I agree with BohicaTwentyTwo on “American Beauty”, it should’ve made this list. But “Contact”? That movie presents us with a character who practically worships at the altar of scientific dogma and ‘progressive’ thought, who spends 95% of the film sneering at what she considers to be the stupidity of faith and religious belief, and what I always construed as people to her political right…only to find herself proven utterly wrong, in the end.

I also don’t think “Apocalypse Now” would fit here either, as I never saw it as being as overtly political as, say, “Platoon”…on the surface, it comes across as an anti-Vietnam, anti-war movie, but at its core, I don’t think it’s really about either of those things. But that’s something that’s difficult to quantify. I wouldn’t exactly describe it as American_Pride1701 did either, as an exercise in nihilism, but I think that’s slightly closer to the mark…actually, I see it as being anti-nihilistic, insofar as it depicts the furthest and most horrific logical conclusion to such a belief system…or, I guess, the abandonment of it.

The only other one I’ve seen mentioned that I could really comment on would be “Primary Colors”, which at the time, I personally thought was a shockingly accurate and NOT glorified depiction of Clinton. So much so that I was somewhat mystified that it could even have been made by the people who made it.

Captain Ed of Hot Air, in honor of the impending inauguration of Barack Obama, is soliciting suggestions for the the worst explicitly political movies of the last 50 years. He ventures a few suggestions to kick off the discussion, such……

Day after tomorrow shouldn’t even be on that list. It’s disaster porn, not a political movie.

Darth Executor on January 19, 2009 at 2:43 PM

I watched it knowing it would be bad – I love bad disaster movies. It wasn’t just bad, it was horrible. Stupid politcal message ruined what would have been an enjoyable viewing of liberal cities being destroyed.

Same here. He was cute.

V for Vendetta deserves some sort of award for “Most Hysterical Premise.” Pedophile priests and drug-addicted religious conservatives plot with pharmaceutical companies to make millions by kidnapping soulful, empathetic homosexuals from their homes, impounding them, performing Mengele-like experiments on them using biological agents, and then releasing the results on an unsuspecting public in order to instill fear and usher in a Fourth Reich. Kind-hearted, virtue-saturated, ninja-like Leftists oppose them to the death. Can you say “narcissistic self-congratulation on steroids?”

philwynk on January 19, 2009 at 1:45 PM

Well said.

I somewhat remember the premise of the movie. Ignorant, intolerant towns’ people mistreating the poor, rejected, troubled kids. Billy Jack, the deeply affected peaceful man who could not avoid violence in defense of the woman and her school. The woman, fairly forgettable, long blond hair, quiet voice, with a “can’t we all just get along?” attitude.

As a teenage girl, all I cared about was that Billy Jack was so cute and had a bit of the “bad boy/good boy” air about him. Looking back now, I realize there was a strong political message, but at the time, I didn’t care or notice.

I thought it was pretty damn funny myself.

Sort of like the opposite of what has happened with AIDs.

Johan Klaus on January 19, 2009 at 1:51 PM

Umm… didn’t the US government genetically engineer AIDS in an effort to rid the world of blacks? No, really…

philwynk on January 19, 2009 at 1:45 PM

Sort of like the opposite of what has happened with AIDs.

Of course, GI Jane is the worst movie of all time regardless of what category it falls into…

RedSoxNation on January 19, 2009 at 11:40 AM

You think so? Well, bite my gender-neutral gonadal appendage. (For those who missed the movie, that’s a reference to the film, not a vicious attack on RedSoxNation.)

I’m happy to say that I’ve seen none of them.

jgapinoy on January 19, 2009 at 12:56 PM

I wish I could go back in time and not only refuse to see the new Star Wars trilogy but also rent a steamroller and crush as many copies of the DVD as I can find.