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JAG (1995)
Hypocritical, jingoistic garbage
This was an unusual product for the mid 90s. While most American pop culture was shifting from the shallowness and right-wing tinged culture of the 1980s (thank God!!) this show continued an ugly 80s hangover.
If you thought that Red Dawn and Top Gun were artistic films with highly sophisticated dialogue and deep sociological insight then this is the TV show for you.
Hypocritical, hyperbolic jingoism. This is such a TERRIBLE show! Full of brainwash and completely 2-faced. In 1 episode they busted horrible, evil marijuana smugglers who were destroying and addicting America's youth. Then 10 minutes later they engage in a healthy contest to drink each other under the table with healthy, life giving alcohol. COMPLETE GARBAGE!!
The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia (2009)
These families are unfortunately the norm
I waited a while before seeing this film because I thought it might be exactly what it was. A documentation of the sort of people I grew up around in central Missouri. While many people who have not grown up in such areas may believe that the Whites are not a significant part of the population, unfortunately many rural communities especially Southern rural areas of America produce tons of folks like the Whites.
Even those who break away from this sort of dysfunctional rural white trash lifestyle often merely become Bible thumping, intolerant leaders in the community who still do not know or understand history, art or the value of education.
It is the extremely poor schools, glorification of anti-intellectualism and Fundamentalist Christianity that produce these people generation after generation. It is these types of folks that build the base of small town American Republicans. It is not surprising that statements made by Michele Bachmann could easily sound like things said by any of the Whites. It is no accident that Hank Williams Jr said the ignorant stuff he did about playing golf with Obama and that his son is hanging out with the White family.
You can see similar homes of VERY similar people in central Missouri http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avq3-lBgyzs or my longer version at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTKWqKTGwTg
This is why I STRONGLY advocate a lot more funding of rural schools especially in the Midwest and the South. The increased funding should also include a great deal of Federal oversight of the schools and long term counseling to help the next few generations climb out of this ignorant and intolerant lifestyle of destruction.
Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011)
Some pretty scenes but mostly childish and boring.
This film is almost as boring, hateful and one dimensional as the book,,,if that is possible. I have to say that parts of the film look generally appealing.
Parts of "Objectivism" also sound appealing to an adolescent but pale as we grow older, have children and begin to understand that there are others in this world who have feelings and rights as well. This childishly filmed and acted film reflects the poorly thought out and childishly selfish philosophies encapsulated in Rand's novel.
It would be in your own rational self interest to skip this film. If your curious try the book instead.