What's up with the "Reds" banner up top?

[LTR]

Does Paramount assume we're commies or something?

Well, my reply is tongue-in-cheek. It is a very good movie, BTW. Warren Beatty did a good job wearing many hats (star, producer, director).

[yy4me]

1. Sure beats "Jesus Camp" although I see that one still

shows up on other pages. Now that I got that off my chest, I'll go see what "Reds" is all about.

[davhill]

2. Google ads

Don't they monitor the contents of the pages they advertise upon? I wonder what algorithm they use to equate democrats=reds. If that isn't Big Brother I don't know what is.

[LTR]

4. I'd recommend it if you like epics

And I like historical movies about that time period as well.

The movie's a true story about a writer named John Reed. He starts writing about the rise of Communism in both the US and Russia, and soon joins them. All in all, it's a good movie (though a bit long), and one guaranteed to freak out any freeper watching it.

Granted, I'm far from being a communist, but a good movie is a good movie.

Here's more:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082979/

[mntleo2]

11. I Knew John Reed's Friend

...Jimmy Smith. He could quote by memory everything that Thomas Jefferson wrote by heart ~ and I mean EVERYTHING when he had but a 4th grade education. He was self-taught, a brilliant man who wrote, lived and taught about the labor movement and the WOBBLIES to the day he died. LOL! I remember opening the paper one day when Jimmy was about, oh, 90 years old. There he was with a big sign on the front page protesting at the Federal Building in downtown Seattle!

The songs they sing in that movie are the songs I learnt at my grandfather's and mother's knee. I did not know until that movie that "I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard" Or "The Big Rock Candy Mountain" were political songs as my parents and grandparents taught them to me as childhood songs. When after seeing the movie, I asked my mother if she had taught me those songs in order to "brainwash" me, she said, "Yes because I wanted you to understand at an early age the importance of true equality and liberty for the working person. I knew you thought they were just children's songs, but I also knew you would grow up some day and understand that these songs meant much more ..." :)


I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard:

I don't want to play in your yard
I don't like you anymore
You'll be sorry when you see me
Sliding down my cellar door
You can't holler down my rainbarrel
You can't climb my apple tree
'Cause I don't want to play in your yard
If ya won't be good to me


Big Rock Candy Mountain

Ohhhh the buzzin' of the bees
And the cigarette trees
And the soda water fountain
The lemonade springs
Where the bluebird sings
An' the big Rock Candy Mountain!

Cat in Seattle <---an fast-becoming old lady with the legacy and stories I heard from my WOBBLY relatives

[davhill]

12. Whether or not it is a good movie

I am curious about how Google determines what ads should be run on which sites.

[Touchdown]

7. There was a very long thread about socialism yesterday.

That, and other threads where Freeps are quoted could be it.

[ReverendDeuce]

3. I click on it and get a trailer for "Flags of our Fathers"...

WTF?

[LTR]

5. It would be funnier if it went to a trailer for "Borat"

Actually, "Flags of our Fathers" is supposed to be about the whole jingoism thing that surrounded Iwo Jima. Clint Eastwood is taking on the whole Jessica Lynch-type thing of exploiting soldiers. The wingnuts will likely be in for a surprise.

[jwirr]

9. Speaking of "Flags of Our Fathers" - that looks like a good movie?

[Shipwack]

10. It does look itneresting...

I thought at first it was going to be a pro-war, conservative movie, but the trailer seems to be a lot more sympathetic to the hidden costs of war, and how even back during the "good war" of WW2 soldiers were used for propaganda purposes...

I still don't want to see it though; I only like watching fun, uplifting movies with car chases and explosions and mindless comedy. Maybe that's shallow of me, but I have enough depressing stuff in my life to want to avoid it in the theater also.

[Touchdown]

6. It's an excellent movie. I'm going to buy it.

So liking good films makes me a commie, is that it?:shrug:

[NoPasaran]

8. Fer chrissake, Ronald-freekin-Reagan said he enjoyed the movie

And he wasn't exactly a bolshevik, ya know!

"Reds" is a very good historical epic. I'm glad it's finally out on DVD.