pjmedia.com By Sarah Anderson
One of the most talked about movies of the year has been the “Reagan” biopic, which stars Dennis Quaid and Penelope Ann Miller as President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan. The film had been in the works for well over a decade, and it was finally released on August 30.
Quaid was all over TV promoting the movie and even showed up at the Republican National Convention. He talked at length on numerous shows about his patriotism and how Reagan had been his favorite president, and he even ended up speaking at rallies on behalf of President Donald Trump just before the election. It’s been kind of refreshing to see a Hollywood A-lister who seems to love his country, especially when some actors like to go overseas and bash the United States.
But something about this movie doesn’t quite add up. More specifically, reviews from movie critics and reviews from everyday people who have seen the movie don’t quite add up. I’m guessing the reason is that liberals can’t seem to ever look at anything without seeing it as some sort of attack on their political beliefs, even if it’s simply meant to be entertainment.
The movie review website Rotten Tomatoes is probably the best example of this. Of course, we already know that Rotten Tomatoes leans to the left. But the site offers a “Tomatometer” for movies, which is an aggregate score of professional film critics’ reviews, and a “Popcornmeter” score, which represents reviews left by actual movie audiences. In September, the Washington Times reported that “Reagan” had the widest gap between audience and critic reviews in the history of Rotten Tomatoes. As I write this, Rotten Tomatoes shows “Reagan” as having a 98% favorable rating from audiences, and just an 18% perfect favorable rating from critics…
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Liberals, tragically for all of us, allow their politics to distort, even pervert, everything that they touch, and that includes even science and religion, two things that should have a neutral analysis, even if they do impact politics, but how can that impact be legitimate when the analysis itself is bent to conform to the liberal views.