Most offensive movie you've ever seen

Post Reply New Topic

Probably a Clockwork Orange or Hard Candy. I love them both, though.

I think many posters in this thread need to understand that we're talking about offensive movies, not simply movies we disliked.

My vote has to go to Precious, which is possibly the most racist movie I have ever seen. Mo'Nique's character was nothing more than a personification of almost every hateful stereotype about black women, and Precious's eventual "saviors" were all light-skinned, sending the implicit message that light skin is better. The sickening thing is that this garbage earned critical praise, with Mo'Nique even winning an award. So much for post-racial America.

Does Two Girls, One Cup count?

Apart from that, a scene in The Hills Have Eyes where a baby is threatened with a gun really annoyed me, as did the animal killings in Cannibal Holocaust; still, I'm all for horror

Gummo

No Country for Old Men

Sorry folks, but even though I love the Cohen brothers, I find the movie repulsive. Nothing but murderer-worship.

I have another offensive movie to add to this thread: Inglourious Basterds.

Although I enjoyed the movie, I can see people being offended by it.

Spider-Man 3. I can't believe Sam Raimi, who brought us Army of Darknes and Xena, could mess up so bad.

If 2 Girls 1 Cup counts, then that.

Otherwise, I've seen plenty of movies that have shocked and disgusted me, or been just god awful, but I cannot think of one off-hand that has genuinely "offended" me in the conventional sense.

On another note, Human Centipede has become the most ridiculous running joke amongst my friends and I that there has been in many years. The movie itself is borderline unwatchable, but the concept is hilarious and awesome.

Norbit. that movie was funny but wrong on so many levels!

I find a few movies offensive for the number of people that consider them brilliant despite what they represent. I know that The Godfather is a classic, for example, but the subject matter angers me. Which is only fair, I think, since the acts performed are, in life, wrong. I haven't seen that one, though, so it isn't my submission... I know about it enough to be offended because like so many older classics, everyone knows all the high points before they see it.

I saw the beginning of The Graduate and gave it up... the hero was a big let-down and I guess in the end his qualities as a hero were fairly questionable anyway, so I hear. I couldn't believe it when the cornered and frightened young man just went ahead and jumped in the sack with the creepy older woman. I know Anne Bancroft was supposed to be glamorous but I don't see it in this film.

And my sister and I walked out of Brighton Beach Memoirs because honestly, we could only take so many jokes about playing with yourself.

But then, I get offended pretty easily... I hate movies with love scenes. That is just way too personal for me... I can think of no reason to show them doing it even in little montage snippets or silhouettes, it doesn't further the plot to show the couple all slack jawed and drippy mouthed when the fact of them doing it could be conveyed in a couple of well-chosen shots, and I frankly don't want to see other people like that. It's dead awkward... like someone with a really revealing shirt on... you ask yourself where you should be looking and what exactly this show is supposed to accomplish.