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Post by teleadm on Mar 17, 2018 18:39:39 GMT
As I have been rewatching some of the old Johnny Weismuller Tarzan movies from the 1930s. I don't think they could have done those stories as is nowdays. It's in either Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) or Tarzan and his Mate (1934) that the expedition is shown struggling up the mountainside when one of the native loadbearers slips and falls off the cliff screaming to his death with his bundle. One of the expedition members then says something like, "Darn, there go the medical supplies!". So true!!
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Post by mortsahlfan on Mar 17, 2018 19:33:29 GMT
How is that unPC, brah? The bad guys are the ones being hunted. Wouldn't unPC be the opposite? Two guys who join forces to join a bandit-rapist gang. According to John Cheese, all PC assholes have no sense of humor. I agree with him. These pacifying douchebags are what is killing comedy. I don't think it's about being PC on the surface -- it's about making money, and cashing in on the chaos. John Cleese' hero (and mine) is still the greatest comedian --- Mort Sahl
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Post by geralmar on Mar 17, 2018 19:40:17 GMT
The offensively swishy homosexual assassination duo, Wint and Kidd, wouldn't be depicted as such if Diamonds Are Forever (1971) was remade today.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Mar 17, 2018 19:44:28 GMT
It's more than a lack of a sense of humor--it is censoring opinions they don't agree with. If it was only about making money then Sam Hyde's Million Dollar Extreme would not have been cancelled. Or Tim Allen's show would have still been on the air after it came out he went to Trump's inauguration.
Even the Life of Brian had to cut a scene because it was feared distribution in the US would be curtailed.
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Post by deembastille on Mar 17, 2018 22:21:20 GMT
It's more than a lack of a sense of humor--it is censoring opinions they don't agree with. If it was only about making money then Sam Hyde's Million Dollar Extreme would not have been cancelled. Or Tim Allen's show would have still been on the air after it came out he went to Trump's inauguration. Even the Life of Brian had to cut a scene because it was feared distribution in the US would be curtailed. wellllllllllllll.... tim allen's show is completely ass backwards. how many right wing learned people have teenage pregnancies in their families? truthfully, without their family actions making asses out of them at church? really? try a little realism, Hollywood! i love tim allen but i disliked that show.
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Post by theravenking on Mar 18, 2018 14:59:56 GMT
Live And Let Die (1973)
All the bad guys are black people, today it's pretty much reversed.
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Post by drystyx on Mar 18, 2018 15:31:31 GMT
As I have been rewatching some of the old Johnny Weismuller Tarzan movies from the 1930s. I don't think they could have done those stories as is nowdays. It's in either Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) or Tarzan and his Mate (1934) that the expedition is shown struggling up the mountainside when one of the native loadbearers slips and falls off the cliff screaming to his death with his bundle. One of the expedition members then says something like, "Darn, there go the medical supplies!". Totally agree, that it couldn't be made today.
In defense of the film, which I think was "Mate", the natives are viewed as Marines, tough military sorts, and if a Marine fell of a ledge, the general would say the same thing if the medical supplies went with him. But that's too much to ask an audience to accept, that the natives were the Marines, considering the all black under the all white caste.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Apr 24, 2018 0:47:12 GMT
Mississippi Burning is another one that definitely could not be made today.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2018 1:47:08 GMT
Listen i'm not trying to crap on the original point,not in any way shape or form, but I don't think any films from the way back past could be made today. Because they were made in a different time, even as recent as the eighties.
Not even a film as innocent as A Christmas Story could be made, they'd be like, "isn't this a film for all ages? Then you can't make the santa clause scene so scary, kids won't like it, lol. Let's tone it down." Or the scene with the tounge on the pole.
By the way, that was my impression of studio execs today, it sounds like something they might say, lol.
They'd just go ahead and say, let's water everything down and make it more for everybody.
Or words to that effect.
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Post by JHA Durant on May 5, 2018 10:52:20 GMT
It's Pat (1994).
It was hated then, yet it actually exists. A movie making fun of transgender people would be torn apart in the early stages if they even attempted to make one now.
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Post by SuperDevilDoctor on May 5, 2018 13:54:24 GMT
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Post by Captain Spencer on May 5, 2018 15:03:06 GMT
Maybe someone's said it, but Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom. Impossible. Zero chance. I don't get why this repulsive, pretentious and boring film was made in the first place. I saw it in the early 90's after years of being banned and the curiosity factor piqued the interest of many. I can't help but feel that Pasolini made it to satiate his own desires and because of his standing as a respected international film-maker, he was able to do it. It was self-indulgent perverse art, pointless and uninteresting. That's pretty much what I thought too; Pasolini just getting his rocks off. Certainly a movie I would never watch again.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on May 6, 2018 12:36:26 GMT
So many blaxploitation movies of the 70's, which was actually a more progressive time for black actors than now. People like Fred Williamson were writing and starring in their own movies. Some were exploitive, but most were a chance for black actors to shine.
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Post by mortsahlfan on May 6, 2018 20:46:46 GMT
"The Battle of Algiers" -- too truthful
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2018 20:58:07 GMT
Airplane!
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Post by Popeye Doyle on May 6, 2018 21:05:31 GMT
True Lies - Even when released in 1994, it got flack for being labeled misogynistic and furthering stereotypes by having the bad guys as Islamic terrorists. Given the political climate as of late, even more heat would be brought down on it. But seriously, this is awesome -
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2018 2:16:24 GMT
This thread is slightly depressing, for me yo. Is it, for anyone else besides me?
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Post by Vegas on May 7, 2018 2:19:20 GMT
#1 Answer. ![](https://s26.postimg.cc/m8f14k0ih/yes.gif)
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2018 2:23:30 GMT
Crocodile Dundee because it's a stereotype of an Australian, even though paul Hogan is Australian. It couldn't be made today, because if some people would be offended by it, then that means no one can enjoy it. Obviously.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2018 2:27:27 GMT
Any Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sly Stallone, Van Damme, Steven Segal action film from the 70s/80s and 90s. Why? What parts of the Terminator or Rocky, or even First Blood were so offensive, that it could not be made today?
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