"Bobby" = Hollywood's liberal plague
RichA
"-A preachy, liberal-courting slog."
"Estevez wants to imply that Kennedy had something to give every
American (Republicans, perhaps, excepted), but too few of the people in
this movie are brought fully enough to life for that to ring much more
resonantly than a campaign slogan."
"Estevez doesn't seem to have anything to offer beyond a sweet,
unquestioning admiration of RFK-"
"Emilio Estevez's lament for the lost ideals of the '60s draws
heavily from the Robert Altman playbook."
"It is a cross-section of America, and of the Screen Actor's Guild."
"..signals solidarity with the kind of late-1960 s liberalism that the
martyred Bobby came to embody"
"- it unabashedly idealizes RFK, presenting him in an almost saintly
light."
AND about it's quality
overall.......
"A Crash-like roundelay of desperately manufactured bathos that covers
the entire spectrum of miserable plotting and characterization."
"Bobby, which reportedly is going to receive a huge push for the
Oscars, is one of the year's worst movies."
Roger
Be an American.
"RichA" <rande...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Nick Macpherson
Roger wrote:
> Here's an idea: Don't go.
>
> Be an American.
>
American if Rich doesn't like the patriotic American the movie is about.
RichA
What is American about treating a family like they were some kind of
"royalty" with a God-given right to rule? I'd say it's more Hollywood
than American.
Roger
Americans treat them that way.
Thumper
Robert F. Kennedy on what GNP means.
Below is a quote from Bobby Kennedy on what the Gross National Product
means and more importantly what it does not mean. He would have a
made a fine economist...
"Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community
excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material
things. Our gross national product ... if we should judge America by
that - counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances
to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our
doors and the jails for those who break them. It counts the
destruction of our redwoods and the loss of our natural wonder in
chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and the cost of a nuclear warhead,
and armored cars for police who fight riots in our streets. It counts
Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television programs which
glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children.
"Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our
children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It
does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our
marriages; the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of
our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage;
neither our wisdom nor our learning; neither our compassion nor our
devotion to our country; it measures everything, in short, except that
which makes life worthwhile. And it tells us everything about America
except why we are proud that we are Americans."
Robert F. Kennedy Address, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas,
March 18, 1968
Listen to the recording here:
http://www.angelfire.com/pa4/kennedy4/gross.html
Thumper
Nick Macpherson
If someone made a hero-worship movie about the Reagans or the Bushes
you wouldn't be saying that. And if that movie got reviews as bad as
Bobby's getting, you'd be in fits about out of touch leftist critics
injecting their own politics into their reviews.
RichA
But of couse this isn't the case and we have just one more blatant
example of Hollywood's
iron-clad relationship with all things liberal. Let me know when the
alternate universe starts churning out propaganda films though.
Roger
Let me know when you're forced to watch any movie.
Or is it that you want to control what OTHER PEOPLE watch?