What movie do you love which would never be made today?

[Anonymous]

Silver Streak

https://youtu.be/2E1SjhoVNK8

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Anonymous wrote:Bad news bears. I will also give an impassioned defense of the one really racist line in the movie—like blazing saddles, I think it is an incisive sendup of racist attitudes.

I was just talking about this with my buddies this weekend. Is the line you're talking about the one where Tanner says "Jews, ****s, ******s, and now a girl!?"

I agree the movie would never get made today. And when you get down to it, it has a really progressive message! A bunch of kids excluded because of their race, gender, socioeconomic status, and athletic ability band together and take down the athletic white boys. In part because the dad, steeped in all kinds of toxic masculinity,* completely alienates his son!

(*They wouldn't have used that phrase, of course. But that's basically what was going on.)

My kids still watch this movie since they play little league baseball. No way would a remake have all the drinking, smoking, a 12 year old riding a motorcycle, etc. My kids love this movie and say how awesome it would have been to grow up in the 70's.

[Anonymous]

Not a movie, but Married with Children would never get made today.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Bad news bears. I will also give an impassioned defense of the one really racist line in the movie—like blazing saddles, I think it is an incisive sendup of racist attitudes.

I was just talking about this with my buddies this weekend. Is the line you're talking about the one where Tanner says "Jews, ****s, ******s, and now a girl!?"

I agree the movie would never get made today. And when you get down to it, it has a really progressive message! A bunch of kids excluded because of their race, gender, socioeconomic status, and athletic ability band together and take down the athletic white boys. In part because the dad, steeped in all kinds of toxic masculinity,* completely alienates his son!

(*They wouldn't have used that phrase, of course. But that's basically what was going on.)

The hyper-competitive dad/coach of the other team slaps his son (the pitcher) in front of the whole crowd for being too rough and hitting one of the Bad News Bears with a pitch. Just a quirky, strange movie that really subverts your expectations in a lot of ways.

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers - anyone remember this movie? Nick Nolte plays a high school teacher who helps one of his students (Laura Dern I think) get an abortion without her parents’ knowledge. No chance that would get made today.

I don't remember that movie but your description makes it sound like a movie that actually could get made today. What do you think makes it out of line with current taste and sensibilities?

[Anonymous]

I don’t want to watch these new woke movies, I’ll stick to the classics.

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The ringer 😬 it arguably should not have been made then either

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Anonymous wrote:Wedding crashers.

Why?

The whole thing is about tricking women to sleep with them. It’s all crude sexual jokes, plus some jokes about gay people and minorities. I happen to love the movie, but in todays woke world it would not be received well as benign as it is- perhaps this is why we don’t have funny movies anymore and everything is a superhero movie with no substance.

American pie would also never be made, particularly the first movie where they film the exchange student unknowingly over a webcam.

Sometimes I wonder if Republicans like you (I’m NoT a RePuBlIcAn) just don’t read books. Or magazines. Or newspapers. Or if you just sleep through entire conversations. Maybe you just don’t have conversations of any meaning. Because I gotta wonder who lives in 2022 and still uses “woke” as some sort of a slur.

Lol. I’m far from a republican. I’m a democrat, interned for Chuck schumer back when I was interested in politics, never voted R in my life and likely never will based on where the party is at. But I’m also not a woke AOC democrat and think cancel culture has gone too far. I’m a bill Maher democrat, but you do you.

[Anonymous]

Dodgeball. Just watched it with my daughter after many years and laughed my a$$ off. Wouldn't fly today. In other news, my 12-year-old now understands what satire is.

[Anonymous]

In and Out
Soap dish

[Anonymous]

Not a movie, but I stumbled upon old In Living Color segments with Miss Swan, and that would never be made today.

[Anonymous]

16 Candles

[Anonymous]

Probably Nacho Libre (and I was introduced to it by a hardcore anti-American Mexican; it was my first introduction to enjoying problematic things)

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Anonymous wrote:Wedding crashers.

Why?

The whole thing is about tricking women to sleep with them. It’s all crude sexual jokes, plus some jokes about gay people and minorities. I happen to love the movie, but in todays woke world it would not be received well as benign as it is- perhaps this is why we don’t have funny movies anymore and everything is a superhero movie with no substance.

American pie would also never be made, particularly the first movie where they film the exchange student unknowingly over a webcam.

Sometimes I wonder if Republicans like you (I’m NoT a RePuBlIcAn) just don’t read books. Or magazines. Or newspapers. Or if you just sleep through entire conversations. Maybe you just don’t have conversations of any meaning. Because I gotta wonder who lives in 2022 and still uses “woke” as some sort of a slur.

Lol. I’m far from a republican. I’m a democrat, interned for Chuck schumer back when I was interested in politics, never voted R in my life and likely never will based on where the party is at. But I’m also not a woke AOC democrat and think cancel culture has gone too far. I’m a bill Maher democrat, but you do you.

Right, a Republican.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dodgeball. Just watched it with my daughter after many years and laughed my a$$ off. Wouldn't fly today. In other news, my 12-year-old now understands what satire is.

Why wouldn't they make that one again? Maybe I'm forgetting something, but it seems more or less in tune with modern sensibilities. I guess showing Lance Armstrong as heroic turns out to be all kinds of wrong. And you could cut the Ben Stiller in a fat suit at the end of the movie. But otherwise, I think it would still get made.