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

I used to love it, was teenage when it came out and didn't really think too deeply about the theme, just thought it was really funny and fancied Richard Gere like mad! Watched it recently and it gave me the massive ick 🤮

I have never seen past that part in the never ending story - it was too devastating for me to carry on. I can picture the horse’s terrified eye now. Awful.

I'm genuinely intrigued to the scenes you are referring to. I love the Indiana Jones franchise and seen this film 100s of times and I can't think of anything to offending in it.

I have always loved this film but haven’t seen it for years - wracking my brain trying to think which bit is dodgy.

Watership Down being rated as U on release. It recently got upgraded to PG I think though.

@Girthy What was creepy with the never ending story? I used to love that film and its score.

I love the film and music too. Its the 1st film I recall seeing in a cinema and has very fond memories for me.
Artex drowning in mud, the wolf chasing Atreyu and being potentially killed by laser eyes- amongst other things, are surely creepy things for a 5yr old to see!

Watership down should be an 18. Still traumatised by the red eyed rabbits!

Watership Down is terrifying - a cheesy Paul McCartney song did not make it less so.

Big. Even when I was young in the Eighties I thought the premise was pretty dodgy.

@Pamosonic I know when I tried to show it to my children about ten years ago I was shocked by the racism.

The author based it on her own life

Curious about this one though! Haven't seen it recently, wracking my brains to think about it now!

Gosh, 80% of films pre 1990 would never be made by modern woke standards I reckon. In some ways this is good - I’m thrilled other young girls won’t be influenced by the treatment of women by the earlier Bonds/Indiana Jones etc for example….BUT, the violence that is normalised now is equally, if not significantly, more dangerous in my opinion…

What's wrong with The Wedding Singer and Indiana Jones?!

I can't imagine Snow White being made now with the dwarfs depicted the way they were! A character like Dopey 🫣

Pretty Baby freaked me out at the time.. I have never seen the film, but the idea to the 21 year old me that using a 12 year old girl to play a 12 year old prostitute was disturbing. It was that idea that was in the air at the time that young girls and women should somehow hand themselves out as a free lunch, in the name of 'sexual freedom'.

As a kid I loved it. My mum was apparently horrified though

I enjoy Big up until the relationship with a grown woman, that makes me so uncomfortable.

Blank check

It grossed me out enough to start a thread about the inappropriateness of 90s films

11 year old boy going on a date and having a kiss with a grown woman... we really thought this was okay in the 90s? It's not that long ago

Can see someone beat me to it but came on to say Pretty Woman, currently watching it on telly and need to go to bed but it's just so wonderful and don't want to - but yeah can't for one moment imagine it getting made now.

The last time I saw Grease I cringed so hard I nearly turned inside out.

Its ick as hell. Me and my little mates loved it as kids in the 80s, we all thought it was incredible and desperately wanted to be Sandy!

I think it was an Art Garfunkel song.

Yes Big is very dodgy. I wonder about dirty dancing as well

Racism? What, in Watership Down?