baumer Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Malcolm X actually went through a transformation in his life. It was shown in the movie. Well I saw the movie and it showed his journey to Mecca which transformed his life. I thought it was brilliant.Malcolm X preached peace. He only said that if someone strikes you, then you strike back. Basically he was saying, "Fuck turning the other cheek." Not quite sure how that was insulting to anyone. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 As they say, before you walk a mile in someone's shoes, you shouldn't judge them. Picture being told you can eat at a white restaurant, can't go to a white school, that you smell, you a nigger, a porch monkey, that you should be bailing cotton, that you are inferior, picture seeing your father killed by white people, picture being told all your life that because you are a different colour of skin, you are nothing put a peon, a piece of shit. This is what blacks went through in the US in Malcolm's time. And to his credit, he never advocated violence, he just taught that if you are to harmed, you strike back. I love Malcolm's message...to me, it was just as important as Martin Luther King's. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAR Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Malcom X was more acceptable to the morally reprensible shit bags I watched in Project X this weekend. What a horrible fucking movie. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Nevada Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Malcom X was more acceptable to the morally reprensible shit bags I watched in Project X this weekend. What a horrible fucking movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAR Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 I like funny and crude as much as the next guy. But the key is you have to be funny. And your characters have to be likeable. I watched American Reunion later in the weekend and I still liked those characters. In this? Fuggedaboutit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Nevada Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 I like funny and crude as much as the next guy. But the key is you have to be funny. And your characters have to be likeable. I watched American Reunion later in the weekend and I still liked those characters. In this? Fuggedaboutit. To me the characters dont even have to be likable, just make them interesting. Look at In the Loop or Bad Santa, where all the characters are assholes but its still funny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jb007 Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Malcolm X preached peace. He only said that if someone strikes you, then you strike back. Basically he was saying, "Fuck turning the other cheek." Not quite sure how that was insulting to anyone.That is what propoanda would want you to believe. His kind of agitation/activities has given birth to quasi terror/hate outfits like Nation of Islam. One cannot become what exactly he/she is fighting against. Just because some whites were/are racists does not give the oppressed to do the same against an entire race. That is also the essential point aganist torture by many. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilmac Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 This. If you're going for humor like that, the least you could do is actually make it, you know, funny.I had problems with the brand of humor itself, funny or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilmac Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Michael Moore documentaries. Nuff said. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmandeep Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Malcolm X does deserve some flack with being with organizations like Nation of Islam and such....However he moderated over time... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Cannibal Holocaust...any film that deliberately kills animals for the making of the movie. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Nevada Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Cannibal Holocaust...any film that deliberately kills animals for the making of the movie. Also Apocalypse Now. Terrific, epic film, but what was going on behind the scenes was absolutely deplorable.They chopped dozens of oxen to death with machetes 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmandeep Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 "Also Apocalypse Now. Terrific, epic film, but what was going on behind the scenes was absolutely deplorable.They chopped dozens of oxen to death with machetes "Lol I always knew there was something sinister about that film... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Beezy Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Havent seen Django yet, but that may be it. Shit looks reprehensible to say the leastIs your name Spike Lee or Katt Williams? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilmac Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 (edited) Also Apocalypse Now. Terrific, epic film, but what was going on behind the scenes was absolutely deplorable.They chopped dozens of oxen to death with machetesIn defense of that scene, oxen are customarily slaughtered that way anyway. I believe oxen that were killed were consumed by the indigenous people and their deaths weren't just for a scene in the movie. Edited January 14, 2013 by lilmac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAR Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Was it Apocalypse Now or Heaven's Gate that made it necessary for the Humane Society to monitor a film if animals were being used? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmandeep Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 There was some movie from 1936 where over 100 horses were killed for a battle scene. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efialtes76 Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 A Serbian Film.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 A Serbian Film.... Yep...deplorable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 (edited) Was it Apocalypse Now or Heaven's Gate that made it necessary for the Humane Society to monitor a film if animals were being used?Heaven's Gate.(Though that film is probably more famous for killing United Artists and ending the so-called "New Hollywood" era than blowing up a horse) Edited January 15, 2013 by C00k13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
