The most offensive (sub) genre
 

What type of film offends you most? Is it Cannibal or Mondo? Nazisploitation or Rape/Revenge? Or something else?

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The Cannibal and Mondo movies offend me the most for obvious reasons. I know some find the Nazi movies extremely offensive but they've never bothered me because they are so ludicrous.

John Hughes movies offend me too - they start off good and then start turning into the most sickly sweet films ever and by the end I feel like vomiting everywhere.

Blimey Pete, you are asking for trouble there. Expect a good spanking from the Hughes fans, and not one like your avatar!

I find the whole modern Grindhouse genre offensive, there is so much quality original stuff out there why bother. I also feel these films lack true exploitation credentials as when you read interviews with 60s and 70s exploiters, it's all about the cash and pushing the limits within the confines of censorship.

Mondo movie with the animal stuff......and Pattisploitation.Yeuch!

I don't think there's any sub genre that offends me, unless we're talking about mainstream cinema. Dumb US comedy flicks offend me; basically any comedy that has a poster of Owen Wilson with his mouth open;)

I don't find them offensive per se, but the Saw rip offs/torture porn bollocks of the last few years have bored me to tears. :yawn:

Change the bloody record please. :frusty:

Is Will Ferrell a subgenre?

He's certainly sub something.

The kind of film that passes for 'spoof' these days, you know the kind :cuss: . . .

Hmmm...offended is a strong word and brings up connotations of conservative housewives being 'offended' by 'nasty' films on video. But moving away from that image....what offends? I'm actually struggling to think of anything that I've found offensive. Bloody hell, I must be even more jaded and depraved than I thought. :lol:

I suppose extreme porn offends me, in that it seems so...I dunno....abusive. Not that I've really seen much, but what I have repelled me and I wondered how anyone could be turned on by such stuff. But each to their own and all that.

The Mondo movies are in bad taste, exploitative, sensationalistic and certainly trading on both human and animal misery. But offensive? Repulsive and repugnant, yes, that's obvious. But do they offend me? Hmmm...not really. It's not my 'thing' but I can't say it offends me either.

Interesting topic. Be curious to see how this thread develops.

EDIT: Actually I can think of one film that offended me. Salo. It seems to positively revel in sexual perversion and paedophilia. I know, I know, it's a masterpiece. But I think it's offensive and pointless bollocks. There, I thought of something that offends me.

ah Salo. its not for everyone;);).
these ones "offend" me, i suppose...

The Siege
Pearl Harbour
The Little Mermaid
9
Gamer
Micheal Bay
the never ending cycle of remakes
mel gibson

on the other hand, i have sat through what most mainstream movie fans (ie people who go to see jennifer aniston films...actually she offends me as well, one trick pony or what??) would consider "filth" eg snuff 102 etc, though these are usually the ones who offer to show me decapitations and the like on their phones....and IM supposed to be the sicko??

to conclude. the whole world's wild at heart, and weird on top ;)

or some sort of porn with animals i just say no thanks not interested and then conceed with why would u want something like that on u phone ..

Only subgenre that offends me are poor Hollywood 'horror' comedies.Like The Lost Boys and Cursed.Yeah,and Adam Sandler.

The most offensive (sub) genre
 

Probably family friendly horror, masquerading as real horror which I like,

sentimental romcoms, with Hugh Grant, Jennifer Aniston etc.
but THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY and ME, MYSELF AND IRENE are very funny due to the ott humour and so called bad taste

anything by Michael Bay, 'popcorn crap'
pathetic shite like ARMAGEDDON and INDEPENDENCE DAY with the Yanks saving the world...again

I'm struggling to think if I've ever been offended by a subgenre of films. The Mondo movies are distasteful and I don't like them because of the animal cruelty, but I'd be hard pushed to say they were generally offensive.

On the other hand, brainless action films which appeal to the lowest common denominator, generally directed by Michael Bay, are offensive in the way they treat cinema and cinemagoers, lowering the IQ of film as an art form and seeming to suggest if something is expensive enough, loud enough and full of plenty of CGI, it must be worth seeing as an 'event'.

very little "offends" me...

the majority of mainstream porn offends me on a personal level by the way that women are depicted as vacuous airheads that are all fake boobs and no brains, so I make a concious effort to avoid it...in exactly the same way that I avoid most "chick flicks" for more or less the same reason.

Other than that I can't say I am offended by anything within the horror/exploitation genres...not as far as an entire "genre/sub-genre" goes at least.

Hugh Grant offends me far more than the foetus scoffing scene in Anthropophagus! :nod:

Hugh Grant is offensive on so many levels that it's impossible to know where to begin! Britain has a long tradition of making exceptional, classy horror films - but the last wave of Brit films either focused on moronic gangsters or suger-sweet rom-coms. Where's all the horror? I blame Hugh Grant partly for this, if Four Weddings hadn't been so successful, things may have turned out differently. Instead, it started a conveyor belt of really crap dramas and rom-coms. All deeply offensive and I've avoided as many as possible. Why offensive? Well, because I say so. Because Hugh Grant is in them. I inadvertently caught About A Boy and wanted to destroy the TV. I mean, I was furious, it was absolutely awful. I didn't just want to turn it off, I wanted to eradicate its existence entirely. Trying to comment on fatherhood and the like, what a load of old bollocks. :lol:

And to add to the Brit Hall of Shame, I'll add Keira Knightley. ****ing hell, she's awful. I caught her in Domino and to say she was unbelievable is putting it mildy. She spoke like the Queen and with a body no bigger than a stick insect, I was hard pushed to believe she could capture hostile criminals. The entire film was a real endurance test.

'My name is Domino and I'm a bounty huntah.' Far too posh to be a ****ing bounty hunter. What was the casting director thinking of??

Sounds like the old one, where you're parent's told you not to do something and when you ask why, they say "because I say so" :lol: Grant has appeared in some of my favourite rom-coms, like Music & Lyrics, Four Weddings, Two weeks Notice, and my favourite af all time, Notting Hill. :)

I hope the therapy is going well. :lol:

:lol: rom-coms are my therapy!

Sue your doctor. :lol:

I hope that doctor is struck off :tongue1:

I dislike most Nazisploitation films, but can't say they really offend me (as Pete stated most are just too ludicrous to be taken seriously)

"John Hughes movies offend me too - they start off good and then start turning into the most sickly sweet films ever and by the end I feel like vomiting everywhere. "
Ha, I second that.

Also
-Cheesy and manipulative dramas about autism/ disability/ mute kids etc. (most of them are just misinformed and out right offensive).
-Movies where an obnoxious kid forms a special bond with lions/ice bears/whales/big foot etc
(I'm not even sure why those films offend me, but seeing a fat kid playfully wrestle with a bear makes me want to punch somebody. Not to mention that these type of films are filled with laughable villains, endless scenes of kids climbing with their new animal pals through wilderness and predictable sappy endings.)

faces of death, anything with real animal slaughter or real footage of executions as these films no matter how informative they pretend to be are made for profit and someone has to sit there trolling through footage finding what they consider the most depraved or disturbing.

I don't like the cannibal movies, but thats more because I just find them boring and uninteresting. As for saw and all those films - they have there place, but there has been way to many rip offs. Saw 1 and 2 were good.

Agree with the general sentiment here that I'm not offended per se, but certain genres-such as the animal abuse of the cannibal films and the nazi exploitation films- are certainly tasteless and exploitative, but I don't feel personally offended. If anything, I marvel at their making, and how little tolerance there would be today for such ideas! I <3 the 70s. :)