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pintobean

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2. What a shame.

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Tue Dec 25, 2012, 09:00 AM

Dec 2012

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I just watched "Home Alone" again. I don't remember it as being so conservative. [View all] redgreenandblue Dec 2012 OP

Naw, it's a fun movie DreWId Dec 2012 #1

What a shame. pintobean Dec 2012 #2

John Hughes was extremely conservative. Pale Blue Dot Dec 2012 #3

probably keroro gunsou Dec 2012 #4

This does not surprise me. I did not in fact know this. redgreenandblue Dec 2012 #27

You have to consider that he was quite old even during his directing and writing prime Puzzledtraveller Dec 2012 #35

His 'era' was the Reagan era. Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller, etc. JaneyVee Dec 2012 #36

Ferris Bueller struck me as a conservative Enrique Dec 2012 #45

The 80s seemed to be the watershed in unified mind control from the media. Egalitarian Thug Dec 2012 #5

And, as a result, my age group (the 40-55s) is the most conservative. Fawke Em Dec 2012 #33

That's pretty much the thesis of David Sirota's book Z_I_Peevey Dec 2012 #40

thanks for the recommendation tabbycat31 Dec 2012 #41

I Don't See Some of The Things You See ProfessorGAC Dec 2012 #6

The moms career is not mentioned explicitly. redgreenandblue Dec 2012 #21

I actually think it's based on an old German children's story RZM Dec 2012 #7

Interesting. Thanks. zonkers Dec 2012 #8

Well it is one of those "Rich People Problems" movies. slampoet Dec 2012 #9

I thought it had a pro birth control message... whistler162 Dec 2012 #10

I think you're analyzing it way too much. Honeycombe8 Dec 2012 #11

I have come to the point of view that no movie, book or story exists in a vacuum. redgreenandblue Dec 2012 #22

That's a good thing, right? Honeycombe8 Dec 2012 #32

I'm not saying it is wrong. redgreenandblue Dec 2012 #34

I just disagree, I guess. It's necessary for the cops to be incompetent.... Honeycombe8 Dec 2012 #37

I guess at the end of the day it is unnecessary to filter everything through a political lense. redgreenandblue Dec 2012 #38

It's the writer, not the director, who's responsible for the content. Honeycombe8 Dec 2012 #42

:) I make it a habit to think about an authors motives. redgreenandblue Dec 2012 #43

I don't watch comedies with politics in mind... nt Comrade_McKenzie Dec 2012 #12

Not much conservative, as Dash87 Dec 2012 #13

I never really got that sort of vibe from that movie (or any of his movies for that matter) Proud Liberal Dem Dec 2012 #14

It's probably just a sign of the times and not a deliberate message lunatica Dec 2012 #15

I'm not saying it is deliberate. redgreenandblue Dec 2012 #23

You know what I thought was interesting... PCIntern Dec 2012 #16

I took the condition of the house at the end as being part of the "christmas miracle". redgreenandblue Dec 2012 #24

Wow, really? Merry Xmas Scrooge! Logical Dec 2012 #17

As one poster already wrote.... ShadesOfBlue Dec 2012 #18

In Sixteen Candles, the boy she likes is a "good guy" because he declines fuck a passed out girl but bettyellen Dec 2012 #19

gosh H2O Man Dec 2012 #20

Your tin foil is on a little too tight SpartanDem Dec 2012 #25

The director is a hard-core conservative. redgreenandblue Dec 2012 #30

The movie wass released right at the beginning of "Desert Storm" KurtNYC Dec 2012 #26

Oh ffs! HappyMe Dec 2012 #28

Oh brother! WI_DEM Dec 2012 #29

Oh, heaven forefend, a Christmas movie has CHRISTIAN THEMES :O BarackTheVote Dec 2012 #31

The director is a pretty conservative guy AngryAmish Dec 2012 #39

I hope "Personal growth through learning self-reliance" is not a RW theme cthulu2016 Dec 2012 #44