Gary A. Markette wrote on Apr 19th, 2013, 3:50am: I would add Finding Nemo, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, and The Producers (with Mostel and Wilder)Don't listen to NPR. They're about as far left as you can go and remain in this galaxy :D.
Really? Finding Nemo? Before Citizen Kane, Touch Of Evil (The angles of his camerawork makes your heart stop, it's so elegant) and anything else done by Orson Welles? How about Holy Mountain and El Topo By Alejandro Jodorowsky? The man, in his way, was as ingenious as Welles was. And how about movies by Federico Fellini: 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita, La Strada, etc? And no one mentioned Hitchcock? No mention of any movie starring either DeNiro or Pacino? Ford Coppola? Scorsese? Spielberg? Ridley Scott?
Everyone is jumping on the Star Wars bandwagon: six films by 2020. As well as Star Trek, since they are all being done by the same guy. JJ Abrhams? Something like that. That's probably what NPR was talking about.
I don't understand what far-leftness has to do with anything just because someone likes a film or a series of films you apparently do not. Listing Finding Nemo, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles ( I saw it at the theater when it first came out. I was ten. No need to see it again. I was ten once), and The Producers as "best-ever films" by a righty would no doubt find dissenters, as well. I mean, really. Every comment section attached to a current news article on the internet about anything INEVITABLY drivels its way into the political arena. I expected better from this site.
Quote:Their opinions about movies seem a trifle uninformed (not to say stupid).
You seem too well informed of their programming and state-of-mind to be only a casual listener. I mean, were they talking to a guest? Or were they just raving and raving about Star Wars... just because. Was Adrienne "I have been told" or did she "hear it on NPR"? Her posts are ofttimes difficult to understand.