Collections : The Best Conservative Movies (National Review)

[luke9]

Reading replies in topics like "What proportion of your ranked movies are by women?" have given me the impression that many of us Criticker users identify with conservatism, so I thought I'd advertise a collection I put together titled "The Best Conservative Movies (National Review)": http://www.criticker.com/?fl&filter=e20204. The source of this list is the following National Review Online article: http://nrd.nationalreview.com/article/?q=YWQ4MDlhMWRkZDQ5YmViMDM1Yzc0MTE3ZTllY2E3MGM=.

What do y'all think about this list? Are there any good conservative movies that didn't make the cut? If you don't identify with conservatism, then please don't bother to reply to this topic; the world will be a better place with one less political argument on the Internet.

[tomelce]

That list's paragraphs on "We Were Soldiers" and "The Dark Knight" are so absurd it's almost unbelievable.

[CMonster]

"I am the bat, the night is mine."-George Bush as Batman

[jeff_v]

Birth of a Nation

[jacobb1313]

Fascinating list that doesn't make a lick of sense. It seems as though the agenda items on the list are: American Pride (300, Forrest Gump?, Gran Torino, Metropolitan), Marital / Hetero-family fidelity (Juno, The Incredibles, Groundhog Day) and suspect of governmental overreach (Dark Knight, Ghostbusters, Brazil). The problem is these standards are recursive to distortion and distraction. 300 kills marital fidelity at the expense of national pride and supports the powers of big government over the state, using this logic. You could say The Times of Harvey Milk fit their lists' thematic criterion, if we're all about underdogs and populist sentiments, or Pleasantville for Americana's sake. I could add Natural Born Killers to the list and be nonethewiser, since of course we all hate liberal sensationalist media.

Also, Team America seems to be fundamentally misunderstood

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("Dicks fuck pussies. But dicks can also fuck assholes." They're still dicks.)

[ShogunRua]

The list honestly doesn't make any sense. I like a bunch of those movies too, but they don't strike me as being either "conservative" (or "liberal") in any way.

Any legitimate list on this topic would have to include the films of Frank Capra. The guy was a notable conservative thinker, and a picture like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is very representative of his philosophy of honest, hard-working, blue-collar types with traditional values tangling with corrupt liberal demagogues.