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

Big

Gigi from the 1950's. The song -Thank heavens for little girls. It's basically about grooming, the film/musical is also dreadfully misogynistic.

Baise-moi

Mmm has a joke that would no longer be a joke in ... weird

A letter to Bresnev… updating to a letter to Putin just wouldn’t work.

Not a film but sit coms like ‘Til Death us do part, which was a piss take against racism, Rising Damp and Faulty Towers.

I tried to get 16 yo dd into Bridget Jones’ Diary. I think that would need sanitising. So many films.

Many many old films due to sexism and racism. One thing that also came to mind was slapping, often of ‘hysterical’ women, justified to bring them back to their senses. Just leaving this slap here - Doris Day slapping Rock Hudson. Scenes like this are non-sensical. I don’t think women went round slapping men all the time.. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=386908981890407

See also The Quiet Man. I loathe that film.

The original script (called "3,000) has Edward throwing Vivian out of the car & the ending shows Vivian & her friend on a bus to Disneyland. It was developed into Pretty Woman & financed by Disney.

Love Actually

Big....it's about a little boy whose spirit goes into Tom Hanks' character's body and he goes out with an adult woman. I grimmaced when I was young and grimmace now. I guess it would be worse if the boy fancied a little girl whilst being Tom Hanks! Think it was a classic 80s film but I can only watch it knowing it's obviously actors acting and was of that era's zaniness! lol

Yul Brynner was Asian, though-from the Far Eastern part of Russia with Buryat ancestry.

@Tomatocutwithazigzagedge Those are the ones I was thinking of as well. Porkies, and also Revenge of the Nerds. Basically all the ones where the heroes are trying to see teenage girls naked or trick them into having sex with them and this is shown as a fun manly goal.

What surprises me about Pretty Woman is that I know several people who say it's their favourite "watch together" family film.

I can't imagine sitting there with my nannas, watching Richard Gere getting noshed off for cash in his penthouse suite armchair...

Eh? Why?

Olivia Hussey has just died - on Friday - so this has been in the news again, with links to 'related stories' on the BBC website about the lawsuit for child exploitation in R&J.

Wish you were here - teenage girl getting fingered by her dads mate and not even bothered by it then getting pregnant by him

This is based on Cynthia Payne's life and how she felt about what happened.

Rain man

Scum , full metal jacket

@VanillaImpulse You reminded me of My Father the Hero - where a young teen girl pretends her dad is her lover. French original and remake which both star Gerard Depardieu as the father 🤢

Although it's a film I love (and have on DVD) Heathers would never be made now. Teen suicide (staged), homophobia, and since the Columbine massacre that ending would never be allowed.

Edited to say oops I mean in the name of the rose not war of the roses. I saw an interview where Christian Slater said he lost his virginity at 15 filming that scene. It was horrifying even as he was saying it him not even realising that would be problematic.

He's meant to be creepy though (I remember how ick it was at the time). It was based on the life of Cynthia Payne. It wasn't intended to be emulated, so I'm really not sure stuff like this would be banned now.

Definitely Ghostbusters (or at least editing out some bits like the "ghost BJ") but that bit with Bill Murray and the "psychology experiments" for sure.Very iffy. The "cool people" also smoked all the time in 80s movies, so that's an instant ban.

Oh, and truly sexist shit like Weird Science definitely wouldn't get made now.

@Mummyoflittledragon Doris Day played strong women most of the time and was clearly a feminist. Her slapping a man in a film would have been understood at the time as an un usual reversal of the usual man slapping a "hysterical" woman. It was turning a usual media trope on its head. It no longer works as men do not slap "hysterical" women in films these days.

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