I just saw the movie, Twelve Years a Slave ....

[loinburger]

Plus it's not like it's that difficult to avoid "racism-is-bad" movies if they're not your bag. Twelve Years a Slave? Probably going to be about racism. Amistad? The Butler? Likewise. Practically every other movie? Probably not going to be a central, secondary, or tertiary theme.

The only "surprise racism" I can think of in recent memory was in "Non-Stop", where some dude on an airplane was like "hey, I bet the Arab dude is going to hijack the plane," and then Liam Neeson said "nahhh," and then he beat up a bunch of people (not including the Arab dude).

When did Liam Neeson start doing action movies? Schindler's List (caution: this movie contains racism!) could have ended on a much happier note. Nazi Dude: Hey let's kill a bunch of Jews. Liam Neeson: Not on my watch you won't (beats up a million or so Nazis)

[Imran Siddiqui]

I know. Racism has been the theme of literally every movie. PC correctness BS

Saving Private Ryan was really about the pervasive racism of Tom Hanks

[Sava]

I would watch that remake of Schindler's List.

[MrFun]

When I watched Band of Brothers, it hit me at the very end--oh my god, there was never a shoehorned-in thing about how the Army was segregated in World War II! No references to the efforts of women and minorities in the war effort! It just took a company and followed it around for its tour in Europe without getting into dumb political correct bull****. It hit me then--going out of your way to make sure everybody knows just how bad black people had it or whatever is now the cliche, and it is refreshing when they don't do that.

So, yeah, anyone else sick of the racism is bad ****? Like, as if I need to be ****ing told.

It's so tiring to hear of movies that say that Nazis were bad. I mean, yeah, we get it already.

[MrFun]

Saving Private Ryan was a horrible movie; "Nazis were bad, blah, blah, blah ..."

[loinburger]

That's an invalid comparison. Movies about Nazis are generally about killing Nazis, whereas movies about racism are rarely about killing racists.

[MrFun]

Too bad reg is so insipid, shallow, and ignorant that he depreciates in-depth stories of the human spirit by dismissing them as PC nonsense.

[Uncle Sparky]

I still haven't seen '12 Years a Slav'... but I've read some of his posts.

[MrFun]

And by the way, apparently some people today, still need to learn that slavery in America was bad.

Didn't Texas recently revise all school textbooks to depict American slavery as a benign or even a positive institution?

[Serb]

I still haven't seen '12 Years a Slav'... but I've read some of his posts.

[Serb]

And by the way, apparently some people today, still need to learn that slavery in America was bad.

Didn't Texas recently revise all school textbooks to depict American slavery as a benign or even a positive institution?

Ok, after reading this thread I get it. What America really needs is a movie about gay slave oppressed by Nazi invaders.

You can call it "12 years in the abyss of anal occupation"

[loinburger]

Too bad reg is so insipid, shallow, and ignorant that he depreciates in-depth stories of the human spirit by dismissing them as PC nonsense.

Huzzah, the thread served its purpose: MrFun got to feel superior to somebody

[Hauldren Collider]

I think it's a little extreme to say that the whole racism-is-bad thing is pervasive in every movie. I actually think TV is the one that's bad about those sorts of things, mostly because in just about every tv show with some bad-guy-of-the-week format, at one point or another the writers are going to get lazy and be like "hey, let's do that plot that's like Japanese internment camps in space again"*. Sci Fi shows tend to be particularly bad about this. The problem really is not that the messages are somehow wrong, because they're not--it's that they're boring. Just like MrFun threads, they've been done to death over and over.

*Star Trek Enterprise did literally this like three times

[-Jrabbit]

I love it when a college student uses the word "internment."
It amuses.

[Guynemer]

When did Liam Neeson start doing action movies?

Does Excalibur count?

If not, probably Darkman.