Posted on 07/15/2006 7:26:24 AM PDT by StACase
Many believe political correctness is good. It keeps us in line. It reminds us that almost all segments of society should be treated with dignity and respect. A joke at the expense of someones gender, race or ethnic background has no place in movies today.
Of course, there are those who disagree, who believe political correctness is wrong, who feel that it only creates resentment toward the offended parties. A PC world is a world of oppression, they say, where freedom of speech is allowed in theory, but not in practice.
Personally, Im not sure how I feel. Ideally, Id like to straddle the line between both so as not to offend anyone.
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"Blazing Saddles"
"Airplane"
"There's Something About Mary"
"CAddyshack"
"Love and Death"
"Kentucky Fried Movie"
"Team America: World Police"
"Porky's"
"Song of the South"
"Bad Santa"
I'm not holding my breath for MSNBC to run a most obnixiouslly left wing biased list of movies. For starters, it would be nearly all of them.
I think 'Bad News Bears" should be there....
Tanner was the pint sized bigot that was the funniest kid"
I like "Song of The South" Nice movie!
"Love at First Bite"
They don't even broadcast the uncut version anymore. The "black chicken" in Harlem scene is priceless.
Sixteen candles, with "long-Duk-dong"
I'm not a big movie watcher, and I've only seen two of these movies. Aren't they "socially incorrect", not politically? There's not politics, no conservative vs. smelly hippies, in any of the eight I didn't see, is there?
Or does politically incorrect simply mean gross and stupid?
Rules of Engagement was pretty un-PC.
Slapshot
Red Dawn
Clerks
Dogma
Up In Smoke
To Live And Die In LA
The Passion Of The Christ
Beavis And Butthead Do America
South Park,Bigger,Longer,Uncut
The Bad News Bears
I wish I could find a copy of it for my children. The Uncle Remus stories are some of the very best that were ever commited to paper. Rather than hiding that talented man's legacy in a closet they should gleefully share it.
Team America is hardly a left-wing movie. I would argue that it is far more right-wing than neutral. It's not a movie for those with children, or who find the F-bomb offensive.
With FAGs (Film Actors Guild) puppets such as Alec Baldin, Sean Penn, Ben Aflec and others mocked, insulted and degraded and Michael Moore as a suicide bomber, it uses biting sarcasm to drive a point home.
I found it very funny, and quite truthful in it's overall message. It's non-PC for many reasons, from mocking Arabs, to french cowardice and duplicity, to "I'm so Rone-ry" songs by North Korea's Kim.
It mocks every spy movie ever made, mission impossible, and the cultures found not only in the USA, but elsewhere as well.
"I think 'Bad News Bears" should be there...."
"Kentucky Fried Movie"
LOL.
Loo: And who are they?
Dr. Klahn: Refuse, found in waterfront bars.
Loo: Shanghaied?
Dr. Klahn: Just lost drunken men who don't know where they are and no longer care.
Prisoner #1: Where are we?
Prisoner #2: I don't care!
Loo: And these?
Dr. Klahn: These are lost drunken men who don't know where they are, but do care! And these are men who know where they are and care, but don't drink.
Prisoner #3: I don't know who I am?
Prisoner #4: And I don't drink!
Dr. Klahn: Guards! (move prisoners) Do you care?
Prisoner #5: No.
Dr. Klahn: Put this man in cell #1, and give him a drink.
Guard: What do you drink?
Prisoner #5: I don't care.
And they're the most watched.
PCU had potential but it was made by PC people so it failed on most fronts.
Now there is political correctness on steroids.
This spineless twat can't even write "N-word"!
Maybe we should get a list together ourselves. My first nomination:
"John Q."
Now there is political correctness on steroids.
This spineless twat can't even write "N-word"!
All these movies stick-it to traditional middle class Americans - and are totally PC. Hollywood loves to stand against the middle class and their values.
These movies are as politically correct ( by liberal hollywood values) as they come.
Don't let Hollywood redefine "PC".
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