Anonymous
06/09/2022 00:43
Subject: What movie do you love which would never be made today?
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 Indian British... you should read Arthur and George. . . people have such little knowledge of how minorities and other cultures actually existed in white spaces before WW2 or assume that they just didnt but colonialism had effects that moved the colonized into the colonizers spaces. There have been Indians living in the UK since the east India co first set up shop, Indian people living in the San Joaquin valley since the railroads were built.. what do you think, that they all disappeared?? Gone with the wind was watched by disgust by most of the Black audience, the NAACP was super ticked off about Mammy. It was racist then and its racist now and everyone who wasn't not racist KNEW that it was racist propaganda, including whites who supported civil rights.
Anonymous
06/09/2022 00:07
Subject: What movie do you love which would never be made today?
Porkys
Anonymous
06/08/2022 17:11
Subject: Re:What movie do you love which would never be made today?
Dirty Dancing.
There's an abortion storyline, and they would call Johnny a groomer. Not sure how old he's supposed to be in the movie, but clearly a fair bit older than Baby, who's a teen.
There's an abortion storyline, and they would call Johnny a groomer. Not sure how old he's supposed to be in the movie, but clearly a fair bit older than Baby, who's a teen.
Anonymous
06/08/2022 16:59
Subject: What movie do you love which would never be made today?
Airborne. Nobody roller blades anymore!
Anonymous
06/08/2022 14:55
Subject: Re:What movie do you love which would never be made today?
Anonymous wrote: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?
The abortion storyline is one of many in a movie about a quirky high school. Looking back on it now, the nonchalance is what I find most striking about it. As if that’s just one of many things a teacher has to do. At the end of the movie, Nick Nolte is a hero who presumably goes back to his job unscathed. But if that happened today, it would be a Fox News nuclear bomb and he would be fired with extreme prejudice. I guess this movie could be made now—if that was *the whole movie* and it was a very serious drama based on a true story or something. But I don’t think there’s any chance it would be released now as it was in 1985. Which would be a shame because it really is a great movie, especially the ending.
Anonymous
06/08/2022 14:50
Subject: What movie do you love which would never be made today?
The middle Indiana Jones movie - the Temple of Doom. Like it as a kid, but after re-watching it...that's really, really cringe now.
Anonymous
06/08/2022 09:38
Subject: What movie do you love which would never be made today?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Any of the old westerns that portray Native Americans as savages, and the white cowboys as noble heroes. It’s an entire genre that would never get made today (for good reason).
Per the title of this post, these are movies you LOVED?
DP. But I think Jeremiah Johnson fits that bill to some extent. Loved that movie.
Anonymous
06/08/2022 09:11
Subject: What movie do you love which would never be made today?
Anonymous wrote:Any of the old westerns that portray Native Americans as savages, and the white cowboys as noble heroes. It’s an entire genre that would never get made today (for good reason).
Per the title of this post, these are movies you LOVED?
Anonymous
06/08/2022 08:23
Subject: What movie do you love which would never be made today?
Any of the old westerns that portray Native Americans as savages, and the white cowboys as noble heroes. It’s an entire genre that would never get made today (for good reason).
Anonymous
06/08/2022 07:49
Subject: What movie do you love which would never be made today?
Anonymous wrote:Some Like It Hot
Nobody’s perfect!
Anonymous
06/08/2022 07:37
Subject: Re:What movie do you love which would never be made today?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
… and this is the problem with this country, both parties are dominated by people who push purity tests.
Anonymous
06/07/2022 17:21
Subject: What movie do you love which would never be made today?
Anonymous wrote:In and Out
Soap dish
Why?
Anonymous
06/07/2022 17:10
Subject: What movie do you love which would never be made today?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
that's what made it funny.
Anonymous
06/07/2022 17:09
Subject: What movie do you love which would never be made today?
Good Morning, Vietnam.
My kids did not even learn about the Vietnam War until we switched them from public to private school during the pandemic. It would have no cultural relevance for most people.
My kids did not even learn about the Vietnam War until we switched them from public to private school during the pandemic. It would have no cultural relevance for most people.
Anonymous
06/07/2022 15:49
Subject: What movie do you love which would never be made today?
Anonymous wrote:Blues Brothers. Would never get away with that today.
Making fun of Illinois Nazis would be criticized as "woke."