Posted on 02/04/2012 12:16:26 AM PST by iowamark
That is your opinion and you are welcome to it. :),
Agreed on Crimes..plus Alan Alda as the pompous ass he is in real life !
If the list is enjoyable rather than simply the “Best”, then these should be on the list, somewhere:
Charade
Kelly’s Heroes
White Nights
A Town Like Alice (the BBC mini-series)
My Man Godfrey
Second Hand Lions
To Catch a Thief
Absolute Power
The Fugitive
Indiana Jones & the Lost Ark
Star Wars - the original
Second Hand Lions is a fantastic movie, I lost count how many times I have watched it, it’s a good clean show.
I don’t even have to guess it will be released 1 month before the election so as to portray him as a hero that has evil done to him by the evil Republicans because as we all know it is all the Reubs fault why the country is in a mess. What is interesting is BAM is also a slogan blacks use when talking about Malcolm X because Mr. X use to say “By Any Means”. So is Lee suggesting Obama is like Malcolm X? Malcolm X was also a mulatto, almost..His grandfather was a white Scot which is why X had red hair. So I assume Obama will be portrayed as Malcolm X.
There’s already an Obama biography movie out, PEE WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE.
No “Lawrence of Arabia, Ben Hur, 10 Commandments, Jaws, Usual suspects ?
I’m surprised I don’t see “The Fountain” / S
I am crushed that Titanic didn’t make the list.
Just kidding.
Worst
movie
ever
I don't really remember any sex in B&C other than one time out in the wheat field and that was tame compared to other scenes in some of the other 50 movies.
Blade Runner, The Deer Hunter and other movies had way more sex.
Any list without ‘Gladiator’ is bunk.
When you watch those old movies they really did their best to get things buy tongue in cheek.
In one scene in the movie "A Woman of Distinction" with Rosalyn Russell she played a school teacher and one of her students had a hot rod car and she got drunk and took a ride in it and said something to the affect...."I just love young men and hot rods" or something like that.
The writers of the day probably were laughing on the floor.
However, if you really want to go there we can tear down the historical inaccuracies of that movie if you want. It would seem that common sense would lead you to the fact that a movie is going to take a degree of "creative license" in their work even when they are trying to create a historical based picture. John Rabe, which I think is a better movie than Schindler's List is another movie about a German who tried to help those around him and would also be considered by "thousands of people" to be accurate and true, yet also has some glaring historical inaccuracies (the representation of the Panay particularly caught my eye).
But rather than rely on these "thousands" of movie viewers, if we are going to look at the inaccuracies in Schindler's List I suggest we look in more logical locations.
Some good places to look are:
Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally (the book the movie is based on)
Where Light and Shadow Meet by Emile Schindler (keep in mind that she had a bone to pick with Oskar since he was a womanizer and often cheated on her so take some of this with a grain of salt)
"The Real Oskar Schindler", by Herbert Steinhouse Saturday Night vol 109. (April, 1994), (Herbert interviewed many Schindlerjuden including Schindler's accountant Itzhak Stern. These interviews were conducted in 1949, but he could not find a publisher back then for his work.)
Oskar Schindler: The Untold Account of His Life, Wartime Activities, and the True Story Behind the List by David M. Crowe, Professor of History, Elon University.
Finally Schindler's Legacy: True Stories of the List Survivors by Elinor Brecher (She is a journalist who interviewed several surviving Schindlerjuden after the movie came out. A rather mixed bag with some of them pretty adamant over the inaccuracies in the movie)
In all you will find that Schindler did indeed save over a thousand Jews and I'm not taking anything away from that. However, he also was not the altruist and benevolent patron that is represented in the movie.
For that time-—which was a very moral time and innocent one for children, at least. Parent’s hadn’t allowed perversion to be taught in the schools-—although they had moral relativism (Values Clarification) and parent’s didn’t know it destroys the belief in Moral Absolutes.
This movie was a big departure. It was the big push to moral relativism—to water down Good and Evil, blur the division, that has over the decades,because of the inch by inch injection of evil—which now has completely reversed Evil to become Good.
Judeo/Christian Ethics are totally destroyed in most young children today by replacing it with Atheism/Marxism. They couldn’t have accomplished this without decades of increased desensitization to graphic violence mixed with sex.
Literally, kids call Evil-Good and Good-Evil today, and it is the worldview given to them in their formative years-—by teachers and media:The Karl Marx way of thinking——and parents are so ignorant of it or too busy or nonexistent so don’t even notice or care. They actually assist the indoctrination.
We now have the most debased and vulgar entertainment, even for children——exactly like what was in the Weimar Republic in 1919. The art, movies, theater. books—most of it-—vile, debases both man, woman, and God—only the Judeo/Christian one, nihilism at its core, and reduces human beings to non rational animals. Destroys the Virtue in children so they can not even reason or be logical when it comes to Ethics—Right and Wrong. They have no knowledge of the Bible or moral foundation-—the only source of ethics which create free, virtuous societies, as history proves.
Back then all “sex scenes” or allusion to sex in the USA was very tame compared to today. We were like the frog in the pot of boiling water-—they were conditioning the masses inch by inch to desensitize them. It is easy to see the progression when looking at when violence and commedy were intertwined and glamorized along with sexual decadence.
Bonnie and Clyde was one of the celebrated films leading the way. True—very tame considering “Pulp Fiction” but the underlying ideas were there and sanctioned by the producers. Most producers were Marxist/progressives who wanted to destroy Christian morality (kill the Judeo-Christian God). Moral producers existed but had trouble getting funded for their projects——Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” was blasted by the critics and elites and suppressed-—but promoted only AFTER it became a huge success with the masses and the controlling elites couldn’t bury it.
This is from a review of the making of the Bonnie and Clyde:
“The real Clyde Barrow maintained a homosexual liaison with C.W. Moss, and originally the writers Benton and Newman had wanted the menage-a-trois with Bonnie to be a part of the film. Warren Beatty objected to playing a bisexual, and on reflection the Beatty-Penn-Benton-Newman production team dispensed with the sexual sophistication, reasoning that it would complicate the story unnecessarily and alienate cinema audiences. The only remaining vestiges are Clyde’s difficulty making love to Bonnie, and some laddish cuddles during the card game in the hideout.”
I totally agree.
Certainly the "A New Hope" (the original episode 1 - 1977) and "Return of the Jedi" have to be ahead of "2001 Space Odyssey" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"; same genre.
Lists such as this invariably say more about the compiler than they ever say about the history of film.
Well, that explains why I never read the movie critics. Sheesh. “Annie Hall???”
We both missed out on the beautiful young Lana Turner.
Zampano is here!
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