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

Def The Ringer!!

Agree that Hairspray is fine - the language is supposed to be shocking to highlight the racism. I remember exchanging a look with dh at the start when the host guy sings ‘nice white kids’, but as you watch the film you realise that it’s showing you something.

Dirty Dancing is a masterpiece, made by a groundbreaking female and feminist director, with a subtle yet lingering commentary on class and social divides in 1950s America. Long may it live!

One of our dinosaurs is missing.

I had a cat called Pussy Galore in the 60s my parents obviously thought it was funny (she was known by Pussy 🤭)

The Blue Lagoon.
Er, Return to the Blue Lagoon.
Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 Romeo and Juliet.
Last Tango in Paris.
Gone With the Wind.
My Left Foot (not with Daniel Day-Lewis in the lead role).

Gigi. 'Thank heaven for leetle girls'.

Mary Poppins. Never forgiven it for the way it took the piss out of the Suffragettes. Didn't show them being beaten up in the streets did they? And MP herself is as chilly as ice.

Love Actually is just dross from beginning to end, mostly sexist dross. It could not bring itself to respect even one female. Margaret Thatcher a 'saucy minx'? I speak as someone who was not a fan of hers.....but whatever you thought of her as a politician, as a woman she deserved better than that sexist piece of monumental disrespect.

Forest gump

That was the one I thought of straight away too. Very disturbing by today's standards.

I think the way they were treated in these films is pretty tame compared with the rape and violence depicted and at times glorified in tv shows such as Rome, Spartacus, Game of Thrones. All of these and more contributed to the vogue for increasing violence against women in mainstream pornography which has had a massive impact on how young and old now feel they can/should behave in sexual relationships.

Life imitating ‘art’.

I wondered the same.

16 Candles. Racism, Jake just handing over his car and passed out drunk girlfriend to Farmer Ted, having previously said she was so drunk he (Jake) could violate her 10 different ways.

My first thought was Big - that was on the other day, I noticed in the listings.

I agree that there are a lot of older films that simply wouldn't be made nowadays; not because they're 'inappropriate' or have worrying scenes, but just because they make no sense whatsoever, now that we have the internet, mobile phones and the internet on mobile phones in our pockets. I remember thinking that The Net with Sandra Bullock was space-age, unbelievably advanced technology - which, to be fair, for the mid 90s, it probably was!

Yesterday, we caught (most of) Mike Leigh's glorious Nuts In May on a minority nostalgia channel that I don't think we've watched before. At the end of each ad break, they had a big warning about 'strong language and adult scenes' and I can't possibly think what they were referring to. They do say 'bloody' a couple of times and there's a comically ludicrous fight scene at the campsite, but other than that, not a clue; unless they just always add that by default for everything they show, in case somebody somewhere finds something offensive and complains?!

Some of the satellite channels seem to do this as well: Challenge frequently asks you to enter an 'adult protected content' PIN in order to watch re-runs of The Crystal Maze! They did the same yesterday for the start of an old episode of The Generation Game, before we rushed to turn over!

Also not a film, but there's no way Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em would ever be made now. The whole premise is around laughing at an utterly 'stupid' man, who, with modern eyes, very much seems that he would be diagnosed with learning difficulties and/or other conditions, and (we would hope) given support rather than be ridiculed.

From memory (it’s a long time since I’ve seen it) she’s a really strong character though. And they all have ridiculous names (although admittedly that is probably the worst).

Ghostbusters (the original)
Naked Gun
Several Jim Carey films (Dumb and Dumber by example)

I feel that British films are more likely to stand the test of time than American ones but maybe that’s a UK bias.

You say that, but he didn't actually want to have sex with her at first. He just wanted her off the streets.

and she falls in love with him, and he her, in Pretty Woman

I remember David Baddiel commenting on some programme once (might have been Room 101), where they were talking about Are You Being Served. He pointed out that, at the time, all the jokes about Mrs Slocombe's pussy sort of worked, because it was an innocent word that everybody knew and commonly used to refer to a cat, but there was a faint rude undercurrent of the word also being used by that-way-minded people as a slang term for vagina.

Whereas nowadays, that's all it means; and anybody who uses it to mean a cat is either 115 or being deliberately 'hilarious'.

Apart from some of the Carry On Fims and Roger Moore era James Bond, I'd have to say American Pie and some of the early Frat Pack films ie. Anchorman.

It's only 20 years old and it's hard to believe the world has changed since we used to sit round watching it in university halls, but it has.

The music video to the Bad Touch by Bloodhound Gang randomly can up on YouTube suggestions yesterday...I can't imagine this being allowed to be made now!

I'm watching it now on BBC. I was just thinking it wouldn't be made now then seen this thread.

I’ve seen Crocodile Dundee many times and it was on the other night on channel 5, I didn’t watch it though.
Apparently alot of scenes had been cut from it, and many people were moaning about that on social media.
Ridiculous!

Agreed - truly awful film. I recently saw a FB thread where people were saying how great it was.

Agree with much of these.

I hope in the future people will start be shocked by the current trend for gratitous violence and lingering depictions of beautiful women being horribly murdered. I find this much more shocking than old fashioned sexism in films from a different time.

Watership Down isn't a kid's film