They dont necessarily have to be classic I suppose, but what are some movies that were made years ago but whose releases today would result in boycotts, death threats, etc?
Here are some that come to mind
Soul Man
Blackula
It's Pat
Mrs. Doubtfire
Silence of the Lambs
Obviously the racial connotations and the depictions of transgenders in some of these movies might be too much for todays audiences
Animal House would need some major script editing.
shareA Clockwork Orange (because of rape scenes)
True Lies (Arabs are the bad guys)
12 Angry Men (Because they're all white dudes)
Ace Ventura (transgender jokes)
Ah yes forgot to mention Ace Ventura 1. A man having to shower and having a breakdown after realizing he kissed a man? Not sure how well received thatd be today. And yeah all the other transgender jokes which most of us thought were funny back then
shareArabs are bad guys. What’s the problem with that?
Does this mean you have a problem with True Lies?
I love True Lies. If you make Arabs the bad guys, people will find it racist. There was even a little controversy at the time because of it. Funny enough, no one said anything about the bad guys in Die Hard being white Germans. The double standard, I tell ya.
shareY’know what? Fuck the racism charge. Right in the ear. I’m fed up with this trivial, sniveling hand-wringing.
I have great respect for Islam, but none at all for “Islamic” psychopaths who attacked the US on 9/11. And how can the charge be “racism” when the charge is tied to a religious belief and not to an ethnicity? It can’t. A person of any ethnicity can believe in Islam, or Buddhism, or Judaism or Christianity. The ignorance of alleged social critics knows no bounds, nor much of anything else.
And, “people said”?! I know you’re correct that “people said,” but so what? Most people suck. Jean-Paul Sartre wrote that “Hell is other people,” and he was right.
The majority is almost always wrong. If you want to succeed, do the opposite of what everyone else is doing. Most people are failing.
The important thing is that you know the difference between Islam as a religion and extremism. A lot of people would look at True Lies and think: "racism!" But I look at it as these people are terrorists who happen to be Arabs.
shareAny of the Dirty Harry series, even Clint Eastwood said they couldn't be made today, they were too honest and portrayed crime and corruption and criminals accurately.
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shareWhy couldn’t those movies be made today? If anything, those movies would THRIVE today, especially Mrs Doubtfire. Blaxploitation would do just fine today too. And why wouldn’t Silence Of The Lambs do well today? Hannibal is a very popular show.
shareIs this just a post for insecure “logical” anti-SJW neckbeards to vent? If so, let me try:
Spider-Man: has “man” in the title
Batman: see above
Superman: see above
Jurassic Park: no transgender characters
Pulp Fiction: a black person shoots someone, stereotyping blacks as thugs
Lord of the Rings: title implies women cant have the ring
Fast and the Furious: the two leads dont have a gay kiss scene
Spider-Man: Far from Home just made $726,203,622 and is still ranking high. Rocketman is also out now with $96 million.
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share"Is this just a post for insecure “logical” anti-SJW neckbeards to vent"
True. But there really are movies that wouldn't be made today. Just not the lame ones that the OP named. It could be an interesting subject if the OP wasn't such an intel.
I really wish they would stop making Spiderman - third reboot.
You mean you didn’t spot the Transgendersaurus in Jurassic Park?
shareOn Twitter I get accused of being liberal and on here I am an anti-SJW incel. Gotta love the internet.
I mostly was referring to comedies fron the 70s through maybe the mid 2000s. Classics was a poor choice of words but I clarified that in the first post.
If.... (1968)
shareHow are It's Pat and Soul Man classics? OT must be a 20 year old since all the movies named are relatively new. None are offensive except maybe Soul Man which isn't a classic.
Gone with the Wind
Jazz Singer
Birth of a Nation
Pretty Woman - I actually had a friend who told me she wished she were a prostitute in order to meet a rich guy too. I never understood the appeal of this movie.
Jerry Lewis movies in which he stereotyped Japanese people
Gods of Egypt
The Passion of the Christ
Lolita
Temptation of Christ
12 Angry Men
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - title change needed
My Sassy Girl - foreign movie w/domestic violence as comedy
The Gods Must Be Crazy
John Wayne westerns except True Grit
All westerns prior to the 1960s
Song of the South
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Falling Down
They made a version of Lolita in 1997 that was more faithful to the book than Kubrick’s version and they had a lot of trouble getting it released.
shareThe Searchers would have trouble getting made today. My favorite John Wayne movie.
shareAgreed. The movie appears to be based on Cynthia Ann Parker. She wanted to return to the Comanches and fled but was recaptured. She eventually committed suicide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Ann_Parker
A great book I read a few years ago on the movie and the story behind it
https://www.amazon.com/Searchers-Making-American-Legend/dp/1620400650/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+searchers&qid=1566357308&s=books&sr=1-1
Thanks. My library has it so I just reserved it.
I just found a book that her cousin wrote about her experience. Free download.
https://archive.org/details/rachelplummernar00park