[lbo-talk] "great" "conservative" movies

Lenin's Tomb leninstombblog at googlemail.com
Fri Feb 13 10:53:06 PST 2009


On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> 10. Ghostbusters (1984) Seriously, what the fuck? Is Ramis one of the great
> conservative filmmakers now?
>
> It is quite a right-wing, even Reaganite, film in many ways, as is its
sequel. The original is a story of chipper entrepreneurship vs the stupidity of government bureaucrats (especially those environmentalist bastards), and the latter is a cheesy slice of Americana based on a story about some dimwitted foreigner (Russian?) acting as an agent of Oriental evil.



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