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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

At Last! A Conservative Perspective on Spider-Man 3!

Posted by on Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 5:17 PM

DirtyHarry.jpgIn the past, I've written about conservative film blog Dirty Harry's Place. Well, it's shuttered.

But not because he's given up on providing conservative perspectives on film and entertainment, oh no. Instead, he has moved to Big Hollywood, a giant blog that collects the perspectives of conservative film fans. It's kind of the Defamer of Andrew Breitbart's conservative Gawker-esque empire. This site is rich with wince-inducing conservative internet writing:

I’m a Conservative. And I am also an actor who lives and works in Hollywood. Many of my friends advise me to keep that on the down-low, advise me to not speak up lest I scuttle any future employment prospects, so predominantly liberal is the entertainment biz. And yet I persist.

You see, I’m one pissed-off dude.

I’m told I’ll hurt my career if I continually spout off about Liberalism — which I see as a growing cancer in our society. Worldwide, I’ve seen Liberalism metastasize into virulent incarnations of Socialism, and, left unchecked, even into its malignant cousin, Communism. Only the arrogant or the somnambulist would think such a thing could never happen here. It’s a matter of increment. Once a group organizes into a coalition, it’s a short step to claiming the right to the property of another group. All that is necessary is for an individual’s right to personal property to become a secondary concern. The ‘needs’ of the group must supercede, dontcha know. It’s a vicious cycle — wants become needs become rights. The fact that the thievery is done at the behest of a ‘civilized’ government does not sanitize the crime.

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Have a look at some of the great things that have happened recently at the multiplex. Spider-Man 3, a pro-American, pro-responsibility film with deeply Christian overtones topped the box office in 2007. 300, which said a lot that needed to be said about the war on terror, came in at number ten. Even more amazing, the Oscar winner for the year was No Country for Old Men, a decidedly conservative film that linked the evil of its nihilist serial killer to the decline of morals since the 1960’s. “Once you stop hearing sir or ma’am,” says the film’s lone moral voice, “the rest [of the evil] will follow.”

It was pretty much the same this year. Top of the box office so far: the blatantly pro-war on terror Dark Knight. The Christian Prince Caspian is at number eleven. The pro-abstinence Twilight is currently at sixteen and still hot. And perhaps most delightfully, and of course most ignored by the MSM: the Christian pro-marriage film Fireproof, despite suffering from its shoestring budget, still out-performed such favorites of our media elites as W, Religulous and Stop-Loss.

During the election I spent a lot of time watching conservative sites to keep an eye on what the other side was doing. I don't know why I keep going to these sites—I know I have a car-wreck fascination with watching angry old white guys whining about how everything's going to shit because everything's not run by angry old white guys—but I have a feeling I'm going to be spending a lot of time reading Big Hollywood and repeatedly smacking my desk with my jaw.

 

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"It’s a matter of increment" ...hmm, I think this gentleman is confused; the word is "excrement."
Posted by rumblebee on January 6, 2009 at 5:25 PM
2
Wait until you discover local radio host/conservapundit/Hollywood "culture warrior" Michael Medved on KTTH -- you could devote a hundred posts to that piece of work.
Posted by Just Sayin' on January 6, 2009 at 5:27 PM
3
Like a cancer! If only it were that easy.
Posted by elenchos on January 6, 2009 at 5:44 PM
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"I know I have a car-wreck fascination with watching angry old white guys whining about how everything's going to shit because everything's not run by angry old white guys"

When I read your reviews Paul, I think to myself, gee that's just an angry old white guy trapped in an angry young white guy's body.
Posted by paulisunfortunatelyalive on January 6, 2009 at 5:48 PM
5
The Bible and Comicky Books support my ideology, so it's obviously the only true one and everyone who doesn't agree is a commie pinko bastard.
Posted by Old Angry White Dude on January 6, 2009 at 5:49 PM
6
Anyone who thinks Dark Knight was pro-war on terror is an idiot. Batman tortures the Joker and gets inaccurate intelligence which leads to the death of his woman and the creation of Two Face. The cops who work for the Joker do so because their parents lack health insurance and cannot pay their medical bills. A criminal makes the moral judgment not to blow up a boat full of civilians. DK is a liberal movie in conservative drag.
Posted by Chicago Fan on January 6, 2009 at 6:01 PM
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The 'Conservative Actor' sounds more like a garden-variety anti-social Libertarian than a Conservative. Perhaps he should be working in the porn industry, it's rife with anti-social Libertarians!
Posted by E. Steven on January 6, 2009 at 6:11 PM
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"I don't know why I keep going to these sites—I know I have a car-wreck fascination with watching angry old white guys whining about how everything's going to shit because everything's not run by angry old white guys"

dude, i know the feeling.
Posted by lar on January 6, 2009 at 6:39 PM
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@6: i sure got a kick out the lead criminal on the ferry in DK being the dude who played Debo in Ice Cube's Fridays movies. i just imagined it was Debo.
Posted by Max Solomon @ home on January 6, 2009 at 7:42 PM
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@9 - He was also the President of Earth in the Fifth Element. I have nothing but good feelings for that actor.
Posted by Soupytwist on January 6, 2009 at 8:48 PM
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But talent will supersede position in the new Meritocracy.
Posted by Meritocracy Now! on January 6, 2009 at 9:47 PM
12
Bwah!

Yes, NCfOM was all about relating drug murders to teenagers with pink hair. That was the whole point. Not any statement about a man's lack of willingness to "place his soul at hazard" through confrontation with a kind of evil that he believes relates to nothing sensible on earth at all, let alone to a decline in manners. Nor was it about any suggestion that this particular man's journey to surrender, or his failure of will, was a reeactment of a kind of struggle with violence that has always been with us.

Nope. The movie was really about how, once you stop hearing sir and ma'am, unthinkable murder follows.

Jesus.

Jesus fucking Christ.
Posted by MSM on January 6, 2009 at 11:12 PM
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They TOOK OUR JERBS!
Posted by OMG! on January 6, 2009 at 11:20 PM
14
The last paragraph in that first excerpt has a 50 cent word in every single sentence.
Posted by Chris in Tampa on January 7, 2009 at 12:17 AM
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Liberalism leads to communism, and conservatism leads to fascism. Where do we go from here?
Posted by sockpuppet on January 7, 2009 at 12:47 AM
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Wow, Twilight isn't pro-abstinence... it's one long adolescent nerd tease. More specifically, Twilight is a buildup to mad amounts of, for all intents and purposes, insane amounts of Mormon-approved in-wedlock baby-making. So saying it's pro-abstinence is kind of like saying that Secretary Paulson has a degree of understanding of Goldman Sachs' corporate culture.

It's just missing out on so many levels.
Posted by StealthBadger on January 7, 2009 at 6:46 AM
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Has this guy read any Twilight fanfiction? It's sick, sick stuff.
Posted by Gloria on January 7, 2009 at 8:46 AM
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I don't get how one can argue that Hollywood is uber-liberal while the biggest films of the year have pro-conservative agendas. Oh wait...that's because they don't have conservative agendas and this fuckstick apparently watched completely different versions of The Dark Knight, Spiderman 3, No Country For Old Men, etc.
Posted by T on January 7, 2009 at 1:14 PM

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