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The Mighty Celestial added 5 items to My Top 25 Halloween Favorites: Spiders list
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The Mighty Celestial added The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug to have watched list
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There are several things that are indelibly associated with the 1950s and one of the biggest ones was the Red Scare.
With the Cold War "raging" in full alert, Americans were on constant edge and fear of anything that even hinted at the spread of Communist ideals. And taking full advantage of this fear was the anti-Communist senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy. Anyone caught with their name his "black list" as sympathizers for the way of the Red, were more's to find it hard to make a living in this country.
Finally fed up with McCarthy's scare tactics, television and radio reporter Edward R. Murrow decides to put his career in the line and use his position in media to decry the senator's actions and to open The public's so that they can see The danger to freedom is not crimson scariness of Communism, it's The monstrous paranoia of McCarthyism.
The second film to be directed by Hollywood handsome boy, George Clooney, Good Night and Good Luck is a black and white docu-drama that reveals sometimes, ya just gotta step up and risk everything for what's right, especially when nobody else will.
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The Mighty Celestial added 1 item to My Top 35 Halloween Favorites: Ghosts list
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The Mighty Celestial added 1 item to 200 & 99 Of My Favorite Films From The 1990's list
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The Mighty Celestial added 35 items to 35 From 4: My Favorite Films From 2004 list
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35 From 4: My Favorite Films From 2004 (35 movies items)
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The Mighty Celestial added 5 items to My Top 30 Halloween Favorites: Zombies list
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The Mighty Celestial added 1 item to Year By Year Of My Favorite Flix list
Well, the millenium's answer to the 1997 sci-fi thinker Contact, has made it's arrival. And just like the Jodie Foster movie, this one deals with a more "realistic" approach to Earth's first contact with extraterrestrials, encompassing the struggle between peaceful approaches of communication and the "better safe than sorry" attitude from the more militarily minded. Also sharing the same theme as Contact is the endeavor to decipher the penmanship of the visitors.
However, The Arrival still has enough within it's concept to give it it's own signature and allow the film to stand alone in the "we come in peace" sub-genre of science fiction. A "big" movie with a "small" cast, led by a strong performance by Amy Adams as an expert linguist and mourning mother whose combination of expertise and grief-stricken memories is the only link to a meaningful discussion between the entire planet and its interstellar guests.
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