Most shameless, manipulative, heavy-handed, jam-the-message-down-your-throat movie?
11-12-08, 12:54 AM
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11-12-08, 02:04 AM
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The book, We Were Soldiers... Once and Young is greatness. Insight from both sides of the battle and breathing detail that couldn't be found anywhere else.
The movie is laughable melodrama.
11-12-08, 04:02 AM
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11-12-08, 06:53 AM
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Wall-E is the definition of this thread's title.
And I'm not overly fat or have kids thank you very much. Nice comment there.
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11-12-08, 09:18 AM
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There is no more shamless, manipulative, heavy-handed, "shove their message like a cock down your throat"-movie than Forrest Gump: a film so broadly embraced by Americans, it confirmed every broad, obnoxious stereotype of American idiocy and apathy.
That having been said, I have never seen a more horrifically shamless scene than the one at the end of Volcano, where the precocious youngster with the oh-so-adorable speech impediment announces that, when covered with volcanic ash, EVERYONE IS THE SAME COLOR. I wanted to raise Sir Laurence Olivier from the dead and have him drill holes in that kid's teeth right then and there. That'll give him a speech impediment alright.
And while I'm full of rage, how about Brett Ratner (*shiver*) and his magnum opus Family Man? Total piece of shit movie, the cinematic equivalent of watching Dom Deluise receiving a blumpkin, but AGAIN we have not only the adorable and precocious little girl with pigtails and a lisp who is insightful and cute and oh so precious, and wait there's Don Cheadle as the "Magical Mystical Negro". Good Lord. And there are a scant few on the Internet who wonder why, when Ratner is attached to any project, they start frothing at the mouth and falling over backwards. This movie is a gooey, messy, liquified bowel movement with chunks of dead baby in it.
And while I-- I-- *thorazine takes effect*....
That having been said, I have never seen a more horrifically shamless scene than the one at the end of Volcano, where the precocious youngster with the oh-so-adorable speech impediment announces that, when covered with volcanic ash, EVERYONE IS THE SAME COLOR. I wanted to raise Sir Laurence Olivier from the dead and have him drill holes in that kid's teeth right then and there. That'll give him a speech impediment alright.
And while I'm full of rage, how about Brett Ratner (*shiver*) and his magnum opus Family Man? Total piece of shit movie, the cinematic equivalent of watching Dom Deluise receiving a blumpkin, but AGAIN we have not only the adorable and precocious little girl with pigtails and a lisp who is insightful and cute and oh so precious, and wait there's Don Cheadle as the "Magical Mystical Negro". Good Lord. And there are a scant few on the Internet who wonder why, when Ratner is attached to any project, they start frothing at the mouth and falling over backwards. This movie is a gooey, messy, liquified bowel movement with chunks of dead baby in it.
And while I-- I-- *thorazine takes effect*....
11-12-08, 09:23 AM
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How about The Visitor (2007) with its immigration message?
A couple of Rob Reiner films: The American President and A Few Good Men
But the all-time BIGGEST offender IMO is ...
FAST FOOD NATION
(although Crash might challenge it as the worst)
edit: thought of another one... Into the Wild
A couple of Rob Reiner films: The American President and A Few Good Men
But the all-time BIGGEST offender IMO is ...
FAST FOOD NATION
(although Crash might challenge it as the worst)
edit: thought of another one... Into the Wild
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11-12-08, 10:03 AM
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11-12-08, 10:52 AM
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I must be ignorant, but can someone explain the heavy handed message behind Forrest Gump. All i got out of it was that girls are whores who when they eventually get aids will come running back to the now rich dumb kid who has pined over them his entire life so he can pay for their medical care.
11-12-08, 11:21 AM
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Although there are plenty of offenders, Crash was definitely the first thing that came to mind before I even clicked on the thread to read it. I've never felt more intellectually insulted in my life.
11-12-08, 12:16 PM
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I feel like I'm the only person on planet Earth that feels this way, but this is exactly what I thought 10 minutes into American Psycho. I just wanted to yell at the screen, "OK! I get it!" But instead, I have to endure the same message repeated over and over. I couldn't wait for it to end.
Oh and now that I think about it, Requiem for a Dream is the exact same way. The message in that movie:
was as elusive as a Stanley Kubrick film. (That's sarcasm by the way.)
Oh and now that I think about it, Requiem for a Dream is the exact same way. The message in that movie:
Spoiler:
was as elusive as a Stanley Kubrick film. (That's sarcasm by the way.)
11-12-08, 12:33 PM
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I feel like I'm the only person on planet Earth that feels this way, but this is exactly what I thought 10 minutes into American Psycho. I just wanted to yell at the screen, "OK! I get it!" But instead, I have to endure the same message repeated over and over. I couldn't wait for it to end.
Oh and now that I think about it, Requiem for a Dream is the exact same way. The message in that movie:
was as elusive as a Stanley Kubrick film. (That's sarcasm by the way.)
Oh and now that I think about it, Requiem for a Dream is the exact same way. The message in that movie:
Spoiler:
was as elusive as a Stanley Kubrick film. (That's sarcasm by the way.)
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11-12-08, 12:39 PM
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I just saw Do The Right Thing in class today. I'm confused as to how the movie could end so lightly based on that Mookie did what he did to the pizza place? And what did him doing that solve?
11-12-08, 12:44 PM
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I didn't care for it as the movie, as a movie, wasn't particularly good. And yes, there was cheese, lots of it.
11-12-08, 12:54 PM
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