Are audiences so sensitive and offended by movie content now

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This José channel has some interesting critique on 90s TV and how its seem through a modern eye. I'll start you off with MWc. I never liked this show when it was on to be honest.

You ask a lot of questions about film and TV. There are loads of resources out there on the Internet with answers.

Videos like that José video are exactly one of the ones I was thinking about earlier. It is worth noting that what a lot of those 90s shows managed to get away with was not easy. The interesting thing about the MWC video is how it goes into how the show was controversial just for not being something like a perfect family, there were things back then that they could not do that they could probably get away with now. I remember there being a good section in the video that went into the main controversy and how it was actually kind of lucky that it pushed it forward instead of getting it canceled for some sexuality.

The other good videos he has done on such shows are Home Improvement, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Murphy Brown, and two long videos on Roseanne. I think they are all good at demystifying the TV shows of that period, and see what ways they could and could not push things. People were super sensitive back then, and I would say the shows that are pushing things in the same spirit are the type of shows people might complain about being too "PC".

Do you think a show like Modern Family could have existed in the 90s?

Oh okay. Perhaps my friends mean censored TV when they say 'they wouldn't allow that nowadays'. But it's not just TV though. It seems that even movies that go to theaters now are much more 'safe' than they use to be before, compared to movies of the 80s and 90s for example. Unless it's just me?

It is different standards. Like, sure, you would probably be less likely to get away with something that is homophobic, sexist or racist. But you could be more likely now to have a sympathetic portrayal of a gay character, have a character that breaks gender norms or sexual stereotypes, and a more racially diverse cinema in general. And people still get sensitive (offended) when they see things like a homosexual character that is sympathetic, character archtypes that challenge their worldview of gender norms, and roles in general given to more diverse actors.

Conservatives have been getting offended by cinema since it has existed.

But it didn't always use to be like this though and Hollywood was more comfortable putting out darkier grittier content before and more R rated movies and they still sold and made money. What changed?

Yeah that's true. How come a lot of foreign countries still make a lot of R rated movies in comparison, and still make their money though? What's their secret?

Oh. What is this 'bible belt' though and where did it come from the US compared to other nations?

Oh okay thanks. I guess this is why I hardly watch American movies, as it seems they have been on a real decline since the early 2010s for some reason.

thankfully grew up a 90s kid before mainstream tastes became so pussifed.

Well two of my favorite foreign films of this dedade are The Skin I Live In (2011), and Parasite (2019). But you don't see Hollywood making movies like those nowadays it seems. Maybe in the 90s they would have.

"freebie and the bean" may just be too rude to remake these days.