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		<title>By: MIchael D. Hurley</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[MIchael D. Hurley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2014 19:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[as a movie theatre owner: this is about the dumbest and stupidest opinion on movie grossing and its&#039; relationship to either the political bent of those who make, distribute, or show movies I&#039;ve ever seen.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>as a movie theatre owner: this is about the dumbest and stupidest opinion on movie grossing and its&#8217; relationship to either the political bent of those who make, distribute, or show movies I&#8217;ve ever seen.</p>
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		<title>By: Alex79818</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 23:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ridiculous!! A good-vs-evil dichotomy is not indicative of a conservative ideological slant, liberal ideology is replete with and in many cases driven by a good-vs-evil dichotomy (where, of course, different characters are evil ones).  Conservatism doesn&#039;t hold a monopoly on such dualist worldviews, and the Hobbit is no more conservative than any of the other Lord of the Rings films. 

Les Miserables even less so, given that the one character who&#039;s worldview is openly repudiated happens to be Javert, easily the most conservative character in the film.  Further, Valjean&#039;s openly violating his parole - with a Priest&#039;s assitance no less - is certainly an open attack on conservative social institutions.  Victor Hugo in this way detaches the traditional roles of conservative social institutions from the Judeo-Christian moral code which supposedly gives rise to them and justifies their brutality.  If anything, Les Miserables is an extremely effective, scathing attack on many pillars of conservative ideology, chiefly amongst these an intransigent and dominant law enforcement practice and free-market economics bolstering oppressive work conditions, prostitution, and forced prisoner labor. 

 And Dark Knight Rises?  Bane isn&#039;t communist, he&#039;s anarchist! Hardly a conservative outlook, more like you&#039;ve got your &quot;isms&quot; mixed up there.  Twilight, Spiderman, Hunger Games?  Associating any of those 3 films with conservative ideology is so asinine it doesn&#039;t even merit a reply.  If Hollywood won&#039;t make a Batman movie based around fracking, it&#039;s because Gotham is a city and not a natural gas field.  Skyfall I will concede, but it&#039;s a cheap shot - all Bond works are at their core, conservative pro-British stories...

...and for every 10 Bond movies that do ok, there&#039;s 1 &quot;Avatar&quot; that outperforms them. 

 Americans are not fundamentally conservative, not in the majority anymore, anyways.  A black man was elected and re-elected to the white house.  Marijuana decriminalization is both in effect and on the ballot in numerous states. Ditto with gay marriage movements, yes, even in Texas.  The GOP has managed to gerrymander a large number of congressional districts, where they hold sway with highly localized conservative electorates - and even the demographics of those districts are changing.  The majority of conservatives in the US today are older folks...and just like all old people, eventually they all die. And, thanks to blockbuster hit movies like Avatar, conservative ideology is exposed to the masses as the hypocrisy it really is, and it therefore appeals to less and less young people as time goes by.  You&#039;re not replenishing your ranks.

Don&#039;t kid yourselves - you&#039;re on the way out, and steps away from irrelevance.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ridiculous!! A good-vs-evil dichotomy is not indicative of a conservative ideological slant, liberal ideology is replete with and in many cases driven by a good-vs-evil dichotomy (where, of course, different characters are evil ones).  Conservatism doesn&#8217;t hold a monopoly on such dualist worldviews, and the Hobbit is no more conservative than any of the other Lord of the Rings films. </p>
<p>Les Miserables even less so, given that the one character who&#8217;s worldview is openly repudiated happens to be Javert, easily the most conservative character in the film.  Further, Valjean&#8217;s openly violating his parole &#8211; with a Priest&#8217;s assitance no less &#8211; is certainly an open attack on conservative social institutions.  Victor Hugo in this way detaches the traditional roles of conservative social institutions from the Judeo-Christian moral code which supposedly gives rise to them and justifies their brutality.  If anything, Les Miserables is an extremely effective, scathing attack on many pillars of conservative ideology, chiefly amongst these an intransigent and dominant law enforcement practice and free-market economics bolstering oppressive work conditions, prostitution, and forced prisoner labor. </p>
<p> And Dark Knight Rises?  Bane isn&#8217;t communist, he&#8217;s anarchist! Hardly a conservative outlook, more like you&#8217;ve got your &#8220;isms&#8221; mixed up there.  Twilight, Spiderman, Hunger Games?  Associating any of those 3 films with conservative ideology is so asinine it doesn&#8217;t even merit a reply.  If Hollywood won&#8217;t make a Batman movie based around fracking, it&#8217;s because Gotham is a city and not a natural gas field.  Skyfall I will concede, but it&#8217;s a cheap shot &#8211; all Bond works are at their core, conservative pro-British stories&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;and for every 10 Bond movies that do ok, there&#8217;s 1 &#8220;Avatar&#8221; that outperforms them. </p>
<p> Americans are not fundamentally conservative, not in the majority anymore, anyways.  A black man was elected and re-elected to the white house.  Marijuana decriminalization is both in effect and on the ballot in numerous states. Ditto with gay marriage movements, yes, even in Texas.  The GOP has managed to gerrymander a large number of congressional districts, where they hold sway with highly localized conservative electorates &#8211; and even the demographics of those districts are changing.  The majority of conservatives in the US today are older folks&#8230;and just like all old people, eventually they all die. And, thanks to blockbuster hit movies like Avatar, conservative ideology is exposed to the masses as the hypocrisy it really is, and it therefore appeals to less and less young people as time goes by.  You&#8217;re not replenishing your ranks.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t kid yourselves &#8211; you&#8217;re on the way out, and steps away from irrelevance.</p>
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		<title>By: Cesar</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cesar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have to find political meanings in movies then you really need to get a life. Movies are there to be enjoyed.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you have to find political meanings in movies then you really need to get a life. Movies are there to be enjoyed.  </p>
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		<title>By: Jim_C</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So where do &quot;Django Unchained&quot; and &quot;Texas Chainsaw 3D&quot; fit into this embarrassingly specious argument? ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So where do &quot;Django Unchained&quot; and &quot;Texas Chainsaw 3D&quot; fit into this embarrassingly specious argument? </p>
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		<title>By: slider 96</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[slider 96]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2013 17:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh man , just shut-up and enjoy the movie . Keep your extra baggage at home . ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh man , just shut-up and enjoy the movie . Keep your extra baggage at home . </p>
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		<title>By: slider 96</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2013 17:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#039;s not gaining any  audiences either . The movie is made well or it isn&#039;t . The conclusions reached by Shapiro are ridiculous . People dont give a dang about whether a movie is &quot;conservative or not &quot; . 
 Shapiro needs to keep his day job and get his thoughts straightened out . He&#039;s begnning to sound like a dang muslim . &quot; is this film islamic &quot; ??  Sounds just as stupid .  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#039;s not gaining any  audiences either . The movie is made well or it isn&#039;t . The conclusions reached by Shapiro are ridiculous . People dont give a dang about whether a movie is &quot;conservative or not &quot; .<br />
 Shapiro needs to keep his day job and get his thoughts straightened out . He&#039;s begnning to sound like a dang muslim . &quot; is this film islamic &quot; ??  Sounds just as stupid .  </p>
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		<title>By: tns777</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2013 09:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the same idea while I was watching the movie, but it&#039;s entirely Jackson&#039;s manipulation of the story. The book had nothing about returning to a homeland. The dwarves were driven by greed and the desire for glory. They weren&#039;t as noble as Jackson makes them out to be and (fortunately) they weren&#039;t described as even remotely Jewish. Plus, Tolkien was one of the rare authors who respected the Jewish people, so he&#039;d never portray them in a negative, stereotypical light. Jackson on the other hand.. not sure what he was going for with all those changes he made.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I had the same idea while I was watching the movie, but it&#039;s entirely Jackson&#039;s manipulation of the story. The book had nothing about returning to a homeland. The dwarves were driven by greed and the desire for glory. They weren&#039;t as noble as Jackson makes them out to be and (fortunately) they weren&#039;t described as even remotely Jewish. Plus, Tolkien was one of the rare authors who respected the Jewish people, so he&#039;d never portray them in a negative, stereotypical light. Jackson on the other hand.. not sure what he was going for with all those changes he made.  </p>
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		<title>By: Mary Sue</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary Sue]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2013 08:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, &quot;conservative&quot; content doesn&#039;t appear to be scaring away audiences, at least. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, &quot;conservative&quot; content doesn&#039;t appear to be scaring away audiences, at least. </p>
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		<title>By: Mary Sue</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary Sue]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2013 08:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matt Damon thought he was in Politics? ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Matt Damon thought he was in Politics? </p>
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		<title>By: RonL</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[RonL]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JRR Tolkein was a serious Catholic who drew inspiration from many sources. He was a linguist, who was part of the collaborative effort behind the Catholic Jerusalem Bible.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>JRR Tolkein was a serious Catholic who drew inspiration from many sources. He was a linguist, who was part of the collaborative effort behind the Catholic Jerusalem Bible.  </p>
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		<title>By: RonL</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[RonL]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nolan wanted to create a Trilogy. Ending with Bane and Natalia al Ghul  made perfect sense. Teh Baine-Bane thing is ignorance. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nolan wanted to create a Trilogy. Ending with Bane and Natalia al Ghul  made perfect sense. Teh Baine-Bane thing is ignorance. </p>
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		<title>By: Questions</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Questions]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 23:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It already has.  If you saw a few movies instead of nodding your head to histrionic editorials, you&#039;d realize as much.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It already has.  If you saw a few movies instead of nodding your head to histrionic editorials, you&#039;d realize as much.  </p>
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		<title>By: Ghostwriter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ghostwriter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 22:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hopefully,Hollywood will come around someday. Maybe. 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hopefully,Hollywood will come around someday. Maybe. </p>
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		<title>By: Questions</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Questions]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 21:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I do both.  I read books and I see movies.  It&#039;s done me a world of good, actually.   ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I do both.  I read books and I see movies.  It&#039;s done me a world of good, actually.   </p>
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		<title>By: Questions</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Questions]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 21:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wild generalizations don&#039;t make for facts.  Ben has his act down to a science.  He looks at box office figures of the movies that did best and then, after the fact, labels these movies &quot;conservative.&quot;  Of course, those movies that don&#039;t do well (and for all kinds of reasons, none of which have anything to do with protests of imagined liberal content) he declares retroactively to be &quot;liberal.&quot;   
 
Ah, hindsight.  It always has 20/20 vision. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wild generalizations don&#039;t make for facts.  Ben has his act down to a science.  He looks at box office figures of the movies that did best and then, after the fact, labels these movies &quot;conservative.&quot;  Of course, those movies that don&#039;t do well (and for all kinds of reasons, none of which have anything to do with protests of imagined liberal content) he declares retroactively to be &quot;liberal.&quot;   </p>
<p>Ah, hindsight.  It always has 20/20 vision. </p>
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		<title>By: Questions</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Questions]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 21:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no &quot;war&quot; between Hollywood and Christianity except in the minds of those who believe rancid editorials instead of actually seeing movies. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is no &quot;war&quot; between Hollywood and Christianity except in the minds of those who believe rancid editorials instead of actually seeing movies. </p>
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		<title>By: JayB</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JayB]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 19:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Totally agree - in fact, after the movie I was wondering who our Dark Night will be and when he will come and save us...sure hope it actually happens! ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Totally agree &#8211; in fact, after the movie I was wondering who our Dark Night will be and when he will come and save us&#8230;sure hope it actually happens! </p>
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		<title>By: JCS</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JCS]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 19:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Dark Knight Rises featured a demented world that would be chillingly similar to the Brave New World the Occupy Wall Street morons would create. Fortunately Batman escapes prison in time to destroy that horrible nightmarish world. And some stupid liberal critics thought the villian Bane was a reference to Romney&#039;s Bain Capital. Not a bit.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Dark Knight Rises featured a demented world that would be chillingly similar to the Brave New World the Occupy Wall Street morons would create. Fortunately Batman escapes prison in time to destroy that horrible nightmarish world. And some stupid liberal critics thought the villian Bane was a reference to Romney&#039;s Bain Capital. Not a bit.  </p>
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		<title>By: Thomas Wells</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Wells]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 18:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read a book. Let Hollowood drop dead. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Read a book. Let Hollowood drop dead. </p>
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		<title>By: Dwee</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dwee]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I tried to see it that way, and some may, but the gold, the slaughtering of so many to take the gold, the 12 tribes, the rather piggish love of food! -- i.e., some not always positive associations...many things imply Israel/Jews.   ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I tried to see it that way, and some may, but the gold, the slaughtering of so many to take the gold, the 12 tribes, the rather piggish love of food! &#8212; i.e., some not always positive associations&#8230;many things imply Israel/Jews.   </p>
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