Comments on: Still Not Getting It

By: Danger

Danger — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:08:32 +0000

To vergil Xenephon: Here here, sir! Good point.

Stand by for more of the same. Soon the cultural revolution of Mao will be glorified as “change you could count on”

By: Larry

Larry — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:29:27 +0000

Given that even lefties generally friendly towards Che acknowledge that the movie is a 4.5 hour (!!) snooze-fest, it’s unlikely to do much at the box office. Because of the subject matter, it generates talk all out of proportion to its true impact, seeing that only a few hundred thousand people will actually pay money to see it.

I’m sure it will get long runs at the Cal-Berkeley, UT Austin, Harvard, and other campus movie houses, though.

By: Kris, in New England

Kris, in New England — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:24:16 +0000

Oh, I think we could give up on Hollywood without a great loss to our lives.

Max – I would specify that we could give up on “new” or “current” Hollyweird.

To me, Hollywood is represented by the likes of McQueen, Newman, Eastwood. Cary Grant. Katherine Hepburn. Bette Davis. Jimmy Stewart. Charlton Heston.

You’ll notice only one of those is still with us – Eastwood is about as fine a filmmaker/actor as we’ll ever see. We just don’t have the same integrity among our entertainers that we used to. Thank god Eastwood understands that and continues to produce incredible films with nuanced performances.

At the risk of repeating myself – go see Gran Torino. It’s a masterpiece.

Oh and Max – I’m with your wife about Road House. Plot? Really were there any other actors in that movie??? Oh yeah – Sam Elliott. A 2fer.

By: virgil xenophon

virgil xenophon — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:08:01 +0000

Humble1310/

The deeper one digs into things the more one realizes most things don’t “just” happen. I was on a site the other nite (should have bookmarked it) in which the argument was made that the lionization of “Che” was a carefully crafted and carried out campaign by the Soviet KGB with help of an Italian communist millionaire who printed up tens of thousands of those famouse “Che” T-Shirts and distributed/flooded them all over Europe and rest of world based on KGB art-work–all to compensate for his death and the growing unpopularity of the Cuban Revolucion. Not by accident my friend..Nothing by accident or natural evolution when the left is involved.

By: MaxDamage

MaxDamage — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:46:02 +0000

Oh, I think we could give up on Hollywood without a great loss to our lives.

There was a discussion some time ago about Steve McQueen. I purchased Le Mans for perhaps $5 at Amazon, played it the other night.

As God is my witness, My Good Wife asked if it has a plot. Honey, it has a Porsche 917 in it — who cares if it had a plot?

Later we watched Road House with Patrick Swaze. About the time something blew up I asked if it had a plot. She replied that it had Patrick Swaze in it, so didn’t need a plot.

I used to be confused, now I’m merely befuddled.

– Max

By: Marianne Matthews

Marianne Matthews — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:44:57 +0000

The picture of Mr. Del Toro on Drudge, marching out of his news conference with a childish pout on his face represents to me what seems to be wrong with Hollywood these days. The actors and writers are moving further and further into an alternate universe from ours.

We watched two reruns of Frasier tonight on TV and had great pleasure laughing at a clever script with good repartee, and a brightness of tolerance about it. What has happened to that spirit we used to have? We really need it now, with the Democrats stripping our pockets and our children’s future nest-eggs. We need to pull together, friends, and cherish our families and our happy moments. And, as Churchill said in the dark days of the Nazi blitz, “never, never, never, never, never give up.”

Marianne