Movies that would no longer work if written today

Feisar

banie01 wrote: »

Hands down one of my favourite movies as a teen/young adult.
Had great memories of it, that centred on the action.

I rewatched it as a mid-30's man a few years ago after convincing my wife it was brilliant.

It was a long cut, and a very uncomfortable watch.
So much overt sexualisation flew over my head as a younger man.

I'll give it a watch and see what I think.

afro man

clockwood Orange

Kylta

Kentucky fried movie,
especially the greatest daredevil seen.

El_Duderino 09

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Blazing Saddles.

This always amuses me. The Anit-PC Brigade think Blazing Saddles wasn't a PC movie. It's a movie about a town with a white population, run by a corrupt white mayor, terrorised by a white crime gang and all the white people in the town are too scarred to do anything about it. Then a black lad arrives and saves all the white people who have to challenge their racism and prejudices, to embrace him as he saves the town. If they made it now the same anti-PC people would call it PC gone mad.

Some clowns think the fact that there are n1gger jokes in the script, that makes it a non-PC movie. The racist jokes are at the expense of the racists in that movie.

afro man

Snow white and the seven dwarfs

monty python and the holy grail

midnight cowboy

The graduate

banie01

kowloon wrote: »

Did he not understand that the film was making fun of racists? You should tell him about the Springtime for Hitler song in The Producers .

He did after it was explained, and he watched it

A very common theme amongst my son's generation and I suppose in common with myself when I was 16.

Is that the world is simple, black/white, right/wrong.

It's not, teaching our kids that will knock a lot of reactionary PC kneejerk on its ass.

Context matters, he needs to learn that.

El_Duderino 09

odyssey06 wrote: »

Any film involving uncertain identity e.g. Sommersby, someone coming back from the war claiming to be X wouldn't be a runner due to DNA evidence (or a quick google).

A lot of murder mysteries would have to be rewritten as DNA evidence would quickly ID the killer.

Love Sommersby. Even a decent photo from before the war would have shown he wasn't the same man.

Been watching Columbo and DNA tests would have cleared up loads of those cases in no time.

Casino

banie01

Feisar wrote: »

I'll give it a watch and see what I think.

Honestly, the rewatch especially in a post #metoo world.
Creeped me the fúck out.

There are still so many outstanding moments, Oldman in particular.

But the whole lolita undercurrent really leapt to the fore for me on the rewatch.

Snickers Man

Life of Brian.

The "I want to be called Loretta" sketch would never make it past the Transphobiaphobes today.

All Home Alone movies

kowloon

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

Some clowns think the fact that there are n1gger jokes in the script, that makes it a non-PC movie. The racist jokes are at the expense of the racists in that movie.

Are there really that many people who don't get the idea of satire? We have the likes of South Park on tv and it never really seems to make too many waves.
I think you could make Blazing Saddles again and the people complaining would just be a bunch of people who complain about everything else on twitter; people we largely ignore anyway.
I wonder if the PC brigade is a group whose importance highly inflated due to their visibility online and the counter-complainer need for a bogeyman to rail against.

El_Duderino 09

kowloon wrote: »

Are there really that many people who don't get the idea of satire? We have the likes of South Park on tv and it never really seems to make too many waves.
I think you could make Blazing Saddles again and the people complaining would just be a bunch of people who complain about everything else on twitter; people we largely ignore anyway.
I wonder if the PC brigade is a group whose importance highly inflated due to their visibility online and the counter-complainer need for a bogeyman to rail against.

Yeah I think there are loads of people who don't get it. Those people end up on both the PC vs "PC gone mad" argument. Whenever this topic comes up, Blazing Saddles is sited as a movie that couldn't be made today because its not PC. Those people never get that it's so PC its a "right on" movie. If it was remade, they'd pan it for being too PC but it was always a PC movie.

I always think South Park is a perfect example of how you can make this kind of vulgar satire now. I love South Park.

MonkieSocks

Airplane............."I speak Jive"

https://youtu.be/g0j2dVuhr6s?t=58

Insect Overlord

I re-watched 12 Angry Men this afternoon.

That would need a new name and a much more diverse cast these days.

is_that_so

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

This always amuses me. The Anit-PC Brigade think Blazing Saddles wasn't a PC movie. It's a movie about a town with a white population, run by a corrupt white mayor, terrorised by a white crime gang and all the white people in the town are too scarred to do anything about it. Then a black lad arrives and saves all the white people who have to challenge their racism and prejudices, to embrace him as he saves the town. If they made it now the same anti-PC people would call it PC gone mad.

Some clowns think the fact that there are n1gger jokes in the script, that makes it a non-PC movie. The racist jokes are at the expense of the racists in that movie.

Prior had a hand in writing the script anyway and both himself and Little supported the liberal use of the word in the film. Brookes too has admitted he would not get away with it now but then there's no film!

Quantum Erasure

MonkieSocks wrote: »

Airplane............."I speak Jive"

https://youtu.be/g0j2dVuhr6s?t=58

it'd be 'patwah' now

Bobblehats

Snickers Man wrote: »

Life of Brian.

The "I want to be called Loretta" sketch would never make it past the Transphobiaphobes today.

They’re not commissioning the industry though these things still go ahead

Look here, one of the great cinematic moments of our time. Potential for all sorts of outrage but I didn’t hear it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GH64kmHZvs

I suppose either way though it’s either diversity personified or the nightmare scenario. Depends on your perspective

Snickers Man

Insect Overlord wrote: »

I re-watched 12 Angry Men this afternoon.

That would need a new name and a much more diverse cast these days.

"12 People with Issues!" ?

Deeper Blue

American Beauty - Kevin Spacey perving on a young wan

Might not go down so well

Insect Overlord

Snickers Man wrote: »

"12 People with Issues!" ?

They'd probably just call it "The Jury" or just plain "12" instead.

bonny!

White Chicks

kowloon

Snickers Man wrote: »

"12 People with Issues!" ?

12 Monkeys?

s7ryf3925pivug

Kylta wrote: »

Carry on up the kybher

The biggest nationalist **** of a story to come out of Britain until the brexit campaign.

But yeah nobody would make that today. (Not that that's a bad thing.)

Three Kings

whisky_galore

The Jazz Singer....Maaaammy!

The Snapper...the car bonnet impregnation scene.

Lolita.

whisky_galore

Thatcher Yellow Corkscrew wrote: »

The biggest nationalist **** of a story to come out of Britain until the brexit campaign.

But yeah nobody would make that today. (Not that that's a bad thing.)

You don't seem to grasp that it's a parody of nationalist ****.

The Crying Game

Ace Ventura Pet Detective

[Deleted User]

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Ace Ventura Pet Detective

That shouldn't have been made in 1st place


I seen that in cinema as a young lad and taught it was pure stupid then

Huntergonzo

Song of the South

Disney really wants that one buried!

99nsr125

whisky_galore wrote: »

The Jazz Singer....Maaaammy!

The Snapper...the car bonnet impregnation scene.

Lolita.

The Snapper, oh god yeah, the conversations I've heard about that are ludicrous

The Simpsons Movie

bazz26

Porky's for this scene among others:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFpsRr0WjDE

bazz26

Or Jackie Gleason in Smokey and the Bandit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciUV77AzIB4

Most of his lines were improvised.

banie01

Snickers Man wrote: »

Life of Brian.

The "I want to be called Loretta" sketch would never make it past the Transphobiaphobes today.

Speaking of Transphobes...


There's another that would never be made now!

s7ryf3925pivug

whisky_galore wrote: »

You don't seem to grasp that it's a parody of nationalist ****.

Only saw clips of it but it looked like a celebration of it to me, parody or not

the purple tin

Heathers.

whisky_galore

Thatcher Yellow Corkscrew wrote: »

Only saw clips of it but it looked like a celebration of it to me, parody or not

I wouldn't expect you to understand.

ILoveYourVibes

the purple tin wrote: »

Heathers.

Probably.

ThewhiteJesus

banie01 wrote: »

Speaking of Transphobes...


There's another that would never be made now!

It would make you sick then, and it would make you sick now

the purple tin

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

Probably.

Well it wouldn't get the green light at all I don't think.
A black comedy about a student who

tries to blow up his school and kill everyone.

Great film all the same.

whisky_galore

ThewhiteJesus wrote: »

The wind that shakes the barley
Michael Collins
In the name of the father

Why ? Because Ireland is full of West brits these days, more interested in the royals and what they wear as opposed to our actual national history.
Happy easter my ar*e

Michael Collins is Hollywood romanticised ****e, if you want real history watch a documentary or crack open a book.
The Wind is WOI and Civil War for slow learners, it's not great as an entertainment, like watching a school play.

magick

Birth of a Nation

Melanchthon

banie01 wrote: »

Hands down one of my favourite movies as a teen/young adult.
Had great memories of it, that centred on the action.

I rewatched it as a mid-30's man a few years ago after convincing my wife it was brilliant.

It was a long cut, and a very uncomfortable watch.
So much overt sexualisation flew over my head as a younger man.

Did exactly the same myself felt weird to have recommended something so obviously creepy I had never seen the director's cut before but I used to love the film as a young lad particularly Gary Oldman so I could tell which scenes were new to me, they were all dubious. Sometimes a film was cut the way it was for cinema for a very good reason, in the normal version there is still a creepy implication in their relationship but it doesn't revel in it.

ILoveYourVibes

the purple tin wrote: »

Well it wouldn't get the green light at all I don't think.
A black comedy about a student who

tries to blow up his school and kill everyone.

Great film all the same.

Well it basically says teens commit suicide for attention and paints teens who are suicidal as vain and superficial. That they do it to copy the cool kids.

whisky_galore

magick wrote: »

Birth of a Nation

Triumph of the Will.

saabsaab

OU812 wrote: »

A remake is probably being written as we speak.

Challenges to technology will keep him isolated.

One of my favourite movies.

Now thinking who I’d cast...

Go to man Tom Hanks. Maybe Scarlett Johansson as Grace?

Capt'n Midnight

Sneakers.

Q . Who'd believe a small box could crack today's super duper encryption in seconds ?



A. Everyone who believes in quantum computing.

magick

whisky_galore wrote: »

Triumph of the Will.

lol that was my first idea