I just watched revenge of the nerds and Porky’s back to back, no chance those get made today.

To add… Kim Catrell (Lassie) in Porky’s was a smoke show!

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Why can’t you still enjoy them?

Blazing Saddles, for example, is so edited it's unwatchable.

True, on regular TV. But I just watched it on one of the streaming services a few months ago with my sons.

I gave them the preamble about the message of the show, and that Richard Pryor was part of the writing team. They did not know who Richard Pryor was, but did understand when I told them that Richard was pretty much the Dave Chapelle of his time.

They laughed their ass off throughout the movie and did not cringe at the language, it was a great father son moment.

Brooks even pointed out how loathed the Irish were at the time in Blazing Saddles. He made sure to cover nearly every stereotype there is. One of my all time favorites, and definitely couldn't be made today.

My favorite: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.

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Actually my intention was to get a list of good old time movies to watch.
These are the type of movies that mostly can not be made nowadays. Things we’ve lost in the name of progress and evolution.

There's a difference between 'couldn't be made today' vs 'can no longer enjoy'.

Blazing Saddles
Airplane
Tropic Thunder
Executive Decision
Slap Shot
Animal House
Risky Business

Those films wouldn't get the greenlight from a studio these days, but they're not at all difficult to find on DVD or streaming to enjoy. Other movies are hard to enjoy, b/c they've been phased out, or there's a movement to phase them out, such as:

Song of the South is a perfect example.

There's a growing movement to phase out Gone with the Wind, b/c it glorifies the Old South. There are millions of copies out there, but you don't see it played in revivals as much as you used to. Do AMC & TCM still screen it regularly?

Sixteen Candles and Revenge of the Nerds glorify date rape.

The 1980s was full of raunchy teenage (and 20-something) sex romps. Yes, Porky's lead the way. Do you think Tom Cruise wants to remembered for Losin' It, a movie about teen boys going to Tiajuana to lose their virginities or Tom Hanks for Bachelor Party? Movies like those are gradually being removed from circulation. Couple others I remembered:
My Tutor - a high school boy falls in love/is seduced by his adult French language tutor

Class - this is sort of a forgotten Brat Pack movie. A HS boarding school student inadvertently has an affair w/ an adult woman/MILF who turns out to be his roommate's mother.

It has become increasingly difficult to find classic Tom & Jerry and Warner Brothers cartoons due to all the politically incorrect racial tropes & stereotypes in them. Pepe Le Pew is a sexual predator. Speedy Gonzalez stereotypes Mexicans (nevermind that Mexicans love the character). Porky Pig is offensive to people who stutter.

I don't think Breakfast at Tiffany's gets played as much as it used to, b/c there's no way of excusing how offensive Mr Yunioshi's character is. Even Mickey Rooney said he was ashamed of the role. Mr Yunioshi makes Long Duck Dong from Sixteen Candles look dignified.

Meatballs!

But generally almost every older movie has something someone perpetually offended will complain about. I mean even current movies always have someone offended.

I've just ordered Blu-Rays of a few Disney movies--the original versions: Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Pinnochio, Beauty and the Beast. Still trying to get the original Little Mermaid.
All their remakes of those are crap.

IMO, it is mostly racial depictions that would be at issue, and maybe religion.

Charlie Brown Christmas
Various Tarzan Movies
Road to Zanzibar, maybe
Khartoum
Betty Boop, A Star is Born
Charlie Chan
Paleface
Cabin in the Sky
Green Pastures
Dumbo... the remake is awful

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The Naked Gun

Yeah. This is one of the absolute best slapstick style movies in the history of man. All of them, although the first is the best.

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Blazing Saddles

another of my favorites.

Whats the most ridiculous about this is the ENTIRE POINT of the movie is that racism is stupid. It makes all the racists look like morons and pokes fun at tons of prevailing attitudes at the time.

It's LITERALLY about misconceptions of a group of people in town who can't fathom a black sheriff.

Hell, it was written by and for Richard Pryor, who the studio wouldn't let star in the movie because they didn't want to risk his drug addiction, so they cast Cleavon Little.

It's a great movie and one of the funniest in a long time. But it uses "no-no words" so it MUST be cancelled.

Talk about missing the point.

I grew up on Mel Brooks and must’ve seen Blazing Saddles a legit fifty times and only just now did I learn about Richard Pryor’s would-be role in the film. That just adds a whole other layer of excellent on it.

You could add Dirty Harry to this list. One scene alone where another cop lists who all Harry hates.