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Jun 27 06 9:45 AM
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Quote:Take THEM! It's not a political diatribe either, it's an inventive, atmospheric monster movie with a film noir mystery angle, it's nicely (but not perfectly) constructed and written, well-mounted, well-realized.
Jun 27 06 8:40 PM
Jun 27 06 8:42 PM
Quote:Captain Patrick Hendry, Colonel Jack Evans, Commander Pete Mathews, Colonel Craig Brewster: where have you gone?
Jun 27 06 8:57 PM
Jun 28 06 10:56 PM
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Quote:Today the ex-Trotskyites are called "NeoConservative" and have read the old conservatives ("PaleoConservatives") out of the Republican Party for being, in the words of David "Axis Of Evil" Frum, "Unpatriotic Conservatives".
Jun 29 06 12:58 PM
Quote: like to simplify it thusly: Classic conservatives love Lincoln; paleocons hate Lincoln, neocons love themselves.
Jun 29 06 2:24 PM
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Jun 30 06 10:10 AM
Quote:Well, you got me on that one, Gary. Ronald Reagan was single-handedly repsonsible for the collapse of the Soviet empire. I've seen the light.
Jun 30 06 10:48 AM
Quote: written by a Communist who'd been blacklisted without anybody even bothering to call him in front of a committee (who also wrote EARTH V. FLYING SAUCERS... back to the topic at hand...)
Jun 30 06 11:09 AM
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Jun 30 06 3:09 PM
Quote:I would submit that the protaganists of these movies and "classic conservatives" in the mold of General Douglas MacArthur, General Curtis LeMay and the hero of Korea, General Chesty Puller, were more honest in their portrayal of the type of individual you could depend on to defend the United States from invasion than the heroes of latter eras.
Quote:One of the things I did not find the least bit funny in MARS ATTACKS was Jack Black's character. And the character portrayed by Paul Winfield was outright offensive. Rod Steiger's character was a cartoon. I know the movie itself was a cartoon ...
Jun 30 06 3:33 PM
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