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# 10: The Best Conservative Movies of the Last 25 Years
corner.nationalreview.com - 2/13/2009
# 10: The Best Conservative Movies of the Last 25 Years
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Ghostbusters (1984): This comedy might not get Russell Kirk's endorsement as a worthy treatment of the supernatural, but you have to like a movie in which the bad guy (William Atherton at his loathsome best) is a regulation-happy buffoon from the EPA, and the solution to a public menace comes ...
The Best Conservative Movies on National Review / Digital
nrd.nationalreview.com - 2/13/2009
The Best Conservative Movies on National Review / Digital
— nrd.nationalreview.com — books arts & manners The Best Conservative Movies Once in a blue moon, Hollywood releases a conservative... movie, or at least a film that resonates with conservatives in a particular way. Because conservatives love movies and especially debates about ... (more) The Best Conservative Movies on National Review / Digital
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# 22: The Best Conservative Movies of the Last 25 Years
corner.nationalreview.com - 2/10/2009
# 22: The Best Conservative Movies of the Last 25 Years
— corner.nationalreview.com — Brazil (1985): Vividly depicting the miserable results of elitist utopian schemes, Terry Gilliam's Brazil portrays a darkly... comic dystopia of malfunctioning high-tech equipment and the dreary living conditions common to all totalitarian regimes. ... (more) # 22: The Best Conservative Movies of the Last 25 Years

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bighollywood.breitbart.com - 2/11/2009
Top 5: Favorite Conservative Moments
— bighollywood.breitbart.com — With National Review’s John J. Miller counting down the 25 best conservative movies of the last 25... years, it got me to thinking about conservative “moments” on film. This is not a preview of any upcoming films on the NRO list. ... (more) Top 5: Favorite Conservative Moments
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pandagon.net - we are the public option — ... the era of Sputnik and Perry Como is over. Alicia Silverstone is a post-feminist woman who learns from him that pre-feminist women had some things going for them. Christopher Walken and Sissy Spacek as Fraser’s parents are comic gems. Can you even name one thing that happened in Blast From The Past that isn’t in the above four sentences?  Anyone?  I tried remembering this movie and woke up seven minutes later with a nosebleed. 10.) Ghostbusters This comedy might not get Russell Kirk’s endorsement as ...

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corner.nationalreview.com 2/13/2009 — The Pursuit of Happyness (2006): Based on the life of self-made millionaire Chris Gardner (Will Smith), this film provides the perfect antidote to Wall Street and other Hollywood diatribes depicting the world of finance as filled with nothing but ...
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corner.nationalreview.com 2/13/2009 — Gran Torino (2008): Clint Eastwood directs and stars in the ultimate family movie unsuitable for the family. He plays Walt Kowalski, a caricature of an old-school, dying-breed, Polish-American racist male, replete with post-traumatic stress disorder ...
# 4: The Best Conservative Movies of the Last 25 Years
corner.nationalreview.com 2/13/2009 — Forrest Gump (1994): It won an Oscar for best picture--beating Pulp Fiction, a movie that's far more expressive of Hollywood's worldview. Tom Hanks plays the title character, an amiable dunce who is far too smart to embrace the lethal values of the ...
# 20: The Best Conservative Movies of the Last 25 Years
corner.nationalreview.com 2/13/2009 — Gattaca (1997): In this science-fiction drama, Vincent (Ethan Hawke) can't become an astronaut because he's genetically unenhanced. So he purchases the identity of a disabled athlete (Jude Law), with calamitous results. The movie is a cautionary tale ...
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corner.nationalreview.com 2/13/2009 — The Edge (1997): Screenwriter David Mamet uses a wilderness survival story about friendship, betrayal, and forgiveness to present a few truths rarely seen in movies: Knowledge has its limits, fortitude is a weapon against hardship, and honor can ...
# 12: The Best Conservative Movies of the Last 25 Years
corner.nationalreview.com 2/13/2009 — The Dark Knight (2008): This film gives us a portrait of the hero as a man reviled. In his fight against the terrorist Joker, Batman has to devise new means of surveillance, push the limits of the law, and accept the hatred of the press and public. If ...
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corner.nationalreview.com 2/12/2009 — This week on NRO, we're going to count down the 25 best conservative movies of the last 25 years, starting with #25 later this morning and finishing with #1 on Friday. The top-25 list is in part a creation of The Corner. A few weeks ago, I asked ...
# 13: The Best Conservative Movies of the Last 25 Years
corner.nationalreview.com 2/11/2009 — Braveheart (1995): Forget the travesty this soaring action film makes of the historical record. Braveheart raised its hero, medieval Scottish warrior William Wallace, to the level of myth and won five Oscars, including best director for Mel Gibson, ...
#23: The Best Conservative Movies of the Last 25 Years
corner.nationalreview.com 2/13/2009 — United 93 (2006): Minutes after terrorists struck on 9/11, Americans launched their first counterattack in the War on Terror. Director Paul Greengrass pays tribute to the passengers of United 93 by refusing to turn their story into a wimpy Hollywood ...
# 15: The Best Conservative Movies of the Last 25 Years
corner.nationalreview.com 2/12/2009 — Red Dawn (1984): From the safe, familiar environment of a classroom, we watch countless parachutes drop from the sky and into the heart of America. Oh, no: invading Commies! Laugh if you want--many do--but Red Dawn has survived countless more ...