tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post8233746622235504336..comments2024-03-27T10:50:17.270-05:00Comments on Rough Edges: Tuesday's Overlooked Movies: For Greater GloryJames Reasonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-72586341527549800642012-10-22T22:21:39.258-05:002012-10-22T22:21:39.258-05:00I saw a poster for this at the theater and wanted ...I saw a poster for this at the theater and wanted to see it but didn't get the chance. Looks like they've turned the good-guy/bad guy dichotomy around 180 degrees from the typical Hollywood treatment.Hank Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01241805904517893443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-64234703414865061922012-10-18T22:53:35.599-05:002012-10-18T22:53:35.599-05:00And, James...while the Mexican Revolution was rath...And, James...while the Mexican Revolution was rather excessively nasty to the RC Church, you have to remember that the church hierarchy, as in Spain and Italy in later decades, was 115% behind the oppressive government the revolutionaries overthrew. Mussolini and Franco got no more enthusiastic support than the corrupt but RCC-friendly regime deposed...only to install the quickly corrupt and at least ham-handed Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) government that would remain in place till the corrupt and hamhanded rightwing National Action Party (PAN, which of couse also means "bread"...lotsa bread, if you get the drift) managed to come in and trade off with PRI for the last decade or so, while the left broke off with PRI to form the Party of the Democratic Revolution, PRD, which is about as successful as leftists are here up north. But we persevere.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-31405245577491882092012-10-16T07:03:10.311-05:002012-10-16T07:03:10.311-05:00I never heard about this either but it makes sense...I never heard about this either but it makes sense given that Trotsky fled to Mexico when he lost power in Russia. Sounds interesting. pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.com