Comments on: Ten greatest Films about America

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 24 May 2010 08:14:55 +0000

JFK? Yes, it’s a great film, but it’s not about the real U.S.A. It’s about the U.S.A. that exists in the minds of the paranoid. Virtually every moment of the film is a lie, exaggeration, embellishment, or fantasy. It’s even self-contradictory. (Senator Long tells Garrison the first shot would be the most accurate and not miss like the WC said; Stone’s re-construction has the first shot miss.) Stone’s re-creation has no less than 3 shooters firing 7 or 8 shots; but 90+% of witnesses said they heard 3 shots…and 2 was the next most common report. Stone has people see gunsmoke coming from the grassy knoll; quite a feat considering smokeless powder had been ubiquitous for many decades in 1963. Questions that should be asked by skeptical viewers but aren’t: How many workers were missing from the School Book Depository after the shooting? (ans.: 1, Oswald) Who fit the description of the murderer of a cop killed just a few blocks from Oswald’s boarding house when Oswald was KNOWN to be in the area minutes earlier? (ans.: Oswald) Who decided to go to a movie theater in the middle of a workday with a gun in his jacket? (ans.: Oswald) Don’t get me started on the magic bullet (nothing magic when you align the victims correctly and consider bullet velocities reduced by passing through soft tissue) or “back and to the right” (a movement which means nothing other than a violent neurological spasm in reaction to the brain being destroyed). People, get a clue: the story mommy and daddy tell you about JFK (i.e., the Warren Commission version) is true.

By: Tally

Tally — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:14:43 +0000

also COHAN not cohen.

By: Enrique

Enrique — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:36:55 +0000

Goodness, ANTHONY!….please SPELLCHECK THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! Anthony you lose all credibility when you spell Xanadu and San Simeon incorrectly! And while you are at it, check some of those sentences and the grammar! OMG!

Good list, by the way!

By: David

David — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:21:53 +0000

How about Wall Street with Michael Douglas (1987) and Grapes of Wrath with Henry Fonda (1940). I was called an Okie when I moved to California in 1939.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:50:45 +0000

spell check

By: Ricky

Ricky — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:53:02 +0000

Sorry guys but Anthony asked me to post this for him and I forgot to change the writers name back to him. Sorry Anthony. Anyhow he wrote this list. Great job by the way!

By: Al

Al — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:19:01 +0000

You missed a great opportunity for a lame late-night comedy-show joke about how politics, like porn, is all about getting fucked in the ass. If you don’t mind, I’m going to use it for my audition as a Daily Show writer.

By: PlanBFromOuterSpace

PlanBFromOuterSpace — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:51:55 +0000

“Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” is actually one of my two favorite films of all time. The other? “Boogie Nights”. Talk about opposite ends of the spectrum…