2005 Conservative Movies

We all knew that they had to exist. This is the list.

I honestly can say that I have not seen the majority of them. From the list I have seen Batman Begins, King Kong and Memoirs of the Geisha. Personally, I only saw Batman Begins as being in line with Conservative values, as it is truly patriotic.

Batman Begins – The film offers a new take on the comic-book hero, especially his origins. Absent are the silly super-villains with their tricks and weaponry. In place of “those wonderful toys” (as the Joker calls the Caped Crusader’s tools of the trade in the first Batman movie), we have a truly dark knight, trained in martial arts and mind-control in the Far East.

As Batman struggles to understand the nature of evil and the difference between justice and revenge, he confronts his most deadly challenge – the League of Shadows (led by the charismatic Ra’s Al Ghul). Ra’s is a mirror image of Batman, where the fight against evil is perverted into a self-righteous, ego trip. In other words, Christian Bale’s Dark Knight ends up battling his darker side.

There’s a strong cast, including Michael Caine as loyal butler Alfred, Katie Holmes as Bruce Wayne’s love interest and Liam Neeson as the villain who seeks to destroy Batman by corrupting him. This is a superhero movie with a message worth contemplating.