Eh. Requiem for a Dream certainly isn’t that old.
Another one that pops up on cable now and then: Little Darlings. The plot: two 15-year-old girls at summer camp have a race to lose their virginity. Starts Tatum O’Neal and Kristy McNichol.
American Pie (1999), which was followed by five sequels.
In the first movie, all the characters are seniors in high school, so presumably 18 or at least 17. After that they’re all of college age.
I might have missed the Whoosh, but Pulp Fiction did just that…
That’s not true.
Look at season 4. That’s the one with the Iranian terrorist family which apparently is part of a Sunni terrorist group(which is quite odd).
In fact, in that one, Marwan, the main bad guy, uses “white westerners” as mid-level muscle.
Kentucky Fried Movie certainly would not have had some of the same scenes (like “Catholic High School Girls in Trouble”). During the DVD commentary the producers noted that there’s no way they could get away with stuff like that today and still have an “R” rating.
Rape scene? I don’t remember any rape scene.
That said, them videotaping the sorority girls naked without them knowing about it would probably be very problematic in today’s society.
Looking back on it, I think you’re right and that I misremembered.
The Bad News Bears remake is far tamer than the original. The original has ten and twelve-years olds swearing, smoking, drinking alcohol and using racial slurs.
The closest the remake comes is the coach lets them drink non-alcoholic beer.
I think the reference is to the scene in which the nerd wearing the Darth Vader costume has sex with the villain’s girlfriend. It has been argued that having sex while deceiving the other person about your identity means there is no valid consent and is therefore rape.
It absolutely is rape. That scene has always enraged me. Ted McGinley turns down “Betty” for a quickie in the carnival funhouse, and “Lewis,” who is supposed to be the protagonist, is dressed in costume. “Betty” thinks he is her boyfriend who’s changed his mind, and he does nothing to disincline that idea. They go at it on the funhouse floor, to her great enjoyment.
He takes off the Darth Vader helmet and reveals his identity, and she is immediately enamored of “Lewis.” Instead of being horrified that she’s just been tricked into sex with a man she barely knows with no possibility of informed consent. That is rape.
Good grief. 1975 was not a hop, skip and a jump from 1875. Minstrel shows were not all the rage when Silver Streak was filmed. There would be no trouble with it today, in the same kind of context, especially if someone the equivalent of Richard Pryor was involved.
As for Blue Lagoon, might I remind you that “Skins” is now running on television. Yes there are protests, but there were protests back then also.
You people make me feel old.
The Gold Standard for me has to be Mickey Rooney’s Asian Stereotype character from Breakfast At Tiffany’s. Here’s a quick Google Image search for you.
What Sigmagirl said.
It took me years to recognize that as being a rape scene, btw. I used to only be annoyed by the idea that Betty would mistake a skinny nerd for her football-player boyfriend even for just one minute, mask or no mask. But I’m all about suspension of disbelief, and can ultimately chalk that up as being a form of the Clark Kent effect. Suddenly one day I watched that scene, though, and it occured to me that if someone did that to me I would feel like I’d been raped. Apparently, my ability to suspend disbelief ends with “well the sex was good, so not only was it ok that you raped me but now let’s be a couple!”
Pinky (1949) a black girl “passes” for white in the north, and has to decide whether to keep it up to marry her white beau.
Has anyone seen the remakes of St Trinian’s? How do they compare with the originals. It’s hard to imagine that those films could get made today but - maybe I am wrong?
If a modern St Trinian’s had as much bad behaviour as the originals, I’d conclude that PC has had little effect on the mores of the film world.
They make me feel they’re old!
Because it would be on the Internet. Just like **American Pie **ten years ago.
I think you people (and you know what I mean by “you people”) are mistaken about movies not being made because we are “too PC”. Did you actually watch Borat? What about the endless parade of Judd Apatow films? or Dave Chapelle’s comedy show?
If anything, many of the old “edgie” jokes would be considered lame and dated by modern standards.
Thank god someone else is saying it.
Ayup. I tell you, back in my day we knew “edgie” humor. These kids today…