Quote

Christopher Nolan's astounding third Batman feature, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' represents the true maturation of the superhero movie - and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the Christopher Reeve Superman gave birth to the genre.

John Podhoretz

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Podhoretz
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 18
Author
Journalist
Pundit
Writer
New York City
New York
Actors
Thirds
Superhero
Bottomless
True
Keys
Feature
Astounding
Film
Films
Craving
Christopher
Years
Gave
Provides
Knight
Birth
Represents
Batman
Movie
Features
Superman
Moviegoers
Dark
Genre
Knights
Reeve
Understanding
Third
Rises
Maturation

More quotes by John Podhoretz

Image
I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.
John Podhoretz
Image
Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail.
John Podhoretz
Image
Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost.
John Podhoretz
Image
As a member of the Mormon church, Romney is instructed to tithe 10 percent of his income. That's in keeping with most charitable giving: Religious institutions get about one-third of all contributions, according to 'The American' magazine.
John Podhoretz
Image
Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.
John Podhoretz
Image
Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going.
John Podhoretz
Image
America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.
John Podhoretz
Image
Newt Gingrich never received more than 100,000 votes in his life. He'll never be president.
John Podhoretz
Image
The sad truth is that you can have peace processes all you like, but if one side is committed to war, then it's war.
John Podhoretz
Image
Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.
John Podhoretz
Image
The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.
John Podhoretz
Image
The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.
John Podhoretz
Image
The real story of the Ground Zero mosque is that the project only became feasible because of the appalling and astonishing fecklessness of the officials who were charged with the reconstruction of the site and the neighborhood all the way back in 2001.
John Podhoretz
Image
Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.
John Podhoretz
Image
Obama's coalition would have consigned him to the political margins as little as 12 years ago, but the nation's demographic changes are moving far more quickly than most Republicans anticipated.
John Podhoretz
Image
What Obama is saying is simple: The United States has become Too Big To Fail.
John Podhoretz
Image
You want a political culture that works to create conditions under which an economy can thrive? Since signing the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, Israel has spent two decades working to unshackle its economy from its socialist roots, with remarkable results.
John Podhoretz
Image
In 2013, there were 6,261 black homicide victims in the US — almost all killed by black civilians.
John Podhoretz
Image
The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.
John Podhoretz
Image
This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud he sits upon the throne.
John Podhoretz