Daily Gut: PC Hollywood Villains
by Greg GutfeldSo another Rambo flick is on its grimy, sweaty way and this time the villains are human traffickers and drug lords. To make them even more despicable, they’ve kidnapped a young girl and are probably ignoring her strict vegan needs.
Look, I applaud Sylvester Stallone’s heroic stance against human traffickers and kidnappers – for I know there will be quite an outcry especially from the large and very influential human trafficking and kidnapper lobby.
Of course, this movie comes on the heels of two other edgy ventures: The G.I Joe flick – which turned a gritty American icon into an airbrushed Benneton ad, and “Inglourious Basterds” a fantasy that has average Jews hacking Nazi soldiers to pieces.
These three movies have two things in common:
1) They avoid present, real danger in the world and instead choose villains that are not just safe, but politically correct to hate. You’d think it would be easy for Quentin Tarantino to find a present day enemy for the Jews (like, say, a terrorist group that denies the Holocaust and wants to wipe Israel off the map), but maybe none exist! And what of those guys who flew planes into the World Trade Center? I suppose in the era of the “unclenched fist,” we must be more sensitive to “backlash” than barbarism.
2) They want to make money. And to make money these days, it means putting the world first, not America. Global tickets sales mean eliminating any scent of American justice – that evil Cowboy mentality that reminds the world we’re reliably awesome. But most important, it’s distasteful to consider a battle between good and evil when it’s happening today.
Because then, you have to choose.
Tonight we’ve got the lovely Lauren Sivan, Carl Cameron, Ron Geraci, and Dr. David Tolin, from the great show “Hoarders!” (love that show)
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Well, India certainly revels in movies where the Jihadists get what is coming to them. Of course that country only has about a billion and a half people so we can safely ignore the movies they might enjoy.
Hollywoods aversion to casting liberal interest groups as villians is why Tom Clancy's "Rainbow Six" is the best action suspense thriller that will never see the silver screen.
Unless the villians are recast as neonazis or neoIRA or neoconservatives or…
The "new bad guy" in movies has to be someone EVERYONE can hate.
Like Nazis. Human traffickers. George W. Bush.
Hey! I'm just grateful for any movie in which the USA itself is not the wicked enemy. And the fact that I am is a sad commentary on our times.
Upon watching the movie I'm sure we'll find out, they are all Right-Wing Conservative traffickers working for the profits of multi-national corporations as well.
that wouldn't make much sense seeing as stallone is a republican
If "hollywood" is too stupid or too cowardly to make relevant action flicks these days, then someone else will. Witness the latest blockbuster, DISTRICT 9, made way cheap with excellent production values in S. Africa with non-hollywood funding. Not every movie patron is a weak kneed, thumb sucking demokkkrat. NASCAR America loves watching scumbag terrorists meet their just desserts on the big screen. What legitimate American wouldn't?
the scent of "…American justice – that evil Cowboy mentality that reminds the world we’re reliably awesome." is still alive and well in texas, baby. y'all need to load up and and get here as quick as you can. we may have to secede and then y'all will be sh*t out of luck.
I disagree about Mexican drug lords not being present and a real danger. Earlier this summer there were several reports about how drug lords are a MAJOR problem at the border. Border patrol and security is just as big an issue with conservatives as terrorism. At least it's not the Dutch or some made-up country in Africa (like this past season of 24). Sure Hollywood could use more movies where Muslims are the bad guys, like The Delta Force, Iron Eagle or True Lies, but Stallone gets a pass because the Rambo movies are good. And who says he won't tackle Muslim villains in Rambo 6?
Hollywood doesn't write liberal badguys because they don't know how. They write conservative bad guys instead. And tend to get them all wrong. Can you name a single bad guy in a recent Hollywood movie that wasn't one cliche or another? The best bad guy I've seen recently is the Joker: an anarchist. But, then, he's not a Hollywood creation.
If Hollywood wanted, it could take on some of its own ideological baggage. It would take guts, but they could do it. The best conservative bad guys would be written by conservatives, just as the best liberal bad guys would be written by liberals. You have to *understand* the movement to be able to write believably. And there's just too much polarization these days, not to mention the complete unwillingness of leftist Hollywood elites in doing some self-reflection. Hell, I'm not asking that they give up their principles, only that they take a good hard look at the extremes within their own movement. Conservatives do this all the time: we're constantly confronted with racists and militia-types and religious radicals that make us cringe.
It makes liberals feel better about themselves to do this, but they're ignoring their own wackos. And as a result, they're making boring movies.
"Stop or I will shoot!"
They recast the villains in Sum of Fears, Tom Clancy's thriller about Palestinian terrorists who blew up Mile High Stadium in Denver. The new villains were…..drum roll please…….neo Nazi facists. Those damn neo-Nazis are always blowing up buildings and killing thousands of good, hard working American school teachers.
Meanwhile, in a peaceful Palestinian bomb making facility, Jihadists pray to Allah that he might be merciful and bless their bombs of peace.
I'm willing to give Sly the benefit of the doubt based on the last Rambo movie which was over-the-top entertaining and rather politically incorrect. The Christian missionaries came off as a little naive, sure, but also doing good work to help the Burmese. Pacifism is shown as an unrealistic philosophy in a very clear manner. Even the main bad dude is into boys, making Rambo look away in disgust(that bit was hilarious). So none of these things would make it into a PC movie.
Yeah, I'd like to see him take on Islamofascists, BUT if he can simply stay away from turning the story into a plight-of-the-illegal-immigrant flick, that's enough for me.
So true. Movie makers are gutless cowards. I remember the heyday of Golan-Globus and their non PC action pics Delta Force and Invasion USA. They should remake those flicks! And keep the Arab bad guys.
Saving Private Ryan should have been the last WW2 flick. Does anyone remember the hand-to-hand fight between the Jewish American soldier and the German soldier and how it ended? It was a powerful scene. Tarantino was great at one time, but he's lost the artistic touch with this crap.
lol!
Which in fact they did with Sum of All Fears – changing the Islamic terrorists to Neonazis.
This is why the movie version of "Lone Survivor" will never see light of day; you can't turn the Afghan Al-Qaeda guys into Neo-Nazi white rednecks.
You do realize you're menatlly ill?
Politically correct villains are a plague, but in defense of Stallone: These are not fantasy villains. We have read – even on this here blog – how private armies fueled by drug money are getting powerful enough to challenge the state while the Mexican army has a desertion rate of 8% per year.
Or white collar execs
How bout a female buddy flick where a dethroned beauty gueen and an ex-Governor of Alaska take on a half-breed Commie Chance the Gardener, straight out Kenya with Czar henchmen, Union thugs and a fantatical gay army bent of destroying the free world by printing money until the economy is wrecked, and forcing old people into shallow graves while they are still alive after stripping them of everything they've worked for.
I dunno. The villains could be the cloned offspring of Rommel´s Africa corps! Would you put it past Hollywood to come up with something like that?
Oh please. Its Hollywood, they've fooled millions of people into thinking Megan Fox can act. If they can do that? They can turn the middle-east into Alabama in the 1960s, change Marcus to a black man escaped from prison from a crime he didn't commit and make conservatives out to be the evil people causing all the problems.
Hey, its what those cyst on the ass of humanity in the 'Wood have been doing to facts and stories for years. Finding ways to rape them and rewrite them you cant expect them not to atleast try it.
"NASCAR America loves watching scumbag terrorists meet their just desserts on the big screen."
NASCAR America, of course, by definition also loves watching billboards with wheels on them make several-hundred left-hand turns in a row; so please forgive me if I'm disinclined to hope for their tastes to become some kind of standardized ideal.
"The jews are only 3% of the USA population, but they own nearly everything."
Not true, you flesh eating bacteria.
I’m not jewish, and they don’t own all of my guns and ammo I’ve been collecting since Nov. 4th.
Dante was right…there is a place reserved in the lowest places of hell just for maggots like you.
It’s never too late to say you’re sorry you know.
Not Over.
Ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm hand to our guest, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Add Michael Creighton's "State of Fear" to the list.
Rambo has a certain set of skills, and he will find them, and he will kill them.
Amen Brother! Unfortunately Texas as it becomes more urbanized is also becoming more wussified.
Granted it may be occurring somewhat slower than other places but it's still happening.
"Ugh. Austinites." — Hank Hill
And urbanization does indeed equal wussification, at least here in Arizona. These God damn people are trying to turn the entire western United States into one big f_cking California.
I'm part of that 8%.
Idiot. German Jews DID participate in WWI. In fact, one of them, Dr. Fritz Haber, developed (among other things for the Kaiser's war effort) the mustard gas that my grandfather was exposed to on May 10, 1918.
I suspect that there were a number of Iron Crosses among the vast piles of plunder left after the owners of the property had been gassed and cremated in Hitler's death camps….
When Stallone was making the last Rambo flick, "Rambo", he was asked about Rambo fighting jihadis and as he explained it, the reason he chose not to go that route was because there's real men and women in the service of our country doing that and doing a movie where "Rambo shows up and saves the day" would be an afront to their sacrifices and service, so instead, he chose something else that he felt needed some exposure and left fighting the war on terrror to the real heroes. I can understand that and it does make sense to me.
Of course, it wouldn't hurt if Sly would make a flick or two about those real heroes he didn't want to afront with a Rambo flick. That'd be better than a "Rambo saves the day" action flick for a tribute to the people who serve.
And while you're adding that, any book by Vince Flynn, Brad Thor or Daniel Silva.
I think with movie making technology getting cheaper and cheaper, Hollywood's monopoly is coming to an end. Any Joe blow can make a movie these days and alternate distribution methods are a dime a dozen now, so let's get crackin' folks!
As an aside, I love Chuck Norris' "The Delta Force" and "Invasion USA". Each has it's cheesy moments, but any film where islamofascist and commie cockroaches get squashed is aces in my book.
As I said in a previous reply to someone else, those are two of my faves!
The idea of rewriting/reimagining real world threats into something "PC" isn't limited to Hollywood. I work at a high school in New Jersey and as you'd imagine, people can sometimes be on edge re: gun violence. We do "lockdown" drills where students are kept in class while the security staff do a dry run on procedure, usually in cooperation with the local PD. A couple of years ago, a high school in a neighboring town decided to go a little further with the make-believe. What did they choose as a scenario? Was it disgruntled armed students? Armed gangs on schoolgrounds? An anonymous bomb threat?
Nope. Two months before six Muslim men would be accused of plotting attacks on Ft Dix, NJ, Burlington Township High School decided to play make believe where the school was attacked by "… members of a right-wing fundamentalist group called the “New Crusaders” who don't believe in separation of church and state." ( http://www1.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/112-03232... )
Best part is that no one quoted in the article mentions how completely retarded was scenario was to begin with.
… and there's a typo in the last sentence when i mention how retarded the scenario was. perfect
Go to hell. Jews fought in WWI not only for Germany, but for the U.S., Russia, and no doubt for most of the other countries involved. And of course when non-Jewish director Tarantino creates, writes and directs a WWII movie it's the fault of "the Jews". Well, I say it's your fucking fault, so shut the hell up.
"Wanted: Dead or Alive" with Rutger Hauer was another good flick with islamofascists (Gene Simmons!) getting their just desserts in the end. It was also kind of cheesy, but he was the good guy for a change as opposed to his earlier portrayal of a Carlos-like terrorist in "Nighthawks".
The leftists in Hollywood are cowards. Who can forget them running around in little circles and having the vapors after 9/11? They don't want to rile people that they can see who would actually come gunning for them if portrayed in a less than favorable light.
"2) They want to make money. And to make money these days, it means putting the world first, not America."
Those rotten bastards! It's like they're a bunch of CAPITALISTS or something….
The Actors in Inglourious Basterds look like they'd have trouble digesting a pastrami sandwich on rye and a kosher pickle at Wolfs Delicatessen even if they had a 16oz glass of seltzer to help them do it. Much less take on the Nazis. As for Hollywood the love of evil is the root of all money. Preferably Right-Wing Evil Ofcourse.
Just me or is Sly looking more and more like his mother?
well.. lets start with Q's new movie wasn't about a bunch of 'Average Jews'.. and 'Q' just wanted to do a war movie.. even a WWII movie.. which is itself a subgenre to be waded into for every director of different style..
and the cowboy mentality once-portrayed that did remind everyone of how awesome we were.. came in a time
where u could find said awesome cowboy in most parts of the country, and in number..
well sad to say from texas the generation of kids those cowboyws had just dont make the cut.. so lets not remind everyone we're awesome cowboys when we're not [see: Emo, Jonas brothers, generation of future leaders of this country] cant sell to the audience you 'wish' was out there.. so no more awesome cowboy mentality movies, im sad to say.. but its not a leftist propoganda thing.. its a mass pussifying and PC'ing of the populous by both sides arguing and nitpicking each others Faces off… leaves little room to smoke marlboro reds anymore…
Where's Steve McQueen, and men like him, (you know REAL men not these Nancy boys), when you need them in Hollyweird now?
Not Over.
Where's Steve McQueen, and men like him, (you know REAL men…not these Nancy boys), when you need them in Hollyweird now?
Not Over.
Stallone got a lot of crap for killing asians in the last one (which was AWESOME), and I'm sure he'll get a lot of crap for killing Mexicans this time around. Kinda sad that he's getting shit here for not going after the right knid of bad guy. I get what Greg is saying, but from what I've read about The Expendables and this one Stallone isn't the best example of a PC filmmaker.
Roger that. I can't think of any that I'd trust to watch my back in a bar fight.
There was nothing PC about Rambo IV, which depicted the brutality of the Burmese junta is unsparing detail, so relentless that some moviegoers must have choked on their popcorn. And the way Rambo paid them back was unambiguous, to put it delicately. They weren´t jihadis, but they were not fantasy villains either.
Too many of the people whom "greenlight" projects, simply will not authorize a film which emboldens the fight against jihadists.
I see that Spielberg and Hanks are producing yet another series about WW2, but how about a series about our fighting men and women in the Middle East & Afghanistan ?
When WW2 was being fought, look at all of the films about that conflict that were produced DURING the war.
My God man, I think your on to something there. Judging by the current rate of destruction and level of incompitence the potential for sequals is limitless. Let's do lunch……
Seriously, Hollywood would have trouble dreaming up this fiasco.
i'm with the wolfman on this one. as much as i love greg, and i know what he's trying to get at, he went gunning for the wrong target this time.
Good point. The last relevant action movie was "Executive Decision" with Kurt Russel. It's already 13 years old. "Rendition" was meant to bash Bush. Now that Obama is using the same policy, they might stop showing it.
Where's blueknight99? In his alter ego he sees himself as the tough cop patrolling the internet with his nightstick and trusty dog. The problem is that Blue Knight never leaves his mom's basement. He cleverly expresses himself with terms like "ha ha ha" or "sigh" or "hmmm." Thanks for the visual. What a pussy!
And I would hardly call the last Rambo an un-American film. The whole point of the movie was that some situations can only be resolved with violence.
Greg, I love you man, but I have to disagree with this one.
"Rambo" is hardly a PC-franchise.
As for "Inglorious Basterds," it was set in WW2 because it was a WW2 movie. If that movie had been set it modern day Israel, it would have had to be a completely different movie.
Yeah, I really can't think of a less PC exchange in a movie than my favorite lines from Rambo:
Rambo: "Are you bringing any weapons?"
Missionary: "No, of course not!"
Rambo: "Then you ain't changing nothin'."
PC? No. Right on the frickin' money when it's applied to trying to stop thugs like the Myanmar Junta savaging innocent civilians.
i was impressed that the latest rambo actually showed christians doing what christians do. they evangelize & help others. that's it. you wouldnt believe how hollywood & national socialist europe portrays & equates what christians do as extreme & fanatical as muslims. there was a german newscast decrying old christians with boxes of supplies being delivered to iraq & hopes of evangilizing, and portraying that as horrific, equating it to terror.
A new rating is in order—This movie is rated P.C.13—The greatest American director ever (and avowed conservative) John Ford must be spinning in his grave.
Since when are kidnapping-drug-lords not a threat to Americans?
I think Greg let Bill write this Gregalogue
Aha. So YOU are to blame for all these problems?
I'm guessing this one goes direct to dvd?
I'd buy it. If the chicks were hot. Oh, wait a minute…they are:)
This guy has a +82 'reputation' rating?
What would Joseph Goebbels score?
Am I the only person wishing Rambo would take on awful music? I'd pay ten dollars to watch him destroy Culture Club or Adam and the Ants.
Since Hollyweird got liberally weirder and continually denies the REAL and PROVEN threat to the USA, we stopped going to the movies all together. Leftist fantasy can only go so far.
Spot on analysis.
Moby troll.
I was telling my husband just the other day that we should move to Texas when we retire. No state taxes and a govenor with enough guts to say NO to big government money. (Am I right?)
I have to agree, the last Rambo was very good and pointed directly at the Do Nothing Democrats who wring their hands but do nothing like Clinton and Carter.
Stallones new movie the Expendables will come out before this movie and it will be much better than that hack Tarantinos talk till the Nazi's die of boredom film.
So is Arnold Schwarzenegger. At least, that is what we thought until he started acting like a typical California Democrat.
Full Retard.
So, a WWII movie is liberal and P.C. because the Jewish soldiers are killing Nazis instead of Al Qaeda?
And movies, which are essentially escapism, should be decried for not reflecting what's going on in the real world?
And just to extrapolate on these points and your general bias, I assume that the movies that you are suggesting should conform to your limited world view?
Yeah, it's the P.C. police that are curbing free expression. Right got it, can I get the next absurd talking point please?
Right on! There's absolutely no reason to view art that's not completely in lockstep with our political and social agendas and god forbid we go see something that expresses an opposing view! That's how people LEARN stuff!
Wait a moment. A completely retarded and insane article from Greg Gutfeld? That's new.
Or, not really.
TXJM,
Are you human or an Eliza bot? Your comments look like a text-message version of written English but they make no sense.
Who calls Quentin Tarrantino "Q"? Besides you, I mean? I see "Q", I think of James Bond movies or John deLancie.
"a WWII movie.. is itself a subgenre to be waded into for every director of different style"
"u could find said awesome cowboy in most parts of the country, and in number.. "
"see: Emo, Jonas brothers, generation of future leaders of this country"
These fragments (and the rest of your post) resemble English, but they have no content.
Were you simply drunk when you posted?
So let me get this straight, you're giving Tarantino grief for having the audacity of producing a fictional film based on events in World War II rather than today's world?
Wow Greg, you really are the idiot everyone is saying you are.
Probably the stupidest blog entry I've ever read in my life, which is scary considering I read both Digg and Fark.
Haber Converted to Christianity about 20 years before WWI. Nice try, though.
Stop. Just…stop. Hatings Nazis is a left-wing plot? It's a freaking action movie, you idiots!
Astro-troll
Inglourious Basterds was a good, good film. Hey, I'm all for killing Nazis. For me, National Socialsm was/is just another form of totalitarian collectivism to be defeated in defense of liberty. My new nickname for Science Czar, John Holdren is Dr. Strangelove.
Why?
"Haber Converted to Christianity about 20 years before WWI. Nice try, though."
Would Hitler have made an exception for him, in that case? Oh, sure, he let all the converted Jews go free. Never mind their blood.
"Does anyone remember the hand-to-hand fight between the Jewish American soldier and the German soldier and how it ended? It was a powerful scene"
I found that scene oddly homoerotic, but powerful, I guess. It would have been better had the coward cowering outside shot that particular German in cold blood, rather than the one he shot later in cold blood.
Yeah- it could have been "Munich," but done right.
Because I think he's a fascist.
On the Tarantino thing: sorry, but you're an idiot. Tarantino took the title from a World War II movie made in italy in the 1970s- wouldn't that imply he wanted to make a WWII movie from the start? If you're faulting him for not making the movies you want to see- which is pretty much what you're doing with Hollywood in general -then you're selfish AND an idiot. But hey, enjoy your persecution complex!
I love how you slip the real answer in there- Sacred Free-Market Capitalism decrees that you can't sell something to the people you're using as the bad guys -and then ignore it in favor of an embarrassing attempt to be profound. This is the world you wished for: where you could sell anything to anybody. Now, in an attempt to sell Everything to Everybody, you get flavorless swill that doesn't take a hard stance on anything. But it's all the evil liberals' fault, by God!
Industrial strength stupidity.
I am a conservative Republican.
You are a frothing idiot.
Stop arguing my side.
This is in defense of Inglorious Basterds more than the other two, because well, I don't care for Rambo and the G.I. Joe franchise at large.
Yes, there are plenty of modern groups out there that deny the holocaust, and even more others that would love to eradicate the Jewish people as a whole. And again, yes, a film about "those guys who flew planes into the World Trade Center" would certainly be relevant to today's world, but that doesn't lessen the importance of having Nazis be the villains of a movie.
Imagine if Steven Speielberg had been pressured into making a movie about the Iraq-Kuwait war of 1990, rather than his WWII film "Saving Private Ryan". I mean, it was a lot closer in time to when he made the movie, so of course it's more relevant, right? Right?
Just because a movie is based on recent events does not make it a good movie, nor do those events guarantee that the film has anything important to say. Tarantino wrote and directed "Inglorious Basterds" for his own reasons. Yes, one of those was probably money. But that's what he does for a living. While it does offer plenty of gritty in-your-face sequences of Nazi-killing, it also speaks on a multi-generational level that is still relevant to modern society.
I'd love to see a film about the Iraqui war, the World Trade Center bombings, or any other recent events, but only if it actually works as a film, and isn't simply trying to elicit a knee-jerk reaction out of the audience. Sadly, we'll probably have to wait twenty or so years until someone produces a truly great film about these events.
why must everything be of political importance? another thing all of these movies have in common is that they are MOVIES. they are made to entertain. why must we dissect the producers, directors, and actors of these movies and draw them specifically along party lines?
Why would Tarintino decide to use a present day enemy when he wanted to make a fictionalized WWII movie? It seems to make perfect sense to me, choose some nazis to kill.
Please do not forget—movies are made for entertainment. They are made so that we can forget about what is real for a few hours and just relax.
I cant wait to read the next commentary about how the Brawny man is obviously a right-wing conservative who is hell bent against healthcare reform because he wears a damn flannel shirt.
Actually, there are plenty of people out there who excuse human trafficking as merely "illegal immigration" of "sex workers" or "people finding a better life". There are actually many people who aren't clear about how, if Natalya or Maria or meant to go to Germany and become secretaries, and instead find themselves locked in a brothel getting raped, this is not a good thing. Feminists aren't clear, in many cases, that this is actually oppression of women, much less that it is S L A V E R Y.
Every year, the guy at the State Department with the anti-human trafficking group gives a press conference, rating the world on how bad the modern slavery is. Every year, all sorts of First World countries try to deny it. Every year, tons of diplomats and foreign businessmen get caught with slaves in their houses. I'm sure that, sooner or later, it'll be a US government official with a terrified slave girl or boy, because we just refuse to wake up to how bad things are.
Amen, and the notion that human traffickers are "PC targets" is ludicrous. How many Hollywood types speak out against the sex trade? None that I'm aware. President Bush rightfully spotlighted this atrocity. Lefties, on the other hand, don't ever want the public to start thinking sex is a bad thing unless the word "Catholic" is somehow involved.
Mr. Gutfeld, you need to be careful not to mess with Rambo. That photo you posted of the guy who gets his esophagus removed is proof enough.
Stallone's "twighlight" efforts with Rocky and Rambo have been nothing short of stellar–as much red meat as we'll ever see at the box office.
I would just take those two classics as they are, no remake necessary.
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