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

My Squash ^ | 9/4/02 | Burkeman1

[GretchenEE]

Your post @105 -- I see we share an interest in some of the same types of humor. =)

And while she did TV rather than hilarious movies that I can recall, Carol Burnett could really get me laughing.

[latina4dubya]

The Way We Were... good ol' Babs and Rob Redford...

[dfwgator]

any movie having anything to do with the Kennedy clan; Thirteen Days, The Hurricane, any movie with Susan Sarandon in it.

I thought "Thirteen Days" was excellent. Even President Bush had a screening of it in the WH and invited Ted Kennedy over to watch it.

[Greeklawyer]

How about a thread for the most politically correct non-news/politics television or cable show?

[DrDavid]

Chicken Run is a tribute to The Great Escape with the chickens in Stalag 17...

[Hacksaw]

"Snow Falling on Cedars" was so PC as to be unwatchable.

The book was a lot better - I didn't see the movie, but in the book the writer returns from fighting the Japanese with his arm blown off from storming an island. He is in love with a Japanes woman in his village (who he used to run around with as a kid), but her family feels it is shameful for her to be with a white man. His anger boils over when she asks him about his arm and he says "The Japs did it".

He ends up proving the innocence of her Japanese husband who is accused of murdering a rival fisherman - the husband is also a US war vet who fought the Germans, and is horrified of the killings he had to do.

I shouldn't be surprised that they ruined it for the movie.

[hoosierskypilot]

"Dances with Wolves was worse"

You know, that's what I was thinking when I saw it, but didn't dare say anything. I was watching it with my wife (she's Seminole), and she hasn't said anything, but I'm not sure she likes white people. :)

[Burkeman1]

LOL! I know- I saw that film! It was so bad and over the top that I actually flet sorry for Segal. I heard he insisted on inserting that "speech" part as well. I am afraid you are right- that movie marked his descent into crazyville.

[Brandon]

Thank you for the reply and the link. However, from reading the material at the site, it would appear that most of the German Americans and Italian Americans who were rounded up were immigrants who still retained their German or Italian citizenship -- that is to say, they were enemy aliens. Some American citizens were also picked up, but they seem to largely have been immediate family members of enemy aliens. There is a huge difference between this pick-and-choose process, and the wholesale detention of anyone -- citizen or no -- who happened to be of Japanese ancestry, which was going on at the same time, and which even the articles at that site admit was much more thorough and widespread.

[kaylar]

They've all been mentioned before, but they deserve all the dishonorable mentions they can get:

1.Art of War .UN good, China good, US bad.

2.Bulworth. There are no words to describe how loathsome this film is.

3.Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes.Very, very disturbing subtext, and I am not refering to the alleged vibes between the girl chimp and the hero. I think this film was a Hollywood liberal's wet dream of what he wishes would happen to American whites, at the hands of racial minorities. Some really, really sick stuff in this POS.

4.The Contender.

5.John Q.

6. American Beauty. Bunch of cliches that were old in the 1920s.

I agree with the poster who said we should make a list of movies that aren't PC...The list would be much shorter, if you concentrate on post 1960 films.

[far sider]

The Pelican Brief. Gag.

[kaylar]

May be a little O/T, but I thought you and the others here might be interested in this article. It's about a survey done in the UK to determine the best film scores of all time

[InvisibleChurch]

maybe fdr was racist against japanese ..

[upcountryhorseman]

How about "Grapes of Wrath" for a prime example of
communist doctrine.

[upcountryhorseman]

How about "Grapes of Wrath" for a prime example of
communist doctrine.

[Petronski]

Definately
"The Contender"

[Hildy]

The American President had to be one of the WORST movies I have ever seen.

[Snowy]

Blazing Saddles, but seriously, do you think there will ever be a movie like that again?

There will never be another Blazing Saddles. "Nobody move, or the African-American gets it!" hehehe.

[Alouette]

I decided "The Little Princess" was an excellent book, so I rented the movie. I should have known Hollywood would ruin it.

Which version did you see? "A Little Princess" has been filmed three times. The first, made in the 1930's, with Shirley Temple (an almost complete departure from the book, as was the custom in those days). Then the PBS "Wonderworks" version starring Amelia Shankley, which scrupulously followed every description and dialogue from the book. This version is outstanding, but almost impossible to find. Then, the last version, for some inexplicable reason the setting was shifted from London to New York and the story distorted even more than the Shirley Temple vehicle.

[eleni121]

Excellent topic.

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