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Hollywood Keeps On Turning Out Empty Seats as Patrons Reject Leftist Taint
Looks like Hollywood’s latest attempt to lecture man about the evils of global warming and war is doing predictably bad. The Day the Earth Stood Still, featuring Keanu Reeves as Klaatu the killer liberal alien, is everything they promised it would be, dumb, without [...]

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Good for most movies until you figure out that the only people going to see Stop Loss are the same people still wetting their pants in mourning over Abu Ghraib.

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Over the weekend I rented The Reef for my 2-year-old. She was attracted to the cover of cartoon fish that looked a lot like a Nemo type of adventure. Unfortunately, that’s where the Nemo comparisons end. Whereas Finding Nemo is a wonderful, family-friendly, movie with lots of laughs and good times, The Reef is an [...]

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Oh I forgot to mention, on the subject of the globular wormening…when they remake this classic, at the end when Klaatu lectures us silly earthlings on the evils of war and weapons and violence and what-not, they’re going to drop all the peacenik stuff and instead the smarmy alien is going to give us a [...]

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Cloverfield is the latest monster movie to hit the big screen and it easily smashed records for weekend opening box office gross with a 3 day $46 million take.
Following months of hype and anticipation, Paramount’s monster flick Cloverfield arrived and generated monster sales grossing an estimated $41M in its first three days of release. [...]

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Someone, my brother-in-law to be exact, showed my daughter Happy Feet over Thanksgiving and since then, I’ve heard nothing but “feet! feet! feet!” from her. So, not having seen the film myself but trusting my family’s judgment, my husband went and bought the dvd for the little one. I sat down to watch it with [...]

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Rotten Tomatoes is an aggregator that assembles movie reviews and then, depending on the number of positive or negative reviews, assigns any given film a “freshness rating. “ The higher the rating, the more favorable the majority of reviews are.
For example, as of today (11/25 at 18:06 PST), Enchanted gets a 93% freshness rating [...]

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What is unusual, therefore, isn’t an attack on that movie, it’s an attack from the Left on that movie.

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Very nice writing. I am particularly interested in exposing the myths behind Saddam Hussein’s rule because it was a reign of terror. When challenged with the number of deaths attributed to the butcher of Baghdad many liberals discount that as ancient history as if we should get over it. Somewhere between 1 and 6 million deaths.

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So all in all I have some pretty low expectations for any screenplay about any American war that is written by Paul Haggis.

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