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!

[jlogajan]

John Q was pretty preachy.

[WyldKard]

Ooooh. This should be good!

[Burkeman1]

Good one. Never saw it but read a review in the New York Times that said the same thing. When the NYT's says a movie was too "message filled" then you know it was crap even for the Left.

[Paleo Conservative]

Bullworth = Bulls***

[Welsh Rabbit]

Few years ago this Tim Robbins movie, I think it was called Bob Roberts. I could only bring myself to watch about twenty minutes of it.

[JZoback]

"Contact"

I don't know if it is the worse, but "Contact" with Jodi Foster must rank right up there in the top 10

[henderson field]

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.

[Bogey78O]

The Contender

Primary Colors

Take yer pick....

[El Sordo]

I challenge anyone who has worked in a nuclear plant to sit through 'The China Syndrome'.

Anybody who has even the slightest understanding of nuclear power shoudl be appalled at it.

[Mr. Mojo]

This is a very difficult question, since I don't go to PC films. The conspicuous anti-gun messages in The Road to Perdition were very annoying.

[Revolting cat!]

Burkeman, that is a good question and I hope we get a good thread out of it, but to be honest, I think they're all pretty politically correct nowadays and a good FReeper would read the reviews before shelling out his/her nine bucks and not see them in the first place.

That said, when I was still seeing movies, I was instantly turned off by all those films obsessed with "racism", To Sir with Love, In the Heat of the Night, come to mind, in the sixties and early seventies when the whole crap started.

We must remember that Hollyweird was infected by the Communist virus a long time ago and despite all the cries of McCarthyism, the Communists there won in the end, whether they carried the Party membership cards or not.

[Jason Kauppinen]

Definately

"The Contender"

[El Sordo]

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

For some gosh-unkown reason my wife likes that movie. I leave the house whenever it's on.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Primary Colors, mostly because the reflexive adulation afforded the "Clinton" characters drained it of any life. Best line is when the drunken "Carville" character unzips his pants and makes a crude sexual advantance on one of the young female campaign volunteers, with the whole office looking on, asking "Do you know what this is?", "It's like a penis, only smaller." YFCV volunteer later gets it own with older (50ish) female campaign professional staffer.

[Bogey78O]

Yeah considering it got rewritten because the initial draft didn't villianize the Republicans enough.

I'm serious. The initial script didn't make an issue of party affiliation. But they made sure the "villain" became a staunch Republican and even made him more loatheful.

[StACase]

Cider House Rules or Fried Green Tomatoes How about Chocolate and Thelma and Louise

Men are bad, abortion gooooood! Pretty much sums 'em up.

[Neanderthal]

The Sum of All fears.

Replaced plausible Islamic terrorists with ridiculous neo-nazis.

[Bogey78O]

Ringmaster by Jerry Springer did it's damnest to humanize strashy people.

[Paul Atreides]

Though I have not seen it, that movie Pleasantville sounded nauseatingly PC. Also, American Beauty, another one I have not seen.