What Are Some Controversial Movies You Have Watched?

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21 Mar 2018, 5:34 pm

Hard Candy

Fahrenheit 9/11

United 93

The Da Vinci Code

Mother

Aladdin

Brokeback Mountain


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22 Mar 2018, 12:06 am

I just watched the French move Raw. It's up in that tier, but I really liked it.



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22 Mar 2018, 12:16 am

the life of Brian
the last temptation of Christ
the naked civil servant
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22 Mar 2018, 4:18 am

I went to watch "Mother!" at the cinema on the same day that I found out I was pregnant, that wasn't a very enjoyable experience!

Wasn't sure what counts as controversial so I looked up a couple of lists online and here's what I've seen off them:

The Last House on the Left
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
The Silence of the Lambs
The Exorcist
Life of Brian
A Clockwork Orange
Psycho
Rosemary's Baby
The Evil Dead
The Da Vinci Code


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22 Mar 2018, 11:34 am

Funny Games ... if it counts as "controversial", that is, which I don't know.


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23 Mar 2018, 7:42 pm

JFK.
The Last Temptation Of Christ.
Fahrenheit 9/11.
The Life Of Brian.
The Wild Bunch.


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25 Mar 2018, 3:44 am

born innocent



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25 Mar 2018, 6:35 pm

OutsideView wrote:
Wasn't sure what counts as controversial so I looked up a couple of lists online and here's what

I too was wondering about that!

After doing some googling and seeing the movies listed here as well:

Funny Games
The Last House on the Left
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
The Silence of the Lambs
The Exorcist
Psycho
Rosemary's Baby
The Evil Dead
The Da Vinci Code
United 93
The Interview
Birth
Natural born killers
Aladdin
Child's play 3
Twilight Zone the movie
South Park; bigger, longer and uncut
American Psycho

and I've seen part of Freaks


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25 Mar 2018, 7:59 pm

I can't believe 1974 NBC standards and practices [aka "the censors"] passed "born innocent" as-is, in prime time no less. 8O



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25 Mar 2018, 10:31 pm

I've seen six of the top 11 on the AMC top 100 most controversial.
Probably less than a quarter of the whole list, though. Haven't watched a lot of older movies.



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25 Mar 2018, 10:45 pm

Aladdin is controversial? As in *Disney's* Aladdin? 8O

Is it because of that phrase in the opening song "where they cut off their ear if they don't like your face"? I didn't see the movie until it came out on video and they changed the lyrics. But I later got the soundtrack on tape which still had the original lyrics. It freaked me out a little the first time I heard it.

Of course people can say whatever about Aladdin and Jasmine not looking "Arabic" enough, or Jasmine dressing like a belly dancer in a time and place when women dressed much more modestly. Pocahontas was from a tribe where in real life the women were topless, unless you count beads as a "top". :lol:

It's hard to think of a movie that isn't controversial, or at least had controversial moments in it, even if it's gotten mostly positive reviews.



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16 May 2018, 11:22 pm

The Day After
Fahrenheit 9/11
The Brown Bunny


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16 May 2018, 11:31 pm

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21 May 2018, 2:56 pm

The Birth Of A Nation

Triumph Of The Will

Last Tango In Paris

WR: Mysteries Of The Organism (a very strange film)

Deep Throat (Garbage. Can't imagine a less 'erotic' film)

The Exorcist


At the time I first saw The Exorcist in the mid-1970s, there was a stunned silence in the cinema, and reports of people passing out, having breakdowns or even attempting suicide as a result of seeing it. When I saw a '25th anniversary' screening of it in London in the late 1990s, the audience was frequently breaking out into laughter, seeing it as little more than light entertainment.


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21 May 2018, 4:55 pm

DeepHour wrote:
The Birth Of A Nation

Triumph Of The Will

Last Tango In Paris

WR: Mysteries Of The Organism (a very strange film)

Deep Throat (Garbage. Can't imagine a less 'erotic' film)

The Exorcist


At the time I first saw The Exorcist in the mid-1970s, there was a stunned silence in the cinema, and reports of people passing out, having breakdowns or even attempting suicide as a result of seeing it. When I saw a '25th anniversary' screening of it in London in the late 1990s, the audience was frequently breaking out into laughter, seeing it as little more than light entertainment.


The late Billy Graham back then believed the Devil was in the very film stock itself.


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22 May 2018, 2:29 am

the telefilm "steambath."