Nothing from Tombstone?

Blasphemy

At one point Life magazine published some pics during WW2 of GI's dead on a beach, about three bodies as I recall. FDR supposedly got hundreds of letters "Why are you killing our boys" ect.
Its amazing to me how visual we are. Its a real shortcoming.

I may just be nit picking but it seems to me that Zach could have phrased it better.

Whats that got to do with what were talking about? Necessary or not, Handlen (whose writing I like and respect) makes it sound like Vietnam was the first war America had been involved in a long time. Clearly not the case.

"Americans were getting their first real taste of what actual war was like in footage shipped home from Vietnam"
Does WW2 and Korea not count? They may not have been on TV but in terms of death and cost they seem a lot like "actual war" to me.

The sad thing is there is probably a great movie waiting to be made about Hank Sr. Oh well maybe someone will try again in another 50 years.

Does it have his famous appearance at the Opry where the audience basically demanded he do like ten encores?

To me that is a terrifying subtext of the Exorcist-if God exists, then why does He allow the difilement and torture of an innocent girl? He is either powerless or indifferent? I guess this is the Job's question.

2010 is a severly underrated movie.

As the culture grows more secular, this movie may lose its power. For this southern boy raised in the hellfire Baptist tradition I found it quite effective.
I think your sympathy for asshole cops might be connected to how crime ridden a particular society is.

Point of Impact is great. Stephen Hunter writes great thrillers

Dudley!? Did you abuse your authority again in the name of your own twisted agenda? [Dudley shrugs adorably, smiling] Oh Dudley! [cue laugh track]

American Tabloid is his masterpiece.

Carl did good work as Vic Mackeys old partner/inspiration in The Shield. (If you havent watched The Shield, go now and watch it.)

Yes that makes more sense. Didn't sound like Scalia I don't know why my brain supplied that.

I believe it was Scalia's opinion that Miranda was not constitutional but because of its cultural prevalance it made no sense to go back and change it now.

If a man is reaching for a gun to kill you, then killing him first can hardly be described as murder. More like self defense. Callahan sees the murder in the suspect first. His little speech can be interpreted as saving his own life, because as we all know there were no bullets left in his gun.

Yes. It seems very narrow to me to look at Callahan and out and out call him a Facist. It is more nuanced than that.

It is useful to remember that at the time this movie was made there was a perception (a real one in my opinion) that crime was running rampant in the country. I forgot where i read it but supposedly there was graffiti in Frisco after this came out "Dirty Harry where are you when we need you?"