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For me it's the classic movie 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'.

I used to watch it with my grandma every time we went to visit her and it became one of my favourite movies. I still love it even though I now understand how bad the implications of brothers actions were.

Everything I've ever loved.

Pretty much.

The thing to remember about implications is they're not absolutes. Just because something CAN be read as bad, doesn't mean it MUST be read as bad. So rock on with your old movie. (I haven't seen this movie though, so I can't vouch for how bad anyone was, just the sentiment that we should for some reason feel bad about liking things just because of "bad *~implications*~")

Edited 2013-12-04 01:16 (UTC)

dude I frikkin LOVE that movie. For me, it works because their actions are never seen as being anything other than problematic. Things work out in the end, yes, but the actual problematic stuff is narratively treated like "THIS WAS NOT OK U REDNECK MORONS!!1"

My first college roommate loved that movie and showed it to me to cheer me up when I was homesick my first week. I enjoyed it! I knew it was problematic, but since it's a family movie I assumed at least that you weren't supposed to believe the brothers raped the women, even though in real life you'd have to if that situation happened (and the Sabine allusion, but that story's watered down when they tell it in the movie as well). Anyway I haven't seen it again, but some of my friends have it on their hate list because of "implied rape" and I feel naive.

I don't care that it's sexist and awful and about men kidnapping women who then fall in love with their captors, I will continue to love the hell out of this cheesefest of a movie.

To be fair to the women, I always understood it as they already really really liked them before they got kidnapped, so it wasn't like they hated them and then eventually got Stockholm Syndrom'd.

and doggone but that song your title has is the catchiest damn thing

AND THE BARNRAISING DANCE

My brother and I will randomly break out in this song. It's so catchy and memorable and ridiculous.

The barnraising! The colors and dance number in that scene are amazing.

Edited 2013-12-04 01:36 (UTC)

oh my gooood my brother and i loved that movie when we were kids. I still love how colorful it is lol

Krippendorf's Tribe.

DON'T HATE ME, IT'S LIKE POPCORN. RACIST POPCORN.

The Help is the only thing I can think of right now.

It's such a good movie though.

For me, it's old Bond movies. Especially You Only Live Twice and Live and Let Die.

It's always been one of my favorite manga, even though every time I pick it up I find myself thinking "damn, this is even more racist than I remembered." (Not to mention the sexism and "female-on-male abuse is hilarious" trope.)

The Space Adenture Cobra anime film. It's the most mind bogglingly sexist thing I've ever seen, but it's also everything I love about 80s sci-fi pulp and Cobra is such a badass motherfucker that I adore it.

I dunno, I always thought it wasn't so much the brothers' actions that were problematic and the resulting female reaction. (I mean yea, what they did was terrible, but their "ignorance" of it doesn't last more than a breath.)

Nonetheless, I love this movie too. I have to remind myself, sometimes, that it's a totally different time, and our standards and realizations are vastly different even from the period during which the movie was made. Doesn't mean I take any less joy from it, but it isn't something I'd show a child without some lengthy prep and discussion both before an after. At a certain age. Like a lot of Disney movies, really.

I've reached that point when I'm probably going to barf if I ever read the word 'problematic' again and what it's referring to... I think it's time to step down the internet for a while.

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