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i actually agree with all the above. the movies i brought up earlier were more of an insult to my intelligence than an offense. i do still find the underlying premis behind Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - that if a black man works hard and becomes a doctor or a Senator, then maybe, just maybe, he'll be good enough to marry some air-head white girl - to be a little offensive though.
There's this movie, LIFE with Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence, that disgusted me. It's supposed to be a comedy but I saw nothing funny about two black men being railroaded by white men and can't do nothing about it. I'm white and I see nothing funny about the way the blacks were treated in the past.
I agree, that movie was not funny. The overwhelming feeling I had watching it was sadness.
For me its Eat Pray Love. For the exact same reasons I had problems with the book. The woman came off as very self centered and rather shellfish. She decides she doesn't want to be married anymore and travel around the world to "find" herself. During all of this she still gets paid by her job!!! Amazing. Even more amazing is the fact that this is based on a true story. It says a lot about today's view of marriage in general. That relationships are "disposable", and working on them is really unnecessary.
I just thought of another one that angered me more than offended me - House of Sand and Fog - but I actually thought it was a good movie. I was really angry at the Jeniffer Connelly character in that movie. The problem is, I don't know if that was the intent of the screenwriter/director. Her irresponsibility was the reason that everything bad in the movie happened. I was actually really mad when I left the theater. I suppose if a movie evokes any kind of emotion, it's well done, but I wonder to this day if that's what they were going for. A California friend of mine had an entirely different sympathetic reaction to that character.
I have to go with Identity Theft - I was offended by the title alone and saw nothing humorous about stealing someone else's identify and ruining their credit. I refused to even see the movie, but my daughter and husband went. He was sorry he wasted the time.
The American President was good acting and a cute plot if they would have stayed away from the whole gun control grandstanding issue. Ruined the whole movie for me.
And high fidelity, good movie, except the part where the actress discloses she has had an abortion. I found it disturbing how cavalierly the issue was treated. Yet everyone seems to have overlooked it and said how great the movie was. It was good, except for that part which ruined it for me, I thought it was supposed to have been a comedy
The American President was good acting and a cute plot if they would have stayed away from the whole gun control grandstanding issue. Ruined the whole movie for me.
And high fidelity, good movie, except the part where the actress discloses she has had an abortion. I found it disturbing how cavalierly the issue was treated. Yet everyone seems to have overlooked it and said how great the movie was. It was good, except for that part which ruined it for me, I thought it was supposed to have been a comedy
I don't remember anything about gun control in The American President. I believe it was focused on a crime control bill. What I remember is Annette Bening being an environmental lobbyist. And High Fidelity was a comedy. Just because "abortion" is mentioned doesn't mean the movie isn't classified as a comedy. You know that in many comedies, they talk about death, right? Does that mean the movie has to be classified as a drama because death was brought up? No.
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