Miracle (Disney 2004)

The United States vs. USSR hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, NY.

I was...gosh...5 years old when this happened. But I do remember it very well.

I remember watching it with my family on a really cold day. Even though hockey was not a popular sport where I was from, THIS game was important. Why? Because WE were playing THEM.

All I knew was that the Soviets were the bad guys and we were the good guys. My folks told me stories of Olympic pasts where the Soviets cheated their way to gold. I remember being told beating THEM at anything was (and still is) very important.

After the game, I went outside to play basketball with my dad who was still giddy about beating THEM!

The message my parent's taught me that day? Even if we would have lost that game...we're still better.

Here is a summary from IMDb...

The inspiring story of the team that transcended its sport and united a nation with a new feeling of hope. Based on the true story of one of the greatest moments in sports history, the tale captures a time and place where differences could be settled by games and a cold war could be put on ice. In 1980, the United States Ice Hockey team's coach, Herb Brooks, took a ragtag squad of college kids up against the legendary juggernaut from the Soviet Union at the Olympic Games. Despite the long odds, Team USA carried the pride of a nation yearning from a distraction from world events. With the world watching the team rose to the occasion, prompting broadcaster Al Michaels' now famous question, to the millions viewing at home: Do you believe in miracles? Yes!

Here is the trailer...

Heartbreak Ridge (Warner Bros. 1986)

Great conservative anti-commie movie here folks! If you haven't seen this one you've been missing out! And wouldn't ya' know it? It's on National Review's list of conservative movies!

Here is the review from James G. Lakely, managing editor of InfoTech & Telecom News at the Heartland Institute.

Clint Eastwood’s foul-mouthed Marine sergeant Tom Highway makes quick work of kicking Communist Cubans out of Grenada. And, boy, does “Gunny” hate Commies. Not only does he kill quite a few, he also refuses a bribe of a Cuban cigar, saying: “Get that contraband stogie out of my face before I shove it so far up you’re a** you’ll have to set fire to your nose to light it.” A welcome glorification of Reagan’s decision to liberate Grenada in 1983, the film also notes how after a tie in Korea and a loss in Vietnam, America can finally celebrate a military victory. Eastwood, the old war horse, walks off into retirement pleased that he’s not “0–1–1 anymore.” Semper Fi. Oo-rah!

Here is the trailer!

An American Rhapsody (Paramount 2001)

This has to be one of the best movies I've seen in a long time folks! Not only does An American Rhapsody have an anti-commie theme but it also presents pro-family and pro-American values too!

Wow! Here is the synopsis from IMDb...

In 1950, a Hungarian couple, Peter and Margit, are forced to flee from the oppressive communist country for America with their eldest daughter Maria, but are forced to leave behind their infant daughter Suzanne who is raised by kindly foster couple. 6 years later, Peter and Margit arrange for the American Red Cross to bring Suzanne to their new home in Los Angeles where the perplexed youth is forced to accept her sudden change in home and country which leads to a troubled growing up. At age 15, the rebelious and unsure-of-herself Suzanne tries to come to terms with her roots and decides to travel back to Budapest, Hungary to find her true identity.

Here is the trailer!

The Killing Fields (Warner Bros. 1984)

This week I present you with the great anti-commie film The Killing Fields! This film does a little Nixon-bashing here and there, but all in all it's a good film, with a pro freedom and pro conservative theme! If you ever wanted to witness and understand the viciousness of the Khmer Rouge, this is the film to watch! A special thanks to Kevin at Amboy Times for the tip!

Here is the plot from IMDb...

Sydney Schanberg is a New York Times journalist covering the civil war in Cambodia. Together with local representative Dith Pran, they cover some of the tragedy and madness of the war. When the American forces leave, Dith Pran sends his family with them, but stays behind himself to help Schanberg cover the event. As an American, Schanberg won't have any trouble leaving the country, but the situation is different for Pran; he's a local, and the Khmer Rouge are moving in.

Here is the trailer...



The Khmer Rouge, what a great bunch of folks. Be warned, pretty disturbing video.

Doctor Zhivago (MGM 1965)

Just got done watching this conservative flick all the way through (you can do that when you don't have a girlfriend you know). Anywho, this is a good one (and a long one). Here is the synopsis from IMB!

Set just before and in the years following the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, the film follows the life of Dr. Zhivago as he marries, raises a family, has his life totally disrupted by first World War One, and then by the Revolution. Shown against the epic of a world turned on its head, his life and freedom are torn from him as the new society makes demands.

Basically, the message in this movie is pure and simple: Communism sucks. It sucks the BIG one. I only have one warning about this movie, it's close to 4 hours long so be prepared to sit for a bit, or break it up and watch half a day! You guys will enjoy it, I know I did!

Here is the trailer!



I got your manhood right here, Commie!

Firefox (Warner Bros. 1982)

Well we've covered John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Charlton Heston...most of the traditional good ol' Hollywood stars, but what about Clint Eastwood?

Before there was Top Gay there was Firefox! I watched Firefox last night, which Eastwood not only starred but directed, and I thought it was a pretty cool flick, although sometimes I wasn't quite sure about Eastwood's Russian sort-of accent. But I got over it and the plot goes simply like this...

Mitchell Gant (Clint Eastwood) is a retired US Air Force Major, suffering from stress due to being a POW during the Vietnam war. He has been recruited by NATO to steal the Firefox from the Soviets. The Firefox is the fastest, deadliest war plane ever made. It can reach speeds of up to Mach 6 and its weapons can be controlled by the pilots thoughts...but only Russian thoughts! The US understands the threat the Firefox poses and will do whatever it takes to steal the technology.

Here is the trailer from Firefox!



Here is a clip from the movie (complete with Chinese or Korean subtitles!)

Breach (Universal 2007)

I remember going to see this movie with my Dad and Uncle and it was sold out. So we (or I should say I suggested) went to see Norbit instead. Take my word for it...


don't see Norbit...go see Breach!

Breach is based on the true story of former 25 year veteran FBI Intelligence agent Robert Hanssen (Chris Cooper). In December 2000, Hanssen, one of the best Intelligence agents at the FBI, was reassigned to the Washington D.C. FBI Headquarters to head up a new division to protect all the FBI's classified information. Eric O'Neill (Ryan Phillippe) is a young surveillance and computer specialist who hopes to become an FBI field agent one day. Eric is recruited to his dream job in Intelligence at FBI headquarters to clerk for Robert Hanssen. Eric soon finds out why he was really assigned to work for Hanssen. Hanssen is suspected of being a traitor and selling American secrets to the Soviet Union for years. Eric must discover Hanssen's secrets and bring them to the light of day, before more damage is done to the security of the United States.

Here is the trailer from the film.

The Hunt for Red October (Paramount 1990)

If you break every chain, rip up every fence, and bulldoze every wall where will the free people run? China? France? Canada? If you listen to folks like Michael Moore or any Dem candidate running for President you would have to assume so. However, we all know (or should know) the primary destination for free people, and the Hunt for Red October tells a great story of defection, bravery, and freedom! Here is the review from Internet Movie Database.

Sean Connery plays Marko Ramius, a senior Lithuanian sub captain whose plans to defect are met with strong opposition by his own Soviet navy, and American misconceptions of his intentions. Alec Baldwin plays CIA analyst Jack Ryan, the one man who sees the defection, and must convince most of the American navy he is correct. The action climaxes with an amazing naval battle, but who will win The Hunt for Red October?

Here is the trailer from the film.



Always be careful what you shoot at.

The Lives of Others (Sony Pictures 2006)

When William F. Buckley tells you to watch a film...folks you just plain do it! Here is Buck's review of the 2006 German Film The Lives of Others from National Review. Go see it! You will enjoy it!

I return from one week’s leave from my column, grateful for my old roost and in the mood to repay a favor by granting one, or attempting to do so. You must have the narrative of what happened one day last week.

I was at work, with an assistant, on a long project, a book about the Goldwater campaign and the events leading up to it. At noon I had an e-mail from my oldest friend, a historian-belletrist, a knighted Englishman, whose message was that I must interrupt whatever I was wasting time on in order to catch a particular movie. The title he gave me was The Lives of Others. My companion hadn’t heard of it either. Still, so urgent was my friend’s recommendation that we instructed Google to advise us where, within reasonable reach, we could find it.

We were given one theater 15 miles east of my study, at an odd hour of the evening. But west about the same distance was a matinee at 4:15. So we threw duty to the winds and arrived at the theater in Mamaroneck, New York, which like most modern theaters husbands five different movies, requiring you to specify which it is you are there to see.

We were ushered into a dark chamber entirely empty. The ticket seller told us that if we had arrived two minutes later, the theater would have been shut. “If there’s no one here, we don’t show the film.”

Two hours and twenty minutes later we came away. The house was still empty. I turned to my companion and said, “I think that is the best movie I ever saw.” He is only 23 years old, but he nodded his agreement.

The movie is German, and in German. There is a prejudice, perhaps understandable, against going to see a movie made in a foreign language. But good subtitle writers capture your mind and heart early in the engagement, and after ten minutes you are as if tuned into your native language. This is so of this German film, which depicts life in Berlin in 1984 under the famous Stasi, who were ten times as numerous as their brother Gestapo had been.

The watchword of the Stasi was information. They would use all their powers, which were plenary, to press their totalitarian thumb down on any expression of life in East Germany. In this case, they had their eye on a playwright who sought to write about the way he and his fellow East Germans lived. To effect their surveillance the Stasi used the most rudimentary tool of social highwaymanry, the listening device. The writer is away from his lair for a day, and no fewer than eight technicians swoop down on his apartment, from which moment there is not a private swallow in the life of the author and his lady and his friends.

Omnipresent in the film is the Stasi officer who is listening to it all, turning the device over to a coadjutor every eight hours, together with notes about the conversations he has overheard during his watch. And then, and then, there is a trickle of humanity, which quickly turns the drama into three parts, Stasi vs. German humankind vs. Stasi. The tension mounts to heart-stopping pitch and I felt the impulse to rush out into the street and drag passersby in to watch the story unfold.

The principal players are captivating, especially the main Stasi officer, who, without a change in aspect of his dour countenance, undergoes this convulsion of the soul, which permits the author life, though without his martyred lady. There is then the sublime vengeance of a published book’s dedication to the redemptive German functionary who briefly interrupted hell in East Germany, pending, finally, the eradication of the terrible Berlin Wall.

I looked at the record and was gratified to find, in the critics’ files, encomiums absolutely unconfined in their admiration of this movie, which in fact won the Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film. And I was unsurprised to find that what seems the whole of East Germany is riven by its impact. Since so many East Germans were complicit in the postwar reign of the German Democratic Republic, there is a corporate national shame at the betrayal of life, as so brazenly done by so many millions, but whose country, at least, has given the world this holy vessel of expiation.

Can you imagine Jesse Jackson having a face to face debate with Buckley? Folks, I'd spend hundreds of dollars to just listen to that on a small cruddy radio.

Here is the trailer from the film.



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