Noah.. I can guess. Others I don't!
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Yeah. Some strictly religious people might take offense. But for Noah... the movie, I would say it's too much.
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Yeah. Some strictly religious people might take offense. But for Noah... the movie, I would say it's too much.
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Yeah. Some strictly religious people might take offense. But for Noah... the movie, I would say it's too much.
Lucy, the Fault in our Stars and Noah are the three most offensive movies I have seen recently.
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I actually do like the idea of creating fantasy films based off of Judeo-Christian mythology - in the same vein as films like "Clash of the Titans" or "Hercules" are to Greek/Roman mythology.
I don't disagree with your post though. I had really high hopes for Exodus.
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What's offensive about them?
The Fault in Our Stars, well it just seemed so cynical to me. Something kinda offensive about bundling up a teen romance with a cancer story in order to extract maximum emotion from a certain type of viewer in order to get $. Kinda like you could imagine a focus group set up to try to make a film that would appeal to that kind of 'emotion porn' viewer.
Lucy, again an insult to the viewers intelligence in terms of thinking they will happily get on board with the whole 10% thing. Just sticking the middle finger up to the viewer imo ('get Freeman to do a little speech explaining it then everyone will be on board'). Complete gibberish. The argument about it being Sci Fi, meh, it has to have some kind of basis in reality - perhaps 'offensive' isn't the right word tho.
Noah, this one probably takes the cake in terms of ridiculousness ever put on film. Again I was offended by its stupidity, but the actual contents (if you read between the lines) were actually fairly horrifying.. The babies god wanted killing because they might breed (with their uncles no less, or Noah, either way its not pretty) - if god wanted to end humanity, why would he chose to have the babies killed (the most innocent of all)? - why not kill the males who would breed with them (in fact, why not just make it clear that they shouldn't have sex with their nieces? :S) I mean, if you look below the surface on this one, its hard not to find it offensive
So perhaps I exaggerate with being 'offensive', but to me, they certainly offended my eyes and brain actually sitting through them and watching them, so, close enough perhaps.
I'm not particularly dainty, but Gangster Squad bothered me. Police should be held to the highest standards, and to romanticize cops taking the law into their own hands when the LAPD in particular have such a history of corruption was really wrong to me. And that's beside it just being overall a terrible movie.
Others include Once Upon a Time in America, for it's blatant misogynism, although I think it is a great movie.
Recently, the entire Hobbit trilogy, so it's blatant cash in.
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Others include Once Upon a Time in America, for it's blatant misogynism, although I think it is a great movie.
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Films about misogynist cultures are not misogyinistic in essence.
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Anything by Wes Craven, or Micheal Bay, and most of James Cameron's movies (especially Titanic).
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Films about misogynist cultures are not necessarily misogynist in essence. But sometimes they can be.
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I think a more relatable way to look at the thread is to think of movies you wouldn't want to watch with your parents or on a date. Like Mike Leighs Naked, I wouldn't want to do that.
...with my parents.
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I am not easily offended, and there's only one movie I can think of that has ever offended me: Once Upon a Time in America. It's been a while so I don't remember that good, but what I recall is that I didn't like it's portrayal of women. I watch a lot of movies with rape, but for whatever reason, this one rubbed me the wrong way. I also know that Jennifer Connelly was like 13 when this movie was made, and I seem to remember this movie showing her in some sort of sexual way. There was also a scene that showed a baby spread eagle fully nude, and I remember thinking, what a pedophile's dream. On top of all that, I thought the movie was a mess; very disappointing given my love for gangster movies.
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I'm not easily offended by movies either... unless it's racism towards my own race, the Chinese. In this case, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. That film was disgusting, and not just the racism either.
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“It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so ****ing what." - Stephen Fry, The Guardian, 5 June 2005
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