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!

[Jason Kauppinen]

Hey, they're part of the "village" too. /sarcasm

[southern rock]

Primary Colors

Primary Colors almost had me thinking it was half-way O.K., UNTIL they "proved" the Gennifer Flowers tapes a hoax. Does anybody know if that was part of the book?

[Lancey Howard]

'The Contender', although 'An American President' is close.
Both were mushy and contrived and poorly directed, on top of being hateful of traditional America and its families.

[Burkeman1]

I heard that the actor playing the main evil Republican senator denounced the movie after the final cut? Was that Gary Oldman? I heard he was sickened by the final cut and that he was bamboozled into the movie?

[muleboy]

And the winner is.... Spielberg in a tie:

Amistad and Schindler's List.

[dubyagee]

My husband loves it! Bleck!!!

[breakem]

The Contender, maybe not so much politically correct as overwhelmingly liberal.

[doug from upland]

THE CONTENDER. My friend was worried that we would get kicked out. I was so angry with what I was seeing that I yelled a few times in the theatre.

THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT is No. 2 and actually pretty close. Michael Douglas played a man who lost his wife and fell in love. They tried to make the audience think he was just like Clinton. No, this character was not a rapist bastard who stuck cigars in interns and stained the Great Seal.

[Revolting cat!]

Folks, the only politically incorrect movies these days besides Hong Kong kung fu pix and Bollywood singing melodramas are porno films. Go see one today, or wait until Ann Coulter is hired to write movie scripts!

[Mr. Mojo]

The Sum of All fears. ...Replaced plausible Islamic terrorists with ridiculous neo-nazis.

Ah yes, good one. Read the book, but didn't see the flick. Amazing that Clancy allowed this perversion of the original story.

[southern rock]

Bullworth

Good choice! If we wanna get retro, I'll say "Silent Running". Greens in space! LOL.

[CARepubGal]

The ending sermonette: Guns are baaad baaaad things for the sheeple, really really pissed me off. I liked the movie until that load of crap. Won't see PC movies if I can help it.

[Our man in washington]

I'll make an offbeat selection: "A Little Princess."

The reason this one is infuriating is because the book is the epitome of conservative values. A rich girl named Sara Crewe becomes poor, but refuses to beg, works hard, and stands out from the other beggars because of her excellent manners and morals.

In the movie (the most recent version), there's a scene of her begging. They also have her playing nasty pranks on her employer for fun, which she never does in the book.

Both the book and movie portray her employer as behaving quite awfully toward Sara. In the book, however, Sara never takes revenge because it would be beneath her. The movie, of course, has to show Sara being a bad girl.

(I suppose a fair question is why a 36 year-old man would even read the book and see the movie. I had helped out with a stage production of "The Secret Garden" a few years back, and became curious as to what else the author wrote. I decided "The Little Princess" was an excellent book, so I rented the movie. I should have known Hollywood would ruin it.)

[Burkeman1]

Yes- my thoughts exactley. Not PC- but supportive of liberal myths.

[Bogey78O]

Yeah, basically that's what happened. He didn't realize he was in a political hitpiece and once he realized it was mad his character became a caricature.

[Temple Drake]

"Dances with Wolves" -- extremely offensive and quite silly, too. My husband and I referred ever after to this one as "Blow-dries With Fist", in honor of the woman character with the lovely layered clearly heat-styled hairdo. SO historically accurate!

[Brandon]

There was one on the tube recently but I didn't get the title. I couldn't bear to watch it. It was about the internment of the Japanese and featured U.S. MPs frisking 10-year-old Japanese children. Then they were put in a stake truck and driven off, with the playmate of the Japanese child saying "but they're just like you and me" (except that their dads are going to blow up the Lockheed plant tonight). It was plainly a propaganda piece, probably produced by Norman Mineta to suggest that the Japanese were not our enemies during WWII, just as the Arabs are not our enemies today.

Ah ... another Freeper who has trouble distinguishing his fellow citizens from the enemy.

You are aware, 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.

[ladyinred]

The American President, clearly a film strictly meant to show the mean spiritedness of the right wing extremists. Followed by The Contender, same message.

[lawdude]

Virtually anything made since 1980! Oh, how I long for John Wayne.