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Movies that would no longer work if written today

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    #32
    drake70
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    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...

    Was done in 1998

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rear_Window_(1998_film)


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    #33
    banie01
    Registered Users Posts: 16,606 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Blazing Saddles. The Twitter mob would descend like a pack of ravenous vultures and pick it apart.

    Was recently discussing the "nobody move or the ****** gets it" joke with my super woke 16y.o and he was horrified...

    Without ever seeing it, without understanding the context or indeed the comedic effect, the satire or the artistic merit.

    On the topic of the O.P...
    E.T, Eliott would have been found asap via findmy iPhone and E.T would be granted asylum by PETA.


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    #34
    [Deleted User]
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    Seen a Borat clip earlier where he was promoting the movie in Australia. No way any of his antics would fly today.


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    #35
    One eyed Jack
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    Feisar wrote: »
    It's strange the outrage brigade have given porn a pass. Females sometimes refer to their co stars using the n word. And I don't mean naggers.

    How come they don't get blasted for this?


    They do, I believe it’s commonly referred to as “the money shot”...


    *badum tish* :pac:


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    #36
    El Gato De Negocios
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    Disney's Song of the South. They have gone as far as essentially denying its existence and it will never get a legitimate release in any format or platform.


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    #37
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,331 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Ghostbusters


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    #38
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    banie01 wrote: »
    Was recently discussing the "nobody move or the ****** gets it" joke with my super woke 16y.o and he was horrified...

    Without ever seeing it, without understanding the context or indeed the comedic effect, the satire or the artistic merit.

    On the topic of the O.P...
    E.T, Eliott would have been found asap via findmy iPhone and E.T would be granted asylum by PETA.

    PETA would have found him somewhere to sleep alright. :pac:


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    #39
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,620 ✭✭✭Feisar


    One eyed Jack wrote: »
    They do, I believe it’s commonly referred to as “the money shot”...


    *badum tish* :pac:

    You do know I was setting that up for someone!

    First they came for the socialists...



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    #40
    BorneTobyWilde
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    Blue Lagoon. Late 70's production, Brooke Shields stark naked frolicking around on a beach at 14.


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    #41
    dark crystal
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    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    Blue Lagoon. Late 70's production, Brooke Shields stark naked frolicking around on a beach at 14.

    Having sex with her brother no less.

    The Fugitive...CCTV cameras everywhere. He would never as got as far as he did in the film.

    The Net...that film just feels so dated now. Having to retrieve floppy discs and the like.


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    #42
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,620 ✭✭✭Feisar


    Léon: The Professional always got a bit of heat due to the way Natalie Portman was portrayed at times. To be honest I didn't really see that myself but I was fairly young and innocent when I seen the film the first time.

    First they came for the socialists...



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    #43
    banie01
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    Feisar wrote: »
    Léon: The Professional always got a bit of heat due to the way Natalie Portman was portrayed at times. To be honest I didn't really see that myself but I was fairly young and innocent when I seen the film the first time.

    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.


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    #44
    afro man
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    Any of the Carry on films :D

    Im sure a few of the old Disney films would have the PC Brigade all over them :mad:


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    #45
    [Deleted User]
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    Statutory Ape wrote: »
    Disney's Song of the South. They have gone as far as essentially denying its existence and it will never get a legitimate release in any format or platform.

    Except the vhs release I had as a kid.


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    #46
    Woke Hogan
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    banie01 wrote: »
    Was recently discussing the "nobody move or the ****** gets it" joke with my super woke 16y.o and he was horrified...

    Without ever seeing it, without understanding the context or indeed the comedic effect, the satire or the artistic merit.

    You lose out on a lot of what a film’s going for when you don’t actually watch it.


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    #47
    banie01
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    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    You lose out on a lot of what a film’s going for when you don’t actually watch it.

    That was my point ;)


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    #48
    Kylta
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    afro man wrote: »
    Any of the Carry on films :D

    Im sure a few of the old Disney films would have the PC Brigade all over them :mad:

    Carry on up the kybher


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    #49
    Hangdogroad
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    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.
    Seeing as Sommersby is set in the 19th century that wouldn't be an issue. Same for any period set movie predating any of the above


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    #50
    GreeBo
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    Any movie where having a mobile phone would solve all of the problems.
    Not even a smart phone, just a mobile phone.


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    #51
    kowloon
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    banie01 wrote: »
    Was recently discussing the "nobody move or the ****** gets it" joke with my super woke 16y.o and he was horrified...

    Without ever seeing it, without understanding the context or indeed the comedic effect, the satire or the artistic merit.

    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 :D.


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    #52
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,620 ✭✭✭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.

    First they came for the socialists...



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    #53
    afro man
    Registered Users Posts: 617 ✭✭✭afro man


    clockwood Orange


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    #54
    Kylta
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    Kentucky fried movie,
    especially the greatest daredevil seen.


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    #55
    El_Duderino 09
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    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.


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    #56
    afro man
    Registered Users Posts: 617 ✭✭✭afro man


    Snow white and the seven dwarfs

    monty python and the holy grail

    midnight cowboy

    The graduate


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    #57
    banie01
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    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 :D.

    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.


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    El_Duderino 09
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    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.


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    #59
    [Deleted User]
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    Casino


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    #60
    banie01
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    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.


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    #61
    Snickers Man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭Snickers Man


    Life of Brian.

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


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