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“The Dark Knight Rises”: Arise, capitalism and freedom….

September 26, 2018July 30, 2012

Has anyone seen The Dark Knight Rises? I haven’t. Not that I have anything against Batman. It’s just not a movie that was on my A-List (and nothing need be said about the killings last week in Colorado; this is about the movie, not the apparently insane killer).

Now it is.

In today’s Wall Street Journal, novelist and PJ Media contributor Andrew Klavan has a fascinating interpretation of the movie. In the Journal column, Batman Battles the Politics of Resentment Klavan shows the movie to be “a bold apologia for free-market capitalism [and] a graphic depiction of the tyranny and violence inherent in every radical leftist movement….”

Are 3D Movies The Future Of Cinema?

September 26, 2018January 30, 2012 Steve MacDonald

Is 3D worth the extra cost and is it the future of cinema — Is 3D worth the extra cost

I read somewhere that within the movie industry there is a growing consensus that 3D movies are the future of the big screen experience. My initial reaction was that this is only true the way unemployment is the future of job growth in Obama’s America. Just because Nancy Pelosi says it is doesn’t make it so. ?

And the problems are related. Movies in 2D are already too expensive. 3D, which is the Mc Donald’s Drive-Thru cashiers equivalent of adding the apple pie to every order because there is no alternative, puts the big screen experience for the average American family out of reach. My response to that is to just stay home, and not just because you can’t get a lower ticket price if you bring your own 3D glasses. I have discovered what I like to call my Red Box mentality. It goes something like this.

A Rant Worth Reading

September 26, 2018October 26, 2011 Steve MacDonald

Liberals see success as a problem – if people are able to live their own lives without the guidance of aspiring liberal fascists, the entire premise of liberalism is fatally undercut. So success is the target, …

Picture Of The Day (BONUS!)

September 26, 2018March 11, 2011 Steve MacDonald