If You Miss Just One Movie This Year, Make it ‘Inception’
**Written by Doug Powers
Some of the stars of the new movie “Inception” are hitting the promotional circuit, hell-bent to insult public figures who are respected by a good portion of the American movie-going public.
The movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ellen Page.
In the clip below, Levitt and Page refer to Dick Cheney and Sarah Palin as evil and stupid respectively, while offering as proof nothing but blank stares and rhetoric about mind-expansion plagiarized from quotes on antique LSD blotters.
But first up, Leonardo DiCaprio knocks BP and its CEO Tony Hayward, which under the circumstances I’d be fine with until the Titanic-sized enviro-hypocrite speaks of our earth-destroying lust for oil, completely oblivious to the fact that his private jet — one capable of helping back up air traffic on entire continents by the way — is not powered by potatoes and a watch battery. Accept your larger-than-most portion of the blame for oil demand, Leo.
I saw a preview of “Inception” this morning — too bad these vacuous, hypocritical doofuses have already talked me out of giving them a dime:
It’s my sincere hope that everyone who would have paid to see “Inception” instead sends the money, in the name of Leonardo DiCaprio, to any number of non-profit organizations assisting in cleaning the Gulf of the spilled oil that otherwise would have ended up in the enormous fuel tank of environmentalist Hollywood.
Breitbart.tv quotes John Nolte at Big Hollywood: “Well, here’s one way to entice Middle America into your film, insult them by having your three main stars hit the promotional circuit and savage Dick Cheney and Sarah Palin as stupid and evil.”
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I agree. First Hollywood box office movie I wanted to see in years. I figured it would play out like this.
Hey Leo, when you come up with the solution to the cold fusion problem let me know and I will start coming to your movies. Until then shut your piehole.
I have not been to a movie in twenty years, but this is ONE I would not go see if I did go to movies! The list of those actors I will not watch anymore is getting really really long.
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Hey Doug, do you ever listen to the Dennis Miller radio show? I never cared for him much but listening to him last night, I really like the “cat”. Great guests. LaVar Burton, Gary Sinese. He is more Libertarian than Conservative I suspect, but if you get a chance check him out.
It’s a good movie. I saw it last night and I’m planning on seeing it again soon. Feel free to watch An American Carol for the 65th time and whilst listening to Lee Greenwood if you want, but that’s about all you’ll be able to do if you’re looking for movies where the actors aren’t left-wing. I mean, they all *believe* this stuff, at least these two said it out loud instead of pretending.
Didn’t bother playing the video – hearing left-wing environmentalist junk out of the mouths of celebrities is nothing new to me. Hear one, heard them all.
Still, just looking at the dude in the capture from the video, with his eyes closed – isn’t he the very image of environmental leftist self-righteousness. Certainly looks like one smug enough to enjoy the smell of his own gas.
Dick Cheney.. a seed of compassion, Sarah Palin… maybe some intelligence… some expansion of the mind. A lot of people causing a lot of problems… Did I just go too far?”
Yeah lil’ chickie maybe you did, seeing that you probably don’t even know a thing about Dick Cheney or Sarah Palin, other than what penetrated your young cochleas during more lucid moments at all those Hollywood parties. I’m happy for your financial success, but disabuse yourself of the notion that your blithe comments mean anything to thinking people. Now go back to your bong.
LOL. Great line.
I thought about going to see the flick, but then decided that the carbon footprint from my truck just couldn’t justify the drive to the theater.
Yeah right. I’d rather go out to the dump and shoot rats than see anything with these smug a-holes in it.
Earlier this week, an AP reviewer gave this film four stars. Now I know the reason; it fits their agenda to a tee.
More like hateful, partisan democraps.
Who in hell are Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ellen Page, and who annointed them to speak for the American people? What gives them the credentials to determine suitability of any political figure? Same for Leo. He needs to stick to acting.
They are all spoiled ‘Hollywood’ twits who wouldn’t know reality if it smacked them up-side their smarmy heads. Remember they are actors. Their job is to follow what the script says whether or not it is real, true or sensible. Talk about being led astray. The Emperor definately has no clothes…
Go to the bargain showing, buy a ticket for anything else, and then go see the picture, if you must.
to what purpose did their comments even serve? If they are promoting a movie, who cares what they think? There must have been a reason they felt compelled to speak on those subjects…was it to intentionally put people off? Or was it (and my personal opinion) to make it more palatable to the Michael Moore gang?
Environut Harrison Ford to his environut critics:
Words to live by.
Ever notice the lock-step of “non-conformists”? They kant hep it…they never hatched an original thought in their poor, vacant lives….
Wasn’t going to waste my money. I wish people had enough self-discipline to forgo movies and television long enough to make Hollywood hurt.
A cursory review of DiCaprio’s life experience tells of parental divorce since the age of 1, his best friend in life overdosing when DiCaprio was just entering adulthood, and then most of his adult-life experience being learned by sitting in make-up trailers for 12 hours a day, dating top supermodels for short, interrupted clips of time, memorizing fictional scripts and being compensated in annual amounts of money that could sustain one American family for multiple generations.
What kind of an environment is that to garner any normalcy of personal, life experience, no less an adequate command of specialized subjects like petrochemical, geological and environmental science?
I’m not saying that people can rise above their circumstances. Take Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and James Brown, the hardest working man in show business, as examples. Both share similar upbringings of abject, Southern-rural poverty and broken families. Money aside, Thomas rose up to become a distinguished jurist. Brown…well, the drugs and violence in his life are a pretty good indicator of what he was all about.
Of these two, who would you have consulted on anything of relevance or importance?
Clarence Thomas proves that one can rise above a difficult developmental stage and become a responsible, credible source for knowledge and advice. But for many others, the opposite is all too often the case.
I view Bill Clinton, Al Gore and Barack Obama as incredibly damaged individuals, each based on their unique upbringings. I also believe that their excesses, their very thoughts and actions which hurt both themselves and our Nation today, can be attributed to the misguided coping and defense mechanisms that they learned to survive their difficult upbringings. It is a mystery for me as to why our society has subscribed to the philosophy that “personal lives don’t matter.”
In the case of “leaders” like Clinton, Gore, Obama and DiCaprio, shouldn’t background and life experience, at the very least, be given a cursory review before we buy their arguments hook, line and sinker?
Amuses me to no end how people regard an oil spill as near doomsday! The earth’s eco-system is not as egg-shell fragile as the media and Greens would have us believe or else it’d all been gone eons ego after volcanoes, fires, deep freezes and meteors. Rain forests would sprout again even after being razed over and oil-bogged marshes will recover and yes, those oh-so precious sea birds will start laying again. Maybe not on Man’s time and impatience — or humbling perspective. My nephew asked an interesting question this week: If an oil spill is a “catastrophe” and “sheer devastation” and “total destruction” as the media cites, then what is an asteroid hitting earth called?
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Was not planning on seeing it anyway.
I figure I’ll buy a ticket to Toy Story 3 and then wind up in the wrong theater.
I wasn’t planning on seeing it, and now I have one more reason not to.
My favorite Leonardo DiCaprio scene was when he drown in Titantic.
Why aren’t they out promoting carbon neural movies? How about running their cameras off wind turbines and solar panels? How about all the self-proclaimed important “stars” put their private jets in mothballs? How about down sizing their life styles? How about shutting their over paid yaps? How about spending time to pick up tarballs on the gulf coast, or would that destroy their manicures? I’m not interested in their onscreen or off screen opinions.
I’m seeing Inception tomorrow because Christopher Nolan is one of the most consistently interesting filmmakers working today. If I was like the reactionary folks posting here and at Big Hollywood who refused to see anything that had a liberal in it, I’d be pretty much down to reading Atlas Shrugged and the Bible. Alec Baldwin is a retarded liberal hypocrite, but he’s funny as hell on 30 Rock and I’m going to miss him when he’s gone after this season.
BTW, I own An American Carol and it’s not very good. As my review concluded:
While it’s natural to want to credit or demerit An American Carol based on one’s politics – humorless liberals (redundant, I know) won’t get most of the jokes and desperate-for-payback conservatives will talk themselves into thinking it’s funnier than it is – the bottom line is that even though I was sympathetic to Zucker’s objectives, it just didn’t make me laugh enough to recommended it too highly.
First scene in this movie he washes up on shore.
Saw this movie on someone else’s dime. DiCaprio is his usual self-absorbed, limited range actor,the guy in the clip above is ok, the girl, weak (Sarah Palin has WAY more sex appeal) plot thin, so all the complications are used to fluff it up. Ok as entertainment – seen much worse, but nothing to rush out and see.
BUT – these two may not have noticed the 2nd unit flying off to Japan, Mobassa (I think, wasn’t paying close attention), Paris and New york for shots. OK for a film crew to burn oil but not you peons. (Yeah, maybe it’s all special effects..) In one scene DiCaprio gets out of a jet helicopter and heads for the Gulfstream, and I figured it was probably his jet and he was headed somewhere for the weekend…
Gosh, I never knew that fear caused ignorance. I thought having one’s head shoved up one’s anal oriface caused ignorance. It must be so, since so many of these Hollywood types are enjoying a blissful existence. Isn’t that what they believe…ignorance is bliss?
Juno, Page is like one of those eco-light bulbs…doesn’t need much (brain-)power to light up a room, and it’s filled with a toxic substance, and Levitt, well, he’s just there for the chicks….
Hey, Ellen Page! Just because you made a movie called “Smart People” doesn’t mean you are.
Attached to Hoover Dam this girl couldn’t light up a room. I’ve never heard of her, figured she worked cheap.
Little Joe made his bones on Third Rock From The Sun with John Lithgow, French Stewart and Kristen Johnson.
Nice breakdown Brian. These people keep me slackjawed with their hubris.
PSA, boys n girls: every time you purchase a movie ticket or DVD, it enables a hollyweird hypocrite to goose-step in a perpetual left-turn of sanctimonious moonbattery.
Remember, only you can prevent sanctimonious moonbattery.
I have to agree (and this will be a nice flick) but it is still galling to have to dig out my cash for this movie knowing what I do about these folks. They are crystalline-pure ingrates. My BTW and as you are doubtless aware: Were they filming in England they would have half the paycheck they get in the US. That’s why most of the celeb Brits and eurotrash live here, at least for now.
HAHAHAHAHA I didn’t catch this line. Very nice. LOL
mmmmmmm potatoes, vodka…..
It’ll win all sorts of awards, and those orgies of self-congratulation award shows will give all these “actors” a platform in which to insult patriots and spew invective.
Then a month later it’ll be in the $5 bin at Walmart with all the other award winning pieces of crap.
Well, I saw Inception today and while it is not the great movie that many critics have been saying it is, it is far from a bad one, and yes I recommend it. Look, there is the movie and there is the reality of the people behind movie making. One only make oneself look foolish by objecting to a movie (which the individual in question has not seen) simply because of the half-witted comments of some of its stars. Telling people not to see a movie on that basis is silly. Even the delightful Debbie Schlussel recommends the film. I like to think Mr. Powers can do better but I have my doubts. Please, there is nothing anti-american about Inception.
The most wonderful movie about America is know is Days of Heaven, produced by leftists and starring at least two leftists. The most wonderfully pro-American, anti-hollywood movie (of the past decade) is Team America: World Police, but I know people on this site have very mixed feelings about the South Park creators.
In short, instead of relying on the opinion of people who refuse to see a movie, go to rottentomatoes.com, check out the reviews, and decide for yourself if it worth your time and money.
These fruity metrosexual bimbos have no acting talent. The last movie I saw in a theater was either LOTR Return of the King or 300. I forget which. It has been that long. No way in hell would I ever watch AVATAR. Director James Cameron is a douche bag.
Vapid, left-wing Hollywood actors spouting democrat party talking-point twaddle? I’m stunned. I may have to go lie down…
If you want to boycott movies because they have left-leaning actors, I totally support your decision. You’ll just need to find some other source of entertainment. I saw Inception last night, and I thought it was great. Chris Nolan knows how to ratchet up the tension.
or if you have the patience to wait another month, the 99-cent bin at Big Lots.
I couldn’t care less about their opinions about politics …… if the clueless jackasses would keep their ignorance to themselves.
Instead they use their celebrity to promote vile, hate filled opinions about things about which they know nothing.
As with almost all movies nowadays, I’ll wait for it to show up on cable.
Fear not my brothers. The remake of RED DAWN is coming!
Wolverines! ! !
I’m leary about this and hope it’ll be good. It’s hard to improve on a classic. Especially in today’s Hollywierd.
Personally, I’m waiting for the day when computer-rendered “synthespians” completely take over in the motion-picture industry, and each and every so-called “Actor” and “Actress” has to go out and go get a real job somewhere.
And that may be closer than we think: I keep hearing stories about how studios are plowing huge amounts of money into CGI technologies, as flesh-and-blood performers are rapidly being considered an expensive liability rather than an asset.
On the contrary. Go back and watch Brainstorm, Strange Days or Dark City instead, as they’re the source material Mr. Nolan is stealing heavily from…
I could care less, the movie employed a lot of people who needed jobs. I’ll celebrate the capitalistic side. I am going to see the movie. I watch maybe one a year and I’ve wanted to see this one for ages. Last one I saw was Star Trek. Damn Chris Pine is FINE.
AlohaGuy said:
I hope someone had the courtesy to throw him back…oh wait that would polute the BP oil spill
I have never heard of this show/movie until now. Not that I would watch it anyway.
But, then again, I just got back for watching the military fly-overs at McChord AFB in WA.
Awesome. From the P-51A to the latest B-2, F22, C17–the works.
Must have been 150K plus in attendance. And then there’s tomorrow.
Go see ‘Despicable Me’ instead.
No-it’s not exactly high entertainment(it’s a cartoon but it’s funny and the ‘Minions’ alone are worth the price of your ticket.
Its coming. The actors certainly are expensive, and sometimes uncooperative, and sometimes shameful liabilities. Just ask any producer or director. At least CGI performers always show up on time, won’t demand outrageous salaries, can’t smash cars and end up arrested for DUIs, and don’t throw furious, profanity and threat laden fits that can be recorded and show up on youtube.
Soooo, some of TEH ONE’s cabinet are moonlighting?
Better yet, send it where it will REALLY stick in their craw…send your money to the Republican congressional candidate of your choice.
Oh, and one other thing: The best indicator of the moral sickness of Hollywood can be measured by comparing the treatment of Elia Kazan versus Roman Polanski.
It’s really not that hard to do EQ. I won’t see anything with a brain dead lib as a lead actor so this one is out for sure.
I’m sure Leo is going to cry big tears that he doesn’t get my $12 or how ever much tickets are going for these days but I am staging my one person protest.
As you stated if thousands or even millions of us did this it would make a statement.
But the sheep of the US have to be entertained all the time. Not me. Books are a GREAT alternative!
Elia Kazan and Leni Riefenstahl both died in September 2003. Both were honored in the “In Memoriam” part of the 2004 Oscars. I thought it showed a lot about what is wrong with Hollywood when avowed Nazi Riefenstahl got more applause than anti-Communist Kazan.
Why waste money going to a theater to see the thing, since it’ll be on cable in a month or two anyway? At least that way you’re not contributing directly to these shlubs. Buying tickets to these movies is like contributing to the political campaigns of people you hate.
Hollywood and Obama: just doing the work the KGB won’t do anymore.
The old Soviet guys must be laughing about this because they used to have to pay Americans to act like traitors.
Went to see Sorcerers Apprentice…don’t bother. So many movies of late really stink on ice. Yes Jenn, Star Trek rocked and the closing sequence with titles and the Original and REAL Star Trek theme is absolutely the bomb! I put the DVD in and go to that and crank the Surround Sound. I feel good after that – and the movie is great too….just love the music. Michael Giacchino (sp) is a great composer and did a fantastic job.
They are too stupid to see their own stupidity.Are they not part of the “cut taxes for the rich crowd”we hear so much about?They should be on the defensive to protect themselves from big brother and not out spewing propaganda.Or are they exempt?
And these people, who live in fantasy land pretty much their entire lives have an opinion that matters because…?
The joke used to be that steal from one source and it’s plagerism, steal from multiple sources and it’s research. The same with movies. Well, I liked Brainstorm, etc. In fact, I can go one better for in truth the one item Mr. Nolan seems to have borrowed most from is Alfred Bester’s novel “The Demolished Man” with a dash of Hitchcock’s Vertigo. Look, this is a game that can be played forever. For example, don’t see Days of Heaven because it rips off the biblical tale of Abraham and Sarah. The fact is that it matters far more how the movie is done than what it is about. I lost track over how many movies/TV shows Avatar stole from. Nobody cares and any lawsuits will go nowhere (Mr. Cameron only got in trouble when he stole from one source — Harlan Ellison — for his Terminator movies). Is there any possibility that a movie you like borrows heavily from multiple sources?
At no point did I say that Inception was wholly original, likely an impossibility. At no point did I lavish praise on the movie (I consider it a fascinating failure). And if you didn’t like the film, assuming you actually saw it, fine with me. But Mr. Powers’s comments condemning a movie he refuses to see remain silly and I will not back down from them.
When I see a movie whose actors who have badmouthed conservatives, I buy a ticket for different movie then slip into the movie I want to see. Be sure to go to a showing you know won’t have limited seats.
You completely miss his point. He did not “condemn” the movie. He’d rather not put his own money into the pockets of celebrities using their success to act as aggressive, hateful propagandists for the advancement of collectivism and tyranny.
That tells us something about him.
You apparently have no problem with them getting your money. You even chastise those like Doug who have a problem with the propagandists getting their money.
That tells us something about you.
possibly because they know movies like that don’t make any money. For all the preaching these hollyweird libtards do it still comes down to whether they are making the almighty dolla’
Look up cultivation theory. It just plants a negative seed in people’s minds giving them a general impression without actually knowing anything. when the time comes to pick a candidate, all they’ll remember ids that they heard Palin referred to as stupid, so they’ll adopt and perpetuate that point of view.
Yes, that I judge movies on their merits (that’s what adults do) and will not get hung up on making lame propaganda points about the political affiliations of various film stars. Leftists politicize everything. We can and should do better.
As I said, you completely miss his point.
However, it is only a small thing, and each of us have to balance the small things in ways that work for us. Going to the movie only contributes a very small amount of money to the propagandists. If far more of your money goes to things like contributions to the campaigns of conservatives, then enjoying a good movie made by a******s is nothing to feel guilty about. It’s an indulgence.
Just don’t kid yourself about where your money goes.
Well, as far as I know, neither one of these young actors have yet kissed Castro or Chavez’s a@@es. Still, I am put off this movie. As far as the argument that we should separate the actors’ politics and judge the quality of their acting and films, it gets harder and harder to do the more smug and obnoxious they get.
Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ellen Page all displayed their ignorance, vindictiveness, misguided state of mind, lack of knowledge, bias, and poor to terrible speaking-communication skills.
I won’t be spending a dime on their movie.
With such low intelligence, small intellect, and low brain power as the three of them displayed, they deserve to be in proverty and homeless, not wealthy and pretending to be Oracles speaking down to the huddled masses straining at the gnat on their every, unenlghtened, perverse, ignorant, unifnormed word.
It would be right and just for society to shun them, like so many who mumble meaningless rumblings to themselves as they readjust their filthy, stench laden blanket while they return to their stream grate.
The last movie I went to a theater to watch was True Lives. This drivel won’t make me come out of my cocoon.
In the past 20 years I have been to the theater to see The Mask of Zoro, Twister, Independence Day, and Ransom.
Outside the home, I’ve watched more movies in my air travels.
In the next 20 years its highly doubtful I’ll see even see as many as four films in the theater.
Okay, call me cheap….I don’t mind
Any films that interest me, I’ll just wait til it hits cable, or I’ll buy the DVD if it really interests me….especially when theater going around my area runs $7+ for a matinee.
Smug Much?
Ellen Page I never heard of her. The male actor I recognize from when he was a child actor…I am not going to pay good money to watch a movie that would hire these “Tools”. Holistic Intelligence? When the movie flops try getting another acting gig Ellen honey – Pretentious Much? Are they trying to turn a wouldbe audience off….are they angry at the movie’s producers?
If you’re curious to see the movie, just do what I do. Go to a multiplex, pay for a movie that has more soft-spoken actors and go to which ever screen you want.
The left has control of Hollywood, the press, the white house and congress.
I’m not gonna clam up in my shell. I like movies.
Isn’t it interesting how Hollywood tempts us into their propaganda films with special effects. Avatar is the best example. You HAD to pay for it to see it in 3D. And I did and I took my wife…two tickets. I loved the special effects, well worth the price of admission, but I had to endure a story line that sucked pond scum. We just laughed it off.
I watch very few of Hollywood’s offerings. Mainly because of people like Leo etc. with their political lecturing. I still seem to have a very enjoyable life and don’t miss them at all. There is so much to fill my time, I choose not to enable their hubris.
OT: Did anyone see THE CLOSER last night? Talk about strawman arguments. It was my wife’s favorite show up until last night.