"Dances With Wolves"
Probably the worst movie I have watched through to completion. White Man=Bad, Red Man=Good, is a fairly accurate summary of the plot. I think both Costner's character, through his courting suicide on the battlefield, and the mad commander, were supposed to demonstrate that White culture was insane and literally drove people trapped within it insane. The presentation of the Sioux was a perfect white liberal "let's pretend" construct, and no Sioux from the time period would have recognized his culture as depicted. The whole exercise was of course deeply cynical in that it used advanced technology to praise yet again the noble savage and a return to nature. I don't know which part of me was more offended: my Scottish and Irish ancestors who settled in this country beginning in the 18th Century, or my Cherokee ancestors who bravely fought a losing batttle to preserve their way of life while also learning from the settlers from Europe. One of the great conflicts of history reduced to a liberal morality fable.
"Just once I'd like to see a free spirits vs. uptight squares film where the free spirits get bitten on the keister by the consequences of their heedless actions and the repressed types are demonstrated to have been wise, indeed.
You know, the way it happens in real life about 80% of the time."
With you all the way on this one, Dale. As a repressed uptight type myself, I have no hidden yearning to break free and let it all hang out, thank you very much, and just once I'd love to see the free spirits get it in the neck 
Pulp Fiction.
"Just once I'd like to see a free spirits vs. uptight squares film where the free spirits get bitten on the keister by the consequences of their heedless actions and the repressed types are demonstrated to have been wise, indeed."
Sounds like you need to see some movies by Whit Stillman. Go rent Barcelona or The Last Days of Disco.
Thank God, someone else hated Fargo! A film major friend paid for me to sit through that. The pregnant cop is the only thing that made that movie better than barfworthy.
I'd have to cast my vote for Casino. Sharon Stone would have been better if they killed her character earlier, and the whole movie was about an hour too long.
And it sounds like my pocketbook-induced boycott of Hollywood needs to continue, with a brief interruption (someday?) for the Bourne Ultimatum.
I completed my meme, dear.
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I'll have to speak up for "Dances With Wolves," based on the end if nothing else (Wind in His Hair yelling his friend's name into the impending doom again and again). As to the noble red man stuff, aren't you forgetting the whole Pawnee thing? (Wes Studi just knocks em down with his cameo as 'Toughest Pawnee')
I'd also tend to buy the nutter running the fronteir post, there being a war on.
And third, I'd say two wrongs, or a million indians=baaaad movies, make a right.
Re: free spirits getting comeuppance
I'd say that could never be produced,
but Critters proved that you could have a monster movie not fueled by an idiot plot.
Hmmm. I must think whether any of my favorite movies fit your description. I suppose the Japanese version of Shall We Dance? demonstrates that the repressed virtues are powerful, although it was more a meeting of virtues than a comeuppance for either POV. Heck, everybody in that movie gets a happy ending.
I forgot that I saw Critters, too! I don't remember much except that I saw it.
um, dude blows his brains out in DPS, and Robin Williams gets canned. They get pretty keister-bitten.
Beep- that's true, but Weir makes it very clear who he thinks is responsible for the suicide: the old meanie of a father and the repressed old white men running the school. Even though Robin is fired, he has the loyalty and admiration of all the students, and the filmmaker as well.
Titanic? American Beauty? Brokeback Mountain?
cmon, despite all the silliness, Dances With Wolves was head and shoulders above those.
Didn't see either AB or BM. I'm a sucker for spectacle pics, so I didn't think Titanic was all that bad. Certainly not "Pearl Harbor" bad.
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