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Another Perspective
At Least I’m Enjoying the Ride!
Ten End of the World Films to watch while the world ends.
Hey, why that big frown on your conservative face? It was fun while it lasted, wasn’t it? Man oh man, what a ride!
Alas, The Final Days are upon us. The Return to the Dark Ages. Nero ignited Christians, Inquisitors ignited non-Christians, and soon, don’t be surprised if liberals ignite opponents of gay marriage. Or worse, force us to attend government run counseling classes. (Strike the match, please!) Conflagrations aside, the political, economic and cultural forecast is universally gloomy.
But still, why that big frown on your conservative face?
Contrary to liberal media stereotypes, we conservatives are not dour-faced killjoys; we’re Ever Optimistic! We party hearty and we’re not going to let Obama’s final twist of the knife in conservatism’s back cast a shadow on our day. To quote my favorite band, the Grateful Dead, “I may be going to hell in a bucket, but at least I’m enjoying the ride.”
We know Nero fiddled while Rome burned only because his entertainment choices were limited. He didn’t have YouTube, Netflix, Redbox, PPV, VOD. DVR or a DVD player. We do! Which is why I’ll be providing for you a list of most excellent End Of The World Movies to enjoy while outside your window America, if not yet burning in flames, steadily smolders to ashes. (I hasten to remind you that igniting liberals to brighten your yard is, however tempting, an unviable and, judging by the demographic charts, a pointless entertainment option, a pyrrhic pyre).
I’ll present that list of movies shortly.
But first.
Let’s just stop, take a deep breath and remember how much fun and rewarding it was being a conservative and fighting The Good Fight. That’s what I did after eating my Black Friday Eve turkey dinner (I assume Obama has by now issued an executive order changing the insensitive name of that holiday).
I closed my eyes and travelled back in time to when I was nine years old, stuffing and licking envelopes for my dad’s (failed) congressional run against Democrat lifer-incumbent Ed Roybal in Los Angeles in ‘64. It was then that my distrust of government and love of freedom took hold. I saw myself as a good guy in a contest to the end against the bad guys who wanted to regulate not only world but little nine year old me as well, and I already bristled at taking orders from my old man!
I leaped into the politics and culture of conservatism and have ever since enjoyed and been rewarded by The Red, White ‘n Blue and Liberty And Justice For All and The Magna Carta and Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death and God and Man at Yale and The Gipper and John Galt and Matt Drudge and Brave New World and 1984 and Question Authority and Prop. 13 and Animal Farm and The Cowboy Way and Anthem and American Exceptionalism and Witness and Bombs Bursting In Air and Vaclav and Tear Down This Wall and The Fall Of The Wall and The Shining City On The Hill and The Lone Man Standing In Front Of The Tank and TANSTAAFL and Down With The Man and Question Authority and Don’t Tread On Me and G.I. Joe and Rush and Jesse Owens v. Hitler and The Miracle On Ice and The Alamo and Talk Radio and Radio Free Europe and Up By Your Bootstraps and Thomas Jefferson and Old Glory and The American Spectator and The Shot Heard ‘Round the World and The Underground Railroad and The Federalist Papers and Live Free Or Die and The Velvet Revolution and Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman and The Boston Tea Party and The Tea Party and John Wayne and AuH2O 464 and Bill Buckley and The Silent Majority and Certain Unalienable Rights and Ayn Rand and Mind Your Own Beezwax and The Founding Fathers and Robert Heinlein and The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere and Beware The Eschaton and Democracy and The Emancipation Proclamation and The Iron Lady and The Man of Iron and JP2 and Religious Freedom and The Bill of Rights and Extremism In The Pursuit Of Freedom Is No Vice and It’s Morning In America.
But that was then. Now, It’s Dusk In America.
What made being a conservative (in my case, with a strong libertarian bent) so very exciting and energizing was the thought that we’d of course eventually prompt Leviathan to make a detour, if not a U-turn. We thought man’s courageous yearning for individual freedom would trump his cowardly willingness to knuckle-under to The Man in exchange for a feeble promise of material security. We thought we’d win elections based on the superior reasoning of our arguments (2 + 2 = 4), not continue losing to emotional rhetoric (2 + 2 = 17,000,000,000,000).
DOH! Boy were we wrong!
But Obama’s clinching victory is no reason we conservatives can’t enjoy being American Spectators of The Decline and Fall of The American Experiment! When I watch the news, I pretend I’m watching a 20 trillion dollar disaster reality TV show! It’s hilarious! Scripted by the Marx Brothers!
Hey…wait a darn minute! I AM watching a 20 trillion dollar disaster!!!
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TLP| 11.30.12 @ 6:27AM
Contest at Wednesday's - "The Honourable Backup".
Read the New Rules.
It would seem, by the look of Today's Menu, that The Contest is sorely needed.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 11.30.12 @ 7:16AM
Basically, this article is the equivalent of 10 entries in the contest.
Al Adab| 11.30.12 @ 8:33AM
Seems the contest has been adopted by AmSpec.
TLP| 11.30.12 @ 8:41AM
The word is STOLEN.
Al Adab| 11.30.12 @ 3:03PM
Only if you hold a copyright.
TLP| 11.30.12 @ 4:06PM
Obviously, Al Adab means Benedict Arnold, in Arabic.
Occam's Tool| 11.30.12 @ 4:41PM
TLP: Yeah, but unlike the Libtards, TAS steals from the BEST! Happy weekend, my friend. I will think of you as I do my weekend on call (12 days on, 2 days off).
Might I recommend the new novel, The Last Policeman?
TLP| 11.30.12 @ 5:05PM
You might,
As the Alternate Universe Spock said to this Universe's Captain Kirk: I shall consider it.
Have Fun.
Skippy| 11.30.12 @ 6:34PM
"A Boy And His Dog."
"Zardoz."
"End of Days."
"Damnation Alley."
"Twelve Monkeys."
I could go on and on.
Skippy| 11.30.12 @ 6:39PM
"Deep Impact."
"Failsafe."
"The Road Warrior."
"Total Recall." w/Ahhnold
Looks like I did!
TLP| 11.30.12 @ 8:28PM
Why are you wasting your time at Brand X.
Come to The Real Contest at Wednesday's Story - "The Honourable Backup".
The Contest runs until Saturday Night at 7pm.
We'd love to have you.
Jack in Wi| 12.1.12 @ 5:41PM
A very well written and intresting piece. I have seen a few of the movies and this makes me want to see more of them. I saw the 1953 Titanic film in the theater when it came out. I always thought it was a great film.
TLP| 12.1.12 @ 8:23PM
It sounds Gay.
RJ| 12.2.12 @ 4:04PM
I would join the contest if only I knew where it was. Dr. Zhivago needs to be one of the movies. It is one of the best movies in demonstrating how unrestricted state power exploits individuals.
Alan Brooks | 11.30.12 @ 6:51PM
National Lampoon needs you, Jack.
Alan Brooks | 11.30.12 @ 6:53PM
...National Review Meets National Lampoon.
Cobalt| 11.30.12 @ 7:11AM
On the Beach (1959)
JimH| 11.30.12 @ 8:04AM
Doctor Strangelove.
Joellen| 11.30.12 @ 8:25AM
The Time Machine.
Al Adab| 11.30.12 @ 8:34AM
When Worlds Collide. Much better book than movie of course. Would be really worth doing with todays' technology.
TLP| 11.30.12 @ 8:40AM
What are you doing?
JimH| 11.30.12 @ 8:48AM
Joellen – The Rod Taylor version I presume. I’ve always thought that the Morlocks got bad press. They kept a civilization of sorts running. The Eloi were just a sort of free range hippies. Tastes just like chicken.
Al Adab – I agree a cool movie. A remake would be more visually impressive though they would probably change the selection criteria for who gets to escape on the rocket. We must have our quota of bi-racial lesbian poets after all.
TLP| 11.30.12 @ 8:53AM
You are falling in to the Trap.
This RIPOFF is the Contest Equivilent of Obamacare. Plain and Simple.
And, I am KEEPING TRACK.
Al Adab| 11.30.12 @ 2:52PM
TLP:
Do you mean you have an enemies list? Shades of RN or is it now Obie-one?
TLP| 11.30.12 @ 3:04PM
Something like that.
TLP| 11.30.12 @ 8:51AM
You too, Joellen?
If we were Married, and in Saudi Arabia?
I'd be Stoning You, right now.
And, deservedly so.
Joellen| 11.30.12 @ 9:10AM
I'am just warming up my man. I'll be there later on. What's our time limit this weekend?
TLP| 11.30.12 @ 9:20AM
7pm - Saturday.
TRIATORESS!
Bob Grant| 11.30.12 @ 9:33AM
TLP,
Keep your shirt on. Do you think Ray Kroc freaked out when Burger King came along?
Come on man. You're the McDonalds of analogy games.
Bob Grant| 11.30.12 @ 9:37AM
...and by that I mean a cheap substitute to a delicious, nutritional meal.
TLP| 11.30.12 @ 10:20AM
Last I looked, McDonald's Stock was Falling.
TLP| 11.30.12 @ 10:24AM
And, I don't wanna be the McDonalds of Analogy Games.
I wanna be the Kim Jung Dildung whateverthefuckhisnameis in North Korea, of Analogy Games.
I thought you knew that?
Bob Grant| 11.30.12 @ 10:46AM
Heh, Heh!
Occam's Tool| 11.30.12 @ 4:58PM
I thought you wanted to be the PSY of analogy games, and do it Gangnum Style.
TLP| 11.30.12 @ 5:08PM
I don't get it.
But I appreciate it, just the same.
Occam's Tool| 11.30.12 @ 10:36PM
The Korean rapper and his incredible hit that has helped his Korean uber-capitalist CEO dad do very well. (It's actually quite cute and the translation reveals a song with its heart in a surprisingly right place---NOT misogynistic.)
TLP| 12.1.12 @ 8:51AM
Now I know why I didn't get it.
Occam's Tool| 12.2.12 @ 10:53PM
I am strange, aren't I? Wife thinks I'm autistic. Damn, damn, damn.
Von Mises Jr| 11.30.12 @ 8:13AM
Actually, growing up in the shadow of NYC with liberals abounding, it is like living in one of these movies. At a Christmas Party we will attend, an old colleague of mine and many of our mutual friends will celebrate the Holiday. But even though Obama won, every topic written about on this website for the entire year is off limits. Mere mention of the economy or politics elicits howls of "shut up."
Of course I will not which is what will make the evening enjoyable. I love to pull the pin and roll a grenade under the table. It is a challenge to see how few words it takes to bring out the ire.
But the satisfaction is upon departing and knowing that it is safe to think and enjoy free speech again. Then I give praise to God that I am an American and can say whatever the heck I wish.
Joellen| 11.30.12 @ 8:26AM
Good for you Von. That's what "they" expect us to do - go silently in the night. Be strong and stay strong - you dont know what seeds your plant at this party.
Cobalt| 11.30.12 @ 8:38AM
Show them that you won't succumb to cutural Marxism; that you give no quarter to political correctness.
pogybait| 11.30.12 @ 8:52AM
Well, It should be interesting to watch these people as the second term unfolds….hyperventilating in their ardor for Obama while their pockets are picked clean under the banner of fairness.
Von Mises Jr| 11.30.12 @ 9:14AM
We are happy warriors, pogybait.
The liberals making $150K in the Northeast do not even realize yet that in their greed and envy to give to the poor with other people's money who make over $250K, they just unwittingly raised their own taxes. I don't want to preen, but I kept posting how a family making $100K with $70K AGI pays $2K more in Social Security plus $4,269 more in Federal Taxes next year. If you make say $125K AGI with two people working, add another $1,500 or so for the 3% increment in the next tax bracket. So these dopes just voted them and their liberal moron friends a $650 per month tax increase. And if their employer doesn't give them the right health coverage, they will be fined about $1,500 more in 2014 escalating to $3,750 in 2016 unless they buy the Cadillac Plan themselves.
Nobody ever accused liberals of being smart. They may be too clever by half, but that is often giving them too much credit.
Obama now says his re-election is a mandate for raising taxes. He won't discuss entitlement reform until perhaps next year. So we are going over the cliff just as I war gamed the scenario for the last six months. They will no doubt be surprised.
CJW| 11.30.12 @ 1:33PM
Von
At these parties whenever one of our friends starts on the need to raise tax rates I ask them why don't they just pay more voluntarily, to set a good example for the rest of us knuckedraggers, and that usually either shuts them or provokes heated argument. Either way it is a win.
Occam's Tool| 11.30.12 @ 4:57PM
I normally mention that tax receipts rose under Reagan compared to Carter, and that raising tax rates to a certain point diminishes recipts.
CJW| 11.30.12 @ 5:34PM
Tax receipts also rose after the Bush tax cuts, but unfortunately we spent it. It is only logical. Tax rate cuts spur the economy. More people working leads to more taxes paid across the board, income tax, sales tax, etc.
Dems know this because when they talk of creating "empowerement zones" that means reducing or eliminating the taxes in that area. Or states, like New York, that have "sales tax holidays" to boost sales. And Dems love to tinker with the tax code to give credits and deductions to activities they favor.
The Reps should propose a tax rate reduction for all income earners up to $250,000, increase the tax rate on income over one million, and tax capital gains/dividends over one million at the high income tax rate.
This will shut up Gates, Buffet, and the rest of the super rich Dems. Call their bluff and argue the Dems want to protect the super rich like Buffet.
Von Mises Jr| 12.1.12 @ 7:45AM
Buffet and Gates don't care about paying a little more in taxes. There is a big difference between taxing wealth and taxing income. The Kennedy and Kerry families, like Buffet and Gates pay themselves very little in income. But if they tax the crap out of income, they are pulling up the ladder so that no one else can reach the top.
Buffet and Gates just care more about their egos. They get to play crony capitalism with fascist government and get their names splashed across the news. Screw them.
Tim the Enchanter| 12.4.12 @ 10:16AM
Occam: I believe this is referred to as "the Laffer Curve."
Joellen| 11.30.12 @ 8:27AM
Gosh, my spelling is awful - that's you'll!
Von Mises Jr| 11.30.12 @ 8:32AM
No worries Joellen. Some of us are so busy thinking that we don't have time for spelling.
By comparison take Perp for instance who can either spell or learned how to use Spell Check, but confounds the meaning of most words resulting in properly spelled nonsense.
Louis Jenkins| 11.30.12 @ 8:48AM
Mr. Happy Jack:
One of the best articles I've read at AS in a long time. "Bezhin Medow" however, evades me. None-the-less, I read you loud and clear. Good ole' backslappin' guffhawing movies are indeed a guide for our demise, although none are quite as horrible as what's taking place in the District of Crimminals. Obama has been compared to the Joker, or a vampire (Twilight), or even a zombie. These are but renderings of someone's imagination, in reality, the most horrible summation is that Obama is destroying this nation! And he's considered a savior, worthy of being re-elected by the psychopants, the getters, too lazy to produce, of this nation. We are truly in a horror story.
TLP| 11.30.12 @ 9:23AM
"One of the best articles I've read at AS in a long time."
That one Hurt.
Bob Grant| 11.30.12 @ 9:49AM
Death by a thousand...analogies.
TLP| 11.30.12 @ 10:28AM
You could put that picture of Vincent Price next to that sentence from Louis Jenkins, with my name over it.
That's how it felt.
Paul McGrath| 11.30.12 @ 10:48AM
The comments here are funny as hell! I love you guys!
TLP| 11.30.12 @ 3:08PM
You, too?
Go to Wednesday's Story about "The Honourable Backstop".
Louis Jenkins| 11.30.12 @ 12:39PM
TLP:
No insult intended. Your writings is one of the things I enjoy reading (every day). Keep on with the good, or bad work, whichever you think. You are a writter of the obivous, and not so obvious. Although the picture of Vincent Price with your name on it is wrong, just plain wrong, sometimes I, too, feel your pain.
TLP| 11.30.12 @ 3:07PM
I'm talking about MY MOVIE ANALOGY CONTEST, that this Douchebag just Ripped Off.
Go to Wednesday's Story on "The Honourable Backstop".
Louis Jenkins| 11.30.12 @ 4:14PM
Just remember that imitation (or plagiarism) is the sincerest form of flattery.
TLP| 11.30.12 @ 5:10PM
That's not what my Lawyer is telling me.
Cobalt| 11.30.12 @ 5:58PM
"Just remember that imitation (or plagiarism) is the sincerest form of flattery"
Who said that? Joe Biden?
The Big E| 11.30.12 @ 8:48AM
You left off Silent Running (1972), which, like Billy Jack, is pure liberal self-parody, though in this instance, of enviro-nuttiness. Plus, it's set in outer space, has seriously first rate special effects for the era, a couple of cool robots unlike any you'll see in any other science fiction movie, and even some six-wheeled go-kart racing through the last earthly forests kept alive under giant domes in outer-space until they are nuked because of their inconvenience.
Al Adab| 11.30.12 @ 2:49PM
Just recalled the more recent, Day After Tomorrow, where LA is destroyed by tornados and New York freezes under a tsunami. Problem was, with that one, I kept looking for the downside.
But... Billy Jack?
TLP| 11.30.12 @ 3:09PM
Unbelievable.
Bill8472| 11.30.12 @ 9:08AM
Ultimately, they'll put the re-education classes on Reality TV. People will find it a hoot.
Doctor Right| 11.30.12 @ 9:34AM
Don't be hatin' on my sizable action figure collection, Happy Jack...
Doctor Right| 11.30.12 @ 10:08AM
Also...
Don't forget a GREAT movie made in the 1930's that unintentionally lambastes the very progressive ideals it was meant to promote:
THINGS TO COME
This is a MUST-SEE for anyone interested in EOTW movies and socialist dystopias. Unfortunately for the director and producer, they would be shocked by the latter.
It starts on New year's Eve, 1939, in the fictional city of "Everytown" (London), as two men discuss the anxious state of world affairs during a party.
World War soon breaks out, and this war drags on not for 6 years, but for 50. Civilization has reverted to tribalism and barbarism. Everytown is in ruins, and led by what was intended to represent a pseudo-fascist dictator known as "The Chief."
Without giving too much away, into the story arrives - on his high-tech "Airship" (high-tech for 1939) - a representative of "Wings Over the World," a new kind of government(!) dedicated to "science and rationalism," and based in Basra, Iraq (weird, but there it is).
Anyway, the ironic part of the whole story is that "Wings Over the World" will instantly be recognized by any Conservative as the TRUE FASCISTS! They've come to bring a lasting peace and a lasting order, and do not tolerate dissent.
Of course, to the left of 1939, these "men of pure science" represented a progressive wet-dream.
Anyway, the film is well-acted, and the cinematography is outstanding. Definitely worth viewing to see what REAL socialism looks like.
PolishKnight| 11.30.12 @ 10:15AM
I'm surprised that an EOTW party with Charlton Heston films doesn't include Omega Man which included the styles of the 1970's, zombies and something all of us can appreciate: being the only reasonable, sane man in the world surrounded by crazies.
Doctor Right| 11.30.12 @ 11:47AM
He did include Omega Man.
PolishKnight| 11.30.12 @ 12:25PM
Doh!
Tom Kyba| 11.30.12 @ 11:04AM
The analogy of conservatives' feelings after the election with the end scene of Planet of The Apes was priceless.
TLP| 11.30.12 @ 6:06PM
Contest at Wedesday's Story - "The Honourable Backstop".
This Column is AstroTurf.
Join us.
Seek| 11.30.12 @ 11:16AM
I'll take "I Am Legend" (2007) and "War of the Worlds" (2005) as the best films for a front row seat for the apocalypse. And by the way, fellow conservatives -- cheer up: It's ain't the end of the world. It's just an election. And an election, like an erection, is a temporary thing.
Russell Kirk did speak often of the permanent things, did he not?
Who Knows?| 11.30.12 @ 12:07PM
Clichés ARE trite, but true.
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.” Mark Twain
And, what are movies, except fiction in motion---flipping pictures. As in, flipping the bird.
I have in mind an EOTW film, starring Robert Redford, that might surprise you---“The Candidate”. Here we have prescience!
Don’t you think ol’ Bobby might have recalled this flick, when Obama got elected? Remember, the movie ended right after the candidate got elected, and he said, “Now, what do we do?”
NOW we know!
Anyway, what does “end of the world” mean?
The “world” “ends” everyday, naturally, for the thousands of people who shuffle off their old mortal core, and slip into the unconsciousness before popping out in their next mysterious incarnation. And, what IS a “world”?
Ah, thinking about that “special” year of 1971, a humming memory is plucked from “my” brain!
In 1971, I was having suicidal thoughts, as my personal life was a mess, and I’d recently read “Nausea” by Sartre and been profoundly influenced by “The Population Bomb”, by Paul Ehrlich. A friend recommended I read “The Book” by Alan Watts.
Who Knows?| 11.30.12 @ 12:08PM
This popularization of Zen made me question who or what I was, and the barest hint of an awakening took hold---so, it was bye bye suicide! I wrote Watts to thank him, and he said I should read “The Laws of Form”, by G. Spencer Brown, since I was a math guy.
What a great book!
The reason I write this? He digs DEEP, and here’s his take on “world”---
“wer = man, ald = age, old. The world may be taken as the MANIFEST properties of the all, its identity with the age of man being evident through the fact that man is a primary animal with a hand (‘manifest’ coming from manus = hand, festus = struck). Thus the world is considerably less than the all, which includes the unmanifest, but considerably greater than ‘the’ universe (more correctly, than ANY universe), which is merely the FORMAL APPEARANCE of ONE of the possible manifestations which make up the world” footnote page 109, written in 1969
Welcome to MY world.
Cobalt| 11.30.12 @ 1:11PM
Say what?
Pecos Pete| 11.30.12 @ 2:59PM
Cobalt: You can say that again.
Who Knows?| 11.30.12 @ 6:27PM
What.
Butch| 11.30.12 @ 1:56PM
Happy Jack is sure right about Billy Jack. A few years after it hit early cable it polled number one in a "Rednecks' 10 Favorite Movies" poll. Even the good ole boys saw through it.
Another liberal movie that was immediately seen as liberal self-parody was "Mandingo," starring some Muhammed Ali era old boxer, Ken Norton, maybe. The way-over-the-top depiction of the Massas' treatment of the slaves was so hilarious that Southern college fraternity boys showed pirated cable copies at drinking parties, laughing all the way through it. Warning: not suitable for everybody.
Alice Moore| 12.1.12 @ 9:24AM
I think Alex Haley's Roots was a plagiarization of Mandingo.
Sparky| 11.30.12 @ 3:05PM
My favorite EOTW movie is a hilarious head-scratcher from Japan entitled "Fish Story." In "Fish Story", a giant meteor is streaking toward the Earth, threatening to wipe out all life on the planet. The movie poses the preposterous question: Can an obscure song by a forgotten mid-'70s punk band save the day? Throughout most of the movie, this question seems a non sequitur. However, it provides the setting for a richly entertaining, ingeniously constructed comic gem.
Stick| 11.30.12 @ 3:07PM
The picture I have in mind is one of a good German burger with a destitute 1,000 yard stare. He wears a topcoat and holds a hat that have obviously seen better days. The picture was taken at the height of the collapse of the Weimar Republic. No movie is necessary. The man's face and clothing tells the story.
Ronsch| 11.30.12 @ 4:10PM
Sorry, TLP, but I gotta go "there..."
The Mad Max trilogy has to be my favourite TEOTWAWKI films...
I mean battling over petrol...That kicks it, and my Crown Vic will be the "last of the V8s."
Stevemmn| 11.30.12 @ 4:52PM
I thought Billy Jack was good. Not as an unwitting parody but because I thought Tom Laughlin was cool and because of the theme song One Tin Soldier by Coven. Then again I was only 14 when I saw it and all the PC nonsense in it sailed right over my head.
Occam's Tool| 11.30.12 @ 4:55PM
Speaking of EOTW movies, you forgot both a Clockwork Orange AND Fahrenheit 451, which are excellent choices.
TLP| 11.30.12 @ 5:12PM
That was like a Punch in the Stomach.
TLP| 11.30.12 @ 6:07PM
I hate you all.
Bob Grant| 11.30.12 @ 7:53PM
TLP,
May I share an analogy about AmSpec stealing your analogy concept, or will it hit too close to the bone?
TLP| 11.30.12 @ 8:52PM
It's not that Tyrell fckd me.
That's to be expected.
It's everyone that Posted HERE, and didn't Post at The Contest.
That's what hurt.
Maybe it's time to rethink the whole thing.
Maybe I was wrong about people, and their Loyalties to a Brand.
"What have you done for me, lately?"
Indeed.
You want it?
You can have it.
TLP| 11.30.12 @ 8:55PM
Good Luck.
Occam's Tool| 11.30.12 @ 10:39PM
I also posted at what I thought was the contest, Sire.
Arkady| 11.30.12 @ 6:45PM
Mr. Feder,
Ashland in '71? May have been in that litte auditorium down by Pioneer Market myself. Few blocks from the Log cabin & Lithia Park. Did you happen to know anyone named Maxwell, Thorpe or Devoe at the time?
EOTW, have to go with Soylent Green starring the mighty Heston & Edward G. How many B sci-fi movies can claim those chops??
TLP| 11.30.12 @ 8:53PM
Shut Up!
Marc Jeric| 11.30.12 @ 11:50PM
Marvelous article! I want to see these movies.
7-08| 12.1.12 @ 9:11AM
Vanishing Point,
uffdatorg| 12.1.12 @ 3:48PM
Someone wrote, "When you rob Peter to pay Paul, you will always get the vote of Paul."
JGW| 12.2.12 @ 2:59PM
Happy,
I just watched " A Matter of Life and Death" or, also known as " Stairway to Heaven ", on You Tube.
Sadly, it could be screened across these present United States, for free, with free popcorn and less than 25% of those who attend could understand it. Alas, who would go see it, no gun battles, sex, car chases et al. Blue state urban theaters would be empty.
Critics would pan it, if not deride it, demean it and accuse it of being a rightwing tool.
I, however enjoyed it to the hilt. Thanks for the heads up and I am referring it to friends and family.
Stormy| 12.3.12 @ 9:55AM
A new one for the list is the recent movie "Seeking a friend for the end of the world".
joemack| 12.4.12 @ 6:36PM
I have been listening to The History of Rome podcast. 179 episodes, from Aeneas to The End.
Contemplating the rise and fall of one ancient civilization somehow helps as my civilization has begun it's turn to ruin.