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

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The Best Little Whore House in Texas

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I think there is a difference between an entire movie that wouldn't get made today vs certain jokes within a movie that wouldn't make it past editing today. Not the same thing. Drop Dead Gorgeous could be made today it would just have a few lines changed.

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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.

They made a teen movie about friends going on a road trip for an abortion called Unpregnant. They would make it today.

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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.

DP. And I hate Bill Maher, but I am generally also like PP. VERY liberal, will never vote R. Think woke-ness has gone too far. Have a running joke with a group of politically active friends about wokeness actually. It feels a little self deprecating as we're all a little woke ourselves, but not woke enough according to some liberal groups I'm in! This all or nothing purity test is a real problem TBH.

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I’m a huge classic movie buff and when I watch I really have to force myself to try to view it as a member of the audience in the time it was made or some of the greatest movies ever made are ruined- Gone With The Wind is a perfect example.

I also think/hope that if some class movies were made today the casting would be different. For example, Ben Kingsley is a fabulous actor, but Ghandi should absolutely have been played by an Indian actor. Baaically everyone besides Anna May Wong should never have been in the Good Earth etc.

Some classics that I am glad were made and liked, but would never be made today.

The Jazz Singer
The General (one of the best silents ever and based on a true story, but it is uncomfortable that you root for Buster Keaton while he is helping the confederacy)
Snow White
Stage Coach
Gone With The Wind
The Searchers
Some Like It Hot (one of my favorite movies, but absoulely would never be made today)

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

Family guy is still going strong and so much more over the top in every way possible

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a huge classic movie buff and when I watch I really have to force myself to try to view it as a member of the audience in the time it was made or some of the greatest movies ever made are ruined- Gone With The Wind is a perfect example.

I also think/hope that if some class movies were made today the casting would be different. For example, Ben Kingsley is a fabulous actor, but Ghandi should absolutely have been played by an Indian actor. Baaically everyone besides Anna May Wong should never have been in the Good Earth etc.

Some classics that I am glad were made and liked, but would never be made today.

The Jazz Singer
The General (one of the best silents ever and based on a true story, but it is uncomfortable that you root for Buster Keaton while he is helping the confederacy)
Snow White
Stage Coach
Gone With The Wind
The Searchers
Some Like It Hot (one of my favorite movies, but absoulely would never be made today)

Ben Kingsley is half Indian. He just wasn’t born there.

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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.

Decent amount of homophobia and slurs.

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Risky Business

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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.

DP. And I hate Bill Maher, but I am generally also like PP. VERY liberal, will never vote R. Think woke-ness has gone too far. Have a running joke with a group of politically active friends about wokeness actually. It feels a little self deprecating as we're all a little woke ourselves, but not woke enough according to some liberal groups I'm in! This all or nothing purity test is a real problem TBH.

I am a middle aged gen xer who has never voted for an R in my life, and I agree. We roll our eyes a fair amount at the strident kids. I guess overall better to swing too far toward wokeness than the other direction! But it feels quite oppressive - to them, to the world - sometimes.

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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.)

Yes, in context, I think the line is a send-up of all the discrimination and stereotypes that the kids face, and also of the human tendency to want to have someone that is lower on the power rung that you. So even if they are generally excluded from and despised by dominant male culture, at least they are not girls -- back in a time when throw like a girl was the worst insult you could give an ballplayer.. And of course they bring her in anyway, and she's fabulous, and makes them all stronger. It's really a beautiful story of society's downtrodden uniting to show the world that they are worth it, that they can compete, etc. But they are SUCH anti-heroes -- they are terrible winners, terrible losers, they sort of bully each other in that accepted 1970s way, and they low-key cheat in the game (vaseline on the cap). I love that they are not the "angels in the outfield" but I think that it does not fit neatly in the marketing categories that movie studios rely on today. Is it a movie for kids? Not really. Is it a movie for adults? Not really. I think that's what makes it really unmakeable today -- not so much the adult drinking beer with kids as the fact that we can't give kids a movie with such terrible role models.
But Walter Matthau is chef's kiss perfect in this role -- it's maybe his best. And one of the best uses of classical music in a movie EVER. Can anyone in Gen-X hear Carmen and not think of the crack of a bat?
I also think of this movie whenever people complain that a-hole parents at youth sports event are a recent phenomenon. We have cultural video that it was enough of a thing in the 70s that someone made a movie about it.

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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.

Decent amount of homophobia and slurs.

I'll have to watch it again - I'm not remembering those at all. But that's not a first.

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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.

Decent amount of homophobia and slurs.

I'll have to watch it again - I'm not remembering those at all. But that's not a first.

This is PP. I didn't either when I watched it with my daughter, who is out. There were other moments of cringe when I said to her, "wow, I just didn't remember it being this cringeworthy" but it's still so damn funny. It honestly opened up good conversation of "not every joke is a slight."

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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.)

Yes, in context, I think the line is a send-up of all the discrimination and stereotypes that the kids face, and also of the human tendency to want to have someone that is lower on the power rung that you. So even if they are generally excluded from and despised by dominant male culture, at least they are not girls -- back in a time when throw like a girl was the worst insult you could give an ballplayer.. And of course they bring her in anyway, and she's fabulous, and makes them all stronger. It's really a beautiful story of society's downtrodden uniting to show the world that they are worth it, that they can compete, etc. But they are SUCH anti-heroes -- they are terrible winners, terrible losers, they sort of bully each other in that accepted 1970s way, and they low-key cheat in the game (vaseline on the cap). I love that they are not the "angels in the outfield" but I think that it does not fit neatly in the marketing categories that movie studios rely on today. Is it a movie for kids? Not really. Is it a movie for adults? Not really. I think that's what makes it really unmakeable today -- not so much the adult drinking beer with kids as the fact that we can't give kids a movie with such terrible role models.
But Walter Matthau is chef's kiss perfect in this role -- it's maybe his best. And one of the best uses of classical music in a movie EVER. Can anyone in Gen-X hear Carmen and not think of the crack of a bat?
I also think of this movie whenever people complain that a-hole parents at youth sports event are a recent phenomenon. We have cultural video that it was enough of a thing in the 70s that someone made a movie about it.

I mean, they did remake it in 2005. That's not "today" but it's not that long ago.

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Blues Brothers. Would never get away with that today.