What are the best conservative movies of the past 25 years ?

HOTAIR.COM ^ | Jan 15,2009 | Ed Morrisey

[Copernicus]

Why 25 years?

Desperate Hours with Humphrey Bogart (as the criminal).

Fredic March is a sovereign citizen who endures a home invasion and is treated with deference and respect by both Federal LEO and the local Sheriff.

HE makes the decisions as to how HE will save his wife and children. The officers are just back-up and accessories.

1955. The swan song of the American Citizen.

You will not soon see their like again.

Best regards,

[Mr. K]

ok how about liberal movies...

ummmmm that would be ALL THE REST

[sickoflibs]

Lord of the Rings is obvious, how about Braveheart? A conservative classic. “What would you have without freedom?”

[DemforBush]

Probably not a real well-known film, but for children’s fare, I think Shiloh (1996) is a definite keeper.

Not going to give much away, but beyond the story of a boy trying to save an abused beagle hunting dog, there’s much that would resonate with conservatives: The importance of keeping one’s word, the lesson that doing the wrong thing for the right reason is still doing wrong, and the lesson that if you want something bad enough, you’ll work hard for it.

[libh8er]

Batman — Dark Knight ???

[roses of sharon]

LOLOL, omg!

Love that music playing when he is in the alley, hilarious.

[posterchild]

The theme of Forrest Gump that I viewed as conservative it would be that an ‘ordinary’ guy with particularly steep challenges can have a significant positive impact on the people around him as he lives a free and imaginative life.

Hadn’t seen ‘An American Carol’ but am suspicious of movies tailor made or labeled for a particular audience. Liberal movies never declare themselves as for liberals - they just are. A good movie shouldn’t have to label itself into an ideological ghetto.

[Pelagius of Asturias]

It had George Washington and General George S. Patton in it and portrayed them positively.

The only time you would see both men in a modern hollywood film is a modern adaption of Dante’s Inferno.

[GreyMountainReagan]

OK Crazy but I don’t see it.

[donna]

I’ve always thought that there are 10-gay-writers in Hollywood who are responsible for movies and TV. They must get just furious when one slips by them, LOL.

[Christian4Bush]

OK, would you consider Sylvester Stallone’s — Rocky a conservative movie ?

Some of them, for sure...and the last one, definitely.

I remember this scene, and it - and more than a few others in the movie - made me weep.

"I'd hold you up to say to your mother, "this kid's gonna be the best kid in the world. This kid's gonna be somebody better than anybody I ever knew." And you grew up good and wonderful. It was great just watching you, every day was like a privilege.

"Then the time come for you to be your own man and take on the world, and you did. But somewhere along the line, you changed. You stopped being you. You let people stick a finger in your face and tell you you're no good. And when things got hard, you started looking for something to blame, like a big shadow.

"Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard ya hit. It's about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!

"Now if you know what you're worth then go out and get what you're worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain't you! You're better than that!

"I'm always gonna love you no matter what. No matter what appens. You're my son and you're my blood. You're the best thing in my life. But until you start believing in yourself, ya ain't gonna have a life."

[DevNet]

Expelled? - Conservative movies that are marketed as factual should be factual - expelled isn’t. Expelled was as factually correct as a michael moore movie.

[lilylangtree]

(1) Good acting with believable dialogue by nobody actors, (2) Good musical score, (3) Plot of maturity of a young woman, (4) A young man’s awakening that a person can make the supreme choice to do the right thing, (5) Subliminal class struggle, (6) while I didn’t agree about the abortion choice a young blue-collar woman chose, the struggle is there.

[Question_Assumptions]

The Incredibles is an incredibly good movie that hits on all cylinders when it comes to conservative values. Family, fidelity, children don’t know it all, bad guy that’s really bad, and so on. If you haven’t seen it, perhaps because it’s Disney or you think it’s for kids or you don’t like superheroes, I think you should give it a chance.

[stainlessbanner]

NRO's Best Conservative Movies

The List

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

[randomhero97]

Beerfest

[beaversmom]

I just read a comment on YouTube by one of these Utopian minded liberals regarding a pop song:

Yes..it's the proof that all people from every culture can live together in harmony protecting this world from destruction.. I hope the "rulers" of this world could see this song the way i see it,with all the messages for love that the song passes to us..

[Cosmo]

The Incredibles is one of the finest films in years, featuring classic character development and story line reminiscent of 1940s Hollywood. I find I learn alot about a person simply from guaging their response to this film.

[Miss Didi]

The Sound of Music.

[Christian4Bush]

There was a stalone movie...can’t remember the name of it...where stalone plays a cop that gets frozen and then thawed out many years into the future to go after a bad guy. Anyway, in the future he meets these outcasts that live in the sewers because that’s the only place they can go to drink alcohol, smoke tobacco, and use internal combustion engines, and own firearms...all illegal in the future.

At one point in the movie, stalone borrows a restored oldsmobile 442 from a sewer dweller to chase down a bad guy.

"Demolition Man"...and I wonder how many credits I'd be fined daily for "a violation of the verbal morality statute", whether "sotto voce" or not!

Or imagine this:

Jack Bauer: "DAMMIT!"

BEEP!

"Jack Bauer, you are fined one credit for violation of the verbal morality statute."

BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! Jack shoots the machine.