en-us http://www.intensedebate.com/users/564739 Comments by dabhidh http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2012/01/30/annie-hall-vs-midnight-in-paris-deconstructing-allens-ideological-descent/#IDComment279974661 You're a big fan of Reagan and Nixon, then? Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:09:55 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2012/01/30/annie-hall-vs-midnight-in-paris-deconstructing-allens-ideological-descent/#IDComment279974661 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2012/01/30/annie-hall-vs-midnight-in-paris-deconstructing-allens-ideological-descent/#IDComment279835518 Yeah, it's always safe to talk about past Republicans with a modicum of respect. "Oh, for the long-ago past, when Republicans were human beings. Of course, we all called them bottom-feeding scum-sucking Nazi weasels even then, but it's fun to pretend that they were OK back then, so we can use them as a stick to beat present Republicans with." Liberal circa 1984: "Reagan is an evil, wicked, incompetent, mean-spirited boob." Liberal circa 2004: "Bush is an evil, wicked, incompetent, mean-spirited boob. Not like that nice, reasonable Ronald Reagan. If only Republicans would get back to being what they once were." Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:57:11 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2012/01/30/annie-hall-vs-midnight-in-paris-deconstructing-allens-ideological-descent/#IDComment279835518 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lveneziani/2012/01/29/one-for-the-money-review-heigls-grating-jersey-girl-no-feminist-role-model/#IDComment278996033 I don't know if that should make a difference. A movie should stand or fall on its own merits. If a movie sucks, then it doesn't matter if the book's better. The movie will still suck. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:33:50 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lveneziani/2012/01/29/one-for-the-money-review-heigls-grating-jersey-girl-no-feminist-role-model/#IDComment278996033 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/12/12/dark-knight-rises-poster-released/#IDComment236474235 It seems a bit clumsy - The legend ends when the Dark Knight rises? Shouldn't it be called, "The Dark Knight Falls?" I suspect that when they settled on the title, they didn't yet have a script and didn't expect it was going to be the last of the franchise. Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:54:11 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/12/12/dark-knight-rises-poster-released/#IDComment236474235 http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/in_the_pink/#IDComment203891854 Whether one agrees or does not agree with the assertion of a link between abortion and breast cancer, the implication that the point of the article is to discourage breast cancer research is offensive and idiotic. And yeah, I trust the nation's largest abortion provider to not use millions of dollars in Komen money for breast cancer research. Really I do. Thu, 6 Oct 2011 14:39:51 +0000 http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/in_the_pink/#IDComment203891854 http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/in_the_pink/#IDComment203455470 What a ridiculous charge! No one is saying, "don't support breast cancer research." Rather, the question is, "why do so many people who supposedly care so much about women's health ignore and obfuscate information about what is likely a leading factor in becoming afflicted with breast cancer?" If the American Lung Association gave millions of dollars to tobacco companies, would that perhaps cause you some concern? Or would pointing that out be "blaming smokers for getting sick?" Wed, 5 Oct 2011 15:18:16 +0000 http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/in_the_pink/#IDComment203455470 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/nrice/2011/02/10/off-with-the-heads-of-hollywoods-misguided-royalty-genre/#IDComment127145994 Thank you! This is an excellent and perceptive response. Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:51:12 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/nrice/2011/02/10/off-with-the-heads-of-hollywoods-misguided-royalty-genre/#IDComment127145994 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/nrice/2011/02/10/off-with-the-heads-of-hollywoods-misguided-royalty-genre/#IDComment127116474 Give me a break with this class warfare idiocy. You can't appreciate"The King's Speech" because it's about the problems of a king? And Great Britian is now an "evil empire?" This is the kind of commentary I go to Daily Kos to use as an ipecac substitute. Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:03:11 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/nrice/2011/02/10/off-with-the-heads-of-hollywoods-misguided-royalty-genre/#IDComment127116474 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/01/19/top-25-left-wing-films-2-apocalypse-now-1979/#IDComment122507725 I like your theory, Mr. Nolte. Next time I watch the movie I'll bear it in mind. Strangely, I've never seen the movie as anti-American. It's probable that I was just tone-deaf to such things when I was young, but it always seemed to me that the movie was a general criticism of war and what the experience of warfare does to people. Col. Kurtz seems to have the most salient point in that regard, which is that if you wish to win a war, you must be willing to sacrifice your humanity to do it. It may not be entirely true, but it seemed true enough to me when I was younger. Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:11:55 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/01/19/top-25-left-wing-films-2-apocalypse-now-1979/#IDComment122507725 http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/unplanned_release/#IDComment122115226 Nothing you've cited here has the slightest relevence to the topic of the article, which is abortion. And even if it were true (as you previously alleged) that more people are killed "every day" from religious intolerance than from abortions, it would still be irrelevent, because the question of whether or not religion is the direct cause of the death of anyone under any circumstances has no relevence to the issue of whether abortion is morally right, wrong, or neutral. Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:41:22 +0000 http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/unplanned_release/#IDComment122115226 http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/protecting_blasphemy_inviting_violence/#IDComment98716355 Well, whaddaya know - there's a practical side to anti-blasphemy laws after all. Unfortunately, that barn door's been busted off long ago. You can't reasonably tell a society for years that defacing familiar religious texts and symbols is a necessary civil right, and then turn around and declare that the texts and symbols of unfamiliar religions are sacrosanct and that no one has the right to deface them under penalty of law. Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:56:44 +0000 http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/protecting_blasphemy_inviting_violence/#IDComment98716355 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2010/06/10/daily-gut-creamed-korn/#IDComment79594279 If Korn want to set a real environmentalist example they should tour in Smart Cars Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:20:36 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2010/06/10/daily-gut-creamed-korn/#IDComment79594279 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/vjackson/2010/06/09/im-mad-at-christians/#IDComment79466254 Yes, it is horrifying - I can have a better discussion about politics with a totally leftist non-Christian than with one of the new breed of kinda-lefty Christians. The Christians actually get angry with you for not having ditched the Republican party. Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:10:49 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/vjackson/2010/06/09/im-mad-at-christians/#IDComment79466254 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/vjackson/2010/06/09/im-mad-at-christians/#IDComment79350045 I totally agree and it's pretty much concurrent with my post earlier. Bush's Christianity was so often cited in criticisms of him that many Christians eschewed politics, or at least conservative politics, so as not to suffer the indignity of seeming to be a Bush supporter, Wed, 9 Jun 2010 20:11:30 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/vjackson/2010/06/09/im-mad-at-christians/#IDComment79350045 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/vjackson/2010/06/09/im-mad-at-christians/#IDComment79307047 Several things have happened since I became a Christian at the dawn of the 90's: 1. Christians "tried the political thing" - or think they have. Conservative political action was pretty much de riguer. Republicans won the House and Senate and that felt pretty good. Then GWB got elected and was a big disappointment, not being a transforming radical on the conservative side. And also there were a lot of high-profile Republican scandals. Conclusion for some Christians: Politics doesn't work. 2. Some Christians started to chafe at the whole conservative thing and have forsaken it to identify instead with the left side of politics. After all, the left are all about peace and feeding the poor and not being greedy, right? Sounds pretty Christian. Not like the greedy conservatives who just wanna start wars and neglect the poor. The take away from all this is, if you're a Christian, your choices are non-political "spiritual" Christian or politically active leftish Christian. Conservative Christian political involvement is hypocritical and useless and worst of all, it's sooooo 1994. Wed, 9 Jun 2010 15:00:14 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/vjackson/2010/06/09/im-mad-at-christians/#IDComment79307047 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jwhiteside/2010/04/28/folk-lies-joni-mitchell-outs-bob-dylan/#IDComment71293477 I'm a Dylan fan but I totally agree with this writers' take on Dylan's use of rhyme and metaphor. In my opinion, the songs on Highway 61 Revisited in particular are some of the most egregious examples of word-salad show off lyrics in all of popular music. Most of it means absolutely nothing but can be easily interpreted, Rorshach-like, into whatever suits the seeker. He's a "post-modern" folk singer in this respect - he spills the words, you create the meaning. I suspect a certain cynicism underlies his approach, but I don't resent him for it. I also agree that Dylan seems to lack authenticity if you interpret him merely in a superficial sense. If he is simply a clever Midwestern suburban kid dressing up as Woody Guthrie, then he would be pretty false and facile. But perhaps this misses the point. He's never really been an authentic folk singer but is instead a self-manufactured pop star. Folk music was just the favors he brought to the party. The folk music contingency who booed his first electric tour were perhaps, in a sense, correct. He was using their forum as a springboard to what became internation pop stardom. Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:10:04 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jwhiteside/2010/04/28/folk-lies-joni-mitchell-outs-bob-dylan/#IDComment71293477 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2010/02/26/elitist-enviro-hypocrisy-harrison-fords-cheeseburger-runs/#IDComment58867890 Dangit. Now I want a cheeseburger. Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:34:26 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2010/02/26/elitist-enviro-hypocrisy-harrison-fords-cheeseburger-runs/#IDComment58867890 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dkalder/2010/02/08/super-bowl-halftime-time-for-baby-boomers-to-release-their-cultural-death-grip/#IDComment56017132 Any point that might have been made by this article is hoplessly obscured by some truly cretinous personal criticism of some of these artists. I'd catalogue them and respond to them, but there'd be no point. These artists aren't in any way above criticism but what's being offered here is as "past it" as any balding Brit with a telecaster. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:43:33 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dkalder/2010/02/08/super-bowl-halftime-time-for-baby-boomers-to-release-their-cultural-death-grip/#IDComment56017132 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lscott/2010/01/20/one-year-gone-george-w-bush-idiot/#IDComment52985028 Dare To Be Stupid! Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:49:10 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lscott/2010/01/20/one-year-gone-george-w-bush-idiot/#IDComment52985028 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mpatterson/2010/01/09/studio-knuckle-heads-endanger-spider-man/#IDComment51324743 John Malkovich would make the Vulture scary, probably for the first time. It's a great choice. Kravan The Hunter was, IMO, the most ridiculous villian ever conceived and I doubt that anyone could make the character work. I really didn't see the 3rd Spiderman movie as being such a big wash-out. I agree that there was at least one too many villains but I think they pulled it off. The scene where Peter begs for Harry's help in defeating Venom validates the whole thing. The only part about the movie that I didn't appreciate was them shoehorning Gwen Stacy into the story. They basically conflated Gwen and MJ into the Kirsten Dunst MJ, so trying to inject Gwen into the 3rd movie seemed rather forced and unnecessary. They'll not be able to recreate the famous Goblin-kills-Gwen story, mainly since two Gobbys have been offed as of the third movie. Reboot the franchise? Naw. I don't care what anybody says, they're never going to get a better Peter Parker than Toby Macguire. He's a complete and utter geek, and so was Spiderman, as originally conceived. Sun, 10 Jan 2010 05:36:56 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mpatterson/2010/01/09/studio-knuckle-heads-endanger-spider-man/#IDComment51324743