10 Awesome Films You’re Embarrassed To Have In Your Collection

2. Freddy Got Fingered

I hated Freddy Got Fingered the first time that I watched it. No, I was actually physically repulsed that this was being marketed as a comedy. The second time that I watched it, I didn't mind it. I actually laughed in some parts, and started to grasp more of the (threadbare) storyline. And then the third time I watched it... I got it. Freddy Got Fingered is not meant to be understood, it is simply to be experienced. It is a postmodern celebration of youth, masculinity, capitalism and dead animals being worn as capes. It is a hedonistic descent into the workings of Hollywood, and Rip Torn going crazy. It celebrates and yet mocks the traditional nuclear family, with displays of aggression towards umbilical cords, and yet tender respect for sausages that are tied to keyboards. Freddy Got Fingered is, to quote movie critic and all-round pop culture Yoda Nathan Rabin, a borderline Dadaist provocation. It is a transgressive masterpiece about a mentally depraved man-child lying about his father having butt sex with his brother. Fact - Freddy Got Fingered is one of only two other films that Roger Ebert has ever walked out of in protest. It's okay, Roger - some souls are just too sensitive for Green's surrealist magnum opus.
 
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Amy Maynard is a PhD candidate by day, and a pop culture pundit by night. She enjoys drinking red wine, and reeks of Burberry perfume and cigar smoke.