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Essay:Greatest Conservative Movies (view source)
Revision as of 01:19, December 5, 2017
, 01:19, December 5, 2017→Debatable Whether Great: Adding the Aladdin sequels. While the first Aladdin film itself has debatability regarding its conservatism, the direct to video sequels clearly are conservative (even if they aren't necessarily good films).
|Although the previous ''Die Hard'' movies were largely politically neutral, this film portrays the CIA in a positive light, and both the main and surprise villains are unrepentant, anti-American former Soviet communists who intended to access Cold War-era weapons grade uranium and sell them on the black market. Plus, the film is pro-family due to John McClain trying to reconnect with his son Jack. Despite this, it was largely a box office failure, and it has fairly weak story elements.
|Although the previous ''Die Hard'' movies were largely politically neutral, this film portrays the CIA in a positive light, and both the main and surprise villains are unrepentant, anti-American former Soviet communists who intended to access Cold War-era weapons grade uranium and sell them on the black market. Plus, the film is pro-family due to John McClain trying to reconnect with his son Jack. Despite this, it was largely a box office failure, and it has fairly weak story elements.
|$304.7 million
|$304.7 million
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|''Aladdin and the King of Thieves''
|1996
|G
|Was another entry into the Eisner's infamous Direct to Video sequel line during his time at Disney, and as such also has evidence of it being poorly made. But on the other hand, it also has similar themes to ''Return of Jafar'' regarding forgiveness and redemption in regards to the titular character. It also is notable as having a pro-traditional marriage message due to Aladdin and Jasmine's wedding factoring into a large part of the plotline, with it also being implied that the kingdom of Agrabah may have held Coptic Christianity as its main religion, one of the few Disney productions during this time to feature such a message on marriage since ''The Little Mermaid'' back in 1989. In addition, it ultimately is pro-fatherhood in the form of Cassim, the titular king of thieves, who was Aladdin's father, and while the main villain, he is nonetheless depicted in a more sympathetic light as he became the King of Thieves simply so he could provide for his family, and ultimately was redeemed in the ending of the film.
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|''Armageddon''
|''Armageddon''
|Like with ''4Ever'', it has some implicit pro-Christian messages, as after the villains proceeded to hijack an ancient doomsday weapon, Latios proceeded to sacrifice himself to save Alto Mare from destruction. However, it got very low box office records due to a limited release in America which ultimately led to most other Pokémon films after it to be released as direct to video features (with only the dual-feature fourteenth movie, ''White—Victini and Zekrom'' and ''Black—Victini and Reshiram'', and the 20th movie, ''Pokémon The Movie: I Choose You'', ever seeing releases in theaters outside Japan since then, and even then only as limited theatrical releases), and its Japanese premiere was, until the Japanese release of the movie ''Hoopa and the Clash of Ages'', the worst performing Pokémon film ever.
|Like with ''4Ever'', it has some implicit pro-Christian messages, as after the villains proceeded to hijack an ancient doomsday weapon, Latios proceeded to sacrifice himself to save Alto Mare from destruction. However, it got very low box office records due to a limited release in America which ultimately led to most other Pokémon films after it to be released as direct to video features (with only the dual-feature fourteenth movie, ''White—Victini and Zekrom'' and ''Black—Victini and Reshiram'', and the 20th movie, ''Pokémon The Movie: I Choose You'', ever seeing releases in theaters outside Japan since then, and even then only as limited theatrical releases), and its Japanese premiere was, until the Japanese release of the movie ''Hoopa and the Clash of Ages'', the worst performing Pokémon film ever.
|$20.9 million
|$20.9 million
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|''The Return of Jafar''
|1994 (VHS)<br />2006 (DVD)
|G
|It is the first of the infamous Direct to Video sequel era within Eisner's Disney, and has elements of very poor production values. On the other hand, the film has redemption and forgiveness as major themes of the story due to Iago, Jafar's henchman from the original film, ultimately embracing a change of heart and, after initially saving Aladdin simply so he could get into the palace, eventually proceeding to save Aladdin from Jafar twice with no expectation of a reward, and redeeming himself for betraying Aladdin out of cowardice. It also depicts people who steal from others for their own selfishness in a very negative light in the form of the co-villain Abis Mal.
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|''The Return of the King''
|''The Return of the King''