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Top five most offensive movies
« on: October 11, 2009, 10:21:53 PM »
1. Deadgirl

2. Transformers 2 (for spending that much and making that much while being one of the worst movies ever made)

3. The Passion of the Christ

4. Shallow Hal

5. The Aristocrats (but in a good way!)

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Re: Top five most offensive movies
« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2009, 10:29:05 PM »
Wow...

1. Pearl Harbor (for distorting and over-dramatizing American history)

2. Towelhead (for stereotyping characters of nationalities and distorting sexuality in a bad way)

That's all I can think of.
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Re: Top five most offensive movies
« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2009, 10:45:23 PM »
How is the Passion of the Christ offensive?  I don't get why people say that.

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White Chicks or any Minstrel Show film(I get it, Minstrel Shows aren't funny, and they're highly offensive.  But I don't watch Soul Man as a white guy and laugh, I'm just as offended by that film.
Transformers 2:  Revenge of the Fallen - For the twins.  Insanely racist. 
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Re: Top five most offensive movies
« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2009, 10:52:28 PM »
Transformers 2:  Revenge of the Fallen - For the twins.  Insanely racist. 
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Re: Top five most offensive movies
« Reply #4 on: October 11, 2009, 11:07:36 PM »
How is the Passion of the Christ offensive?  I don't get why people say that.


Aside from the obvious anti-Semitic undertones it is disgusting torture porn masquerading as a religious film.

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Re: Top five most offensive movies
« Reply #5 on: October 11, 2009, 11:23:53 PM »
I love how people call this film Anti-Semitic and torture porn.  Its rough, certainly, but it illustrates a point.  The violence is meant to A) Be accurate to Christ's flogging and death B)Show people what the ultimate sacrifice was.

As far as being Anti-Semitic, as far as I'm concerned, and ALL Christians should be concerned, the Jews are God's chosen people.  He gave them Christ, and he also gave them the responsibility of delivering the world's salvation in the form of Christ's death.  A horrible deed to be sure, but I as a religious fellow, feel a great closeness to them for bearing that burden.  It's only Anti-Semitic to people who don't understand this.
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Re: Top five most offensive movies
« Reply #6 on: October 11, 2009, 11:28:45 PM »
The violence is meant to A) Be accurate to Christ's flogging and death


He lost enough blood for seven people, not too mention shock and trauma, to call it accurate is laughable. He would have died about 15 times during the endless 6 hours of torture (it did go on for 6 hours right?). You could just see Gibson relishing in the torture given that his chosen sect of Catholicism is all about the torture. This movie is no different than Hostel, except it also tries to pretend to be spiritual. 

 

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Re: Top five most offensive movies
« Reply #7 on: October 11, 2009, 11:33:10 PM »
The violence is meant to A) Be accurate to Christ's flogging and death


He lost enough blood for seven people, not too mention shock and trauma, to call it accurate is laughable. He would have died about 15 times during the endless 6 hours of torture (it did go on for 6 hours right?). You could just see Gibson relishing in the torture given that his chosen sect of Catholicism is all about the torture. This movie is no different than Hostel, except it also tries to pretend to be spiritual. 

 

It's accurate to the spiritual belief behind JC's torture, I believe that is what CS was getting at. It's not historically accurate, but it doesn't want to be because historically we know very little of the specifics of what torture was dished out to the man. It is accurate the belief that he suffered inhuman torture for humanities sins, that's the point of his torture rising above and beyond what is plausible.

I'm not going to get into a long debate about it, but there are numerous levels to Passion, even as someone who lacks faith I continue to find different layers in the film every time I watch it. The violence serves very specific purposes and they are mostly spiritual.

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Re: Top five most offensive movies
« Reply #8 on: October 11, 2009, 11:35:14 PM »
1. Crank High Voltage
2. Once Upon a Time in America
3. Facing the Giants
4. Shawn of the Dead
5. The Shape of Things

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Re: Top five most offensive movies
« Reply #9 on: October 11, 2009, 11:35:40 PM »
The foundation of Christian belief is that Jesus was just a man until he died. Therefore, the film is laughably stupid and actually offensive to the very religious ideals it purports to examine.

 

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