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Cascadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 03:03 PM
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Poll question: Favorite anti-establishment films
Here's a poll that checks to see which anti-establishment movie you like. The movies that is about certain forms of rebellion. There are so many but I did manage to put down a few titles. You can put down your own titles from the other catalgory and it can be comedy, drama, documentary. Anything goes!
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 03:04 PM
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1. NETWORK!
Edited on Wed Oct-15-03 03:05 PM by nothingshocksmeanymo
and the film version of Johnny Got His Gun.
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 04:17 PM
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33. I agree--also MASH and Nashville
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GreenArrow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 03:06 PM
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2. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
and "Cool Hand Luke"
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 03:09 PM
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7. HELL....YES.
One flew east, One flew west,
One flew over the cuckoo's nest....


BIG "Right on," my friend.
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demnan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 03:07 PM
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3. Blazing Saddles
The all time best!

Black man bashes the head of white foreman and becomes a hero.
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BigMcLargehuge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 03:07 PM
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4. The Lonliness of the Long Distance Runner
:)
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Pale Blue Dot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 03:09 PM
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5. You're gonna get me started on John Hughes!
Seriously, am I the only one who hated "Ferris Bueller"? It was a non-comformist movie for conformists. The character of Ferris Bueller is absolutely hateable.

I think John Hughes is the antichrist. He has made his hard-right slant evident in many of his movies, plus at this point he wouldn't know an original idea if it bit him in the ass.

Rant over, please enjoy the rest of your day! :-)
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BigMcLargehuge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 03:12 PM
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9. A KINDRED SPIRIT!!!!!!!!!
I've railed against his social climbing tripe since they were in the theater!!!!

I hate Ferris Bueller with the intensity of a million angry fire ants!!!!!!!
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Pale Blue Dot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 03:16 PM
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12. Great!
Now I can PM you whenever I feel the need to rant about him! (My wife and friends are a little sick of hearing about it).:thumbsup:
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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 03:09 PM
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6. They Live!
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eauclaireliberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 03:11 PM
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8. "Enemy of the State"
with Will Smith, Gene Hackman and John Voight. Scary shit: Bruckheimer must've had the BFEE in mind when he made that film.

I have also began watching "Star Wars" again (ep.4). I wonder who would be Emperor, Vader, etc. when it comes to the BFEE. Hmmm.
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Speck Tater Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 03:29 PM
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18. Second the motion. Too close to true. n/t
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vi5 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 03:15 PM
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10. Cool Hand Luke
Hands down.
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blackcat77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 03:15 PM
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11. Alice's Restaurant, Kiss of the Spider Woman nt
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 03:20 PM
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13. Brazil
really highlights the ugly face of a bureaucracy gone mad.
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Cascadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 03:24 PM
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15. Brazil! AWWWW S==t!!!
I should have put that up there! Good one!!!


John
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catpower2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 03:31 PM
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19. FUCKING A RIGHT!! BRAZIL!!
Otherwise, I'd go with Office Space.
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theemu Donating Member (531 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 03:33 PM
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21. YEAH! BRAZIL! FUCKIN RIGHT!
MOTHERFUCKER! MOTHERFUCKER! FUCK FUCKITY FUCK!

(sorry, i found the overenthusiastic reactions above a little amusing. i do think brazil is a good, but not great movie.)
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Khephra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 04:17 PM
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31. I'll add my vote here too
.
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FlashHarry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 04:24 PM
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35. Brazil. Yep, that's the one!
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 03:23 PM
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14. I picked Other "Steal This Movie" and "Rude Awakening"
2 great flicks
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 03:32 PM
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20. Almost forgot "Shawshank Redemtion" n/t
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Tempest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 03:24 PM
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16. The Hudsucker Proxy & Guilty By Suspicion
Edited on Wed Oct-15-03 03:25 PM by Tempest
Can't wait to see Tim Robbins in "Mystic River".

Darn, forgot the best movie on the Hollywood blacklist.
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 03:25 PM
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17. The King of Hearts
THX 1138
Alice's Restaurant
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noonwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 03:34 PM
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22. Wild at Heart
A David Lynch movie that is comprehendable.
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bmbmd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 03:35 PM
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23. Don't trust anyone over thirty
How about "Gas.s.s.s."?
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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 03:38 PM
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24. Footloose!
:-)
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BringEmOn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 03:45 PM
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25. Billy Jack
N/T
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chiburb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 03:47 PM
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26. Absolutely!
Btw, "Z" wasn't antiestablishment as much as an anti fascist political thriller. It remains my favorite foreign film.
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Cascadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 05:45 PM
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42. I thought it was anti-establishment towards fascism.
Which is why I included it. It speaks out against oppression. I could almost mirror it to what is happening here in this country.

John
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ikojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 03:49 PM
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27. Matewan by John Sayles
Reds starring Warren Beatty...


Sunshine State by John Sayles


Koyannisqatsi


Grapes of Wrath


Mr Smith Goes to Washington...this movie would not be made today.




It's not a movie but....GO CUBS!!!!
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MrBenchley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 03:56 PM
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28. M*A*S*H
Suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
I can take or leave it as I please...
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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 04:07 PM
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29. Over the Edge
http://efilmcritic.com/review.php?movie=5309

If you ever had to spend your youth in a suburban planned community, you'd love this film
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 04:16 PM
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30. "If" with Malcolm McDowell is the best...
but "Wild IN THe Streets" is good schlocky fun
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FlashHarry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 04:25 PM
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36. If... was great. Wild in the Streets was terrible!
"Fourteen or Fight!" indeed! Although, to be fair, it did give us a great song in Max Frost & the Troopers' "Shape of Things to Come."
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 04:17 PM
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32. Romero

Starring the late, great Raul Julia as Archbishop Oscar Romero of Nicaragua. What a powerful biopic!
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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 04:21 PM
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34. Stanley Kubrick's "Paths of Glory"
with Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove" as a close second.
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GumboYaYa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 04:27 PM
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37. "A Clockwork Orange,"
the utimate anti-establishment film. Kubrick asks you to sympathize with a brutal rapist over establishment control. By the end of the film you do just that. IMO it is by far the most daring anti-establishment film ever.
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BlackVelvet Donating Member (13 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 04:37 PM
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38. Billy Jack
Edited on Wed Oct-15-03 04:37 PM by BlackVelvet
Has anybody seen this one? Oldie but goodie.

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Room101 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 04:55 PM
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39. They Live....
Here is a short clip from the movie.

http://www.theylivenow.co.uk/video/rp/transmission.rm
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Kusala Donating Member (864 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 05:36 PM
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40. Fight Club
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 05:56 PM
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43. Don't Talk About Fight Club
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protect freedom impeach bush now Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 05:43 PM
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41. Catch 22
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