Time Film Critic Corliss Works Anti-Bush, Anti-Perry Snark Into Review of 'Conan the Barbarian' Remake
Richard Corliss, a liberal film reviewer who found Oliver Stone's "W." too tame for his tastes has decided to let his readers know that, some two years and seven months since the 43rd president left office, he's still not over his anti-Bush derangement.
Corliss shoehorned his strange asides about President George W. Bush -- and 2012 presidential hopeful Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas) -- in his August 18 review of this summer's remake of "Conan the Barbarian":

[M]en need myths, and perpetual adolescents need to see the pulp stories they loved as kids exhumed every few decades. So here's Hawaiian-Irish hunk Jason Momoa in Conan the Barbarian, a gaudily ornamented medieval banquet table groaning with junk food and open entrails.
Tracking Conan's journey from foetus (no kidding) to gruff manhood, the new version finds its meager inspiration in the standard kill-dream of an orphan's revenge. As a boy (played by Leo Howard), he watches in horror while the ruthless warlord Khalar Zym (Stephen Lang) humiliates and murders Conan's father (Ron Perlman); it's kind of like Saddam Hussein's plot to assassinate George H.W. Bush, which supposedly led son W. to invade Iraq and chase down Saddam. Conan, though, grows up to be less like 43, the smiling tiger, and more like current Texas governor Rick Perry, with a compulsive appetite for red-meat rivalries. This barbarian has compiled an endless list of enemies and vows, as Perry did with Fed chairman Ben Bernanke, to make life pretty ugly for all of them.
Perhaps Corliss is just worried that whoever the 2012 GOP nominee is will end up crushing his enemies, seeing them driven before him, and hearing the lamentation of the women.
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Maybe he's also a mental "midget"...........
Submitted by Tomorama on Thu, 08/18/2011 - 4:50pm.
Perhaps Corliss is just worried he has a "wee willie" and the only way he can feel like a real man is to continues on with his BDS.
Or maybe that is why he has a "wee willie", all medications nowadays have side effects.................................
I guess he wants to be a political hack!
Submitted by E.S.Blofeld on Thu, 08/18/2011 - 5:09pm.
"Movie reviewer" doesn't quite have the punch as "Political Pundit" when trying to impress people!
LOL
Ernst
"Isn't it pretty to think that way?"-EH
In my family, we always joke
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 08/18/2011 - 5:38pm.
In my family, we always joke that there's no situation that can't be compared to an episode of "Seinfeld."
In Corliss' world, there's nothing that can't be twisted into an attack against Bush and Republicans.
I wonder what he will say
Submitted by okie-pastor on Thu, 08/18/2011 - 5:44pm.
I wonder what he will say when Rick Perry wins?
It sounds like Corliss has issues with masculinity. That's ok. Many of today's liberal men do.
BOOMER SOONER!
Not just the men
Submitted by Dave81 on Thu, 08/18/2011 - 6:18pm.
And many liberal women have issues with feminimity. It's just a very confused ideology.
I just hope this movie doesn't suck
Submitted by Dave. on Thu, 08/18/2011 - 6:01pm.
Seriously, I haven't seen a decent Hollywood movie since the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
It's time for something worth coughing up the bucks to go see.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Watch Green Lantern, I go to
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Thu, 08/18/2011 - 8:44pm.
Watch Green Lantern, I go to the movies on Tuesdays (senior days). Also saw Cowboys and Indians and it was pretty good. Yes it has all the good things a Western should have.
Dan - a Senior Moment? :)
Submitted by Chris Norman on Thu, 08/18/2011 - 11:13pm.
"I go to the movies on Tuesdays (senior days). Also saw Cowboys and Indians..."
You did mean "Cowboys and Aliens", right? I don't think PC allows movies to be made anymore showing cowboys fighting Indians - unless the cowboys are the genocidal bad guys - right?
Uhhh yeah, dang those senior
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Fri, 08/19/2011 - 1:57am.
Uhhh yeah, dang those senior mom.....
Richard Corliss or Roeper?
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Fri, 08/19/2011 - 12:15pm.
Both sound liberal to me! This dude cant friggin review ONE movie without comparing it to Bush or now Perry? Wheres his O'Bozo references? Forrest Gump anyone? Ooops, sorry, at least Gump worked and made money!
Go FIgure
Submitted by Utherpend on Fri, 08/19/2011 - 11:26am.
Its TIME magazine, the ultimate BDS encounter group.