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Alone Yet Not Alone (2013)
Beautiful, True, and Honest portrayal of real events
The Leininger family researched their family history quite well. As did I over a period of about a week just to get a sense of accuracy in this incredible story of faith, family, and survival. I can find no fault in the details but, it can be daunting in that over 350 years, much has been lost and, dozens of people shared similar names and history.
SJWs will not praise and have never praised any film of Christian faith. Alone Yet Not Alone is no exception. Yet it is one of a most accurate telling of painfully honest history, including the fact that not all Native Americans were 'noble savages' but rather, like all peoples, they had their less-than-reputable groups. Sadly we are required by social law to never say this, and why this review will almost certainly remain unpublished. But if it is, please see this movie, for it is truly a work of art, and beautiful.
Lincoln (2012)
Everything a good story should have - except accuracy.
Brilliantly acted with gifted veterans is the movie Lincoln. Lewis' performance is truly epic; he IS Lincoln. Sally Field was undeniably wooden in the first few scenes but by the end she had clearly grown to understand and portray the complicated and unstable Mary. Casting must have taken a great deal of time to fit the parts so well to the actors.
What must be noted is that this movie does not claim to be a documentary, fortunately, for the script is nowhere even close to actual events - especially the dramatic dialog. It is as though a screenplay were found about the struggle to pass the thirteenth amendment, and someone said; 'Hey, lets make it a movie about Abraham Lincoln. The viewpoint is another in the seemingly endless self-loathing Tinseltown propaganda expenditures of how evil White Men are. The most galling departure from history is the portrayal of the Republicans as being more resistant than always-loving Democrats to abolition. In fact, Democrats fought the thirteenth amendment to the end and were the majority vote to kill it.
All Is Lost (2013)
All Is Lost is a disaster of a movie
There are few movies I refer to as a waste of time, for there is always something to learn, to ennoble - but not Redford's All Is Lost. The quality of the editing and sound are what garnered this 'movie' it's second star.
It is the story of a rich liberal male who foolishly ventures out on transoceanic sailing voyage alone, lacking adequate skills, equipment, or experience. When Redford began reading navigation instructions while sinking 1/3 into the story, I gave up. I ejected the disc and put it in the shredder.
I would be embarrassed to even try to sell it on Ebay.
IndoctriNation (2011)
10 stars; Not for greatness, but necessity
Why did America's expensive system of government schools produce such low graduation rates? The answer to this question, will also answer the one many will ask a few short years from now; Why did America gladly surrendered her sovereignty to the One World Order. Well, 50 years ago the communists promised to bury America without firing a shot. Their long plan was already fruitful; America was already falling. Long ago they infected our educational system with communist ideals, and used our courts to remove God. Then the products of those communist teachings infected the media - and we were done for. The media sold us a series of socialist and Marxist presidents, and various officials, who simply changed the name of Communism to Liberalism or progressiveism, and we ignorant citizens bought it. Our last breath will be under Obama: Cap and Trade, Card Check, Government takeover of General Motors and Chrysler, Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac, and Nationalized Government run Health Care! All this in less than eight months! What ever happened to the old Socialist Party? It became the modern Democratic Party.
"Indoctrination" is not about the above. It is about how Robert Owen began the confiscation of our children's minds in Boston, leading to the final destruction of the American educational system which can now neither be repaired nor reformed.
The Company You Keep (2012)
Not The Cast's Fault This Film Is So Poorly Done
Great actors were chosen for a plot and storyline that is badly disjointed. The Company You Keep is neither good nor bad - it just doesn't make sense if you know your history.
I lived through the Weather Underground years, and remember their savagery, murder, bombings, and riots - all done to gain control...nothing more. They recruited and brainwashed kids on our campus into communist ideology, not to help any minority, but just to gain power. The Company You Keep rewrites that history with forced, impossible subplots seemingly designed to elicit sympathy for these radicals, partly evidenced by too much time spent developing Redford's "father" role . How did the reporter get to the cabin so fast, or figure out that the daughter was Redford's (who is preposterously too old for the part)? They are in 2011 referring to a time 30 years back - except that it wasn't! Gleeson (Osborne) would have been in junior high in the period. No reporter as rude as as Shepherd is likely to get cooperation from anyone.
The camera-work, sound, and editing are all top-shelf. But the film's meme that your-past-will-catch-up-with-you is obvious misdirection. Take my review with a grain of salt, for it is tainted by the foreknowledge that Redford has communist sympathies.
Argo (2012)
Hollywood Hubris - CIA Propaganda
Such a well-done film, but devoid of truth. The six were never in danger at the Grand Bazaar because they were never there. They were never interrogated at the airport, or even viewed askance. They just boarded and flew to Zurich. There was no chase scene on the runway. The Canadians did most of the heavy lifting but somehow the CIA comes out smelling like a rose. Yet history tells us that CIA bungling (pardon the redundancy) by involvement with SAVAK and Pavlavi led to the current Iranian police state.
Affleck repeatedly claimed the film is accurate, neutral in ideology and free from politics. It is exactly the opposite.
Only in Hollywood and the minds of Low Information Voters, can fabrication be real.
Midnight in Paris (2011)
I Wish I Could Appreciate Woody Allen Movies
I failed to make it beyond the first 20 minutes of Midnight In Paris. That miserable time was filled with a ever-increasing pity for such hopelessly self-absorbed people. Sadly, every Woody Allen movie I have seen, which is by no means all, has been populated exclusively with characters devoid of the quality that I cherish in real people; a recognition of some thing which is greater than themselves. Allen's characters always seem to follow the same, circular, shallow lives: It starts with conflicting introspection, then false-awareness, always followed by the deep, wallowing creep of a search for a self-induced problem that would not have existed had their self-absorption not been their best quality. Is Allen incapable of writing a character that has faith? Surely he must have met a person in his life to draw upon, SOMEWHERE, that was not endlessly bumping into other people's psyches, constantly wondering what is wrong with themselves! Well, maybe not...
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1995)
Good For Family, Good For Children - And Beautifully Done!
Give your children the chance to see this story of a boy who bravely, and honorably, faces: loss, estrangement, uncertainty, despair, false pride, and more of the challenges that life will bring to everyone. Little Cedric has lost his father, yet remains the one great comfort to his mother - who never loses her focus on what is decent and right. Cedric becomes Lord Fauntleroy by inheritance and must leave his New York home to begin his new duties as an English Earl. He faces every challenge with optimism, love, unwavering kindness, and hope. Even when all is nearly lost and it may be cruelly taken from him, he sees only good in every one. This beautiful journey will charm you into feelings of warmth and hope. I look forward to seeing again - so will you!
Waiting for 'Superman' (2010)
The Key To An Educated America
This brilliant documentary carefully outlines the deficiencies in the existing American, union-dominated educational disaster. Then does what few critics of that pay-to-play system dare to do without fear of big-government (and Hollywood union) repercussions; it lays bare the successes of charter schools which the liberal media (read: NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN) will not disclose to their naive, trusting viewers.
American voters are, truly, destroying their children by consistently voting for liberal politicians who lack the fortitude and imagination to innovate, or even attempt to repair this glaring example of failed socialist policies. Throwing money at the corrupt AFT and the schools has made American education much worse. Conservative-ism made America the greatest nation ever conceived - and is the only way to repair it.
Remember; Obama supported charter schools and school vouchers until February 2008, then the powerful D.C. teachers union threatened to make certain that no teacher in the U.S. would vote for him if he did not capitulate!
The Hurt Locker (2008)
I shredded the disc
The Hurt Locker's slick visuals can enchant gullible viewers into giving credibility to this blatant propaganda of a movie. It was foisted upon us by the same anti-American liberals who will, next year about October, again be omitting inconvenient truths in their next movie to make Obama appear to be more than just a buffoon. Then, using the illegally-acquired, classified footage of the Bin Laden raid, illegally given to them by Obama, they will weasel voter opinion toward him in hopes people will forget, until after November elections, what a disaster of a president he is. Kathryn Bigelow's goal with the Hurt Locker is to deceive us into believing that war is evil, soldiers are terrorists, and jihadists are just freedom fighters.