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Song of the South
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Blazing Saddles
Soul man
Birth of a Nation
Ace Venura, Pet detective
Star Wars 1, Phantom Menace
The Toy
Boat Trip
White Chicks
Airplane
Dangerous Minds
Scarface
Pretty Woman
Freebie & the Bean
Gigli
Heathers
The Conqueror
The Love Guru
A mighty heart
The Jazz Singer
Pretty Baby
Monster Squad
Holiday Inn
Home Alone
Bad News Bears
Midnight Cowboy
Taxi Driver
Dumbo
The Jerk
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Just One of the Guys
Animal House
Zapped
Revenge of the Nerds
Ghostbusters




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Anything good.


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Another Mel Brooks movie (and one of my favorites) - The Producers.



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Breakfast Club
Sixteen Candles

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Risky Business

All the Presidents Men.

Animal House

Caddy shack

Most Monty Python works.


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People have been comparing The Joker to Taxi Driver for a few weeks now. I'd say that means movies of that type are still acceptable to Hollywood.



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Most of the early Bond movies...


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Pink panther movies with peter sellers
 
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definitely good one

thread drift : 20-ish Rebecca De Mornay? omg Eek

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People have been comparing The Joker to Taxi Driver for a few weeks now. I'd say that means movies of that type are still acceptable to Hollywood.


I never get these claims about "movies that couldn't be made today" anyway. Obviously if we're talking about classics from 30 years or more ago, that's manifestly true without any regards to political correctness and such. If they hadn't been made at the time, they would of course not be made in that exact way now. Original movies set in the respective present are always shaped by the culture, fashion, technology etc. of the day. If Hitchcock was alive today, his very same films would look entirely different even if they showed his typical style.

To a lesser degree, the same is true for historical settings, based upon the view and understanding of the respective period at the time. Westerns are not based upon the somewhat cheesy image popularized by "Old West" shows like Buffalo Bill's anymore, like they tended to before the advent of the Italo-Western. There are of course the nostalgic movies set in decades within living memory, which try to recreate the look and customs of the period more or less accurately. And then there's remakes, where there's no point in making the exact same film frame-by-frame again. Well, maybe except Hollywood remaking foreign movies to sell it to the domestic audience again, but those originals are usually not that old.

I don't really buy the PC thing either. In fact Monty Python's "Life of Brian" was highly controversial when it came out in 1979 for mocking the origins of Christianity. It had to be cut before general release, was the subject of religious protests by both Christians and Jews, banned from screening in several British towns and some countries (sometimes for decades), and not shown by the BBC for years. Compare to the 2010 "Four Lions" which gives the subject of Islamism - supposedly protected by PC - the same treatment. I'm sure there were people who took offense, and the movie took rather long to find a US distributor just for limited release, but the controversy was nothing like over Monty Python's work in the supposed "good old times".
 
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So many of the movies of the 1930's have one liners that would not be acceptable to Liberals today despite being the normal in that era.


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Apparently anything that shows China in a bad light may never see a theater without significant edits.


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The Shining, a Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket. Kubrick is rolling over in his grave right now.



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I mildly disagree about "White Chicks" being on the list. Hollywood has no problem whatsoever about black men or women "dressing" in white face...just an issue with it the other way around.



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"Deep Throat" 1972
 
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Song of the South
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Blazing Saddles
Soul man
Birth of a Nation
Ace Venura, Pet detective
Star Wars 1, Phantom Menace
The Toy
Boat Trip
White Chicks
Airplane
Dangerous Minds
Scarface
Pretty Woman
Freebie & the Bean
Gigli
Heathers
The Conqueror
The Love Guru
A mighty heart
The Jazz Singer
Pretty Baby
Monster Squad
Holiday Inn
Home Alone
Bad News Bears
Midnight Cowboy
Taxi Driver
Dumbo
The Jerk
another link
Just One of the Guys
Animal House
Zapped
Revenge of the Nerds
Ghostbusters


I don't understand the reason for some of the movies on your list. Some are obvious (Blazing Saddles) but why not Ghostbusters or Phantom Menace? (although I wish Phantom Menace had never been made in the first place!)


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I’ve said for years that a movie like Blazing Saddles could not be made today. However, the other night the wife and I sat down and watched Gran Torino again. It’s 11 years old but it is a little rough.
 
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