From the article: Best Conservative Movies of All Time
Any list claiming to include the top 10 of anything is highly subjective. About.com's list of the top 10 conservative movies of all time is no different. With that in mind, what films do you think should be in the list of top conservative movies? Why? Share Your Favorites
So Much Overlap
- It's ironic that so many of the movies claimed by conservatives are also claimed by liberals. I've heard It's A Wonderful Life, Casablanca, and Wall-E, Star Wars, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Saving Private Ryan claimed by Liberals and Conservatives alike. And rightly so. Perhaps we're more alike than we like to admit.
- —Guest TMS
Strangely Enough: Wall-E
- Wall-E was hyped as a movie for the "green movement". We are supposed to see how horrible the nasty people are for damaging the planet....blah blah blah. It's very funny, that our true American Spirit comes through in such a drizzle of a message. Underlying all of the eco-crap is the power of the human spirit. Individualism and free choice. Look at the humans in the movie. Fat. Lazy. Cared for. They have become oblivious to the fact that there is more to life than having things handed out to you. The ultimate longing that is burning inside of them is the desire for liberty. When the chance arises for them to take a chance on making their own destiny, they seize it....no they fight for it. They cast aside their controlling machines and take the leap in returning to Earth and LIVING! Lesson: 1 no challenge is too great for us to tackle 2 The true nature of the human experience is LIBERTY! Nice try with the eco garbage, though, but you cannnot suppress the human spirit!
- —SRupe1
Great List
- This is even better than the National Review's Top 25 (http://nrd.nationalreview.com/article/?q=YWQ4MDlhMWRkZDQ5YmViMDM1Yzc0MTE3ZTllY2E3MGM=). I would add "Rocky" and "Rocky Balboa" to the list as my favorites, as well as "Die Hard" and "Die Hard 4.0." Stallone and Willis do such a great job of embodying conservative values in those movies.
- —Guest Kevin
Best Movies
- I would nominate Lawrence of Arabia. If for nothing else that the scene where O'Toole is confronted by Sharrif: :" Nice watch. What if I take it?" asks Shariff. "Then you would be a thief." replies O'Toole. There was no tedious discussion of morality; only the simple recognition that to steal is to be a thief. Contrast this with the scene in "Terminator" where the young John Conner cannot give a reason why the terminator could not just go around killing people.
- —Guest Scott Griswold