and M.A.S.H.
Posted on 07/11/2006 10:05:08 AM PDT by RebelBanker
“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”
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YANKEE DOODLE DANDY is terrific. Really, a lot of the classics of the Holywood Golden Age would have a hard time getting made today in their original form. THE SONG OF BERNADETTE is one of my favorites. It couldn't get made today unless someone outside the studio system, such as Mel Gobson, produced it independently.
" Cut me some slack momma, I dug her rap..."
Great scene. I was not allowed to see that movie because my mother thought it was too adult. I never saw it uncut for maybe 10-15 years later.
Sorry, have to disagree. PC activists often use the word 'freedom' - it does not have the same meaning to them as it does to denizens of FreeRepublic. The movie was totally ahistorical. It introduced notions of the nation state centuries before they were invented. In fact, like the Wars of the Roses and the Hundred Years War - this was really just one group of people wanting to depose others so they could be in power. It was not about freedom in any sensible understanding of the word, that propaganda was introduced by Hollywood to make the English the bad guys.
The only sense in which Wallace was fighting for 'freedom' was in the PC sense of 'freedom' = being against the English / Americans.
Last I looked YouTube had the whole movie. Along with all the great Bugs Bunny cartoons that were banned.
In fact, if Disney didn't get to it, they even had Sunflower from a "Wonderful World of Color" broadcast! I loved seeing her!
"Remember the cruel, zombie-like mutoids under the earth? That was Ellison's view of Christians. "
But to a reasonable viewer they were Liberals: a stereotypical feminized society.
No, you are correct. It was rereleased and my buddies dad made us go see it because he knew it would not be around for long.
It was actually a great movie.
I disagree. It would be PC if the sheriff were the hero just because of his skin color. He's the hero in "Blazing Saddles" because he saves the town. And as far as him being the only black guy in a town in the "Old West", that's not too far-fetched that all the other characters would be white. As for the fact that they all engage in bad behavior... well, the "Old West" wasn't exactly the paragon of virtue in real life, either...
We tend to judge all things by our own, developed morals. Griffith was entirely a Southern boy and a product of the Civil War Era...points of view change perspectives.
My parents felt badly toward the Germans and the Japanese during WWII.
Clint Eastwood movies have never pushed PC, but one scene that I love is in "The Outlaw Josey Wales" where the good folks are fighting for their lives inside a barricaded building and Grandma Sarah (Paula Trueman) says something about "redskins", then turns to Lone Watie (Chief Dan George) and says "no offense". He replies "none taken" and goes on shooting.
Has anyone seen " The Aristocrats"?
Its 50 people telling the same joke. It at points is one of the sickest and most twisted movies I have ever seen. Actually made my GF leave the room.
and M.A.S.H.
>>>I purchased the movie overseas and my kids have watched it repeatedly. It hasn't made them little racists, to the contrary they have many friends of all races, colors and creeds.>>>
The thing is, I watched this movie in the mid-70's (as I'm 33) I was raised in the south, but was not prejudiced as Hollywood would have all southern families to be. When I saw SotS I thought it was sweet the love of those children to their Uncle Remus. I didn't realize the horror slavery, nor did I realize that there was hard feelings. I also didn't know you were supposed to pretend bad things didn't happen in history and we weren't supposed discuss slavery in the least unless we were giving ourselves (and others dishing it out to us) a major guilt trip for being born evil and white.
I just thought it was sweet they had an Uncle Remus and wished I had an Uncle Remus to tell me stories and sing songs with.
"Got an a$$ like a 10 year old boy and t!tties that make you wanna beg for buttermilk."
I crack up every time I see that scene!
>>>Bird Cage!! Robin Williams doing John Wayne was priceless.>>>
That movie was funny. I didn't expect much, but LOVED Nathan Lane as Timon on Lion King, so I thought I'd give it a try.
Glad I did.
>>>Wayans were funny once, the film they are opening this week looks destined to be the worst film ever.>>>
I agree. My kids have watched White Chicks until it is BROKEN, but this new one just looks stupid.
MASH was as PC as it gets. Anti-War and Anti-American, Robert Altman was the director and he is the Poster Child for PC.
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Robin Williams: Let me give you an image--it's a cliche...John Wayne.
Nathan: Can't we start with someone easier.
Nathan has his big floppy sun hat and clogs on and attempts to walk like John Wayne.
Funny scene and movie.
Bill Murray was great in that movie.
There is a scene in a diner that was so well done.
Bill Murray adlibbed the whole thing.
"i'll have another Tanguray and Tab and when you come back whip off that perfume.
Hey how you doing, no not you, you."
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