business, and lose it all thanks to the evils of drug use and the corruption of socialized medicine. (And you thought it was about two hippies who sell defective weed out of an ice cream truck.)

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What is your favorite conservative movie? (Original Post) jmowreader Jul 2020 OP
Left Behind enid602 Jul 2020 #1
Leaving Las Vegas Celerity Jul 2020 #43
I Agree RobinA Jul 2020 #52
I did not mean the reply as a claim about the politics of it Celerity Jul 2020 #59
South Park Movie-one reason.... Boxerfan Jul 2020 #2
Lol..."Team America" Docreed2003 Jul 2020 #21
I thought it was awful JonLP24 Jul 2020 #25
I can certainly see that perspective Docreed2003 Jul 2020 #29
I'd say you both are right, it took jabs at any sufficiently overstuffed target Amishman Jul 2020 #60
Team America Fuck Yeah! TheBlackAdder Jul 2020 #50
That was a different movie jmowreader Jul 2020 #32
Dirty Harry lunatica Jul 2020 #3
Depending on how you define "conservative" gratuitous Jul 2020 #4
Oldie but goodie: Joe no_hypocrisy Jul 2020 #5
Terrifying movie Mz Pip Jul 2020 #7
When my dad find out I was gay, he said "Didn't you see the movie "Joe"? MotorCityBeard Jul 2020 #36
Red Dawn. Dial H For Hero Jul 2020 #6
Take the Money and Run chriscan64 Jul 2020 #8
That must be the remake lame54 Jul 2020 #19
Iron Man. An asshole defense contractor saves the world... hunter Jul 2020 #9
Dude's an anthropologist/ archaeologist, actually greenjar_01 Jul 2020 #10
In Iron Man 2, Tony was friends with Elon Musk. Initech Jul 2020 #14
Ok, but he has an epiphany about what he's doing RhodeIslandOne Jul 2020 #40
Confederate states of America. kimbutgar Jul 2020 #11
This thread has me confused LeftInTX Jul 2020 #16
But to some racists they love it not realizing it's satire! kimbutgar Jul 2020 #30
Colbert fans lame54 Jul 2020 #55
The Green Berets. Kingofalldems Jul 2020 #12
Well that's pretty RW LeftInTX Jul 2020 #24
Where the sun sets in the East. Aristus Jul 2020 #53
Red State aka-chmeee Jul 2020 #13
Deliverance. BlueIdaho Jul 2020 #15
Tropic Thunder Initech Jul 2020 #17
The twist... lame54 Jul 2020 #20
And product placement wins the day! Initech Jul 2020 #26
The original Red Dawn JHB Jul 2020 #18
Ranks right up there with "Iron Eagle" for my 80's movie cheese Docreed2003 Jul 2020 #23
This thread has me confused LeftInTX Jul 2020 #22
I assumed it was movies that are right wing masturbatory extravaganzas. Iggo Jul 2020 #34
My choice of "conservative movie" should have indicated it was satirical in nature jmowreader Jul 2020 #35
It kinda did.. but then the thread ran the Cha Jul 2020 #39
Frank Capra and another RW director made some LeftInTX Jul 2020 #27
John Huston Mendocino Jul 2020 #48
OK Thx LeftInTX Jul 2020 #49
Jon Voight always plays the best conservative characters JonLP24 Jul 2020 #28
hard to say since conservatives are always the villains in movies........... Takket Jul 2020 #31
Oh, Red Dawn by a fucking mile! Iggo Jul 2020 #33
The righties used to love Red Dawn so they could fantasize about using their Liberal In Texas Jul 2020 #56
Trump is The Mayor and The Libs are The Wolverines. Iggo Jul 2020 #58
There Will be Blood dustyscamp Jul 2020 #37
This! Very symbolic of the relationship between... Buckeye_Democrat Jul 2020 #38
This message was self-deleted by its author geralmar Jul 2020 #41
Hot Rods to Hell Raine Jul 2020 #42
Gawd! Haven't seen that one since I was a kid. Iggo Jul 2020 #45
THANKS ... I needed that, haha! 👍🙂 nt Raine Jul 2020 #46
I was 12 when I saw that at a Saturday matinee at our neighborhood theater. Hotler Jul 2020 #51
A classic... lame54 Jul 2020 #57
We Were Soldiers JustABozoOnThisBus Jul 2020 #44
Gran Torino n/t Shrek Jul 2020 #47
I've heard some conservatives claim the original Ghostbusters (1984) Proud Liberal Dem Jul 2020 #54

enid602

(8,524 posts)
1. Left Behind
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 12:55 PM
Jul 2020

Any of the 'Left Behind' movies. Nicholas Cage, Kirk Cameron; so much great acting, so much talent.

RobinA

(9,878 posts)
52. I Agree
Mon Jul 20, 2020, 12:58 PM
Jul 2020

However, in what respect is Leaving Las Vegas a conservative movie. Not that I really understand what constitutes a conservative movie.

Celerity

(42,666 posts)
59. I did not mean the reply as a claim about the politics of it
Mon Jul 20, 2020, 04:29 PM
Jul 2020

I only meant Cage was great in it.

I have no idea what a conservative movie is. I would say some cheap 'n shoddy forced birther scare tactics you tube bollocks.

JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
25. I thought it was awful
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 03:20 PM
Jul 2020

They seemed to be satirizing the anti-war reactions like liberal Hollywood actors more than anything Bush was doing wrong. Their acronym spelled out Film Actors Guild.

The creators are libertarians so I don't expect much social commentary from them.

Docreed2003

(16,817 posts)
29. I can certainly see that perspective
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 03:32 PM
Jul 2020

The flip side is they're a "Team" that goes around mindlessly causing havoc all over the world and with songs like "Freedom isn't Free (It Cost $1.25)" it was certainly roasting the Bush mindset of "We're going to fix the world cause we're America" mindset of those times.

Amishman

(5,541 posts)
60. I'd say you both are right, it took jabs at any sufficiently overstuffed target
Mon Jul 20, 2020, 04:41 PM
Jul 2020

It might be offensive to quite a few groups (same could go for is Blazing Saddles), but I can enjoy it for the over the top absurdity that it is.

jmowreader

(50,452 posts)
32. That was a different movie
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 06:04 PM
Jul 2020
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut is the one where Mrs. Cartman started a shooting war against Canada over cussing.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
4. Depending on how you define "conservative"
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 12:59 PM
Jul 2020

I'd say that "On the Waterfront" or "Absence of Malice" are good movies that champion a conservative point of view.

MotorCityBeard

(201 posts)
36. When my dad find out I was gay, he said "Didn't you see the movie "Joe"?
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 07:48 PM
Jul 2020

This was in 1983. Big movie fan, but never saw it. I had heard about it and knew what it was about. I can guess what the problem was. This movie was made in 1970, and I am sure it had gay characters that were the absolute dregs of society, like a lot of movies did at that time. I'm sure he thought that that was how I would turn out.

My dad was always a big liberal, but had issues with his own son being "that way". He came around eventually, but it took time.

chriscan64

(1,789 posts)
8. Take the Money and Run
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 01:17 PM
Jul 2020

It's the story of a plucky ex-actor who becomes president. He cuts taxes for the rich which he says will help everyone. But as his budget director, David Stockman put it, "It was always about the right to get rich and keep the money."

hunter

(38,264 posts)
9. Iron Man. An asshole defense contractor saves the world...
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 01:32 PM
Jul 2020

Okay, how many movies are not "conservative?"

Is there a movie about a mild-mannered and very polite English professor teaching at a community college who saves the world?

Initech

(99,915 posts)
14. In Iron Man 2, Tony was friends with Elon Musk.
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 02:58 PM
Jul 2020

Which makes me wonder if it took place in this reality, Tony would be part of the billionaires who have taken the Red Pill Truther movement too seriously.

 

RhodeIslandOne

(5,042 posts)
40. Ok, but he has an epiphany about what he's doing
Sun Jul 19, 2020, 02:45 AM
Jul 2020

And ultimately ends up harnessing clean energy over the arc of the franchise.

kimbutgar

(20,882 posts)
11. Confederate states of America.
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 01:38 PM
Jul 2020

What would have happened if the south won the civil war ? I have a copy of this DVD. They rarely show it on tv nowadays.




LeftInTX

(24,554 posts)
24. Well that's pretty RW
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 03:20 PM
Jul 2020

I've never seen it and was never interested.

Never a JW fan. Never liked war movies, especially GB.

Aristus

(66,095 posts)
53. Where the sun sets in the East.
Mon Jul 20, 2020, 01:01 PM
Jul 2020

Making that vision of conservative ideology as connected to the real world as the rest of it...

aka-chmeee

(1,129 posts)
13. Red State
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 02:52 PM
Jul 2020

Group of patriotic Christians doing their part to remove the scourge of adulterers and other sinners from their world.

Initech

(99,915 posts)
17. Tropic Thunder
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 03:05 PM
Jul 2020

Asshole actor plays controversial blackface role, while asshole movie studio executive threatens to destroy them and derail the movie so he can upgrade his private jet.

JHB

(37,131 posts)
18. The original Red Dawn
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 03:09 PM
Jul 2020

What can I say? I was the right age to enjoy its cheesiness.

And I knew just how absurd its premise was, steeped in wingnut paranoia and addled view of real Soviet capabilities vs ours, so I enjoyed the cheese without taking it seriously.

Docreed2003

(16,817 posts)
23. Ranks right up there with "Iron Eagle" for my 80's movie cheese
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 03:18 PM
Jul 2020

There's even a line in "Iron Eagle" saying they should fear the Russians because America had "Ronnie Ray-gun"

LeftInTX

(24,554 posts)
22. This thread has me confused
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 03:16 PM
Jul 2020

Are we looking at movies made be RW directors, like Clint Eastwood?

Are we looking at movies that promote RW characters or themes? Like Christian movies?

Or are we looking at movies that feature RW characters like Joe? Lots of good movies like that.

I guess my current fave RW director is Clint Eastwood.

I think Cecile Demille was RW. I like Sunset Blvd. Gloria Swanson was RW. (I think she was an Ayn Rand supporter) The movie doesn't feature RW characters though.

jmowreader

(50,452 posts)
35. My choice of "conservative movie" should have indicated it was satirical in nature
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 06:10 PM
Jul 2020

"Nice Dreams" is a Cheech and Chong movie about marijuana dealing. Hardly conservative at all.

Cha

(295,913 posts)
39. It kinda did.. but then the thread ran the
Sun Jul 19, 2020, 02:43 AM
Jul 2020

other way.

So the poster who said it was "confusing" was right!

LeftInTX

(24,554 posts)
27. Frank Capra and another RW director made some
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 03:25 PM
Jul 2020

interesting WW2 documentaries

I think John Huston was RW.

DW Griffith was the ultimate RW. Way Down East was good. He made a pretty good talkie about alcohol.

Mendocino

(7,430 posts)
48. John Huston
Mon Jul 20, 2020, 10:20 AM
Jul 2020

was a founder of The Committee For The First Amendment, set up to combat the HUAC hearings. He served in the Army making films that the military censored, blocked, or outright banned as "demoralizing". JH wasn't RW.

JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
28. Jon Voight always plays the best conservative characters
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 03:27 PM
Jul 2020

I'm thinking of films like Enemy of the State and The Rainmaker but he always plays a good conservative.

Liberal In Texas

(13,453 posts)
56. The righties used to love Red Dawn so they could fantasize about using their
Mon Jul 20, 2020, 01:06 PM
Jul 2020

arsenals in a guerilla war against the Ruskies. Now days, the'd be helping the Ruskies.

Iggo

(47,487 posts)
58. Trump is The Mayor and The Libs are The Wolverines.
Mon Jul 20, 2020, 02:45 PM
Jul 2020

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

My, how times have changed!

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,847 posts)
38. This! Very symbolic of the relationship between...
Sun Jul 19, 2020, 02:37 AM
Jul 2020

... the money-obsessed conservatives and their useful evangelical idiots.

The businessman pretending to be a Christian to get what he wants from the gullible:



And the later retribution against the leader of the gullible fools, demonstrating their actual social hierarchy:

Response to jmowreader (Original post)

Raine

(30,540 posts)
42. Hot Rods to Hell
Sun Jul 19, 2020, 03:06 AM
Jul 2020

wild, sexually active, hard drinking, doping spoiled teenagers terrorize an all American family as they travel thru the California desert in the late 1960s. I have to watch it whenever it's on and I always laugh till my jaws ache.

Iggo

(47,487 posts)
45. Gawd! Haven't seen that one since I was a kid.
Sun Jul 19, 2020, 10:07 PM
Jul 2020

Probably on the 3:30 Movie or Ben Hunter or something.

Have some:

Hotler

(11,353 posts)
51. I was 12 when I saw that at a Saturday matinee at our neighborhood theater.
Mon Jul 20, 2020, 11:02 AM
Jul 2020

That Corvette was badass and cheesy. I may have built that model at one time.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,283 posts)
44. We Were Soldiers
Sun Jul 19, 2020, 05:55 AM
Jul 2020

It followed the first half of the book "We Were Soldiers Once ... And Young" pretty well, then threw in a "happy ending" gunship helicopter attack that helped win the day for the Americans.

That ending victory didn't happen, not really, and not in the book. But it was a fine "Deus ex machina" way to hold a six-hour movie down to two hours, and send the audience away happy.

I think the first half of the book was the easy part.

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,355 posts)
54. I've heard some conservatives claim the original Ghostbusters (1984)
Mon Jul 20, 2020, 01:02 PM
Jul 2020

I would assume for its negative depiction of the EPA and the pencil-neck paper pusher who gets the containment area shut down, leading to the explosion that unleashes all of the ghosts towards the end of the movie and threatens the apocalypse.

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