Well I'm sitting in a hair salon getting my hair cut because those of you who've been
watching me lately realize that I get my hair cut once
a day and as I was leaving, lying on the on the table there was a copy of Rolling
Stone magazine formerly a huge glossy magazine and now looking very much like
the you know Dubuque, Iowa car trader that you might find outside
of the 7-Eleven in Iraq. But they had a segment on their own movies of the
year and I just had a little tiny bit of time to kill so I thought I would take a
look at it and I just wanted to present to you this attitude which we talk
about all the time on the part of the elite who are so absolutely outraged
that their script was rejected or at the very least resuscitated and produced
with the addition of a talking dog. They do not like what's going on in
America and they're not afraid to show it. So it's been a long time since we did
a lightning round guys with back and forth with relatively quick answers so I
thought we might do this. So here's the here's the review written by Peter
Travers in Rolling Stone of the top ten movies of the year and I've marked like
five or six of them or something and forgive me for using my eyeglasses but I
have lost my eyesight in service to my vices. Okay so here we go.
Dunkirk he doesn't have anything particularly marked to say.
By the way that the title is "Movies of the Year" and then directly below that
"In 2017 Hollywood took on the past through today's scary present.
No wonder we want to Get Out #oscarshatetrump."
There's a - Has he seen declining ticket sales? People are leaving their house less, you idiot Rolling Stone
person. Well we'll get to that. Sorry. Number two on his list of great movies was Get Out.
It's a horror movie written by Jordan Peele, who's - Key and Peele were hilarious on Comedy Central
if a little biased. Here's what he wrote though. It's basically,"Daniel Kaluuya doesn't know what he's in
for when his girlfriend Allison Williams takes him home to white suburbia.
But black culture isn't the only thing being co-opted in the year's most exciting
directorial debut. Jordan Peele juggles scares and laughs to skewer racial
hypocrisy in an America that refuses to get woke. Steve, what is the
living hell of America that refuses to get woke today?
I don't know. I really don't.
The fact that a movie like Get Out could be made it speaks volumes
to how far we've come. It really doesn't - doesn't it though? - I don't know
if you've seen it but it is by turns scary and laugh out loud funny.
I just, I adored that movie and to try and make political hay out of it just shows
how desperate they are. That's it. Also shows how unwoke you are.
Well.. Woke up damn you. Okay number three Scotty:Call Me By Your Name.
Here's - I'm gonna have to read this one in its entirety - homophobia has no place in Luca
Guadagnino's epic romance set in Italy in 1983. What a musical prodigy Timothee
Chalamet and his father's handsome assistant, Armie Hammer
I know Armie Hammer - experienced the thrill of first love and the gutting
pain of its loss. An artistic triumph that insists empathy is the best
antidote to intolerance. Are you as shocked as I am Scott that - do you think
Let me rephrase that: do you think America is finally ready for a movie about gay
people or is it just too early at this point for us to simply not just leave
the theater in a violent rage?
You know as far as I don't know when this started
but I remember remarking at some point a decade or two ago how it was notable
that every show suddenly had a gay character in it. You know it was just
like and it wasn't just that you know it was like they were making a big deal
about the fact that every show had a gay character in it.
And you know it was a part of a process that was intentional on the part of Hollywood to
normalize what used to be considered to be aberrant or harmful behavior.
And it's been going on forever and ever so this ain't, you know this is not the
breaking of Brokeback Mountain here. That you know if if they want to make it seem
like this behavior is normal then stop pointing at it and drawing
attention to it in that way. It's just why isn't it just a movie about a
relationship? Why aren't they making them you know,
why is it a big deal that he's homosexual? Yeah I think Peter Travers if you're
watching and I know you are, an artistic triumph that insists empathy is the best
antidote to intolerance would be the story of a young gay man who admits that
he's a conservative and watch what happens to him, watch what happens to him then.
Steve back to you: this is from Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing Missouri
the review by Peter Travers. The end of it says "McDormand and McDonough, a match
forged in fire, catch the helplessness and fury we're all feeling right now.
It's a bit grand isn't it? "That we're all feeling right now."
I'm gonna grant him the editorial excuse of saying when he says that we're all feeling right now
he's talking about the hundreds and hundreds of readers of Rolling Stone
magazine. How is your helplessness and fury meter now Steve?
Is it pretty much pegged? I would have to be woke to watch that movie because I fell asleep
during your description of it. Thank you very much. Thanks very much.
Yeah you need - What is this conjugation of this verb "to wake"?
I don't get that. Woke is an expression Woke is an expression for those people that are
fully aware of the racial social and horrible injustices institutionally
built into this horror of AmeriKKKa that we all live in.
So they're ironically misconjugating the verb?
Well it's the short version of "if you're not outraged you're not paying attention" so you're "woke."
It's you're paying attention in your outrage about everything you see all the time.
It's a made-up word for a made-up problem.
Okay here's what he has to say about The Post, which as you know is the story of The Washington Post.
It's the story of the media writers of magazines defending America from the onrushing
Hitlerian concentration camps that Nixon had ready for anyone who disagreed
with him. Here's what Peter Travers writes at the end of that: "any
relationship to Trump's war against free press is purely intentional." Wah wah wah...
See what I did there? "Streep could be headed for Oscar number
four as a woman spoiling to be heard over an army of patronizing men.
Spielberg speed is of the essence direction speaks with relevant power to
the past, present, and a chilling future." These people are writing and thinking
like the sweet meteor of death is visible in the heavens above us and the
shadow grows in front of our eyes you know by the moment.
And Bill this is the last great thing that's happened in journalism you know and it's 1973 all
over again. That's right. The press is still wearing
that around their neck as the great laurels of bringing down a corrupt man
which you can make the case they did.
Butat that point they got off the train and no more seeing of it.
Tell you what, it's great to see it's great
to see a tribute to the newspaper that came in second on breaking the story.
Awesome. Okay.
Guillermo del Toro, Shape of Water gets this treatment from the progressive left.
It's about a guy - basically it's about a woman who basically falls in love with
The Creature from the Black Lagoon.
"The result speaks volumes about what we
choose to label alien." What we choose to label alien. I choose to label alien
something that is from outside of our particular cultural standards or
something along those lines. Was this Mermidon an illegal alien?
What was this?
He was - I didn't see the movie but - he - let me rephrase that -
I was too busy seeing The Greatest Showman twice.
I was told from the - I could clearly make out from
the trailer that this particular Creature from the Black Lagoon was fully woke.
And therefore deserveth not our censure. Steve what do you what do you think about that?
Oh boy, okay. I have a rule of thumb, Bill. Never see any movie that either the trailer or the
reviews say that "it speaks volumes about" or that "it is a scathing indictment of."
Yeah that's right, that's right. Which means that you're now
basically watching a two-hour long visual policy paper.
You know, I heard all the complaints about the new Star Wars movie which I quite enjoyed because
you know I want to see people battle with lightsabers, I want to watch
spaceships blow up and all the rest. And I want to do this in the dark with my
popcorn not being woke all the time. All right.
I would go to see a movie that speaks volumes about entertainment and is a
scathing rebuke to boredom.
We're almost there folks. Number eight, Detroit
these were the entire paragraph he wrote on it.
Director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal take an incendiary look at the 1967
Detroit race riots still alive and toxic in the police brutality and systematic
racism of today. Audiences stayed away, big mistake.
Detroit is hard to take, it's also impossible to forget.
What apparently is possible to forget - who did I ask last - Me. Yes Scott what apparently
is it is possible to forget is that the ruin of Detroit has been caused by
something like seventy years of uninterrupted Democratic rule.
I'm pretty sure the movie leaves that out. Certainly this review does.
When you think of this
idea of the systematic racism that simply can't be washed out of American cities
where Democrats have basically ruled for 50 60 70 80 years and where the murder
rates rival you know, Honduras.
Well I think the movie is doing poorly for the
same reason that Detroit eventually did poorly and that is that the entire
operations being run by union labor. So I think that's why
it's these it's the screenwriters guild and the Actors Guild and though you know
all the Lollipop Guild and all the other ones and the Lullaby League.
You know, Don't forget the film actors guild. You know at some point - and we
testify to this in two episodes recently - that you know Hollywood is capable of
making an entertaining picture and at some point they will realize that your
message gets across best when you don't pull out a bugle and announce that
you're about to give a message. They won't get that. They will never get that.
Okay two to go very quickly. His review of Ghost Story closes with "Here's an ar-
here's an ardent ambitious challenging experiment that restores our faith in
film as an art form." Steve: "restores our faith in film as an art form."
Is he speaking for himself? Is he's speaking for the country?
I saw a movie recently
that restored my faith in a very small group of filmmakers using film as an art
form but in terms of our faith in film as an art form, my regard for
filmmaking has never been lower and I consider myself to be one once.
Matt Damon. You and your one word two word answers.
You mock me with thy wit.
Here's the last one.
This is the one actually folks to be honest with you.
These are by the way cheaters that's why they run so crooked.
This was the one that made me want to cover this for for this Right Angle episode.
And the last one is the review of Darkest Hour, the Winston Churchill story.
And this is what Peter Travers wrote in Rolling Stone magazine about
Darkest Hour: "Gary Oldman gives the performance of the year as Winston
Churchill in a film that digs into the political repercussions of the battles
on the beaches of Dunkirk in 1940.
Joe Wright's film with its bristling
interior energy is a provocative companion piece to Nolan's epic and tops
2017 with two cinematic takes about a world on the brink of catastrophe.
Sound familiar? Does that sound familiar to what?
To America! To his audience. What does it mean on the brink of
catastrophe? The Germans were conquering France! This is my
entire point of doing this episode. This is what these people think.
They think that the election of Donald Trump is Hitler on the Channel with
waves of bombers coming overhead. You know it is just absolutely insane
it is delusional and it is the reason that Rolling Stone is bankrupt
and that Hollywood is following soon after.
But and let me say Bill as you
well know that of most movies that are trying to capture some sort of
historical moment are telescoping that into the present and so you know they
don't just tell a story of something that happened in 1940.
They are actually trying to say something about the current day.
And that's true of movies that I would think are terrific and movies that I think are are terrible.
Correct.
And you know that's just part of the art form, that's what writers do.
They want to say something about their times and they do it by telling a story about
some other time. That said, I can't I can't help but think
that they're shooting themselves in the foot.
It's not just the writers at Rolling Stone it's the whole industry that they become sycophantically
and symbiotically related to is the whole industry and the political
cronies that are tied in with that industry.
All have been drinking the same
kool-aid and they have all deluded themselves into thinking that middle
America is going out there and droves to see The Shape of Water or you know any
of these movies.
Frankly the only one on this list that you've said that we've
talked about today that I want to see is the Churchill one.
Mmhmm.
And as as our viewers know it's because I just finished reading three volumes of
Churchill. I'm a history buff. Until you said this today I
have no idea what The Shape of Water was about other than it was the title of a
film and I think that I'm probably more typical than the average Rolling Stone
reader of America at large. As I do too. I saw out of the corner of my eye at a
restaurant and having a much finer time than I would have ever watching the show
I saw a little bit of the Golden Globes and I saw
without hearing the people "Oh me?!" and walking up to the podium and
clutching the dear you know golden calf and thanking everybody
for validating them and I look at these people who I associate with
and who frankly I used to be one before I became a better person.
And I look at them clutching these golden statues and I think to myself here for 20 seconds is
a relief from the emptiness and the hollowness that they feel all their
lives and their cynicism and their defects and their terrible terrible
terrible black hole of need that lives inside them and can never be filled and
and Travers is of this stripe. I think it's just ironic that he would that he
would basically refer to this Churchill movie as a warning for our times.
The one thing that I can assure you with a great deal of confidence certainly Scott can
we read the same book and Steve knows history as well: if Winston
Churchill were here today beholding the Donald Trump presidency I don't know how
much of a fan of Donald Trump's he would be but I do know this.
Winston Churchill hated socialism with every cell in his body and
Churchill would have looked at Donald Trump and said this is the man who is
stopping the tyranny of the mind control freaks that make up the Left.
As usual they've got it absolutely backwards.
Not that that's news to anybody I just thought I'd give you an update.
Here in Los Angeles it's raining. Steve talked -
mentioned in our, just before we taped the show, that it's my James
Brown - James Taylor - I'm the hardest-working man in show business.
Beg your pardon. That's my James Taylor moment out here in Los Angeles I've seen fire and now I've seen rain.
This is what - the arrival of rain in Los Angeles presages the
arrival of Kudos season, a two month-long orgy of self-congratulation
of people who were once banned from polite society and if this review is any
indication for damn good reason as well. I'm Bill Whittle this is your Right Angle
team, thanks very much for joining us. We'll see you next week.
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