What is the most shameless politically correct movie you have ever seen?

My Squash ^ | 9/4/02 | Burkeman1

[Burkeman1]

What movie was so Left wing, so PC, and so devoid of fact or balance that it made you sick?

Discuss!

[strela]

And I've raised chickens in the past ... I know that they're far from "lovely creatures"

I raise 'em now. And you're right - they stink, they fight, they #*&@ all over EVERYTHING, they would kill and eat their own young given half a chance, and they're cannibals.

But I need the eggs.

[Sabertooth]

How about 'The American President'? Can anybody at all tolerate it?

Not for a moment, it's easily the worst.

Rob Reiner using Michael Douglas as Bill Clinton to rehabilitate Michael Dukakis and the ACLU...

The mind reels.

And it begat "The West Wing!"

[Paul Atreides]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/744814/posts

[TheBigB]

Ever notice how strongly people feel about a film, either pro or con, if the word "red" is in the title? :) "Reds", "Red Dawn", "Red Planet", "Hunt for Red October"

[Bogey78O]

Speaking of which "STupid White Men" is being made into a cartoon movie from what I hear.

[CARepubGal]

LOL! Red is certainly a trigger word. Actually the American President was miserably bad.

[Dan from Michigan]

Lethal Weapon IV...that movie SUCKED..

[Bogey78O]

I just gave my impression why it might be considered left0wing. I personally liked it.

[Bogey78O]

Strange kid with no hair teaches everyone to respect those who are different and cherish life...and that guns are evil.

[pittsburgh gop guy]

December 18th (i think) for Two Towers. Oh - I thought the new Star Wars kicked butt and saw it opening night and downloaded a bootleg - though it is not that good. Last star wars didn't suck, but was not up to snuff - KILL JARJAR! Gladiator was great too.

BHD and We were Soldiers were excellent. I gotta get a dvd player because I heard the dvd of WWS has 10 deleted scenes. I have a buddy that graduated from West Point 2 years ago and he said the best speaker they ever had (they get kickass speakers there!) in his 4 years at USMA was Col. Moore - the author of WWS.

Oh - A BEAUTIFUL MIND sucked! And was wrong with the facts.

Movies usually suck if any if these actors are in it:
Robin William
Ben Affleck
Adam Sandler (ok - couple of funny movies)
Jim Carrey
Susan Sarandon
Jane Fonda

Now some of these people might be decent actors - they just make PC, sucky movies. And has tom cruise made a good movie since TOP GUN?????

[Paul Atreides]

Strange kid with no hair teaches everyone to respect those who are different and cherish life...and that guns are evil.

Sounds like a biography of James Carville's childhood.

[Jason Kauppinen]

Anything billed as the "feel-good movie of the year" is an automatic contender.

[x]

"Snow Falling on Cedars" was so PC as to be unwatchable. Ethan Hawke was the PC nineties-type guy reacting to the deportations of Japanese-Americans during WWII. Saintly Japanese, evil Whites. No nuance. Discribed as a mix of "To Kill a Mockingbird" with "Stand by Me."

Pleasantville"

[Utah Girl]

Any Oliver Stone movie (JFK, Born on the Fourth of July, etc); any movie having anything to do with the Kennedy clan; Thirteen Days, The Hurricane, any movie with Susan Sarandon in it.

[John H K]

Wow, the things you learn on FR. Up to now I had never heard that Americans of Japanese ancestry 'launched a sneak attack against American Forces on American territory and raised the spectre of an attack on the mainland.' I do not suppose that you have a citation of an attack on the US in which Japanese Americans participated, do you?

A little weird, because in the big picture, in this argument, you're right, of course....detaining/moving American citizens against their will with no specific evidence against them is ALWAYS illegal, war or no war. Forcibly moving Japanese-Americans from their farms and homes on the West Coast was flat out wrong.

But you're completely wrong on the details, largely due to a PC counter-reaction to the internment of Japanese-Americans that goes beyond the facts and ignores inconvenient ones.

Literally in the first week of the war, a Japanese pilot returning from Pearl Harbor crashed on the Hawaiian Island of Niihau; a Japanese-American aided him on a violent rampage virtually taking over the (low population) island; pilot was eventually heroically killed and I believe the Japanese-American committed suicide. This went a long way towards creating the environment that led to the internment camps. Do a web search on the "Niihau Incident"....media doesn't like to bring this up.

Thousands of Japanese-Americans refused to renounce their allegiance to the Emperor and were interned. There was a a fairly substantial and well-documented Japanese-American intelligence network spying for the Japanese. However, all you get is a steady diet of stories on the Japanese-American unit from the internment camps that fought in Italy and won a zillion decorations; a great story, and great Americans, but the focus is on that to the exclusion of all else; and only a tiny fraction of male internees joined the U.S. Military.

However, the majority of Japanese-Americans were loyal Americans. And there was also a substantial network of German-Americans spying for Germany (and I believe some attempts at sabotage) and the numbers of German and Italian-Americans interned was very small.

Even the internment doesn't have some facts mentioned; it was ONLY the three West Coast states...if you lived anywhere else...Texas, New York, etc....nothing happened to you at all. And if you could go to college or get a job anywhere but the three west coast states, you could leave the camps at any time. However, on the mainland, virtually the entire Japanese-American population WAS in the three west coast states.

Also, NOTHING was done to the tens of thousands of Japanese-Americans in Hawaii, interestingly enough. THere were simply SO many, Hawaii wouldn't have been able to function as a society if they were all interned, and there wasn't enough shipping to move them all somewwhere else.

[ErnBatavia]

I assume, that the people rounded up in 1942 were all citizens, right? And that none of them were ever implicated in any plot or sedition against the United States? For extra credit, you might explain to us why German Americans and Italian Americans were not also rounded up and interred.

You, young Brandon, might want to do some "extra credit" work.......keywords: Deny allegiance to emperor and you don't get interred - that's just for starts. (Oh, BTW, Italians and Germans WERE also 'rounded up and interred' to a much lesser degree).......Do your homework assignment and report back right here.

[jlogajan]

The only really, really bad part was where Foster meets her dead dad and he tells her that all us sentient creatures (some 10^25 of us or so) are all alone and only each other make it bearable. Translation: "Really Smart and Knowledgeable sentient Beings know there is no God, you foolish earthlings are just finally figuring that out"

Heh, being myself an atheist ... but really, alien dialog is always going to sound mundane, how can it not? It is just one of the unavoidable nulls when dealing with the theme of alien "advanced" intelligence ... the aliens are never any more wise than the screenwriters. :-)

I thought the religious question was duely ambiguous. God was neither proven nor disproven. The Foster character even had to commit to her own personal experience against every known bit of evidence -- her first act of "faith." (Of course she didn't know about the noise filled tape recording ... :-)

[Marauder]

"Grapes of Wrath" probably wasn't the most PC movie ever made, but it ranks up there somewhere.

[pittsburgh gop guy]

RED DAWN is one of the greatest movies of all time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


It was 1984 - Reagan was taking on the EVIL EMPIRE head on and not flinching. I was 13 and my brother was 12, and my mom dropped us off to see this movie - and because it was PG thought it would not be violent. IT WAS AWESOME!!! We almost wanted the soviets to invade so that we could kick their ass!!!!! We walked home - 5 miles, along a highway most of the way - and we were sooo psyched up that we set up a shooting gallery in our basement for our bb guns. We shot at old TIME MAGAZINE covers with pictures of Soviet leaders on them. This is another movie that I am AMAZED Hollywood made because it depicts Americans fighting back and not taking any crap, instead of just rolling over for our friends the Commies.

Another great movie - though PC in its ultimate message:
Dr. STRANGELOVE - or HOW I Learned to Stop Worrying and LOVE THE BOMB. ***** poeEOPpoe

[SC Swamp Fox]

Oh, how could I forget,

Roger and me.