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Re: Top five most offensive movies
« Reply #20 on: October 12, 2009, 12:12:44 AM »
As for the torture porn, I don't think Gibson relished in the flogging at all, I find it something he struggled with, but shows so graphically because he felt he has a responsibility to make a point in the same way I think Spielberg had a responsibility to be so frank with Schindler's List.  

This just sounds wrong to me.

His analogy would be apt if SL had shown Jews gassed, then shot, then hung (still alive), then poisoned, then electrocuted (still alive), then gassed again. All of it with alot of really closeup shots and gore by the buckets full.

Um.  No.  And this offends me.

This is basically what Passion is.

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Re: Top five most offensive movies
« Reply #21 on: October 12, 2009, 12:12:58 AM »
Ok,Towelhead(my pick for worst of 08) in it's stock portrayals of suburban, and southern, and conservative, and middle easterns/Christians and liberals(the only good characters are literally a couple who just got back from Yemen in a trip with the Peace Corps. Seriously.) semi-offended me. Especially when it tried to moralize at the end. If Sam(from Filmspotting) had seen this film, given his hatred for American Beauty, he would probably have to take a trip to some local atrocity to put things in perspective.

Slumdog Millionaire didn't offend me, but it seemed like it was trying to.
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Re: Top five most offensive movies
« Reply #22 on: October 12, 2009, 12:16:08 AM »
I'm not really offended by movies. I can't think of one really. The ones that are closest are the ones that make me feel cheap, or manipulated. The commercials for Law Abiding Citizen(oh look, his pretty daughter made him a necklace right before she was killed, don't you want blood!) "offend" me more than any movie I've seen in the last couple of years. Maybe the actual movie is different.

Yeah, movies don't really offend me. Neither do jokes, really (which is why I never liked to "too soon" thing South Park started. Actually, South Park has kind of offended me pretty often. But not the endless stupid jokes about crap and other such things. It's the jokes that the audience is supposed to agree with {Indiana Jones getting raped being the most recent offender} that I get offended by. That shit is CINECAST!ed up).
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Re: Top five most offensive movies
« Reply #23 on: October 12, 2009, 12:16:38 AM »
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Re: Top five most offensive movies
« Reply #24 on: October 12, 2009, 12:22:00 AM »
I'm not really offended by movies. I can't think of one really. The ones that are closest are the ones that make me feel cheap, or manipulated. The commercials for Law Abiding Citizen(oh look, his pretty daughter made him a necklace right before she was killed, don't you want blood!) "offend" me more than any movie I've seen in the last couple of years. Maybe the actual movie is different.

Yeah, movies don't really offend me. Neither do jokes, really (which is why I never liked to "too soon" thing South Park started. Actually, South Park has kind of offended me pretty often. But not the endless stupid jokes about crap and other such things. It's the jokes that the audience is supposed to agree with {Indiana Jones getting raped being the most recent offender} that I get offended by. That shit is CINECAST!ed up).

Wasn't the joke in that episode more making fun of the people who claim Indy 4 raped their childhood? They took it a step forward, and made it a literal rape.
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Re: Top five most offensive movies
« Reply #25 on: October 12, 2009, 12:22:28 AM »
I'm not really offended by movies. I can't think of one really. The ones that are closest are the ones that make me feel cheap, or manipulated. The commercials for Law Abiding Citizen(oh look, his pretty daughter made him a necklace right before she was killed, don't you want blood!) "offend" me more than any movie I've seen in the last couple of years. Maybe the actual movie is different.

Yeah, movies don't really offend me. Neither do jokes, really (which is why I never liked to "too soon" thing South Park started. Actually, South Park has kind of offended me pretty often. But not the endless stupid jokes about crap and other such things. It's the jokes that the audience is supposed to agree with {Indiana Jones getting raped being the most recent offender} that I get offended by. That shit is CINECAST!ed up).

Wasn't the joke in that episode more making fun of the people who claim Indy 4 raped their childhood? They took it a step forward, and made it a literal rape.

yes it was.

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Re: Top five most offensive movies
« Reply #26 on: October 12, 2009, 12:47:45 AM »
Doesn't mean it wasn't offensive. I don't think its funny to say that something raped your childhood, and I don't think that pointing it out in an exaggerated fashion works. Because everybody praised that episode for getting it so right. As usual, my problem is with the audience and not the artists (though they got their audience somehow).
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« Reply #27 on: October 12, 2009, 01:00:34 AM »
1. Chaos (2005) - Ebert said it best.  This film is an exercise in heartless cruelty and it ends with careless brutality.  It dwells on the graphic rape and torture porn.  It thinks you're excited to see it.  On top of that, it's so poorly made, it's offensive as a work of cinema.

2. TIE: I Spit on Your Grave/Death Wish 2 - aka The Joys of Rape

3. Redacted - aka The moral opposite of Casualties of War

4. Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS - Every time I think it's not as bad as I remember, I read this extremely detailed review.

5. Caligula - The original.  The Gold Standard.  The one where the dead girl is held up so we can get one last look between her legs.

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Re: Top five most offensive movies
« Reply #28 on: October 12, 2009, 01:43:52 AM »
I saw Ilsa when I was about 12.  Not a goo age to view that.
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Re: Top five most offensive movies
« Reply #29 on: October 12, 2009, 07:39:19 AM »

2. Once Upon a Time in America


Why? I can't wait to see this. Without spoiling it, what's the problem?

(Please say 'length'!)
It's probably the most sickening film I've ever seen. If you really must know scroll over the below:

The film involves a couple of gratuitous rape sequences that made me sick to my stomach

4. Shawn of the Dead
What did you find offensive about this? (Assuming you mean the actual Shaun Of The Dead and not some awesome remake involving Wallace Shawn.)
Almost the entire third act was just unnecessarily offensive, particularly the way death of two of the characters was handled.
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