Nolte — He’s Still Got It!
I’d have to say that my very favorite part of this little slice of comedy gold is the fact that Nolte considers a film based on a Mark Halperin book left-wing.
Of course, if all of the 700 people who claimed they would rather watch The Undefeated had paid to see it in a theater, I think its box office take would have doubled.
There’s a colon missing in the Whiskey Fire link.
I can supply some of those.
If you think I’m paying good money for one of your broken-down second-hand high-mileage colons, you’ve got another think coming.
By reverse colonectomy?
There seems to be another movie out now called “Undefeated” about a high school football team in Memphis.
http://www.avclub.com/articles/undefeated,69408/
How long before some winger “accidentally” reports its box office as belonging to the Sarah Palin pick?
You know, when you really think about it, Luke Skywalker was also undefeated, so in a manner of speaking, it would be perfectly reasonable to attribute the combined grosses of all six Star Wars movies to Sarah Palin.
Luke wasn’t undefeated. He lost a duel to and got his hand sliced off by Darth Vader at the end of “The Empire Strikes Back.”
He was also defeated by a wampa on the planet Hoth, also in “Empire.”
Flesh wounds, nothing more!
Ugh.
The geek neurons in my brain must respond to a Star Wars Universe reference on the internet, no matter how wrong I am, or how irrelevant my comment is.
I blame Jar Jar.
Jar Jar Jinx
You could also say he got his ass kicked by the Emperor at the end of Return of the Jedi, and only survived because of his father’s sacrifice.
You could also say we put more analytic effort into this than the creators of The Undefeated.
The non-Palin Undefeated is up for an Oscar.
There was also a film called The Undefeated starring John Wayne and Rock Hudson about a band of ex-confederates going to Mexico after the Civil War.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Undefeated_%281969_film%29
The Day the Clown Cried finally has worthy competition.
I bet that would have been big in France.
For those not faint of heart,
The script and some scenes from the film
http://www.cinemavirtualis.com/clowncried.html
For Nolte, anybody not goose-stepping with him and Palin, is a leftist.
“Nolte–he’s still got it”?
Perhaps another course of antibiotics would help?
Nah – let the disease run its course.
I think is already in the tertiary stage and has infected the neurological system.
Winning an internet poll? Explains why Ron Paul has been president since Netscape Navigator.
No. It would’ve taken a bit more than 700 people to have doubled “The Undefeated’s” box office. After 4 weeks, the film took in less than $120,000 (of which $65,000 was earned in its first three DAYS). Taking an average of $8 per ticket (Nat’l Ass’n of Theater Owners figures show that the average ticket price was about $7.90 in 2010, so we’ll be conservative–so to speak–and estimate a mere 10 cent increase for 2011), the film would’ve needed to sell another 15,000 tickets to double its box office. (On the other hand, it only needed to sell about 6000 copies on DVD to double the box office, and it wouldn’t surprise me in the least for some conservative front group to have bought up that many copies on the day of release in much the same way they do all those right-wing “best-selling” books.)
What has Ernst Nolte written now? I liked his Three Faces of Fascism when I read it in college.
Well the guy is a Holocaust revisionist. I can see his appeal to some.
The American historian Deborah Lipstadt in a 2003 interview stated:
Godwin window?
Except the guy actually was writing about Hitler. It doesn’t count.
Godwin only applies to analogies to Hitler, not actual references to WWII in a historical setting.
Nolte has written many hysterical (double entendre intended) Game Change posts. For example:
Just wait, Obama is going to move the start date of spring up to make this true.