On a similar theme; the character of William Murdoch in Titanic - an actual real-life Officer who gave up his life jacket to a passenger before going down with his ship, depicted shooting a passenger before killing himself. He still had living relatives when the film was released, too.
Yeah that kind of historical rewriting, if you're aware of it... that's gotta sting. Horrible. And very, very often - why-even? Like, it annoys me enough when people muck around with characters for no seeming reason at all in a follow-up to an existing fictional event. To do it to an existing factual event. It's gotta take a special kind of flippant disregard.
Much as Mark may love the films, I have to say I find the characterisation of Bella Swan to be an utterly offensive portrayal to Women....her entire character is a complete white-washy, bland mess for her to validate herself through the men she is with/endlessly pining for....And to think that some consider her a role model? Utterly baffling.
In Titanic William McMaster Murdoch was depicted taking a bribe from a passenger to save himself then shooting some third class passengers before shooting himself! According to eyewitnesses that didn't happen at all and he died in the water after helping many people. His family even contacted James Cameron before the film was released to complain but he did it anyway. You'd struggle to be more offensive than that. But it's all ok though because he apologised after. Berk
Any character played by Ken Jeong as of late. They are basically the modern version of the mentioned Mickey Rooney character in Breakfast at Tiffany's but since he is actually Asian, Hollywood can get away with it. I know he needs to make a living but I pray he starts to become more selective about the roles he picks.
Bella from Twillight. The most pathetic, needy, hollow, dull character in the history of cinema. She may self combust if she doesn't have a soppy bloke longing for her.
I was around someone's house once and they plonked on Little Man and I sat through it feeling awkward and put-off but not wanting to cause a scene, and... when it appeared on the list in this video, I had no idea that's what they'd done. I didn't know they'd superimposed one actor's face onto another. And my mind was STILL going "yes that has to be on this list, what a bloody awful movie" and then you said that and I'm like wait what? I had not imagined that film could get somehow worse.
A lot of slasher teens were written beyond cynically. Friday 13th The Final Chapter is essentially teenagers mocking each other before meeting in a dark room to steal each-others partners. Actively out to destroy relationships, isolate each other - and then be offed by the supreme being. The perfect meld of 80's political culture; competitive individualism and neoconservatism - and a ruthlessness that embodies both. One of the first lines is the coroner joking about fucking a corpse & if you look closely @ that film there's a darker current to it mixing sex & death - in a more grim way than the previous ones. I mean, one of the girls walks out to the lake to get away from the gf-swapping, she calls her boys name before she goes to her death - the last thing she believes is that she is cold, she is alone, and her bf chose someone else. Pretty bleak.
can't decide between Lise Cohen in Last Orgy of the Third Reich (a Jewish woman who finally learns to let her hair down after being dehumanized and sexually tortured for an hour) or Adam Sandler in Waterboy. Yep, it's got to be the Waterboy.
kristen stewart in twilight... as having to be forced to watch these films by my girlfriend at the time, I found it offensively sexist that a high school girl couldn't even stand to be alive without having her man in her life. To suggest that women are incapable of living without their other half I find rather sexist and to be honest completely annoying. Also the open mouth thing and 'same face' acting drives me insane.
I was offended by Xerxes from the movie 300. I found him to be a composite of gay male stereotypes. And not only was he a stereotype, but he happened to play the villian, opposite the hyper-masculine protagonist, King Leonidas. I truly believe these images hurt the LGBTQ community more than people can grasp. I believe we need more protagonists who are proud, honest and strong gay characters -- not merely villians, token-funny characters or sidekicks.
Any female character in any summer teen horror schlock who is only there to be semi or wholly naked for no particular reason in first twenty minutes. Normally first to die as character purpose has been served.
I find the portrayal of "chinese" characters in modern films offensive. In alot of american films where there should be a chinese actor speaking chinese. it sounds as though they never spoken a word of chinese before! One example is the chinese triads in 'The Departed' who supposedly from China but speak as they are american, what makes this worst is the film is an adaptation of a chinese movie "Infernal affairs!"
Agreed. Tarantino is such a creep in person. He would never know the touch of a woman if he wasn't famous--i think that's the real reason he became a director other wise he'd be a middle aged store clerk polishing his virginity.
i'd say pretty much every character in a horror film who isn't the baddy. terrified of any noise, bang, cat, flash, scream at everything (as if this is helping you get away from the killer) and suddenly become incredibly stupid and incapable of running for more than a few seconds.
I don't get the love for JJ Abrams either. He's only made one movie that was any good- the first Star Trek. (I have hope for the second one, though) and he's just not that great a filmmaker to me.
The only movie characters that really offend me are from the reformed criminal genre. This is where some creep does really vile things for decades with no sign of remorse, right up to when he got pinched. Then he "saw the light", ratted out his pals, wrote a self serving tell all book in which he's really a misunderstood hero, and Hollywood laps it up. Totally pukeworthy.
Any Katherine Heigl rom-com role, particularly "the Ugly Truth". I'm a man and yet I cannot fathom how Katherine Heigl can be so against sexism in Knocked Up (which was there) and yet agree to be in such degrading depictions of women.
I can't want Breakfast at Tiffany's because of Mickey Rooney. I love Audrey Hepburn, and she is excellent in the film, but every time Rooney comes on screen I want to cringe so hard my spine busts......
I had the misfortune to see a few minutes of a Cody Banks film once, and the whole thing was offensive, but I'm happy to single out Cody Banks. Keith Lemon the Movie has a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes!
The "white chicks", for racial and social reasons, and the Australians in B.L.'s 'Australia', in Django, and in every other US depiction of Australians.
“I oppose the notion that the media is monolithic. It’s neither monolithic nor does it act only and always to domesticate. Sometimes it ends up producing images that it has no control over. This kind of unpredictable effect can emerge right out of the centre of a conservative media without an awareness that it is happening. There are ways of exploiting the dominant media. The politics of aesthetic representation has an extremely important place.” - Judith Butler, Gender as Performance
Every character from the Hang Over. I don't think I need to say any more, however I will note that the surprising popularity for these so-called comedies makes the characters even more grating.
John Hughes was responsible for some classics and I never want to take away The Breakfast Club or Ferris Bueller, but the films Curly Sue, Baby's Day Out and, yes, even Home Alone annoy me, the lead in Curly Sue especially! There is also a film called Milk Money which is hugely offensive. Police Academy 7 Mission To Moscow and any of the Final Destination films. Not enough space to say what I think about The A-Team and Transformers movies.
Any character in a Roland Emmerich film usually gets me throwing things at the TV screen. The idea of great britain surviving on tea and biscuits in The Day After Tomorrow is just one example
oh and if I had relatives that died on the Titanic I would probably find the suggestion that the ship crashed because the night watchmen were distracted by Dicaprio and Winslet necking quite offensive. However not personally having relatives who perished - they just stand as badly written irritants.
I should start playing a drinking game for every time you said the word "offensive". The only problem is I would be on the floor withing the first 30 seconds
Bit late to the day, but any time a Welsh person/place is featured in a movie (also applies to the Irish). Always show the country and people as bizarrely still living in the 19th century and nothing more than simple country folk with wacky accents that the visiting English/American lead has to overcome and learn their primitive country ways so they can go back to a simpler time. See Kevin Bacon's recent 'You Should Have Left' as a prime example (in which he rents a holiday home located in 'Wales' - That should help with the SatNav...). Our shops are not stuck in the 1920s and locals don't view strangers as mysterious, exotic creatures....
Tom Cruise as Senator Jasper Irving in Lions for Lambs. A typical career orientated politician who puts men in harms way for personal gain. I can't think of anything more offensive.
I don’t buy the dictionary thing. Mark tucked his chin so it didn’t actually connect with his nose. I wanted to know whether Keith Lemon was worse than a profuse nosebleed, not just a thump on the forehead.
Oooooooh come ON now, Dr. K !! Eddie Murphy's Raw is an absolutely BRILLIANT piece of stand-up comedy! No comedian besides Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David have made me laugh harder. Raw is offensive and distasteful, but the flow of Murphy's words is unequalled. And honestly, Ricky Gervais has the same no-holds-barred kind of approach...
Most of Sacha Baron Coen's main characters have been offensive on some level - though that seems to be the point in order to tease out the latent bigotry of the particular people he interacts with. I would also include Mike Myers - not only as Fat Bastard but as the atrociously unfunny Hindu-baiter in Love Guru.
By the end of "The devil wears Prada" I honestly hoped that every single character would just die in a horrible carcrash. I had to cleanse myself or all the nasty misanthropic nastyness by watching something comparably profound and humanistic, so Blackhawk Down it was...
Every portrayal of Charlie Chan, both in print and on film, is so racially stereotypical that it's unbearable, IMO. However, that material, portrayed by someone like Jackie Chan, could be promising.
Every tacked on female love interest/character, it's not even necessarily always offensive, but there's little point in having a love interest, if the female character is just there for one reason rather than being a character, it's convincing to no one, 90% of all interesting and famous male characters, could easily be turned into a female character, yet that rarely is the case.
the most offensive characters to me are the villains in rope. I love Hitchcock and I looked up to him so much as a kid, so when i watched rope and the two blatantly gay (and homicidal) antagonists, especially the scene where they talk critically about suffocating a man, it almost subliminally taught me that there was something morally wrong with homosexuality too and stopped me coming to terms with my own sexuality for many years.
Too many examples to name of white southerners (U.S.) written by people who never really knew any. It gets so old. Yet those characters can be well written just by adding a few details to add just a bit of authenticity (to those of us who are rural southerners) and it works. I am so glad he brought up Sex and the City. I don't know any women like those awful characters.
In children's films, the notion that all children are built to be bad natures, opportunist sadists and have no sense of right or wrong and are materialists bothers me. Then the character parents refuse to take responsibility for the way their 5 to 10 year old has turned out. It sets a bad example and increases the negative image.
I loved the Austin Powers films as a child and when I saw your comment, I completely disagreed with what you posted. So I was just tempted to respond to it. Seriously though, it is only a Comedy and only intended for laughter.
I agree. The movie has stereotypes but they're so OTT that you really can't take it seriously which is precisely the point. It's a comedy. I'm Scottish and find the character of Fat Bastard to be hilarious. It's also self knowing in that Austin is this guy who' in reality barely any woman would touch with a twelve inch barge pole in real life, but somehow manages to be attractive to the opposite sex. It's poking fun at old sixties spy movies ad TV series which let's face it, haven't exactly aged well in their attitudes towards women.
I pretty much agree with all the analysis of those movies I'm familiar with. However did you say you didn't like any of the Star Wars films including the original ones? Over rated perhaps but episodes 4 and 5 are great timeless movies. What critique could you possibly have of those two?
On a similar theme; the character of William Murdoch in Titanic - an actual real-life Officer who gave up his life jacket to a passenger before going down with his ship, depicted shooting a passenger before killing himself. He still had living relatives when the film was released, too.
Yeah that kind of historical rewriting, if you're aware of it... that's gotta sting. Horrible. And very, very often - why-even? Like, it annoys me enough when people muck around with characters for no seeming reason at all in a follow-up to an existing fictional event. To do it to an existing factual event. It's gotta take a special kind of flippant disregard.
And it wasn’t directed by Mel Gibson.
there was that one guy, in Birth of a Nation...
James Corden.
perfect!
that dictionary moment was priceless
Much as Mark may love the films, I have to say I find the characterisation of Bella Swan to be an utterly offensive portrayal to Women....her entire character is a complete white-washy, bland mess for her to validate herself through the men she is with/endlessly pining for....And to think that some consider her a role model? Utterly baffling.
In Titanic William McMaster Murdoch was depicted taking a bribe from a passenger to save himself then shooting some third class passengers before shooting himself!
According to eyewitnesses that didn't happen at all and he died in the water after helping many people. His family even contacted James Cameron before the film was released to complain but he did it anyway.
You'd struggle to be more offensive than that.
But it's all ok though because he apologised after.
Berk
Any character played by Ken Jeong as of late. They are basically the modern version of the mentioned Mickey Rooney character in Breakfast at Tiffany's but since he is actually Asian, Hollywood can get away with it. I know he needs to make a living but I pray he starts to become more selective about the roles he picks.
Bella from Twillight. The most pathetic, needy, hollow, dull character in the history of cinema. She may self combust if she doesn't have a soppy bloke longing for her.
May I direct everybody's attention to the characters in Shallow Hal...
You may! Allow me to add that the depiction of Jewish people in Harlan's "Jud Süss" is from today's standards more than questionable.
Any character that is played by Adam Sandler is offensive. WORST ACTOR EVER.
I was around someone's house once and they plonked on Little Man and I sat through it feeling awkward and put-off but not wanting to cause a scene, and... when it appeared on the list in this video, I had no idea that's what they'd done. I didn't know they'd superimposed one actor's face onto another. And my mind was STILL going "yes that has to be on this list, what a bloody awful movie" and then you said that and I'm like wait what? I had not imagined that film could get somehow worse.
I'd have to say every Tyler Perry movie is a blasphemic form of filmmaking.
A lot of slasher teens were written beyond cynically. Friday 13th The Final Chapter is essentially teenagers mocking each other before meeting in a dark room to steal each-others partners. Actively out to destroy relationships, isolate each other - and then be offed by the supreme being. The perfect meld of 80's political culture; competitive individualism and neoconservatism - and a ruthlessness that embodies both. One of the first lines is the coroner joking about fucking a corpse & if you look closely @ that film there's a darker current to it mixing sex & death - in a more grim way than the previous ones. I mean, one of the girls walks out to the lake to get away from the gf-swapping, she calls her boys name before she goes to her death - the last thing she believes is that she is cold, she is alone, and her bf chose someone else. Pretty bleak.
can't decide between Lise Cohen in Last Orgy of the Third Reich (a Jewish woman who finally learns to let her hair down after being dehumanized and sexually tortured for an hour) or Adam Sandler in Waterboy.
Yep, it's got to be the Waterboy.
Imagine, what JJ Abrams gave us instead was a whole array of characters we'd sooner see shot into the heart of an exploding star before Jar Jar Binks.
Before Jar Jar? Not a chance.
I watched Eddie Murphy Raw just last month. I still think it's hilarious.
The representation of men and women in any film by Zack Snyder.
kristen stewart in twilight... as having to be forced to watch these films by my girlfriend at the time, I found it offensively sexist that a high school girl couldn't even stand to be alive without having her man in her life. To suggest that women are incapable of living without their other half I find rather sexist and to be honest completely annoying. Also the open mouth thing and 'same face' acting drives me insane.
You being insane does not make you an unworthy person!
I know a lot of people with down syndrome who are cute.
I was offended by Xerxes from the movie 300. I found him to be a composite of gay male stereotypes. And not only was he a stereotype, but he happened to play the villian, opposite the hyper-masculine protagonist, King Leonidas. I truly believe these images hurt the LGBTQ community more than people can grasp. I believe we need more protagonists who are proud, honest and strong gay characters -- not merely villians, token-funny characters or sidekicks.
My wife is Irish so she gets peed off by the Irish stereotypes so often seen in movies.and often not even played by Irish actors.
JJ Abrahams will give us a great Star Wars , good shout . I wonder how that turned out.
Belle from Twighlight. Apparently women can live a normal life without a man by their side.
Every character in the lion king. A movie that teaches kids to know their place and bow to their "superiors"
I for one would love to see the full Keith Lemon and dictionary experiment
Snails in Dungeons and Dragons. His tragic death was greeted at my cinema with cheers and gales of laughter.
Any female character in any summer teen horror schlock who is only there to be semi or wholly naked for no particular reason in first twenty minutes. Normally first to die as character purpose has been served.
Also offensive: every single gay character in any US sitcom
There was a film called THE GIRL NEXT DOOR about a poor girl who is abused by relatives, an absolutely disgusting film and massively offensive.
I find the portrayal of "chinese" characters in modern films offensive. In alot of american films where there should be a chinese actor speaking chinese. it sounds as though they never spoken a word of chinese before! One example is the chinese triads in 'The Departed' who supposedly from China but speak as they are american, what makes this worst is the film is an adaptation of a chinese movie "Infernal affairs!"
Quentin Tarantino in pretty much every bit part he's played
He's good as Richie in From Dusk Til Dawn.
Agreed.
Tarantino is such a creep in person.
He would never know the touch of a woman if he wasn't famous--i think that's the real reason he became a director other wise he'd be a middle aged store clerk polishing his virginity.
The bill Cosby set in raw is very funny .And strangely prophetic 😆
i'd say pretty much every character in a horror film who isn't the baddy.
terrified of any noise, bang, cat, flash, scream at everything (as if this is helping you get away from the killer) and suddenly become incredibly stupid and incapable of running for more than a few seconds.
Don't go into that room . Oh, she has...
I find Fat Bastard less offensive than Mel Gibson's take on Braveheart.
I don't get the love for JJ Abrams either. He's only made one movie that was any good- the first Star Trek. (I have hope for the second one, though) and he's just not that great a filmmaker to me.
The only movie characters that really offend me are from the reformed criminal genre. This is where some creep does really vile things for decades with no sign of remorse, right up to when he got pinched. Then he "saw the light", ratted out his pals, wrote a self serving tell all book in which he's really a misunderstood hero, and Hollywood laps it up. Totally pukeworthy.
Any Katherine Heigl rom-com role, particularly "the Ugly Truth". I'm a man and yet I cannot fathom how Katherine Heigl can be so against sexism in Knocked Up (which was there) and yet agree to be in such degrading depictions of women.
I found the characters in Leni Riefenstahl’s “Triumph of the Will” offensive.
Jason Isaacs character in The Patriot. The British basically portrayed as the SS.
Love these
He was using queens as a reference to how they were portrayed in the film - as two screaming queens! Jeez! he wasn't actually calling them queens...
You're completely wrong about Raw by Eddie Murphy.
The three most offensive characters in the Star Wars Prequels were Jar Jar Binks, Nute Gunray, and Watto.
Love Raw, Delirious is even better
That's a very good question. I have to get back to you on that one.
The obvious character is one of the 4 leaders in Salo 120 Days Of Sodom utterly punchable
I can't want Breakfast at Tiffany's because of Mickey Rooney. I love Audrey Hepburn, and she is excellent in the film, but every time Rooney comes on screen I want to cringe so hard my spine busts......
I had the misfortune to see a few minutes of a Cody Banks film once, and the whole thing was offensive, but I'm happy to single out Cody Banks.
Keith Lemon the Movie has a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes!
The whole premise of Forrest Gump - even the name offends me.
The "white chicks", for racial and social reasons, and the Australians in B.L.'s 'Australia', in Django, and in every other US depiction of Australians.
Eddie Murphy Raw is classic stand up comedy.
Eddie playing himself was just some scene before the actual footage of the concert.
Kermode you're wrong.
“I oppose the notion that the media is monolithic. It’s neither monolithic nor does it act only and always to domesticate. Sometimes it ends up producing images that it has no control over. This kind of unpredictable effect can emerge right out of the centre of a conservative media without an awareness that it is happening. There are ways of exploiting the dominant media. The politics of aesthetic representation has an extremely important place.”
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Judith Butler, Gender as Performance
Every character from the Hang Over. I don't think I need to say any more, however I will note that the surprising popularity for these so-called comedies makes the characters even more grating.
raw is one of the best stand-up specials ever
Sucker Punch is one of the most offensive films ever made. At least a offence to my intelligence.
John Hughes was responsible for some classics and I never want to take away The Breakfast Club or Ferris Bueller, but the films Curly Sue, Baby's Day Out and, yes, even Home Alone annoy me, the lead in Curly Sue especially! There is also a film called Milk Money which is hugely offensive. Police Academy 7 Mission To Moscow and any of the Final Destination films. Not enough space to say what I think about The A-Team and Transformers movies.
Any character in a Roland Emmerich film usually gets me throwing things at the TV screen. The idea of great britain surviving on tea and biscuits in The Day After Tomorrow is just one example
What's the name of that green ogre from the Shrek movies..?
Colin Farrell, he sets my teeth on edge whenever I see him in anything.
He's great in his collaborations with Yorgos Lanthimos and Martin McDonagh though
Every character Pauly Shore has ever played.
oh and if I had relatives that died on the Titanic I would probably find the suggestion that the ship crashed because the night watchmen were distracted by Dicaprio and Winslet necking quite offensive. However not personally having relatives who perished - they just stand as badly written irritants.
I should start playing a drinking game for every time you said the word "offensive". The only problem is I would be on the floor withing the first 30 seconds
Forget the last response ipad malfunction. I didn't finish my missive .
Yes because as we all know when you become rich and famous you automatically become excited, happy, reasonable and considerate...
Bit late to the day, but any time a Welsh person/place is featured in a movie (also applies to the Irish). Always show the country and people as bizarrely still living in the 19th century and nothing more than simple country folk with wacky accents that the visiting English/American lead has to overcome and learn their primitive country ways so they can go back to a simpler time. See Kevin Bacon's recent 'You Should Have Left' as a prime example (in which he rents a holiday home located in 'Wales' - That should help with the SatNav...). Our shops are not stuck in the 1920s and locals don't view strangers as mysterious, exotic creatures....
No Pain no Game. How they portrayed the real life victim of an horrific crime and made him the villain. Ugh.
Watching this in 2019 waiting for him to mention Loqueesha, then I noticed this is from 2013
About every character in movie 43.
Tom Cruise as Senator Jasper Irving in Lions for Lambs. A typical career orientated politician who puts men in harms way for personal gain. I can't think of anything more offensive.
I don’t think this video has aged well.
Thank goodness- I've found something online that deals with being offended!
There's not enough offended people these days...
Every member of the Lollipop guild in The Wizard of Oz.
Every character Adam Sandler plays that isn't Barry Egan.
Those kids in the sound of music. I was routing for the Nazis
"Meesa sinister minstrel show character!"
he referred to all of them
I don’t buy the dictionary thing. Mark tucked his chin so it didn’t actually connect with his nose. I wanted to know whether Keith Lemon was worse than a profuse nosebleed, not just a thump on the forehead.
I find it offensive that we are supposed to buy into the patently absurd, barefaced lie that Harry Potter is a likeable human being.
EVERY new Star Wars characters starting with The Force Awakens.
Effing Bella effing Swan. Even moreso the werewolf 3rd-wheel character.
Everything is offensive to everyone.
You will hear from my lawyers.
The entire cast of Oceans 12...In Oceans 12.
HOLLYWOOD IS EUGENICS !!
Oooooooh come ON now, Dr. K !! Eddie Murphy's Raw is an absolutely BRILLIANT piece of stand-up comedy! No comedian besides Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David have made me laugh harder. Raw is offensive and distasteful, but the flow of Murphy's words is unequalled. And honestly, Ricky Gervais has the same no-holds-barred kind of approach...
Most of Sacha Baron Coen's main characters have been offensive on some level - though that seems to be the point in order to tease out the latent bigotry of the particular people he interacts with. I would also include Mike Myers - not only as Fat Bastard but as the atrociously unfunny Hindu-baiter in Love Guru.
Every character in Prometheus that is not played by Michael Fassbender. In fact, if they take the whole movie with them that would be nice too.
By the end of "The devil wears Prada" I honestly hoped that every single character would just die in a horrible carcrash. I had to cleanse myself or all the nasty misanthropic nastyness by watching something comparably profound and humanistic, so Blackhawk Down it was...
Near instantaneous first thought: Chris Tucker in the 5th element.
Every portrayal of Charlie Chan, both in print and on film, is so racially stereotypical that it's unbearable, IMO. However, that material, portrayed by someone like Jackie Chan, could be promising.
have you seen the original straw dogs?
Every tacked on female love interest/character, it's not even necessarily always offensive, but there's little point in having a love interest, if the female character is just there for one reason rather than being a character, it's convincing to no one, 90% of all interesting and famous male characters, could easily be turned into a female character, yet that rarely is the case.
the most offensive characters to me are the villains in rope. I love Hitchcock and I looked up to him so much as a kid, so when i watched rope and the two blatantly gay (and homicidal) antagonists, especially the scene where they talk critically about suffocating a man, it almost subliminally taught me that there was something morally wrong with homosexuality too and stopped me coming to terms with my own sexuality for many years.
Precious was very offensive. Everything about that movie and character was disgusting.
Too many examples to name of white southerners (U.S.) written by people who never really knew any. It gets so old. Yet those characters can be well written just by adding a few details to add just a bit of authenticity (to those of us who are rural southerners) and it works. I am so glad he brought up Sex and the City. I don't know any women like those awful characters.
In children's films, the notion that all children are built to be bad natures, opportunist sadists and have no sense of right or wrong and are materialists bothers me. Then the character parents refuse to take responsibility for the way their 5 to 10 year old has turned out. It sets a bad example and increases the negative image.
I loved the Austin Powers films as a child and when I saw your comment, I completely disagreed with what you posted. So I was just tempted to respond to it. Seriously though, it is only a Comedy and only intended for laughter.
I agree. The movie has stereotypes but they're so OTT that you really can't take it seriously which is precisely the point. It's a comedy. I'm Scottish and find the character of Fat Bastard to be hilarious. It's also self knowing in that Austin is this guy who' in reality barely any woman would touch with a twelve inch barge pole in real life, but somehow manages to be attractive to the opposite sex. It's poking fun at old sixties spy movies ad TV series which let's face it, haven't exactly aged well in their attitudes towards women.
Anything with Tyler Perry is truly offensive. Done.
In trading places, the train scene
Yeah, that scene is problematic at best.
I pretty much agree with all the analysis of those movies I'm familiar with. However did you say you didn't like any of the Star Wars films including the original ones? Over rated perhaps but episodes 4 and 5 are great timeless movies. What critique could you possibly have of those two?
We don't know whether Xerxes was a fighter or not.
but being royalty he was likely trained to fight.