Part Two of It Stinks, Sucks and It Ain't No Good (And it's Commie Propaganda): Amazon Reviews of Great Films

The Last Picture Show

On Friday I posted part one of this look at some of the reviews people have given beloved films on Amazon. As I noted then, this used to be a feature of this blog but with comments from Internet Movie Database users (comments have been disabled on IMDb and no one misses them). In scouring through these reviews, I've noticed how many of them are from politically and socially conservative people who rail about communist influence in Hollywood as well as leftist propaganda, progressivism and other perceived evils. A lot of negative reviews complain about foul language, sex and young people not being respectful of their elders. I also note how often reviewers simply dismiss movies as boring and how often they complain --evidently lacking anything substantive to say --  about bad acting (even in cases, such as On the Waterfront, in which the lead actors won Oscars.) Without further ado, here's part two,"enjoy."

The Last Picture Show

I love Cysbil Sherdard but I only watched the beginning when the nudity came on I turned it off & pitched it.

Note: I believe it's spelled Cybil Shepard, but you do you.

Mean Girls

Message - girls are trashy and nasty creatures. The whole movie is spent demeaning decency and promotes degeneracy. Keep your daughters away. Keep you sons away too. Message to them is girls are good only for sex.

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

I am terrified that so many people like this movie? My teenage child and I watched this film on another platform, based on reviews given by the community, a big mistake. I would never raise my child to be such an egocentric jerk, who gets around life by screwing everybody else over. What kind of values is this movie teaching to our youngsters?

He gets away with everything, is this real life? Maybe for an upper-middle-class teenager selfish, good for nothing kid like Ferris. Please stop giving good reviews to garbage like this one. Our kids deserve better, our society deserves better, more values, less garbage.

Note: I love that the reviewer asks if she is terrified that so many people like this movie? I guess she couldn't decide.

Duck Soup

When I began the movie an NRA add popped up on the screen. Please refund my order. This is an invasion of my rights to watch a movie that states that it is solely a movie of the Marx Brothers and not a vehicle for right wing propaganda. Again, refund my order.

Note: The NRA promotion at the beginning of this film from 1933 is for the National Recovery Administration which: "supervised fair trade codes and guaranteed laborers a right to collective bargaining. The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) was enacted by Congress in June 1933 and was one of the measures by which President Franklin D. Roosevelt sought to assist the nation's recovery."

Platoon

Platoon

You gotta be kidding me, this is considered a good movie? Seriously. Pathetic dialog, crap acting, stupid melodrama, cheap film methods, laughable use of music in the so-called soundtrack, and then there's Sheen's "narrative" and his letters to "grandma". I mean, this movie is a freakin' joke. I appreciate good war movies, and have seen most of them. This one is a disgrace and an insult to the genre.

And then there's the disgusting anti-American "politics" of the film, portraying the majority of the soldiers as either mindless idiots or violent, inhumane pigs. You'd think it was a James Cameron film, it's so full of hate of this country.

This film absolutely disgusts me on every level, artistic and otherwise. Garbage.

All Quiet on the Western Front

What else make this movie even funnier, the hype of course. This movie was soooo awful, you will laugh your a** off!

The acting is so fake. The funniest part whenever anyone whines in it. I really don't know why all the critics think this is the best war movie of all-time, they must been stone while watching this worthless trash. I can't imagine anyone enjoying this film the same way as Gone With The Wind and The Godfather.

Note: "They must been stone while watching." Hilarious.

The Big Lebowski

I love Jeff Bridges and my brother LOVES this movie, but it wasn't for me. Too low class. I guess it was supposed to be funny, but it was a lot of swearing, drugs, drinking, low class type things.

Milk

Call me names, I don't care! Perversion is perversion and has no place in public! Anything that glorifies a deviant form of behaviour is no good!

Note: Okay, I'll call you a name: homophobe.

Moonlight

I couldn't sit through this ghetto movie which is filled with filthy language, nudity, raw sex and the list goes on. I know that there is an audience for this type of "entertainment" and that Hollywood celebrated it with the Oscar. A sad commentary on what our society now calls "acceptable entertainment". It used to be called pornography.

Note: So I'm guessing you'll not be donating to Black Lives Matter.

Carol

Carol

Droll, dull and uninteresting. I couldn't care less about any of the characters except for maybe the ex husband. people spoke of it as tintillating. not. go rent an asian lesbian porn movie if that's what you're looking for. Kept waiting for it to get good. Didn't happen.

Note: "an asian lesbian porn movie" Wish you'd expanded on that.

Reds

But capitalism without morality is also evil. --JP2

I recognize the perfect form of government does not exist...yet still...

I'm really worried about the amount of effusive praise for this movie...McCarthy was right after all? Hollywood is full of commie subversives eager to romanticize the crap out of the miserable Russian revolution and glorify the rise to power of one of the most murderous, inhumane forms of government, communism, to ever see the light of day. "Oh, but what about the acting?...the 'Epic" sweep of history...the idealism of Reid...etc..." Are you guys nuts? There are currently 3 major communist regimes left standing as of 2016: China, Cuba, and North Korea. Note Russia's no longer part of that club boys and girls. Oh the sweet irony....A better review of this movie would be for all the 5 star reviewers to have to spend some time living in aforementioned still communist paradises...and then report back how awesome it was.

Harold and Maude

I had a longer review here previously describing in detail why this movie is the stuff of sewers, but what's the point? Watch it, love it, imagine yourself as free and wild as wacky red-headed grandma, put on an ugly dress and go down the drum circle and sing your little heart out. Just don't do it near my place cuz I'll throw birdseed in your hair.

Quirky is a disease of the deranged mind.

Note: Of course I find this review ridiculous, but I love that last line.

MASH

I always enjoyed the weekly television series MASH, so I was quite shocked to discover that the movie version of MASH is a piece of garbage, which is where my copy ended up. My first shock was to discover that the catchy little tune they play at the beginning of every show is actually a song about suicide being painless. Next, one of the characters is mocked for praying. The worst scene is where they mock the Last Supper during a fake suicide. Enough said!

Three Days of the Condor

This is not a movie, it's the earliest example of a far left propaganda film I can remember. Watching again, for the first time in 38 years, I realize now just how far back the "War for Oil" BS lies go and understand better why the Anti-American American has become so prevalent in our society. Leftist elitists love this genre and will continue making these Marxist propaganda films to "re-educate" Americans. Why? Because it works. Question: How can one get Americans ready and willing to give up their rights? By making them believe we are the worst country in history, of course.

It's simple folks. When they keep making these propaganda films (Ala Dr. Goebbels) telling the entire world "America will do anything, tell any lie, kill anyone, START A WAR, for it's own greedy benefit!!!" and you do so for DECADES, how can the entire world NOT come to believe the lie?

LOL... Do YOU believe the lie? Sadly, I know at least half of you do.

Note: The line "Marxist propaganda films" really cracked me up as well as "Anti-American American." Conservatives are clearly still steeped in McCarthyism -- they'd welcome Joe back in heartbeat. 

Taxi Driver

Taxi Driver 

There is no plot and there is no resolution because there is nothing to resolve. The main character is insane an accomplishes nothing. 12 year old prostitutes. They don't do that any more not because Hollywood got moral but because you can sell more tickets if its PG13.

Call Me By Your Name

Recommended to me by my wife’s cousin as her “all time favorite movie." This was, without a doubt, the most pointless movie I’ve ever seen. It’s a typical “artsy foreign film” with no real substance. Super aggressively awkward and sexual. Dumb

Note: Is "artsy foreign film" a genre?

First Reformed

I got into the movie about an hour and noticed so distorted from realities I that I quit. The messages I received from the movie are square on with the 1960 Communist goals listed in the book the "The Naked Communist". Here are the strategies employed in this movie:

- Hollow out churches into social institutions (so they wont stand in the way of a takeover as they stand for human rights given by God)

- Cause people to embrace atheist mindset (the whole movie shows hallow out Christianity but not real Christianity)

- Show that the country is no better than others

- Make the business people look evil because they are the oppressors on the oppressed (to drive people to want to do away with capitalism for a life "free of oppression" only to find themselves oppressed even worse than capitalism

It would not surprise me to find out that the writer is part of a socialist party which is really a front for Communism (Lenin said the purpose of Socialism to bring about Communism)

Note: Amazing the degree to which Americans are still afraid of Communism. I thought we'd moved on the jihadists as the latest bogeyman.

My Man Godfrey

Beatniks love this sort of film. For me, the dialogue, social situations, and humor are so archaic, that it is hard to relate or laugh about them. The female actors' voices are as annoying as a pet shop full of squeaking birds. The film makes me wish I had an extra hand so I could give it three thumbs down.

Note: Beatniks? Was this written in 1959?