Big Trouble is actually quite a fun little movie that was made to virtually disappear after 9/11. The movie features armed criminals getting through airport security with a nuclear bomb, and taking it on a flight. The movie was set to be released on 9/21/01. Because of the tragedy, they pushed it to April 2002, and refrained from promoting it much.
I’ve gone back and watched a number of movie musicals from the 30’s and 40’s and it’s interesting/disturbing how many of them have blackface numbers. Obviously those would never happen today (for good reason) and they are usually edited out when the movies are broadcast.
Triumph of the Will.
Germany has changed, man.
Well put. In ten years, there will be posts about how Tropic Thunder could never be made today. I think we’re giving the public short shrift.
I’ve posted messages like this several time, and every time I’ve been shouted down. Seems that fans of SBfSB think of it as a very empowering film…about abductees falling in love with and marrying their captors.
Sorry, but this is one of the creepiest movies I’ve ever seen.
I’m thirty seconds into this one and my jaw is on the floor :eek:
I’ve seen others like this, but holy crow!
To be fair, even when it was released, it faced a huge amount of public protest and barely lasted a week at the box office. It’s not like people were blase about the topic even when the movie came out. In fact, the film is pretty much only remembered for being a racially insensitive, very un-PC film, and nothing else.
How about Taxi Driver? Aside from the fact that the “hero” of the story is an out & out racist, who takes his date to a porn movie, stalks a presidential candidate with the intent to kill him, and then is hailed as a hero for violently killing a pimp, but the movie also takes place in an grim & gritty era of NYC that pretty much doesn’t exist anymore. The squalid, lurid Times Square he drove around is now a squeaky-clean, tourist friendly Disneyland.
In fact, in this day & age, Travis Bickle wouldn’t be plotting to murder any politicians, he’d just be another tea-bagger posting posting flaming rants online.
Is Shirley’s character named ‘Morelegs Sweetrick’? I can’t believe ANY era of history found that OK!
To the OP- “Gone With the Wind”. I win.
OK, I saw this one. It’s great to bring this out for people to watch & see them gape in horror! Better than ‘Eraserhead’!
But that was way back in ought-ought.
Reaching way back to 1967: Valley of the Dolls. Today there’d be interventions and rehabs.
It also was backstory. It didn’t happen on-screen.
Now, it has been a long time since I saw that movie, but I seem to recall that a major plot point was that Baby’s parents weren’t cool with anything that she was doing.
There was a time when it was on Comedy Central’s regular rotation. I think it has long since been replaced by the Van Wilder movies.
To be fair, I think that last part was the character’s fantasy.
Why not? There are plenty of PG movies made today, and even Disney’s animated features are often PG – including Tangled, still in theaters. As far as I can tell this isn’t considered worth even a raised eyebrow.
On the other hand, it’s my understanding that one of the reasons Disney’s 1985 The Black Cauldron flopped was that it was rated PG and was considered way too dark and violent for children.
I totally forgot about that movie. Noah Taylor was brilliant in that.
Revenge of the Nerds was released in 1984, and sometimes I wonder how the rape scene made it through even back then.
Sixteen? I could swear that it’s set in the summer before she starts college (I remember a line like, “Baby starts Mount Holyoke in the fall”), which means that she’s most likely eighteen.
No kidding. Shirley is such a bitch in that one. Especially to Tarzan at the end.
Shortly after 9/11 I watched (the syfy version of) Dune. A bunch of oppressed desert dwellers get back at the powers that be by committing acts of terrorism and starting a holy jihad.
MAYBE it could be made today, but certainly not back then.
Comedy Central used to show Soul Man pretty often, probably because it was cheap. It’s terrible and while it would probably not be made today, it’s surprising it was made in 1986.
To me, the more unlikely aspect of Soul Man is the casting of C. Thomas Howell as a leading man.
When did this modern PC world begin? I’m getting on in years and still think of Heathers and Pulp Fiction as “recent.” I don’t remember the first Bad News Bears all that well, but the remake had Billy Bob Thornton driving drunk, which may actually have been a tougher sell back in '75.
Seriously, where does the timeline for the modern sensibility start? Columbine? 9/11?