Controversial movies!

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I thought that this would be a thread to discuss movies that are seen as controversial or in some cases are banned. I´ve seen:

Passion Of The Christ - accused of being anti semitic and too violent. I saw it when I was 14. It wasn´t a bad movie but I thought Satan and the demonic children were really scary, much scarier than all the blood.

Irreversible - has a famous rape scene and fire extinguisher scene. I thought the extinguisher scene was much worse than the rape scene. Probably because it went on for like five minutes without editing and you could see the face all the time. This movie gave me terrible OCD-thoughts that I wanted to do the same things.

Confessions Of A Portuguese Nun - a nunsploitation film. Saw it only because I was curious about the genre itself. Was quite gross in some places but didn´t leave any marks.

Antichrist - Lars Von Trier. I had VERY high expectations on this one because Danes are in general awesome moviemakers but ended up very disappointed. I didn´t really get what in the movie was reality and what was visions etc. There are "real" sex scenes (although between porn actors and not Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe). One scene at the end also hurt physically. You (especially girls) who have seen the movie know which scene I´m talking about.

I´m curious about Requiem For A Dream and Mark Of The Devil, are they any good? The second one is only because of my HUGE interest in witch hunting.

Have you seen any controversial movies? What did you think? Which ones would you like to see? Discuss!

I've seen the uncut version of Requiem For A Dream twice. I'm not going to give away the scene that earns it its NC-17 rating, but it's nowhere near as bad as Irreversible or even Antichrist. Even without the scene I'm talking about in Requiem, it's still a worthy movie to see.

Some of the banned films I've seen are Irreversible, Guinea Pig: Flowers of Flesh & Blood, Man Bites Dog and Men Behind the Sun, a movie about the Japanese secret unit (U 731) in China where experiments on people were carried out.

As a matter of fact, I think all the movies about U 731 (Laboratory of the Devil, etc) are banned because of deplorable violence and atrocities.

Irreversible just burns a hole in your memory that lasts forever.
So does Martyrs.
So does Pan's Labyrinth.
So does I Spit On Your Grave.
So does every movie by Takashi Miike.
So does August Underground.
So does Slaughtered Vomit Dolls.

JFK.

Oliver Stone's take on the Kennedy Assassination, based on the investigation and prosecution of CIA connected businessman Clay Shaw by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison. Accused of being either leftist paranoia, or praised as a fresh look at an American tragedy and it's remaining questions, it certainly made Americans fascinated by their own country's history.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

I forgot that I´ve seen half The Devils by Ken Russel. I´m looking for an uncut version of it but can´t find it anywhere. However after watching one specific torture scene I being a girl felt really sick. But then I wonder why do I really watch these kinds of films? The answer is; I do it because I´m curious and when I feel a little down or depressed they give me some kind of excitement although they are uncomfortable to watch.

Exorcist - IMO not very scary at all, only one scene is REALLY disturbing (it involves a crucifix).

I have also seen Borat, it´s one of my favorite movies and I think Sacha Baron Cohen should have gotten an Academy Award himself for that role

I´m also wondering about Witchfinder General, Last Tango In Paris and Ichi The Killer, are those good?

Last Tango In Paris had an X rating because of Brando's mouth, that's all.

Ichi the Killer is over-the-top violence like Tokyo Gore Police.

You want blood? Check out L'Intereur (Interior). There's blood and there's ridiculous. L'Intereur's ridiculous.

You're right about Borat. That movie was excruciatingly painful to watch. They should've edited out about 90 minutes of the film and just left the credits.

Ichi The Killer was fun and gorey.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

back in the day...

*psycho [you could tell the catholics waiting in line, they all wore masks to avoid ID by other catholics, as that movie was banned by the church]
*baby doll [also banned by the catholic church]
*the pawnbroker [ditto]
*blow up [ditto]

the catholic motion picture office in a later iteration, later gave all these films a A3 [adults only] or a B rating [for adults with reservations].

I seriously didn't know that.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

When I was really young I saw Song of The South by Disney in theaters, which I think is now banned for being so "politically incorrect". I haven't seen many movies at all, let alone ones that were banned. Zippedy-doo-dah, what a wonderful day?

Nobody mentioned The Passion of the Christ yet.

Nor The Last Temptation of Christ.

Polar opposites that stirred up infinite controversy for very different reasons.

And proof that Scorsese is a far greater filmmaker than Gibson.

Maybe I should do a marathon of these two films with Life of Brian.

an arm of the catholic church called the legion of decency, basically strong-armed Hollywood into adopting the hays censorship code, but there were certain movies which slipped past the censors and the church went apeshot over those movies [like howard hughes' "the outlaw" or preston sturges' "miracle of morgan's creek"] and condemned those flicks meaning that no observant catholic could attend any screenings of such films on pain of excommunication. another condemned flick from 1953, was "the moon is blue" because it used the word "virgin." the whole thing was about protecting the morals of impressionable American sheeple.

Okay, I remember those Legion of Decency idiots. Back in the 1950's, they had protested the release of a dramatized biopic movie about Martin Luther.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

This seems like a common theme, but the Da Vinci Code was largely protested by Catholics when it came out.

Funny enough, there was actually a fair amount of controversy regarding Batman Returns in the 1990's.

I mentioned Passion Of The Christ in my first post

Movies with religious themes will always be controversial though, no matter the content.

Here's a controversial movie no one has mentioned yet, and it is very controversial due to its subject matter, Hollywood should have banned Oliver Stone completely for this one: Natural Born Killers (1993).

This is proof that I should not be posting on WrongPlanet after I've had a couple of IPAs.