Thoughts, anyone?
Blazing Saddles no question.
"Nappin on the job!"
I don't think there are many people under 50 who have even seen Song of the South.
All GREAT movies.
Subtly non-PC:
"High Noon"
Shows guvmint officials and sheeple for the losers they are.
And mentions that the folks at the state capital don't have a clue about
what is going on in their hometown.
I mentioned this before, but it bears repeating.
On the DVD of "Airplane!" they changed Barbara Billingsly's statement. In the original (and on my VHS version) she says "N*gga don' wan' no help, N*gga don't get no help!"
In the DVD she says "Sucka" in place of "N*gga."
I was very very ticked off about that. Thank God they didn't do that to "Blazing Saddles" or it wouldn't make any sense.
Not sure about Blazing saddles. Can't think of anything particularly un-pc. Racial politics - PC. Drug policy - PC. Sexual freedom - PC. Fart scent - Non political.
Bad Santa was just freaking awful. What about:
Spaceballs
History of the World: Part I
Life of Brian
The Meaning of Life
There two Mel Brooks and two Monty Python flicks. I see a trend.
I Googled it for some details and this page came up first: http://www.filmsite.org/birt.html
A controversial, explicitly racist, but landmark American film masterpiece - these all describe ground-breaking producer/director D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915). The domestic melodrama/epic originally premiered with the title The Clansman in January, 1915 in California, but three months later was retitled with the present title at its world premiere in New York, to emphasize the birthing process of the US. The film was based on former North Carolina Baptist minister Rev. Thomas Dixon Jr.'s anti-black, 1905 bigoted play, The Clansman...
Its release set up a major censorship battle over its vicious, extremist depiction of African Americans, although Griffith naively claimed that he wasn't racist at the time. Unbelievably, the film is still used today as a recruitment piece for Klan membership - and in fact, the organization experienced a revival and membership peak in the decade immediately following its initial release. And the film stirred new controversy when it was voted into the National Film Registry in 1993, and when it was voted one of the "Top 100 American Films" (at # 44) by the American Film Institute in 1998.
Film scholars agree, however, that it is the single most important and key film of all time in American movie history
They just ain't making'em like this no more.
Hollywood Knights ("Gentlemen, spike the punch!")
Used Cars (knocking nuns down with firehose)
Animal House ("See if you can guess what I am now")
The Serial (Martin Mull vs Peoples Republic of Marin County)
"Independence Day"
The one gay guy gets incinerated in the first act (NOT something that
I advocate!), heterosexual love, marriage and even (gasp) faith is reaffirmed, and
the world finally rejoices when the USA steps up and leads the way.
I remember seeing it in Los Angeles the weekend of release.
And my mind finally realizing that I'd seen a Republican/Conservative
film and didn't figure it out until we were leaving the theater.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RBhSTbQaCHg&search=revenge%20of%20the%20nerds
Red Dawn was very politically incorrect - all about American kids killing scumbag Russian and Cuban communists.
Not a one of them wore a Che shirt.
George C. Scott in the "The Hospital". The medical industry really gets it in the behind.
Team America should be higher than Something About Mary.
What? No "Animal House"?
"Team America...?"
There’s Something About Mary
From the moment I walked into the movie until I left I laughed. I could not believe how stupidly funny the movie was. However, seeing it on DVD years later it did not have the same effect. Next time do not drink beer during dinner before going to the movies...lol.
How are those not politically correct? The left loves to stick it to conventional values. Most of those are leftist movies...
"Song of the South" to go on sale in '06
Jim Hill shares what he just heard from his sources deep inside Buena Vista Home Entertainment. That a DVD of this long supressed Disney classic will finally hit store shelves in the Fall of 2006.
http://www.jimhillmedia.com/mb/articles/showarticle.php?ID=1313
I know that it's been a really rough winter so far. But who would have thought that Hell was gonna to freeze over?
"What do I mean by that?," you ask. Well, I just got word that Buena Vista Home Entertainment will be releasing "Song of the South" on DVD in the Fall of 2006.
That's right. "Song of the South." The Academy Award winning film that former Disney Feature Animation head Thomas Schumacher once told Roger Ebert was on "permanent moratorium" has reportedly been greenlit for release late next year. A special 60th anniversary edition that -- thanks to a plethora of extra features -- will try & put this somewhat controversial motion picture in historial context.
"Why -- after all these years -- did Disney finally give in?," you query. It's simple, really. "Song of the South" 's 60th anniversary was simply too good a promotional hook for the Mouse's marketing staff to pass up. More to the point, Buena Vista Home Entertainment could really use a hit right about now.
Don't believe me? Then go check out Disney's financial reports for the first quarter of 2005. Where you'll discover that the Mouse's accountants actually blame the 20% drop in revenue that the company's Studio Entertainment division recently experienced on lower DVD sales of current-year films.
Given that Disneyana fans have been clamoring for a "Song of the South" DVD for nearly a decade now, BVHE execs are hoping that all of this pent-up demand will eventually translate in really big sales for this disc. Disney is hoping to sell at least 10-12 million units of this particular motion picture.
"But aren't Disney Company execs concerned about how the African American community may response to 'Song of the South' 's release of DVD?," you continue. Yep. I won't lie to you folks. There's a lot of people in the Team Disney Burbank building who are very concerned that -- by releasing this much maligned motion picture on home video & DVD -- that the Mouse House is potentially opening itself up to a ton of bad publicity.
With the hope of avoiding that, BVHE reportedly plans to really pile on the extra features with "Song of the South." Among the ideas currently being knocked around is producing a special documentary that -- through use of clips from that TV movie version of Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Cinderella" that Disney produced back in 1997 as well as sequences from "The Proud Family" & "That's So Raven" -- would demonstrate that a person's color really doesn't matter at the modern Walt Disney Company. There's also talk of including Walt Disney Feature Animation's seldom-seen short, "John Henry," as one of the disc's special features.
Buena Vista Home Entertainment is also supoosedly toying with approaching a prominent African-American performer to serve as the MC on the DVD version of "Song of the South." You know, someone who could then introduce the film, explain its historical significance as well as re-enforcing the idea that "SOTS" was a product of a much less enlightened time in Hollywood's history. I'm told that -- up until recently -- Bill Cosby was actually at the top of Disney's wish list. But now that Dr. Cosby has been accused of inappropriate behavior with several ladies ... Well, let's just say that Bill is no longer Mickey's top choice for this position.
Anywho ... There's one other aspect of this "Song-of-the-South"-soon-on-on-DVD saga that I guess I should mention. Which is why Buena Vista Home Entertainment is low-balling its predictions of the number of units that "SOTS" might sell (I.E. 10-12 million versus "Finding Nemo" 's 39 million+ units). Why is that, do you suppose? Mind you, it's not because "Song of the South" is decidedly old fashioned (Well, what do you expect from a 60 year-old motion picture?), but rather .... Here, why don't I let my source inside BVHE explain:
"This movie isn't nearly as good as people seem to remember it being. Sure, the animated sequences are charming. But the pace of the rest of the picture is so damned pokey.
Which is why I seriously doubt that we'll get all that many letters about "Song of the South" 's racial content. The way I figure it, most kids & adults will be nodding off 30 minutes into the thing. And people who are sleeping can't write letters of complaint."
Well, I don't know about that. But what I can tell you folks is to stop bidding NOW on those black market "SOTS" DVDs that keep popping up on eBay. For -- if you can just wait another 17-18 months -- you can actually purchase a really-for-real authorized version of Disney's "Song of the South" of your very own.
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This is from last year. We shall see if it comes true...