Seems like a lot of good "let's go fight the noble war" conservative movies but not so many "let's stay home and hunker down"/Pat Buchanan conservative movies. Am I in the wrong neighborhood for those?
These are great though. Keep 'em coming. And thanks!
Many here would argue that Pat has left the reservation.
"Let's stay home and hunker down" doesn't make a good movie.
It doesn't make good policy either, as the Allies discovered after trying to appease Hitler.
Pat Buchanan praised Ted Kennedy and has allied himself with radical leftist anti-Semites. He's no conservative.
Perhaps more libertarian than conservative, but still deserving a mention is "Brazil". Surreal pictures of a welfare state that thinks of itself as capitalist, in the grip of a war on terror.
Pat always struck me as being a fan of "Triumph of the Will" or, since he has a Confederate fetish, "Birth of a Nation."
My brother never wanted to go to war,it's called duty,honor and love of Country,soldiers have families too.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of men better than himself"
John Stuart Mill
Buchanan is a nutcase.
I cannot think of any movie directly advocating Buchanan's type of conservatism in the modern post-Cold war context. That must be because post-Cold War Hollywood has entrenched as a liberal bastion. They can on occasion do something not wholly unpalatable to the neo-cons, but for true conservative cinema one has to look earlier, and so loose a direct connection to what Buchanan is known for today.
Buchanan himself liked Braveheart.
A British epic Zulu reflects a view of the Western Man under seige. A theme of a noble soldier placed firmly in the context of the Western Civilization is dominant in Captain and Commander. The Patriot isn't bad either, despite some phoney notes.
All Rocky movies, -- not just the one where he fights a Soviet boxer, -- are kind of subliminally conservative, because of their individualism and the theme of the spiritual driving the physical in the Rocky's character.
On occasion a small town America movie gets made without condescension, women's lib or class-struggle overtones, and it becomes conservative sort of by default. Such are The Deerhunter and more recently October Sky.
Did anyone mention On the Waterfront, -- the only movie I can think of where a central character is the heroic figure of a priest?