They Finally Pried His Gun Away

Charlton Heston, great American, has passed away at 84.

May God bless and keep those dear to him even as He introduces the movie Moses to the real Moses.

Why Hollywood Keeps Bleeding Money By Making Anti-Iraq War Films

The American Thinker has two excellent pieces here and here.

I would add that Hollywood's World War II performance stemmed largely from Hollywood writers' Communist leanings and the fact that by the time America entered the war Hitler had attacked the Soviet Union. These writers weren't propagandizing on Uncle Sam's behalf, but Uncle Joe's.

No Sequel to "The Golden Compass"

Worries about "The Golden Compass" becoming a mammoth movie franchise were vastly overblown.

I told you so.

Hmm, You'd Think Atheists Wouldn't Have Anything Else To Do On Sunday

Given the failure of "The Golden Compass", I posit the following hypotheses:

1. There aren't that many atheists in America; the LWM and academia where most of them reside simply lie about their number.

2. Atheists don't have kids, so there's no reason to make atheist "family" movies.

3. Atheist movies stink, since they're motivated by propaganda rather than story or character.

The question remains: Why does Hollywood continue to throw money away on such garbage?

Why I'm Not Worried About "The Golden Compass"

1. It's a big budget Hollywood movie. What was the last big budget Hollywood movie that didn't suck?

2. It's an atheist movie. What's the last atheist movie that didn't suck? "The Fountainhead" sucked, and sucked despite having Gary Cooper starring in a bid to stave off suckitude.

3. Things which suck are rarely influential. See any Jar-Jar Binks costumes this Halloween, anyone?

My advice is to let Hollywood waste all the money it wants to trying to proselytize our kids against God. It won't work and it diverts them from proselytizing our kids against America.

Besides, compared to what the American educational establishment spends to accomplish the same thing, it's a drop in the bucket. And at least Hollywood isn't picking my pocket to do it.

At Least One Historian Likes "300"

Of course, he's a Classicist as well as a man of the Right.

300

WordGirl and I saw "300" last night and all I will say is that it rocked so hard it damn near fell right over.

The Left is going to howl over this movie, with its unrelenting emphasis on honor, sacrifice, freedom, and strength. Well, that plus the fact that the major villain sounds an awful lot like a cut-and-run Democrat.