Films that would not be made now

[Samcro]

I know it’s a topic that has been done before.
but what film do you think would not be made now and why?
mine is, every which way but loose.
yep the Clint Eastwood film with the orangutan

Also Blazing Saddles was a satire and would still be made today.

Life of Brian wouldn't be, because I don't think anyone would get sufficiently shocked at taking the piss out of Christianity

Films that would not be made now is the OP's question. I don't know why some people are getting het up about banning. Vanishingly few films have ever been banned. Some of the films mentioned (notably Trainspotting) are 18s and certainly would be made now. We have actually become more liberal in terms of violence, sex, drug depictions on screen - Fight Club was just downgraded to a 15. (to my horror, as it goes).

Some films do feel very dated but that's different.

Agreed

Grease (girl changes to get the guy, various sexism and bullying, song lyrics like 'Did she put up a fight?')

Breakfast at Tiffany's (Mickey Rooney - enough said)

films where the man lights the woman's cigarette by putting it in his mouth
films where the man grabs the woman and kisses her to persuade her to succumb

The problem is that the underlying emotional conflict/journey of the character is lost on some people and they take it literally. As a teenager at the time, I can say this film was a terrible influence on many young men and gave them the red light to lust over much younger girls and to openly promote the fact that they did.

Which film? American Beauty??

But the boy changes to get the girl too. Don't you remember Danny swapping his leather jacket for a preppy school cardigan?

I was thinking the other day that large parts of the plot of Silence of the Lambs might be altered if made now. Not the Starling/Lecter bits which still work but that actual serial killer plot is dreadfully homophobic - hasn't aged well at all (that bit probably wasn't great at the time- it's not what people remember). But then so is Gladiator 2.

Fatal Attraction hasn't aged well either.

Why?

He did not do yellow face - please don't make lis into your truth.
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Yep, I believe Dirty Dancing would be made more now than what it was in the '80s when Roe was legal, @WhyDoesItAlways , @WGACA . In fact, I can see movies like Dirty Dancing being made more and more.

And Breakfast at Tiffany's could easily be made omitting the caricature character.

Life of Brian wouldn't be, because I don't think anyone would get sufficiently shocked at taking the piss out of Christianity

The Life of Brian was not about Christianity. It was a wonderful political satire.

There are some very odd suggestions. Neither American Beauty nor Wish You Were Here were promoting what happened in them as being good or acceptable.

Life of Brian caused more shock at the time (it was banned in Ireland) than it would now. People think we have moved in a more censorious direction and we really haven't. Apart from quite rightly feeling uncomfortable about racist and homophobic slurs and depictions in films, for example.

I love both of these films, but they each have scenes and/or ideas that make me cringe:

Big

It is implied (thank God not shown), that the adult female character had sex with Tom Hanks’ character who looks like an adult but has the mentality of a child due to being 13 years old, after making a wish on a fairground machine.

Weird Science

Two teenage boys create a woman with what they perceive to be the perfect attributes. The stand together watching her lather up her body in the shower.

Airplane is still very funny in places but I rewatched it recently and it is very racist in places. It would certainly be very different if made now!

And Confessions of a Window Cleaner . Very 1970s...

Shawshank Redemption - gay rape scenes in prison

Wolf of Wall Street - all the women are basically trophy wives

Transformers - basically a parade of hot, sweaty women

Most old Disney movies: as long as you're pretty, you're set.

Fast and the Furious (franchise) - where did all the women's clothes go?!

Indecent Proposal

The Truman Show - a woman PAID to be his wife, have sex, etc live on TV
....sooo many implications in this movie.

I find a lot of modern films unwatchable due to gratuitous violence and sex, I'd much rather watch implied in older films.

Like of Brian is not 'taking the piss out of Christianity', that's the mistake people made at the time. It's very clear that Brian isn't Jesus. It is taking the piss out of ultra religious* *people, and those who are swayed by the mob. It's a very clever (and funny) film. However, it probably wouldn't be made today.

Homophobic? How?

I agree that Life of Brian wouldn't be made now but I think for different reasons.
It worked (both as comedy and as satire) because the cultural references within it meant something at the time. Blessed are the Cheesemakers is hilarious in the context of the beatitudes - but if you aren't aware of the Sermon on the Mount it doesn't work.
I don't think that the absolutely brilliant Kind Hearts and Coronets would ever be made today. Simply because its language and style would be so far from today's film going expectations that no director would touch it. It would be considered too bloody 'clever' for modern audiences

The actual serial killer is depicted as very camp in a sinister way and his sexuality makes him flay women and put on their skins. His non hetero presentation is what makes him specifically disturbing. It's pretty clear the writer thought asexual/homosexual men are psychopathic deviants. He doesn't desire women for sex.