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

Dirty Dancing

I've always hated the movie, but a 25yr old man and a 17yr teenager is wrong on so many levels

Someone earlier mentioned 'Shallow Hal' - can I ask why? What's so bad that it wouldn't be made nowadays?

Life of Brian was very controversial when it came out.

@Stepfordian I watched never been kissed recently with my very Gen Z DD and watching her reactions was funny and interesting.

We’ve been going through 90s/00s rom coms and she’s perpetually baffled.

Home Alone. The whole premise wouldn't work in todays world of airport security etc etc.

You’ve Got Mail

Did someone mention a second "The Inbetweeners" movie. How did I miss this? Off to watch immediately. One of the funniest TV shows in years, first movie not wuite as good but will see the second one. Thank you.

Oh, that's been pointed out already. That'll teach me to comment without reading the full thread.

Shallow hal only likes slim girls but unknowingly falls in love with a larger girl, much to her shock and surprise

Possibly people might say it was 'fat shaming'?

I see nothing wrong with it by today's standards - the title is Shallow Hal and the point being made is that he judges everyone by shallow criteria; i.e conventional ideals of weight and appearance. People with high moral worth are translated into his shallow version of high worth, by being made slim and conventionally attractive. At the end, he learns his lesson and happily embraces a relationship with Rosemary as she really is.

Colleagues in the trailer appear to just announce this to a member of the public. That would break every dignity at work policy for at least the last decade in most places

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The news Harry Potter is currently at the casting stages….so filming will start again

I don't think Withnail and I would be made now. The fears of 'I' would seem unrealistic in a modern day setting.

So not really a problem then just a bit of suspense/jeopardy because everyone knows the secret.

I rather think the point of Miss Saigon is to highlight the "American savior complex" and the harm resulting from it.
"So I wanted to save her, protect her / Christ I am an American! How can I fail to do good? / All I made was a mess, just like everyone else / In a world full of mystery that I never once understood".

i loved dirty dancing and still like it.

I have never watched my left foot and never will. the very idea of an able bodied man playing someone with CP leaves me cold.

I know it's been said already, but I really do think people are confusing films that wouldn't be made today due to dubious ideas (pretty woman is the perfect example) with films that are upsetting.

Lolita is disturbing; the entire book is, but you're meant to see that. Nabokov was not encouraging paedophilia.
Clockwork orange needs to be remade with the book's ending. There are 21 chapters for a reason.
Bambi could be gorgeous.Proper focus on the nature.I read the book as a kid, and another one of his about hares. My dc were unmoved by the death of Bambi's mother in the film.

I'm another one who watched some Pretty Woman last night and as a child/ young teen. I remember the women in the family loving the romance of it all. But ultimately, he goes and buys a woman. Nor just any woman though, Julia Roberts, who, I never never realised as a kid, is utterly beautiful. If, as someone upthread noted, he just wanted her off the streets, why not do that? Why not use his money to support a number of prostitutes? It's a bit like Creepy Gerald in AIC when he saves Daisy Renton from av life of prostitution because she's not like the 'hard eyed dough faced women' (but then makes her his mistress).

I can assure you that the lighthearted treatment Hector groping the boys on his moped was noted in reviews of the first production of the play in 2004, let alone the film! Lost in Translation isn’t about a sexual relationship — and the age gap is the point! He’s sick of himself, unhappily married and having a midlife crisis, she’s just out of university, unhappily married and trying to figure out what to do with her life. The thing that deforms that film for me is the lazy stereotyping of Japanese people.

American Pie
Superbad
Harold and Kumar

I love holiday inn as a child and often wondered why it wasn't on TV any more. My husband found it on Dvd for me and we watched along reminiscing happily before arriving at Lincoln's birthday and it suddenly made sense...

The plot of the film is about grooming but it went completely over my head when I watched it as a child. Gigi is a young teenager being trained by her grandmother to be a courtesan to an older eligible bachelor Gaston. The song "thank heaven for little girls" is sung by Gastons uncle - who Gigi's grandmother used to be the courtesan of. It was kept very subtle to get past the censors. But the plot and that song are definitely creepy.

Well sure, but that’s not answering the question. The Indiana Jones films would still be made now, albeit with a couple of tweaks. Your preferences don’t indicate whether a film is offensive enough not to be made.

Also, can you imagine a remake of The Truman Show - with cameras everywhere, watching us all the time, and the mundanities of dull ordinary life being broadcast on TV as entertainment?

As the young people would respond nowadays, "Bruh!"

Normally I would agree, but the class act that is Day-Lewis is probably the only able bodied actor in the world who could do it and it be acceptable. Very compassionate man with great integrity.

He also got Arthur Miller (his father in law) to eventually see his own son who has down syndrome having completely shunned him for years.