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To: cincinnati65
I think "Born on the Fourth of July" deserves an honorable mention.

In the Sci-Fi category Waterworld was a total plot capitulation to the eco-weenies.

"Same Time Next Year" was liberal and it SUCKED SUCKED SUCKED!! I've despised Alan Alda ever since after seeing this swill.

221 posted on 03/24/2002 5:10:59 AM PST by Brett66
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To: Brett66
"Same Time Next Year" was liberal ...

I thougth it was an okay movie, but yes, I noticed that it sounded several liberal themes......adultery's okay (we're just following our "star"), people change, change is "growth" is good, yada yada, real slop. But that was an overall atmosphere, and I didn't have the impression that it laid the markers down like some of the classics, like Seven Days in May or Spartacus, which someone else mentioned and which I think was ghost-written by the Communist Dalton Trumbo, though I'd need to check that. I've read recently that the Spartacus story has been a classic Communist roorback, altered to serve them as an agitprop vehicle -- hence its cooptation for a screenplay.

Oh, and major oversight on my part -- Easy Rider. Some of those soliloquies are pure New Left "Barbra Streisand". Nicholson's drivel about "this used to be a great country" -- like it isn't -- was pure Lefty ipecac.

225 posted on 03/24/2002 5:53:40 AM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: Brett66
Your mention of Waterworld has some merit. I liked the vilification of the bad guys as "the Smokers" (oooooo-booga-booga-booga!!!!); I had to laugh at the cliche'. And the identification of the tanker at the end as the Exxon Valdez was a knee-slapper -- of course!

It was certainly self-serious, pretentious, and portentous enough......it certainly caught the spirit of liberalism, didn't it?

231 posted on 03/24/2002 6:33:27 AM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: Brett66
In the Sci-Fi category Waterworld was a total plot capitulation to the eco-weenies.

"The Postman" was even worse. Kostner's plan to revive the USPS and federal government was enough to bring out the anarchist in anyone. Will Patton's Nietzsche-spouting warlord was way over the top, and the "gentle people" Kostner encounters were straight out of 1960s mythology.

278 posted on 03/24/2002 11:38:34 AM PST by x
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