gdp's Comments

Big Government : How to Answer the Jesus Questions

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 04:11:23 +0000

Excellent column, sir.

Big Hollywood : 'The Help' Review: One Great Film

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 05:12:16 +0000

I too saw it last night, and there's no political pandering or race-baiting in it, which was a very pleasant surprise. Judging from the trailer, one might expect the same old white guilt trip that we've come to expect from Hollywood about issues like this, but there's nothing of the sort.

Big Hollywood : Report: Gibson Competitor is Dem Donor; Uses Same Wood, Experienced No Federal Raids

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 05:06:59 +0000

"Nice business you got there. It would be a shame if something happened to it... so to be safe, donate now at barackobama.com."

Big Hollywood : Mark Boal: Hollywood’s Go-To Hack for All Things Pseudo-Military

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:39:21 +0000

I watched The Hurt Locker with my roommate who is in Army Reserves, and roughly every five seconds he said, "that's wrong. that's wrong. that too. yep, so is that." I'm amazed that both of us finished the damn movie. Maybe the best thing to do with the upcoming film, presumably titled "How Barack Obama Killed Osama With His Bare Hands And Stopped The Rise Of The Oceans Too," is to ignore it when it hits the theaters. Raise hell about the frightening implications of the White House sharing classified information with a Joe Blow like Boal, but vote with your wallets and stay home. It's guaranteed that if this movie is anything like THL, it will have a box office return equal to that of "The Smurfs" and 200 people nationwide will like it (aside from the leftist establishment), and it will get critical acclaim from all the right people and snag a few Oscars. Pirate it just so you can say that you saw it and be well-informed about it, but don't give these clowns a cent at the theater. Donate your ticket price to the Wounded Warrior Project instead.

Big Hollywood : BREAKING: Rep. Peter King Asks For Probe Into White House's Role in Bi

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:10:05 +0000

The fact that special information was declassified purely for the sake of Bigelow and Boal's Obama re-election movie is frightening. Where does it stop? Who else is getting access to information that should never have been released? Even more importantly, whose lives are being put on the line so that Obama can get more time in the limelight?

Big Hollywood : Ricky Gervais 'Christ' Photo Isn't Controversial. It's Just Bad Art.

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:03:49 +0000

As a Christian, my instinctual response to crap like this is to be offended. Not because I'm some thin-skinned prude, but because I hold Christ to be sacred and not to be mocked. Then I realize how pathetic and self-serving it is, and how it's only being done for attention, and I shrug. Gervais isn't a true atheist, he's just another bitter anti-Christian who's deluded himself into thinking that mocking a religion that won't fight back amounts to bravery and edginess on his part.

Big Hollywood : What Constitutes a Conservative Film?

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:32:16 +0000

I'd say that in its own way, Watchmen is my favorite conservative-ish movie (note the "-ish"!). Here's why: 1. Rorschach is the complete antithesis to the Leftist "soft on crime" agenda 2. Ozymandias (the villain) murders millions of people in the blink of an eye to secure his megalomaniacal idea of world peace--and spouts off Leftist cliches constantly, to remind us of his ideology ("Fossil fuels are a drug," "We can make war obsolete," etc.) for a much better explanation than I can provide, check out what Jonah Goldberg wrote about it first: http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jgoldberg/2009/... Bear in mind that the film is not -categorically- conservative, but it definitely has conservative themes.

Big Hollywood : Bin Laden Dead: Great Timing, Superman. Don't Let the Door Hit You On the Way Out...

Mon, 2 May 2011 04:48:48 +0000

One less evildoer in the world. God bless America and God bless our military!

Big Hollywood : Dylan Performs 'Approved Content' at China Concert

Fri, 8 Apr 2011 20:26:11 +0000

Look at the bigger picture here. Just because Dylan played an "approved setlist" doesn't mean that he's a sellout to the ChiComs. His mere presence in the country, as evidenced by the fan reaction there, can be taken as a sign of solidarity with pro-democracy forces. What is he supposed to do, go into Beijing and bring the house down with all of his old protest songs, knowing that doing so won't get anyone anywhere? The Commies would have forced him offstage and fired bullets into the crowd for cheering him on. Apparently no one here has heard of indirect resistance.

Big Hollywood : 'Super' Review: Rainn Wilson Shines in Tale of Urban Desperation

Sun, 3 Apr 2011 17:30:47 +0000

I didn't say that. You apparently missed the part at the end where I said to not get too excited either way about the movie's supposed message, and you obviously missed the part at the beginning where I said that I found it hard to believe that the movie was all that Carl made it out to be. Not that I was completely sure of what the movie said, but that I found it hard to believe. Try reading an entire comment before replying, you know?

Big Hollywood : 'Super' Review: Rainn Wilson Shines in Tale of Urban Desperation

Sat, 2 Apr 2011 23:24:39 +0000

full disclosure: I haven't seen the movie, but given Rainn Wilson's sneering attitude towards Christians, I find it hard to believe that the film is as respectful of Christians as Carl claims. It seems that the few movies I've seen that involve Christian protagonists trying to wash the streets of evil (The Boondock Saints comes to mind), the Christians are portrayed as Christian only to the extent that they go to church, pray, and wear rosary beads, and that's all the audience is given--a shallow subtext that, given the media's general portrayal of Christians as Bible-thumping rednecks with guns, leaves us all with the idea that Christians are good people at heart, but given the chance, would go around murdering evildoers in the name of the greater good, or God's divine retribution, or what have you. Maybe I'm reading too much into it. My point is, don't rush to judge the movie or the Crimson Bolt character too harshly, but let's not make the movie out to be some warm-hearted defense of Good People either--especially if it really isn't. Go watch it yourself if you're that interested and form your own conclusions.

Big Hollywood : Top 25 Left-Wing Films: #25 - 'The Day After Tomorrow' (2004)

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:55:41 +0000

Aside from the global warming hysterics, the part that turned me off to the movie entirely is when Jake Gyllenhaal is in the freighter ship looking for medicine for his sick girlfriend, and all of the medicine bottles are labeled in Russian, but he manages to discern which one has the antibiotics he needs. If I hadn't gotten to see it for free, I'd have walked right out of the theater.

Big Hollywood : 'Call of Duty: Black Ops': Video Game Makes $650M Killing, Killing the Bad Guys Hollywood Won't

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:14:15 +0000

I played through both Black Ops and Medal of Honor last week... I liked Black Ops' sense of historicity, and tried really hard to enjoy Medal of Honor, but I just couldn't. Too glitchy, too easy even on the hardest difficulty. But after you beat the game, there's a long sequence where the developer writes out a lengthy "thank you" to the armed forces for all the work that they do, and I don't think I've seen that in any war game recently. That by itself made me appreciate the game despite its technical flaws.

Big Peace : Let's Be Honest: We Need Full Body Scanners and Pat Downs at Airports

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:04:44 +0000

So "profiling" doesn't work, but groping a kid, making a breast cancer survivor remove her breast prosthesis, and subjecting a 56 year old woman to what she described as "sexual assault" does? I don't think so.