That’s what taught me what America was all about when I was a child.

I laughed my ass off when George H. W. Bush used Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” as a theme song, taking it at face value. What a fucking idiot.

Are they actually saying a film featuring MARIONETTES is a good film?

These people are so stupid and deluded, so committed to misreading the most blatant texts, it is a miracle they understand the instructions on a bottle of shampoo. I mean, these are the same people who the Springsteen’s ‘Born in the USA’ was a glorification of Reagan’s America.

i mean come on — dicks also fuck assholes? this is pretty much hitting the nail on the head (so to speak) — a demonstration of how directly these people’s revenge fantasies hinge on unacknowledged homoeroticism.

also the movie was a brilliant piss take on the ridiculousness of the michael bay action genre.

i honestly am bewildered that righties don’t see that.

That *special* all-American version of “satire” with the ever-present bullies’ subtitle “Laugh at our funny, ya little bitch, or we’ll kill ya.”

Actually, TRUE GRIT has a certain charm as one facet of the American experience — if only for the classic exchange “That’s pretty bold talk for a one-eyed fat man.” “Fill yer hands, you sonofabitch!!!” Although my personal choices would include that other George C. Scott classic THE DAY OF THE DOLPHIN, Gene Hackman’s brilliant THE CONVERSATION, its ever-more-relevant not-quite-remake ENEMY OF THE STATE, DOGMA (because, hey, what if God *is* Terry Sciavo?) and THE GIFT (where both Katie Holmes and Giovanni Ribisi play victims of a warped, anti-sexual religious fervour, and Keanau Reeves finds the role he was born for). But premier above all the rest — and I can’t believe nobody’s mentioned this yet…

SLAP SHOT: A brilliant, sad, hilarious tale about the ragged, rusty underbelly of Da Amerkin Dream and its outsourcing. There are no winners, only losers and bigger losers, demonstrating a full range of our national symbols — including the aging no-longer-”star” athlete trying to eke out a few more paychecks with a combination of native guile and confidence tricks, the fish-out-of-water college graduate whose disdain for his fellow players wars with his admiration of their “down-to-earth values”, and of course the immortal Hansen brothers, a trio of innocent monsters trailing atrocities behind them because they haven’t the experience, or possibly the intelligence, to tell the difference between real life and video games. Truly an epic for our times.

Guiliani’s pretty comfortable in drag, but utterly lacks Frankenfurter’s leadership and charisma.

No list of American-culture-on-display films can be complete without Network.

“I had heard it was just more indoctrination into the idea that CO2 would destroy our planet, which is increasinly being proven to be silly (but you no doubt don’t know that right? you’re still believing the ocean is going to swamp us).”

“I can’t comment with an educated viewpoint on this.”

The thing about some one the right is they start off sounding almost rational but it only takes a little prodding for their true nature to show itself.

‘‘grokking’ things tells the world you are Heinlein-style bisexual”

Oops! Too late.

He’s an attention grieffer who likes Pie!!…

mikey

Naw, we’ve already discovered that hippies killed his parents and raped his dog. Twice. With a BONG. Now he spends his days mowing lawns for pittances, vocally declaring his lust for vengeance, while secretly, deep within his own soul, he lusts for the wanton freedom and seductive embrace of long hair and a hackie sack that only the hippie way can bring.

That and he’s an attention grieffer.

Your constant banging on about hippies is interesting, Kevin. Something happen in your past involving hippies, last doobie stolen, lost girlfriend, having to eat organic vegetables, i don’t know, but let it go, you’ll feel better for it.

As another damn foreigner wanting to drag down you great nation, the movie that sums up the US for me is “Bulworthâ€?.

No such thing.

There was First Blood and Rambo: First Blood Part II. (Um, wouldn’t that be Second Blood?)

Then there was Rambo III, which I guess should’ve been, er, First Blood III.

“…there does seem to be a very vocal portion of the electorate who would not a’tall be surprised to learn Kim Jong Il and George Clooney are indeed in collusion to destroy America…” No doubt. Once we saw Cindy Sheehan colluding with Chavez, all bets were off as to how disgusting a liberal pundit could be. Surprised? No. Disgusted? Yes.

“Also interesting: these same people apparently thought March Of The Penguins was about something other than, you know, penguins doing penguin shit and that’s all. I don’t get it either. There’s no tellin’ what this guy thinks Spider-Man is about.” I can’t comment with an educated viewpoint on this. I didn’t see it. I had heard it was just more indoctrination into the idea that CO2 would destroy our planet, which is increasinly being proven to be silly (but you no doubt don’t know that right? you’re still believing the ocean is going to swamp us). But, again, I didn’t see it, so can’t be sure.

ps. No offense, and not that it’s wrong, but ‘grokking’ things tells the world you are Heinlein-style bisexual. Even if you are, it’s ok, no one will pass judgement. But if you want to keep it secret, don’t ‘grok’. Just a “head’s up”.

Also interesting: these same people apparently thought March Of The Penguins was about something other than, you know, penguins doing penguin shit and that’s all. I don’t get it either. There’s no tellin’ what this guy thinks Spider-Man is about.

But I suspect you missed many of the jabs at the right in Team America, leading you to believe it is conservative propaganda. In fact, it’s shilling for centrism. For example, the good guys save the day in France, but completely destroy Paris in the process. But they act like it’s a WIN! I’m a conservative, and even I think that’s funny, ’cause it’s trueish. There are so many more. Is your skin so thin that you can’t laugh at yourself? Even liberals must admit that some on their side are kind of idiots. Lighten up! It slams both sides, and despite the marionette porn, it’s very humorous.

It’s a closely guarded fact that I do indeed hate hippies for their self-centered narcissicstic pseudo-intellectual view of the world which always blames America for any problem in the world. Not to mention that the worst of the hippie America blamers are merely children of rich white Americans living off of their parents, using liberalism to assuage the guilt they feel for not working or contributing to society. (trust me, it won’t work. If you want to feel good about yourself, you know what to do: volunteer to help the poor.)

Don’t tell anyone, ok? I’m trying to keep it on the down-low. Sad to see you disparage some truly great movies, Gavin, just to get your ‘Americans suck’ message through, but I’ve come to expect it.

Gavin, could you post something with the moniker “The Hon. Dr. St. Rev. Bradley S. Rocket, Esq, PhD, MD” next please? I don’t ask for much…