Perhaps you want to make yourself seem intellectually superior to another. Perhaps you just don't know what you are talking about, and in an attempt to cover for your ignorance, you do your level best to convince people that what you are talking about is "bad", or "pointless", or "so inane that you don't even understand it".
Ed Morrissey over at HotAir takes the later road and continues with his "best/worst movie" meme:
For the upcoming inauguration of Hollywood’s latest hero, Barack Obama, let’s try this again with an easier question. What have been the worst explicitly political movies of the last 50 years, roughly the lifetime of our new President? In order to qualify, the film has to have had a theatrical release, been considered a major motion picture (no cheapie, American International, drive-in flicks or straight-to-video nonsense), and dealt with explicitly political and/or policy themes. They could be conservative or liberal, although good luck finding many of the former; it just has to stink.
Just to hit some highlights, here are some of the films that Morriessy and crew seems to have "explicit" political or policy themes:
The Dreamers (2003) - Three young adults get naked and have a lot of sex in order to rebel against the stifling culture … of Paris in 1968. Complete with the glorification of the 1968 riots that led France into a Socialist economic coffin for four decades.
What Morrissey is missing, is that the catalyst for the meeting of the three youths revolved around French Cinema and the uprising in Paris of 1968 is nothing more than set dressing. Had he done even a modest amount of homework, Morrissey would have realized that Bertolucci's most "political" film would most likely be "The Last Emperor".
The Contender - While I hate the politics of the movie, I have to offer the small defense of it being perhaps the most realistic depiction of the tone in Washington. Also, I thought about this film a lot during the ten weeks that Sarah Palin campaigned for VP. Watch the film again with that in mind, and almost everything that happens in the movie has an analog with Palin, only with the bad guys and good guys reversed.
This has to be one of the classic examples of a member of the lunatic-fringe right not being able to grasp reality. Whereas, within the film, Laurie Hanson ( actress Joan Allen ) is protrayed by a singular Congressman ( Gary Oldman ) as a whore and a blight against the office of Vice President - in the most explicit terms imaginable, none of what was put toward Sarah Palin even comes close - aside from the handful of people that continue with the Trigg nonsense that people like Morrissey think constitutes "mainstream media exposure".
Ed's poor analysis of The Contender aside, it is one of my FAVORITE political movies. You should check it out sometime.
And, the hallmark of conservatives reviewing anything:
V for Vendetta - >Haven’t seen it, although it’s on my Netflix queue just so I can make up my own mind about it. I heard it’s pretty objectionable on its politics.
There's so much more within the comment section and the poll that Morrissey constructed that will provide ample comic-relief for any film buff that can easily dissect the plot of "The Muppets Take Manhattan"
You can check out the results of what happens when people that don't know film start acting like they do at HotAir's site.
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