Ever notice how something happens in the news, and the movies parrallel it? I don't mean how the movies jump on some news item and decide to run it through until it is exhausted, but how movies actually submit the idea a lot of times BEFORE the news gets hold of it. Like the Y2K stuff...lots of people thought this was really gonna happen, but tell me, did ya ever watch any movies that had the same situation develop long before the century turned the corner?? I've known that movies have been manipulating society for a loooooooonngg time now, but to actually see this coming about is something else. A few years back (before 2000), my kids got into the kick of watching all the old "Ernest" movies, starring Jim Varney. I kinda like em too, so we started renting em all. We ran out of Ernest and started looking for anything else Varney made and ran across this one that was a real stinker, actually, but as I watched, I was amazed, cuz this movie revealed the EXACT plan of the Y2K scenario, long before 2000 ever thought of coming upon us. Weird, eh? But movies in general do this same thing. Think of how this society has changed over the years so that from Nixon to Clinton, Americans were able to change from being appauled by a "cheating president", to accepting and condoning one who not only acted against his country, but was sleeping in every bed he could find open. Why? Cuz movies manipulated the people of the USA so that presidents were constantly shown in a "good" light. Look at all the movies over the past decade with presidents playing either a starring or big supporting role: American President, Air Force One, Independence Day, Dave, and a bunch more that the names escape me right now, (stoopid memory), but they all had presidents in em, and kept maipulating until right up before the big push on Clinton's sexual rampanness finally was decided on, when the movie "Primary Colors" (Which they aren't, cuz they featured "red, white, and blue", when the real primary colors are red, yellow, and blue) gave us a Bill Clinton double, so everyone was just saying, "Aw, he's just a guy like everyone else, and he really means well, leave him alone". Stoopid wretched letcher. Shoulda been hing by his third arm, yuppers! But this is just how movies manipulate people. I'll post again when I have more time and talk about the movies that feature angel