Best Political Movies

while the rest of America is figuring

out who to vote for in the presidential

election we were busy figuring out the

top ten political films of all time your

ballots out starting off at number 10

Oliver Stone loves controversy so it

came as no surprise he would make a

movie about the assassination of one of

our most beloved presidents JFK Kevin

Costner plays District Attorney Jim

Garrison who stirs up trouble and is

apparently colorblind

why does black and black is white he

digs up some pretty wild stuff they

called it operation Mongoose which

sounds kind of adorable the main stone

script is so dense it requires you to

take notes while you watch I have to

spell it up altogether yes Jack Lemmon

we need your help anyway it remains one

of the most talked-about films of its

time although we're trying to forget Joe

Pesci's hair don't punish the pay phone

Joe talk to the wig Department make a

nice presentation Dave is a movie that

gave us a president who is enthusiastic

to be in the White House even though

there were no [ __ ] interns in sight of

course kevin kline sweet innocent

character was just an impersonator

they're very handsome man but he managed

to spark the passion of a whole nation

even if the first lady's still hated it

why can't you die from a stroke like

everybody else yeah it's like he's an

alien baby or something when Dave said

those magic words

god bless america really believed it

come on

any man who dances with big robot arms

has my vote ok let's get back to work

and speaking of nice guys in Washington

Jimmy Stewart has to be the ultimate

everyman who makes a difference and mr.

Smith goes to Washington he plays a

Scoutmaster who gets roped into becoming

a senator who nearly has all the life

drained out of him by those old vampires

spoiler alert

good triumphs in this Frank Capra

picture wait the guy who directed it's a

beautiful life enjoys fairy tale endings

I know you're shocked but is it a

significant picture mr. Smith goes to

Washington is a significant picture it

is significant because it emphasizes

democracy in action

good point old-timey dude action seems

like something our world could use more

of these days enough with the nice guys

what about the president that resigned

before he was impeached dick focuses on

the Watergate scandal but makes it

fabulous with more hot pants early in

their careers lugar how are you the

chicks from spider-man and Dawson's

Creek for dog walkers in the White House

den we must never let him out their

intelligence about the dastardly deeds

going on in the White House was grossly

underestimated I have met Ganz more

going on upstairs and these two Hey

there's no reason to make this an anti

yam thing buddy it's a great movie that

educates you at the same time score and

seven years ago our forefathers it's

something I don't know what okay maybe

it's more fun than anything else

so Arthur yell me there's cookies I've

ever had the aforementioned hot pants

would not have provided adequate

protection during the Cold War do you

see what I did there

segue seven days in May make some pretty

bold promises

whoo Spring Break suggestion mr.

president there's a military plot to

take over the government

oh thanks captain buzzkill back in the

time when the story about a communist

takeover seemed so real the actual

president encouraged filming on White

House grounds this movie expresses all

the paranoia people lived with every day

back then and since it was written by

the twilight zone zone Rod Serling gets

some weird stuff too I was a stupid

impressionable female who led an Air

Force general user like his personal

airplane wait he stalked you with booze

and flew you to Cuba awkward remember

that girl in high school who is slightly

OCD and has all these goals and crap and

wouldn't stop annoying people what Reese

Witherspoon brought that girl to life on

the big screen in Election Tracy Flick

runs for president of her Nebraska high

school and will stop at nothing to win

proving it's always the smart kids you

have to watch this is a moral situation

or an ethical situation things quickly

go from bad to worse and brothers

running against sisters both run Kinley

I mean we're brother and sister Oh

remember Chris Klein from American Pie

the only thing he's running for now is

the unemployment line Oh mudslinging bad

form back when people read books the

novel advise and consent stirred up

quite a passionate following enough for

real government figure heads to appear

in the film version they even offered up

their natural habitats the movie follows

Henry Fonda as a controversial appointee

for Secretary of State Wanda no watch

intent giveaway to the Communists I

don't intend to give anything away

senator Cooley senators spend the whole

movie double-dealing and double-crossing

each other you call it a deal I call it

extortion anonymous phone calls and

scandalous reports what do you know

he's a communist but this Otto Preminger

epic is also notorious for presenting a

totally tasteless look at the homosexual

lifestyle that ultimately destroys one

tortured majority member and then he

knows what he's talking about he's not

making something up now something's

going to happen if you don't do what he

wants and you've got to prepare me he's

dead brain in his office cut his throat

good times at first The Manchurian

Candidate seems to bonkers to be taken

seriously I mean come on a military

veteran whose own mother sells him out

to become a communist assassin but then

the more these crazy images flood your

brain you get more and more convinced

and then they rip off from here to

eternity and Frank Sinatra finds a

reason to do kung fu' it all starts to

seem plausible and why do I have this

sudden urge to play poker hmm

when Bill Clinton debated the meaning of

is it helped teach me the only thing

more fun than communicating is

miscommunicating and that's exactly what

in the loop is all about he did not say

on the foreseeable that you live him to

say that but you did not say that yeah

he said it but that's not the point the

point is that politicians when backed

into a corner say awesome stuff like

this to walk the road of peace sometimes

we need to be ready to climb the

mountain of conflict and then if you're

an awesome British satirist the response

is this claim the most of perfect Nazi

Julie Andrews

yeah the hills are alive all right with

the sound of goose steps seeing behind

the scenes of politics is usually

disturbing but especially so when it

involves James Gandolfini you're gonna

use him as a little meat puppet come on

James that's gross but at least it never

gets more grosser than that cuz my

sweaty balls your fat okay I was wrong

it's easy to figure out which film is

number one if we're judging by title

length dr. Strangelove or how I learned

to stop worrying and love the bomb is

possibly Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece

that only gets funnier and more relevant

with an Air Force general decides that

it's time to give the Soviet Union and

explosive present in an intimate moment

I first became aware of an and Drake

during the physical act of look yeah

that's enough of that friend oh the only

person that can make sense of it is

Peter Sellers Peter Sellers and Peter

Sellers in order to get a movie named

after you you have to be pretty

fascinating or have friends in high

places this movie exemplifies military

intelligence as it asks the tough

questions am i short where's the

bathroom box should I get it

it also exemplifies what people need to

be reminded not to try this at home

because who doesn't want to do this

so that wraps up our top ten before so

many that we had to leave off just off

the top of my head I'm thinking all the

men its March the dog I know that you've

got your own ideas out there so make

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