{"id":852,"date":"2016-04-24T07:40:26","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T22:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=852"},"modified":"2017-07-06T19:42:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T10:42:00","slug":"the-finest-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/the-finest-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"The finest hours"},"content":{"rendered":"

Folks, I’m about to watch the new Jeff Nichols movie, Midnight special<\/em>, so this is a chance to give you a reminder of movies conservatives should watch.<\/p>\n

By the way, the Batman v<\/em>. Superman<\/em> movie is pretty good & very American. I feel for the director, because I resemble his case: Trying to give popular spectacles intellectual & moral dignity in a world where the people who are pretentious about learning show their vulgarity by not finding insight in popular stuff & the people who enjoy popular spectacles concur that the things they enjoy are mindless. Few people are willing to say that criticism of popular spectacles should include an attempt to understand their intentions & some knowledge of the clever stuff they have to say. But the super-hero movie really is hard to bear because it’s a super-hero movie; not for a conservative audience, for the most part.<\/p>\n

The finest hours, however, is. Great movie, was killed by the distributor\/studio & it’s going to end up teaching a lesson to people who worked hard on it, that it’s not worth it or even possible to show American audiences stories about great things in America’s pretty-recent past. It’s up to you, folks, to make this movie count & show your preferences.<\/p>\n

I heard about this from\u00a0Mr. Armond White, lately NR’s movie reviewer, & I’m probably the last guy who admires him–me & my friend–so we talked it over & we watched The finest hours<\/em>\u2013a Churchill title that!\u2013& I’ve been too busty to give a\u00a0full review, but it\u2019s high time I tell you, as a foreigner, but a friend\u2013it\u2019s your patriotic duty to watch this movie. I\u2019ve not seen anything this American since, I guess, American sniper<\/em>. I\u2019ll link to that\u2013go to my website,I was on fire that day<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Mr. Armond White thought this was all-American, too. It\u2019s a heart-breaking story, but you cannot beat it for grit. It\u2019s not Southern & it\u2019s not Western, & it\u2019s New England all over, but you\u2019ve gotta see it. It is free of the sordid in a way now almost unseen\u2013like the other \u201950s movie, Brooklyn<\/em>. Read <\/a>what I had to say about that, too. This movie does even less to prettify America\u2013but it shows grit & humanity like you wouldn\u2019t believe. This flopped terribly. It\u2019s not the latest Marvel\/Disney thing. America went to see Star wars<\/em> or what have you. It\u2019s a damned shame.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t have anything bad to say about this movie now. There\u2019s a surfing shot. Insufferable. There, one bad thing. The rest is just astounding. Watch it & thank me later. Watch this movie & support these guys, if you can. I have no idea how they got the money\u00a0for this & without people like you shouting from the rooftops that they did good by America, they might not get the chance to do it again. I don\u2019t have the solution for this sort of problem, but I\u2019m trying.<\/p>\n

Let me tell you another thing. There are no more stars. It\u2019s over. You gotta fix that somehow. But for now, there are actors who do good.\u00a0My friend & I were talking today\u00a0about how Mr. Casey Affleck is so much better than his famous, rewarded, successful brother. Watch him in this movie & you\u2019ll know what I mean. For American stoicism, the only he could do better is if he were Atticus Finch. We all have this in common folks, we share in it & you\u2019ll know it when you see it. My young miss thinks she sees it in me, too, & I\u2019ve not yet had the stuff to let her down.<\/p>\n

But a lot of other guys look great, because they look like Americans\u2013not the American look\u2013but actors who play Americans. I\u2019ve seen those looks on Americans\u2019 faces. I\u2019ve seen the gestures. These actors do right by people. Mr. Chris Pine, lately doing a Shatner impersonation, does a job you\u2019ll remember him for, pardon my preposition\u2026 Mr. Ben Foster, who stopped playing psychos. Mr. Eric Bana, in a smaller role, as a Southern officer. He shows a few things about why the South still matters. & lots of other small roles, including a plucky young woman. & a gruff guy you\u2019ll know but maybe not by name, a Mr. Graham McTavish. Try to take your eyes off him when he\u2019s on screen.<\/p>\n

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Folks, I’m about to watch the new Jeff Nichols movie, Midnight special<\/em>, so this is a chance to give you a reminder of movies conservatives should watch.<\/p>\n

By the way, the Batman v<\/em>. Superman<\/em> movie is pretty good & very American. I feel for the director, because I resemble his case: Trying to give popular spectacles intellectual & moral dignity in a world where the people who are pretentious about learning show their vulgarity by not finding insight in popular stuff & the people who enjoy popular spectacles concur that the things they enjoy are mindless. Few people are willing to say that criticism of popular spectacles should include an attempt to understand their intentions & some knowledge of the clever stuff they have to say. But the … Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":853,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions\/853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}