Go vote in The 2005 Hardyville Freedom Film Festival.
I do have one beef--"The Iron Giant" is blatantly anti-hunting. Oh, shoot, I have other beefs--I don't see "The Scarlet Pimpernel." I don't see "Brazil."
I know what I don't see: I don't see the ability to cast write-in votes.
I also respectfully suggest one more category: Made for TV films. We shouldn't overlook this all-pervasive and important medium. After all, it probably has more daily influence on most Americans' lives than any other.
With that in mind, I nominate "Vanishing Point."
Oh, and I don't see a category for documentaries...Oh well, if it gets people thinking about liberty and maybe going out and renting something they haven't seen before...
I'll shut up now. This is still worthwhile and fun, despite my grousing.
[Via End the War on Freedom]
Sunday, September 18, 2005
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I would like to nominate Juraissic Park 2 as the most assinine,corrupt,and contradictory movie I've ever seen. 20 or more guys with fully automatic weapons, can't hit a bull in the ass with a bass fiddle;moron ecomaniac takes bullets out of big game hunters gun, with no regrets, and of course the audience didn't mind; and then of course, the day is saved by a black female gymnast.Fully automatic weapons are portrayed daily in the media as hyper lethal, but guys in this movie not only score no kills, they never hit anything. Mostly they just fire their weapons indiscriminately into the air, never taking careful aim. There are unending potshots and references to greedy capitalists. Lastly, everyone opposed to the the "exploitation" of the dino's are shown as good guys. The smell of Birkenstocks hangs heavy in the air.
Yeah, nice the way that they gloss completely over the fact that all the deaths in the film are caused by the eco-sabotage.
Do the men in the film ever get to actually shoot at a dinosaur or do they just run and get eaten?
Aw, c'mon, jay.mac--don't you know the Bradys say we have a duty to retreat?
:-)
Can we nominate Innocents Betrayed for the documentary category?
Dave,
As one of three people on the Hardyville nominating committee, I'm wondering myself why "Brazil" is missing. Seems to me that we had Gilliam's movie floating around on our "work lists," but somehow, it got lost... It definitely deserves a nod. Actually, now that I think about it, we originally considered it for the "Classics" category, then determined that it was less than 30 years old (a requirement). We should have placed it under "SciFi," I suppose. Oh well, there's next year.
As for "Scarlet Pimpernel," which one? My personal favorite is the 1983 TV version...just ANOTHER reason for adding a TV movie category. (I loved the TV "Vanishing Point" remake, by the way.)
Thunder: Yep, "Innocents Betrayed" and also "BATFE Fails the Test."
Wally: Yeah, I liked the TV SP remake, but am also partial to real-life hero Leslie Howard's 1934 version. I just picked up a leatherbound copy of Baroness Orczy's novel--I can't believe I've not read it yet.
Btw, a continuation of the Jurassic Park discussion, specifically the type of firepower one would need to bring down a T-Rex, is going on in today's main feature:
http://waronguns.blogspot.com/2005/09/what-would-you-use-on-t-rex.html
Dave, you might be interested to know that Easton Press, which publishes beautiful leatherbound (and expensive) volumes, now offers new editions of the first six Pimpernel books by Orczy. Most have been previously hard to find.
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