{"id":292666,"date":"2024-03-02T10:27:17","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T15:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/15-offensive-movies-that-would-never-ever-get-made-today"},"modified":"2024-03-02T10:27:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T15:27:36","slug":"15-offensive-movies-that-would-never-ever-get-made-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/15-offensive-movies-that-would-never-ever-get-made-today","title":{"rendered":"15 Offensive Films That Would By no means, Ever Get Made At the moment"},"content":{"rendered":"


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For over a hundred years, movies have reflected society\u2019s tastes, opinions, and trends. As those things change, so does Hollywood. What an audience found perfectly acceptable 50, 25, or even 10 years ago may not be today (conversely, filmmakers take risks nowadays that they could never have in the past). <\/p>\n

For myriad reasons \u2014 most of them cringe-inducing \u2014 the offensive movies on this list wouldn\u2019t make it past the pitch, let alone get a big-screen release today.<\/p>\n

1. Soul Man (1986)<\/h2>\n
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Image Credit: New World Pictures.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In this blackface disaster of epic proportions, C. Thomas Howell plays the very white son of a psychiatrist who refuses to pay for his Harvard education \u2013 so he pretends to be Black on a scholarship application. Altering his skin color and donning a wig bamboozles everyone, including actual Black people.<\/p>\n

The sappy ending when Howell apologizes after realizing the error of his ways can\u2019t make up for stereotypical jokes about basketball prowess and the size of a certain something. If this movie had any soul, it’s being tortured in Hades.<\/p>\n

2. Blazing Saddles (1974)<\/h2>\n
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Image Credit: Warner Bros.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With its bawdy jokes and over-the-top bigotry, this Mel Brooks<\/a> buddy Western spoof starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder is the poster child for movies that no studio would touch today. But back in 1974, it raked in $119.6 million<\/em>.<\/p>\n

No one can deny Blazing Saddles<\/em>\u2019 influence on Hollywood, and its biting satire of racism still holds up, but the treatment of gays and women does not. Even Brooks admitted in 2012 that he couldn\u2019t put Blazing Saddles<\/em> to film today.<\/p>\n

3. Airplane! (1980)<\/h2>\n
\"Airplane!
Image Credit: Paramount Pictures.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This endlessly quotable slapstick gem featuring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty and Leslie Nielson still brings viewers to tears of laughter (if not howls) to this day. But releasing<\/em> it today? Not a chance.<\/p>\n

No director or actors could pull off the scene with Black passengers talking jive, or casual jokes about abortion, or risqu\u00e9 repartee with little kids, in our current politically correct world \u2013 surely no sane movie exec would greenlight it, and don\u2019t call me Shirley.<\/p>\n

4. Borat (2006)<\/h2>\n
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Image Credit: 20th Century Fox.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sacha Baron Cohen\u2019s shockumentary sits at 91% on Rotten Tomatoes because it was very, very funny. And offensive<\/em>.<\/p>\n

As Kazakh reporter Borat Sagdiyev, Cohen sets off across the country to make Pamela Anderson his wife \u2013 and skewers politicians and Heartland good ol\u2019 boys along the way. But 17 years is a long time, and even Cohen has said the world has become too dangerous to pull his deadpan pranks. Guess he\u2019s hung up the green mankini for good.<\/p>\n

5. Sixteen Candles (1984)<\/h2>\n
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Image Credit: Universal Pictures.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Look, hindsight is always 20\/20, and this John Hughes<\/a> classic hasn\u2019t aged nearly as well as Gen X would have hoped. (Honestly, that goes for most of the John Hughes oeuvre.) Did everyone shrug off the grotesque racism? The focus on teenage girls\u2019 chests?  The jokes about assaulting a blackout-drunk girl who doesn\u2019t seem to care that it happened?<\/p>\n

Everyone sure did, all while being aware that even by \u201880s standards, love interest Jake is a despicable person. Although most of us adored this teen-angst comedy when it came out, today, filmmakers would have to rewrite it almost entirely; what would be the point?<\/p>\n

6. Police Academy (1984)<\/h2>\n
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Image Credit: Warner Bros.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The premise of this affably inane comedy that spawned seven movies, a TV series, and a global theme park attraction involves an understaffed local police academy whose new rules require accepting all recruits, no matter what. Mostly harmless hilarity with slobs and losers ensues.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll probably never see another slapstick comedy about incompetent police simply because, to some, it\u2019s too close to home, while the Blue Lives Matter folks would protest.<\/p>\n

7. White Chicks (2004)<\/h2>\n
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Image Credit: Sony Pictures Releasing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This undercover comedy<\/a> stars Marlon and Shawn Wayans as FBI agents who pose as a pair of blonde socialites in a kidnapper-baiting scheme. Their whiteface masks aren\u2019t even the worst part about this lazy contrivance \u2013 plenty of potty humor, cheap jokes, and gross stereotyping go around.<\/p>\n

Despite co-star Terry Crews<\/a>\u2019 insistence that a sequel is coming, it\u2019s doubtful anyone will ever see the Wayans reprise these roles.<\/p>\n

8. Song of the South (1946)<\/h2>\n
\"Song
Image Credit: RKO Radio Pictures.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The oldest movie (and one of the most insane of all offensive movies) on this list is Disney\u2019s live-action\/animated post-Civil War musical about a boy who befriends a worker on his grandmother\u2019s plantation and enjoys his stories about the adventures of Br’er Rabbit, Br’er Fox, and Br’er Bear.<\/p>\n

Not only would filmmakers pass on this idyllic portrayal of plantation life today, it isn\u2019t available to watch \u2013 Disney has said it will never be released on DVD in the U.S. or on Disney+ (good luck finding it streaming anywhere, for that matter).<\/p>\n

9. I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007)<\/h2>\n
\"I
Image Credit: Universal Pictures.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Widower Larry (Kevin James) and Chuck (Adam Sandler) play firefighting buddies who dare to pose as domestic partners so Larry won\u2019t lose his benefits.<\/p>\n

In 2007, people apparently considered this kind of relationship front-page news, because the guys must carry on the charade in public to fool a nosy, doubting bureaucrat wanting to call their bluff. The movie treats homosexuality as 90% of the joke, a toast to straight male friendship with a side of chest-beating gay panic. Hollywood still doesn\u2019t always get it right when it comes to LGBT portrayals (a recurring theme among now-offensive movies), but at least nobody will have to see this again.<\/p>\n

10. Pretty Woman (1990)<\/h2>\n
\"Pretty
Image Credit: Buena Vista Pictures Distribution.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Some might argue that filmmakers could make this sunshiney story about a prostitute saved from the streets by a rich white knight today, but it would take a LOT of updating.<\/p>\n

Besides the problematic woman-in-need-of-rescue theme, the Los Angeles-set rom-com features virtually no BIPOC other than Vivian\u2019s sassy Latina friend Kit and the Black man shouting \u201cWelcome to Hollywood\u201d in the beginning (the credits list him only as \u201cHappy Man\u201d).<\/p>\n

In 2019, Julia Roberts told The Guardian<\/em> she didn\u2019t think Pretty Woman<\/em> would translate to the #MeToo era, and she\u2019s probably right.<\/p>\n

11. American Beauty (1999)<\/h2>\n
\"American
Image Credit: DreamWorks Pictures.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Never mind the allegations against Kevin Spacey over the last few years, troublesome though they are \u2013 this five-time Oscar winner (including Best Picture and Actor for Spacey) about a dysfunctional suburban family has way too much ick factor to happen in today\u2019s climate.<\/p>\n

Spacey\u2019s mopey loser dad lusts for his teenage daughter\u2019s friend (Mena Suvari) and very nearly gets what he wants, only backing off when she admits she\u2019s a virgin. A scene with then-16-year-old Thora Birch as Spacey\u2019s daughter without her top would raise more than a few eyebrows today. Just\u2026ew.<\/em><\/p>\n

12. Forrest Gump (1994)<\/h2>\n
\"Forrest
Image Credit: Paramount Pictures.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Box office success and six Academy Awards don\u2019t help this wide-eyed Robert Zemeckis<\/a> movie age any better three decades later.<\/p>\n

Tom Hanks stars as the wide-eyed man-child Forrest, who breezes through life and sea-changing historical events with all the emotional connection of a jellyfish. People relentlessly shame his longtime love, Jenny, for sleeping around.<\/p>\n

The movie condescends to people with disabilities and treats activists and the counterculture with downright hostility. Not only is all this questionable, but the movie cost $55 million ($111 million in 2024!) — no studio\u2019s spending that kind of coin on a crummy box of chocolates like this nowadays.<\/p>\n

13. Blame It on Rio (1984)<\/h2>\n
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Image Credit: Sherwood Productions.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If American Beauty<\/em> wasn\u2019t sleazy enough, this rom-com based on a French film takes male lechery all the way, literally.<\/p>\n

Two men go on vacation with their teenage daughters to Rio de Janeiro, where both girls hang around without bikini tops on and one (Michael Caine<\/a>) has an affair with his buddy\u2019s 17-year-old. When the men\u2019s wives learn about the affair, the girl tries to OD on birth control pills, a failed attempt that somehow brings the families together. Overtly sexualizing teenagers wasn\u2019t OK then, and it wouldn\u2019t be today.<\/p>\n

14. Pretty Baby (1978)<\/h2>\n
\"Pretty
Image Credit: Paramount Pictures.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Imagine filming a historical drama about a young daughter being raised in a brothel by her prostitute mother, starring an 11-year-old Brooke Shields kissing older men \u2013 today? The objectification was real, and the obsession with Shields\u2019 youth and sexuality was reflected in her films after this one, The Blue Lagoon<\/em> (1980) and Endless Love<\/em> (1981). Nobody would touch any of those today.<\/p>\n

15. Gigli (2003)<\/h2>\n
\"Gigli
Images Credit: Sony Pictures Releasing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Given all the ridicule and box office bombing of this Jennifer Lopez-Ben Affleck romantic comedy crime film, viewers may have forgotten Lopez played a lesbian. In the beginning, she talks, talks, and talks about her girlfriend.<\/p>\n

But it isn\u2019t long before she falls in love with Affleck\u2019s mobster and never mentions the gal pal again. Sure, fluid sexuality is totally fine, but this is some cis male fantasy trip about getting a lesbian to change her preferences for \u201cthe right guy\u201d that nobody needs to take again.<\/p>\n


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