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March 13, 2009
Full of Awe
Frank J. Fleming thinks the problem with Barack Obama may be that he is too awesome: ...I am an enlightened individual who fully understands and appreciates President Obama (pbuh), but can we expect the same from other countries with non-Obama leaders? Those people have never produced a person like Obama, not to mention elected him, so it is natural for them to be scared and intimidated by someone so beyond their understanding. To them, meeting Obama must be like encountering Jesus riding a dinosaur -- both reassuring and intimidating at the same time. It's natural they'll be confused.As usual, Frank is right. The British clods just don't get it. The guy is just too awesome. I mean, take this totally awesome DVD collection.
If someone gave me a DVD collection like, I'd be like, awed. Totally. As it is, I'm so awed that I'm ashamed to admit that there are two films in the collection that I have not seen -- The Searchers, and The General (although I don't know whether the latter is the 1927 or the 1998 version. Considering that the earlier one involves the Confederate Army and the later one the IRA, I suspect it's the earlier one.) The outcome of all of this is that I've just added The Searchers to my Netflix queue. I'd like to add The General too, but I need to know which one! How personally awesome can things get? posted by Eric on 03.13.09 at 12:15 PM
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The Searchers is the best film John Wayne ever made, and a great film by any measure. I hope you enjoy it Bob Sykes · March 13, 2009 02:28 PM Make that AFI list. Captain Ned · March 13, 2009 02:37 PM watch the buster keaton version and note that when he does the stunts, he is actually doing the stunts. in the scene where he pulls on the water supply to the steam engine, and he falls to the track... he broke his neck and didnt know it. in fact. i would recomend all the keaton movies (as he is one of my favorites). college is real good... when he does the forward roll with a coffee on a saucer, take time to put it to frame by frame... its a real cup, sacuer, and it has real liquid in it... trips on a carpet, falls forward, and in teh process rotates his arm and cup in such a way that he pops up with the coffe unspilled. and it has some of the funniest black face stuff in it (he has to black face himself since he is poor and cant get work! so he poses as an african to get work. the fun starts when a woman in the kitchen thinks he is fine. then they find out he is stealing their jobs) and beware when his parmours jock says bring him something you CANT put your thumb in. I like him better than chaplin... chaplin you were never really sure which side he was on, even when he was protestnig one of them.
artfldgr · March 13, 2009 03:58 PM Like, AWESOME! I'm like, so ENLIGHTENED! Gringo · March 13, 2009 07:29 PM It's natural they'll be confused. That totally awesome Obama better be careful. Confusion and misunderstanding can lead to war. M. Simon · March 14, 2009 06:23 AM Marcus Aurelius: "The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." M. Simon · March 14, 2009 06:26 AM It is interesting that over half of the films on this list are historical fiction, that is, movies based on real people or real incidents. That includes The General, Citizen Kane, The Godfather, Gone With the Wind, Schindler's List, Lawrence of Arabia, Raging Bull, and several others. chocolatier · March 14, 2009 10:19 AM Post a comment
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The list of movies is simply the top 25 from the American Film Institute's 2007 list of the top 100 American movies. The order they're listed in the Daily Mail article is exactly as they're listed in the SFI list.