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Léon (sometimes called Léon: The Professional). The theatrical release played down the love story but the full version shows that it's a fuss about nothing. A child has a crush on an adult, but nothing controversial happens despite the backlash. Viewers seemed quite happy with her learning how to become an assassin, though.
Anybody that watches movies like The Joker and turns around and decides to become violent or a killer were already there well before watching a damn movie
what i find so funny about that chucklefuck brigade of people is how cliche the "message" in Joker is. They like to act like it's some profound, society breaking revelation, when it's been a literal trope in cinema for decades, and has been just a recognized truth of reality for centuries.
You're not wrong but the movie does roundabout encourage the violence. Being put in jail was not the end that Arthur Fleck should have gotten, if the goal WASN'T to encourage it.
A list: 0:18 The Flash 1:13 Dragonball Evolution 2:03 It Ends With Us 3:03 Dear Evan Hansen 4:01 Joker 4:57 Monty Python's Life of Brian 6:03 The Last Airbender 7:09 Blonde 8:13 A Clockwork Orange 9:18 Music 10:12 Crash 11:10 Aloha 12:15 Driving Miss Daisy 13:14 The Twilight Saga 14:05 Mother 14:54 Ghostbusters 15:49 The English Patient 16:51 Blue Is The Warmest Colour 17:50 Zero Dark Thirty 18:50 Juno 19:58 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 20:51 Titanic 21:42 Ghost In The Shell 22:44 Avatar 23:51 The Last Temptation of Christ 24:45 Kids 25:40 The Interview 26:49 Cuties 27:46 Nymphomaniac 29:01 The Passion of the Christ
to compromise with north korea they should've added in a pre-credits scene to the korean version where he's back from the dead, totally fine and says something like "they thought killing me would be enough to stop me? fools"
It was political. White men liked it, understood it and empathized with him. That was bad. That's why they basically castrated and ruined joker 2, they HAD TO.
It's NOT a true Joker movie. On character age alone. The canonical skills the joker possesses are non existent in that film...and fleck doesn't show the intelligence required, to acquire said skills, in the time it would take. It is a movie about mental health, that happens to have the name. And looks like the script was tweaked, to include weak references to the DC legend(and *his, preteen at the moment, nemesis* ), to try and garner a perceived preexisting audience approval. Then the misguided attempt called a sequel, proved disastrous.
@@timcarder2170 I disagree. The DC fan in me has read a lot of Joker related material and the 1st movie can have a place in there, akin to the samurai batman adaption. The problem this movie had was that it got really popular (not just with "white men"...) and certain people who knew nothing about the Joker, reviewed it as-is. It was strange and had glimpses of a character displaying traits of typical mental health 101. Granted WE KNOW the Joker and his exploits + the dynamic between him and batman. But yes the 2nd was horrible. I believe was due to the clear attempt to ride that bandwagon the director saw from the first. The people surprised where the average, shallow media personalities who NEED a new topic to ride on.. and they did ride on it like clockwork
Literally most of the movie is Alex getting the piss beaten out of him and humiliated, so I think it's fair to say that the violence that was already depicted wasn't glorified. Even then, stuff like the singin in the rain scene is naturally played as horrifying, "lighthearted fun" is a complete lie.
@@MilesJungbacker the point is they were all horrible and in the end they were rewarded. what ever alex's punishment was did not equal the horror he bestowed upon others
I’m completely unable to comment on my Chris channel because censorship I guess??? Ffs. Battle of gods was the first one. That’s the one Toriyama came back for to wash the taste of that movie out of everybody’s mouth. Then resurrection F came.
@@HanmaHeiro I’m completely unable to comment on my Chris channel because censorship I guess??? Ffs. Battle of gods was the first one. That’s the one Toriyama came back for to wash the taste of that movie out of everybody’s mouth. Then resurrection F came.
Regarding Ghost in the Shell. I've lived in Japan for 16 years and I act in Japanese movies and commercials here and know lots of Japanese directors. When I ask my directors about Ghost in the shell they all say the same thing. Something always along the lines of "The character is a cyborg not Asian. Cyborgs don't have race so any person can play it." And they don't understand why Americans (typically white Americans) get all pissed off when a white character plays an Asian character in the first place. They care more about if the character is played well.
I've been saying that since the movie was set to release. I told people time and time again, THE CHARACTER ISN'T ASIAN BUT A SHELL AKA ROBOT. The people who got pissed off never actually watched the anime or read the manga, the character is portrayed as a WHITE Shell with an Asian GHOST inside of it.
@@Mortal209 My problem with the movie was the script was underwhelming. Great special effects, interesting idea, but they completely failed in that respect. I know it didn't stick close to the original film or Second Gig, which was fine. I have no problem with people reimagining canon, but please do it well.
I'm Asian and a long fan of Ghost in the Shell and never had issue with the race of the actors cast. My issue with the movie was the writer/director was a clueless moron that had no understanding of the characters he was dealing with and turned them into Hollywood cliche.
Like how is that even on this list? Like yeah, sure, they pissed off a bunch of religious people, but those people would have been just as pissed if a movie portrayed Jesus as a Protestant instead of a Catholic, or vice versa. The whole point of the movie was that it was a satirical dig against religion and how fanatical and unreasonable religion can lead some people to be. It's a "check yourself" PSA, specifically designed to aggravate people that can't take a joke or accept different points of view because they drank the kool-aid and took the blue pill...
As a Christian, both me and my husband liked the movie. Jokes and comedy in general are used to talk about hard subjects and/or get people talking 🤷♀️
@@MaverickBlue42 Yeah, I don't this these "people" who compile these lists really know what they're talking about. Many completely forget that Brian, according to this story,, was born "next dorr to Jesus and was therefore confused by the radicals as Jesus the Christ of Nazareth. All of which is tongue and check but certainly with a modocum of truth within the words and sentiment. Some people just take themselves far too seriously.
I think the von Trier fans accepted it for what it is, and that anyone else who wasn't familiar with his body of work were just deadass shocked (especially if you watch the uncut 5 and a half hour intended version). Without knowing what Von Trier is all about (especially with films like Antichrist in particular) for people that saw the Vol 1 and Vol 2 versions - they may have heard the news that there would be real sex in the movie, and were interested to see if a director could pull off a movie about an crippling addiction that included actual sex scenes. To be completely honest, for the people that may have been somewhat interested in a movie about the subject but was turned off by this one in particular. You could instead go and watch Gasper Noe's Love; which did also include real sex scenes from the actors and came out a pretty interesting film, and Shame; an absolute masterpiece about sex addiction from the males point of view. These two movies may give some people who ALMOST liked or wanted to like Nymphomaniac something to check out.
People get mad beucause, show us the real nature of a Nymphomaniac, they backlash the movie for is true nature, but in real live they see and do worst LOL. Still one of the best movies. And congrats too Von Trier to show how can be a world of a Nympho!!!
Who sits through five hours of a movie titled Nymphomaniac to get what the movie is about... by the first 15 minutes you can summerise that the title isn't satirical.
There's always been that talking point of him dying and her surviving and the old 'there was room on the raft for both', saying there was backlash doesnt have to mean people hated it, just that one particular part received backlash. Ever seen Bill Burr's 'Titanic is a horror movie' bit? I enjoyed the movie, but a couple of parts bothered me, and others. And I'm not 25, I saw it in the theater when it came out.
Blake Lively lying to people and telling them that It Ends With Us is a rom-com (despite her knowing about the domestic abuse) is like trying to convince people that Fifty Shades Of Grey is a love story
My friend and I left the film early because it was annoying. And we hadn't even gotten to the DV parts. The early part of the movie *did* seem like a romcom. A bad one.
The "franchise" part about the Joker was the problem. It wasn't meant to be a franchise. It was supposed to be one movie but because the first one was successful they made a second one which made little to no sense.
I remember when Kids came out. I remember all the adults being all shocked, horrified, etc. I remember watching it to see what all the fuss was about. I remember thinking, "If the grownups think this is anything other than a pretty realistic depiction - at least of kids living in a big city - they are more out of touch than I thought."
The denoument of that movie involves the transmission of HIV during a rape. If that was just a regular day in your childhood, then in the words of Will Ferrell as Alex Trebec on SNL celebrity Jeopardy, "You have lived a horrifying life."
@@phimed Maybe my childhood wasn't exactly as the movie shows, but yeah - drug use was stupidly common, people I knew got killed or went to prison, several people experienced various forms of assault, homelessness, abuse, etc. It didn't have to be exactly like the movie for it to be familiar to us. And I'm not trying to say that my life growing up was the stuff of movies. Plenty of my friends had it way worse than I did. I know boys who did what the character of Casper did in that movie and not a single one of them would have thought of it as r@p3 because we had been conditioned to believe that r@p3 involved much more overt violence. And she didn't fight him so to him, it wasn't r@p3. (No, I'm not defending him. He's obviously a r@p!st. And yes, I realize she didn't fight him because she was mostly passed out, but that she did protest and told him to stop and he ignored her.) The point of the film is that childhood now isn't like it was when our parents were growing up. Modern kids are much less innocent at a much younger age than their parents and society at large truly realize, but that ultimately, they are still kids. They make stupid choices because they don't have all the information and because they don't have a proper grasp on consequences. The adults around them either aren't paying very close attention to them, or never taught them to think critically, or both, making it much easier to make those stupid choices.
@@phimedthat isnt uncommon. The film is set in the mid 90s during the tail end of the HIV/AIDS crisis. HIV has been passed on millions of times due to unprotected sex, and SA, whether unintentionally or because someone wanted to infect others. If anything, thats a realistic part of the film. Its also still a realistic part of life. SA and unprotected sex can lead to STI's and HIV.
The backlash against Ghost in the Shell still annoys me. Notice it wasn't the Japanese creator or fans starting it? If anyone read the source material they'd get the fact that the whole point of the Major's character was to show the horror of having one's essence transplanted from one body to another. It's body horror without the 'horror'.
Yet it is a little strange to use a shell manufactured in Japan, for moving around Japan, to look nothing like being from Japan. (All according to source material) That way the major would stick out like a sore thumb in her daily job … and the original art had Japanese features included in the character (The hair is often color-coded) But that could have been only a side issue, had the movie been better. Instead the script was also a shell of the original story, which had an overall more decisive main character - Motoko Kusanagi actually grew up with artificial bodies and even chose to serve in Section 9. She never was abducted and forced into her android body. (Stand Alone Complex showed us that she had a condition in her youth, that afforded her to get a full body prosthesis. She later served in a war against Russia.) There also was no 'body horror' in either the Manga or the Animated movies, only existential questions. She just reminisced of how much humanity she had left in her, when even her mind (ghost) might just be a copy of herself.
@@Cau_No The original manga showed people of multiple races even though it took place in Japan. The only clearly Japanese looking characters were the section chief Aramaki and Ishikawa. And even though she may have volunteered it doesn't take away from the trauma of waking up with a different face. It may not be 'body horror' in the traditional sense but it can be argued that it qualifies. Imagine waking up tomorrow with a different body. How much of our sense of self is tied to how we look and perceive ourselves. That's the question and the point of the series and why the creator insisted he didn't care.
@nishikaze 1. So Togusa, the guy with the least cybernetic changes wasn't Japanese in your eyes? Either You hardly understand the drawing style when you just go by appearances, or you never met actual Japanese people. There were a lot more of them in the originals. The great thing about the movie's style was the variations in characters not seen in standard anime TV shows. 2. Young Motoko didn't abruptly change her face. She adapted slowly with succeeding bodies. Watch the show to see about it. 3. I guarantee you there are people who'd jump at the chance to change their body or face. It is also a main theme of cyberpunk. Just because you could not stomach it, that does not mean everyone does. Have you ever seen current body modifications? (And no, I don't like them either.) At this point you are just making baseless assumptions for your own confirmation. Not sorry for bursting that bubble.
Want GitS-Manga not quite way more light-hearted while existential themes weren't that much in depth? Didn't read em myself but remember something like that
Nah, another mid tier Cameron movie (although it was a quite beautiful movie) that made more money than it should have. That's why most people just roll their eyes when it's mentioned.
The meme of hating on specific fonts is so old. Can anyone actually explain a good reason not to use any font? Why do we have access to dozens of fonts if we're only allowed to use 2 of them? Who made this rule about what font is okay to use for things? I think Impact and Times New Roman are the dumbest ugliest fonts you could use, and those are literally everywhere. So who gets to decide what fonts are okay or not? What font would you guys use for an alien movie, Garamond Bold? Webdings? Courier New? Maybe we should all just use one font for everything like children in school. 12 point Times New Roman, nothing else allowed 😂
As a guy on the Spectrum, it's totally okay for neurotypicals to play characters with autism, as long as they and the producers know what they're doing and only for the right reasons. This was NOT the case with Music - clearly nobody did their research.
Yah they did.. All autistic people give themselves a massive overbite and grunt all the time with rolled back eyes.. Geeeeezz what planet are you on!? (This is a joke).
@@kingofnewyork8092 Autistic people don't act like that. You tell someone to act like they are autistic (low functioning) and they come back with grunting and an overbite. What would you say? I have never seen an autistic person (low function) do that overbite. Some kind of do it, but not like the way that poor girl who didn't even want the part did it.
The role that really made Daniel Day-Lewis a star was as Christy Brown in "My left Foot", playing a writer and artist who had cerebral palsy! Daniel really studied up on the subject so he could play the part correctly. He helped bring awareness to the public about the disorder.
OG Ghost In The Shell she never looked or acted Asian. She seemed white in the first movie and gets put in the body of a young white girl at the end. Seems on track with the anime. Just because something comes from Asia doesn't mean it has to have Asians in it.
While I like Blake Lively, and think her and Ryan Reynold's are such a likable couple. Her complete ambivalence on the press interviews for that movie just prove why she doesn't do many interviews. She came off so clueless and tone deaf it was insane.
I grew up in a small conservative (Christian) town in northern Indiana. My friend and I were very curious what all the controversy was for The Last Temptation of Christ, so we managed to find a theater showing it. We both had the same thought leaving the theater: Christians SHOULD watch this movie! It genuinely reinforces your faith because it was quite literally Satan tempting Jesus on the cross with a better life. But sadly, like today, people are ready to hate without knowing the facts. This taught me an important lesson at a young age to always keep an open mind.
Typically, any time a story presents itself as historical fact when it's clearly fictional it's going to create backlash. Same thing happened with Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code which also made big claims about Jesus and Mary which have zero historical evidence. Titanic got some criticism about Jack/Rose not being a real thing. Sully was criticized for the portrayal of the NTSB. I think American Sniper was also criticized for some liberties taken. It's always touchy because sometimes the writers want to make changes to make things "more interesting" which inevitably upsets people.
I'm an atheist--reading the Bible did it--but I was appalled by the idiots who brought their little kids to see it. Even I didn't want to see Jesus scourged for 20 minutes.
People who got pissed about Ghost in the Shell have no idea what they're talking about. Her appearance is the "shell". It's a robotic/cyborg body. The "ghost" (brain) inside is Japanese.
They wont go against the woke narrative and actually be unbiased it shows in what they say about what theyre reviewing. they glossed over ezra miller like ok he was accused of this but moving on.
@@gabe472 And actually called him "they/them". Nope. I can respect the non binary thing for kind souls but he is a complete POS. I will not bow down to anything that bunghole demands.
the first one had 0 marketing in my country back in the day , myself and my buddies (we were at the uni at the time) went in in a late time showing prepared to watch graphic vampire violence we were so disappointed we almost walked out! I have not seen any sequel since!
As someone who likes the movies - for some odd reason + also seeing the problematic gaslighting etc. 😅 I giggled at the “glitter vampires”. Fantastic comment 😂👌
Being sparkly wasn't my problem with them, it was the fact vampires consist of a solid material like statues. I can overlook a transformation that gives someone a sparkly pigmentation, you can explain that off as crystalisation of skin cells or something, but a person turning in to a stone-like material when they become a vampire? That was my WTF moment when watching the movie.
A funny thing is that when we were taught about that film in art class in Sweden nothing was said about its racism, only about its storytelling techniques.
I'm surprised Stanley Kubrick's Lolita didn't made the cut. Even if extremely toned down from the novel, the movie still maintained the controversial topic active, more so considering that Lolita's actress was 14 at that time and was cast (and I quote) "because she looked older than her age and was intended to be showed as a sex object and not as a perverted girl"
or the other controversial 70's movie with Malcolm McDowell in starring role, aka Caligula. That might have them clutching their pearls LOL. Or A Serbian film... or Salo... cult movies that require a strong stomach.
Im sorry but committing violent acts because you saw the joker or teens getting pregnant because they saw Juno is bullshit. That just shows they already had violent thoughts and intent and no one paid enough attention to notice as well as a failed mental health system, and failed sex-ed because teenagers didnt do anything to prevent pregnancy (because remember - teeenagers will have sex whether you like it or not. You cant yell or scare the horny out of them, you need to educate them).
I hated Blonde so hard. It was so exploitative and insulting to Marilyn’s memory. I know it’s “fictional”, but it depicted real people. An imaginary throuple and a sexual assault by a US President is taking it way too far.
I hated the film myself, too much of it was pure fiction and it was more of an up its own ass art house movie than anything. I oddly laughed at the JFK scene because the actor look nothing like him plus how the act is shot suggested he had a small pecker. That said I would really like a proper movie of her life both the ups and downs. It seems most movies just show as sad, abused and sometimes crazy.
The backlash against Cuties wasn't just about the poster. It was the fact that the film was guilty of the very thing it was claiming to be critical of; they exploited actual minors to make their point. Plus the "audition" process was really gross.
They did not exploit minors at all. Stop putting words in the actors' mouths. Also, the film was supervised and approved by France's Child Protection Services and child psychologists were on set.
"Life of Brian" is an absolute comedic gem! Comedy is subjective, and so is life. People need to lighten up and laugh...Im sick and tired of people i dont know, telling me what i should say or think. Get over yourselves!
I thought Juno’s brief but effective depiction of the character considering (and deciding against..) abortion was handled in a straightforward and tactful manner that didn’t dive too far into the subject’s intricacies.
Yeah, claiming Cuties is against the sexualization of children comes off as honest as claiming that the message of Saw is that torture is bad. Like, did we really need a close-up of a girl twerking in her underwear?
Why am I not surprised that foreigners are more upset about Ghost in the Cell than Japanese. Like I saw an video with an white dude wearing an stereotypical Mexican outfit and asking Americans if they were offended and all of them said yes. Then he went to Mexico and asked the same thing and they didn’t care at all and found it funny 😂
Particularly, as in the anime and manga, Major chose a Caucasian style avatar for herself, as part of her cyborg procedure to differ from her former Japanese look.
@@Thurgosh_OG She's definitely, 100% not Japanese (her shell). And the only people really upset were the media that couldn't understand the concept of Shells and ghosts.
Blonde. Disrespecting Marilyn Monroe through graphic imagery and falsehoods by the author of the book and the director. Also, Back to Black. Similar to Blonde, albeit making Amy Winehouse more of a caricature than a real person.
It's not just that the character was a cyborg, but what really shocked me about the people who didn't like Scarlett Johanssen in Ghost in the Machine was the apparent racism of those (mostly) American critics. You go and read their comments and pretty much all the alternate actresses they suggested were Chinese, Korean or Malaysian as if all Asians are the same.
The biggest complaint about Avatar was the casting of Jake Sully, a human, to play the role of a Na’vi. Despite the film receiving critical acclaim on the planet Pandora.
The Passion of the Christ depicted the subject matter quite well. I can't imagine depicting the Crucifixion of Christ in any way other than brutal. The brutality was in proportion to the weight of man's sin. Gibson did a masterful job.
I agree, and there was nothing antisemitic about it. I have Jewish friends and it didn't bother them. Gibson gave us a beautiful film unlike that blasphemous Scorsese film.
I think it may be one of the worst movies I've ever seen, but to each their own. No backlash, I just think it sucked and just used shock value to get to people's emotions. I was hoping for a more thoughtful story that actually focused on Jesus's teachings, in part because I feel like there's a large sect of modern Christians that have almost completely separated themselves entirely from the content of Jesus's message. But again, all just my opinion.
@@drewc771 The title directly refers to The Passion of Christ...capitalized it means the sufferings of Christ between the night of the Last Supper and his death. If it were about his teachings it would have been titled something else.
The Mother, is one of the most stress inducing movies I have seen, but it is so underrated. It is an excellent allegory about our planet, people who take it for granted and God figure, that restarts everything, hoping next time strangers (people) will become aware of what they are doing and how negative it affects THE MOTHER and house (our planet). One of the strongest films I have seen
Yes. I thought it was excellent. Having just gone through birth as$ault prior to watching it, the allegories hit hard. It’s unfortunate though that the main actress was reportedly mentally tortured by the director to get her into form for the film
20:50 The problem with "Cuties" is it supposed to be a criticism of society for sexually exploiting young girls, but they did that by sexually exploiting young girls. It literally was the thing it was supposed to be criticizing.
So you suggest they criticize something by never showing or mentioning it? Maybe films about the holocaust shouldn't include any nazis or concentration camps? It was a typical case of Americans _pre-acting_ to a poster for a film they never saw. It's fine to have heads blow up, but show a kid in a leotard (even if the whole message of the movie is to _criticize_ that), and it must be censored.
@@RFC3514 No, to use your example, it would be like putting a bunch of people in a concentration camp, and then filming them as they starve to show how bad the holocaust is. Also, I never said it should be censored. I just pointed out it was the thing it was supposedly criticizing. The point wasn't concerning censorship, but hypocrisy.
@@EcnalKcin - I'm pretty sure the kids in the movie were perfectly safe, same as any actors who _pretend_ to be starving in war movies. What exactly was your problem with the film, and how would you propose telling the same story and getting the same message across without showing any of the things it was criticising?
@@RFC3514 You are missing the point, probably willfully so. The example you gave was flawed, because you equated people pretending to do something with Cuties, but Cuties actually did exploit the girls in a sexual manner to make and publicize the film. Meaning they actually did the thing, not just _pretended_ to do the thing. Do you get it now?
@@EcnalKcin - No, at most _Netflix_ did that, to make people notice the film and generate more media coverage. Something that lots of films, TV shows and books do. They're not even "exploiting" the actors, they're exploiting the viewers' imagination (and subsequent hypocrisy). And anyway, that's like saying that Agatha Christie "exploited people's death" and suggesting that she "condoned murder" because she _wrote about it._ Again: what exactly was your problem with the film, and how would you propose telling the same story and getting the same message across without showing any of the things it was criticising?
You can't judge an old movie by today's standards.. Not just that, but ones like a Clockwork Orange were thought-provoking! Unlike most of today's movies. It was meant to touch a nerve, so to speak.. Same for a life of Brian.
@qadashchaayah144 No, I'm just mad because their saying all movies casted with white people as the lead roles are bad. It's like their saying that white people should be in the background of EVERY movie. Everytime they mentioned a movie, the first thing they said was that it was bad because the lead roles were white. I get why people are mad about white washing, but their calling movies that were supposed to have white lead actors bad too. It's like saying the entirety of the white race can't act.
Nyphomaniac I and II Director's Cut was on Netflix with regular movies back in 2013 😂😂😂 I watched both back to back. I didn't know what I was in for. The second part is crazier.
He makes super unsettling movies. Have you seen Meloncholia? A depressed chick blissfully watches the world collide with another planet killing everyone. It's... Unsettling.
@@amandabeaty1492I don’t think it was meant to be interpreted as her “blissfully” waiting for the end of the world. She was severely depressed so I doubt she would suddenly be feeling bliss. Her feelings and reactions were likely muted by the depression. With her deep depression she already expects bad things to happen. The way each character dealt with life determined how they dealt with impending disaster. Regardless, his films are definitely unsettling. The feelings of existential dread throughout melancholia and how each character deals with their impending doom was frightening. Thinking about death is something most people can relate to.
@@NurseKayP Maybe blissfully is the wrong word but when some chronically depressed people die by suicide, they're kind of euphoric for a few days before and it almost is like their mood has shifted because they've made the decision and they can finally see an end to the depression. I kind of thought it was the same with this movie. It's been a long time since I've seen the movie but from what I recall she was she was the only one not freaking out not because of her depression but because she got to that stage where she knew her pain was finally going to end. There was an end in sight. That's the way I took it. Def not a feel good movie.
Interestingly, Avatar has ZERO cultural imprint. It was a fun remake of "Pocahontas," but no one wanted to be a Navi, not even for Halloween. I am pretty sure the merch (was there any?) did not move and no one cared about it after watching.
I actually saw a few Na'vi cosplayers at conventions. But those were deep fans. Not at Halloween though, which isn't even a big thing where I live. The main impact the movie had was a bunch of made for 3D movies along with more cheap uprendered fake-3D ones. And Avatar wasn't even using the tech to its best effects - there are only a handful of movies, which I'd recommend for a watch in 3D.
Problem with not trying to offend anyone is that different people are offended by different things and you'll always manage to offend someone no matter what. Avoiding all offence is a zero sum game. You may as well try to be bold and create something great, even if that might offend someone.
"This movie's biggest crime is that it's just terrible." That line, describing why "Avatar: The Last Airbender" is on the list, is one of the best ever on a Watch Mojo video. I saw the beginning of this movie on a plane, and turned it off mid-flight because it was that terrible. The droning of the airplane engine for the next 4-5 hours was much preferable to finishing the movie.
Lord of the Rings could've been a single film too. Peter Jackson got so successful with the first movie that he seemed to stop having studio control of what he was producing and so it ends up being incredibly bloated with huge pacing issues and the final movie's timing makes it genuinely seem (at least in the theatrical release) to end at least eight times. I literally remember sitting with a friend and both of us half-standing that many times because the course of the end of that movie seemed like there were eight endings packed on, having been edited out previously and then added back on so it the movies overall structure kept signaling it was over.
@nochannel1q2321 Lord of the rings wasv1 movie , the twin towers was one movie and return of the king was 1 movie , each film was based on 1 book in the trilogy of books that tolken wrote
@nochannel1q2321 fellowship is 1 movie ( 3 hours 35mins ) twin towers 1 movie ( 3 hours 25 mins ) return of the king 1 movie ( 3 hours 45 mins ) longer if you watch the extended editions ( which I do ) but each book is a single film
What gets tiring is when people are upset about a movie because of something OUTSIDE the movie. These days PCrrorism is more important than to judge a work of art on its own merits. Not to mention, the purpose of acting is to portray a character that is NOT the actor. Otherwise nobody would be allowed to act who is NOT the actual character being portrayed.
The problem with Ghost in the Shell wasn't the casting of Scarlett Johansson. The actual problem was it took a story with many thought provoking themes, threw those all out of the window and instead turned it in just another generic, dumb Hollywood action flick.
Right? What a waste of opportunity. The soul of the original movie was completely lost. Johanssen was actually a good casting choice that fit the character well, but the movie completely lost what made the original one so good.
One of the main problems with this movie was indeed the casting. There was already push back coming from groups being either ignored or poorly represented. Unfortunately, this movie, which ended up being garbage, was released, and fueled the anger. Folks were saying they had enough. Then, as what I felt was retaliation, movie makers really started casting minority actors to play white characters. It was hilarious and brilliant, and of course white folks got mad, as usual. Don't be confused, the casting was 100% the problem
I just wanted to say that the people who started the theater on fire are not Christians. They may claim to be but that’s against like everything Jesus taught. Also people seem to forget how violent the Bible is. There was all sorts of violence happening and to depict something as accurate as possible you need to include it
Sadly, a lot of people, even in modern times, have called themselves Christians and committed horrible violence. Look at the Florida abortion doctor killings.
A majority of Christians do many, many things that are against what Jesus taught. Just look at the gruesome history of Christianity. They are all still Christians. It's just annoying how, instead of acknowledging the harm done, Christians just point at each other and claim the other Christians aren't Christian.
I honestly don’t get the idea of “white washing” anime. They’ve already done it themselves. Rarely do I see anime characters that actually look Asian and when they do, they are almost never the lead.
@Heathcoatman not just that. But it romantizes rushing headlong into relationships even when they are toxic. Bella and Edward barely know each other and are ready to off themselves the second they can't be around one another. Bella was willing to sacrifice her entire life for someone she barely knew. Its really offputting if you really think about what happens in that series.
I haven't seen it but I do remember that it attracted a lot of controversy due to the subject matter, people who seek sexual thrills during car crashes. Likely people thought it would inspire folks to crash cars.
@@lodrbyroni I was thinking the same thing... didn't even see the one they showed here, but I did see the controversial one with Elias Koteas and Rosanna Arquette in it.
You know the Major in Ghost in the Shell is supposed to be white right? The creator even said he made her without a race in mind but definitely not Asian. And it is fine if a white actress plays her. Plus you know it's a android! They don't have a freaking race!!!
Mother! is my favorite movie that I'll likely never watch again. And I'm not just talking about That Scene. I've never related to the anxiety of a character so much. As an introvert, I clocked Mother! as a horror story early on, I've never been so anxious watching a movie.
@@jasonwethy8360I do love it too. It's just I recieve death threats and I even get harassed. Funny enough is that all Avatar fans give these harassment claims and death threats directed at me a go.
I watched Kids for the first time about 12 years ago. Yes, the movie has a lot of controversial and graphic scenes/ topics, but I feel like it showed how some kids really live life away from adults and how seriously shit can escalate. Honestly I feel teenagers should watch it to see how serious issues like that can become very real very quickly.
Goku technically isn’t Asian. He’s not even human. So no one can argue that he should’ve been played by an Asian. And all the locations on earth are fictional so not necessarily in Asia. So all the complaints about white washing here is stupid. The issue with dragon ball evolution was that it just plain sucked.
Which movies do you think deserved the backlash? Let us know in the comments below.
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The Marvels
A Serbian Film
Blue lagoon and blue velvet
Surporised you didnt include The Last Jedi a movie so bad it destroyed a franchise
Léon (sometimes called Léon: The Professional). The theatrical release played down the love story but the full version shows that it's a fuss about nothing. A child has a crush on an adult, but nothing controversial happens despite the backlash. Viewers seemed quite happy with her learning how to become an assassin, though.
Anybody that watches movies like The Joker and turns around and decides to become violent or a killer were already there well before watching a damn movie
what i find so funny about that chucklefuck brigade of people is how cliche the "message" in Joker is. They like to act like it's some profound, society breaking revelation, when it's been a literal trope in cinema for decades, and has been just a recognized truth of reality for centuries.
You're not wrong but the movie does roundabout encourage the violence. Being put in jail was not the end that Arthur Fleck should have gotten, if the goal WASN'T to encourage it.
100%
@@BillDonaldson-f2h That would apply if it was a show for preschoolers instead of a movie rated R.
lol what a stupid thing for the narrator to say, 3/4's of US films glorify violence.
A list:
0:18 The Flash
1:13 Dragonball Evolution
2:03 It Ends With Us
3:03 Dear Evan Hansen
4:01 Joker
4:57 Monty Python's Life of Brian
6:03 The Last Airbender
7:09 Blonde
8:13 A Clockwork Orange
9:18 Music
10:12 Crash
11:10 Aloha
12:15 Driving Miss Daisy
13:14 The Twilight Saga
14:05 Mother
14:54 Ghostbusters
15:49 The English Patient
16:51 Blue Is The Warmest Colour
17:50 Zero Dark Thirty
18:50 Juno
19:58 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
20:51 Titanic
21:42 Ghost In The Shell
22:44 Avatar
23:51 The Last Temptation of Christ
24:45 Kids
25:40 The Interview
26:49 Cuties
27:46 Nymphomaniac
29:01 The Passion of the Christ
This needs to be higher. MVP
Very helpful, thanks!
It's shocking to not see The Last Jedi (Or any other controversial Star Wars movie) on here...
"The movie received backlash for its depiction of killing of Kim Jung un"
(Shows the scene of Kim Jung un getting killed) 😂
Nono the script and editing of this video is supreme😂 lile there are so manh moments like that that made me burt out laughing
to compromise with north korea they should've added in a pre-credits scene to the korean version where he's back from the dead, totally fine and says something like "they thought killing me would be enough to stop me? fools"
🤣🤣🤣
That alone should've made it a smash hit.
And..
"... as many took issue with its more intimate scenes. Some thought they were too graphic."
(Shows a close up of two girls drool-kissing)
People were concerned that the Joker glorified violence? Do these people have no idea who the Joker is?
Exactly.
It was political. White men liked it, understood it and empathized with him. That was bad. That's why they basically castrated and ruined joker 2, they HAD TO.
It's NOT a true Joker movie.
On character age alone.
The canonical skills the joker possesses are non existent in that film...and fleck doesn't show the intelligence required, to acquire said skills, in the time it would take.
It is a movie about mental health, that happens to have the name.
And looks like the script was tweaked, to include weak references to the DC legend(and *his, preteen at the moment, nemesis* ), to try and garner a perceived preexisting audience approval.
Then the misguided attempt called a sequel, proved disastrous.
@@timcarder2170 I disagree. The DC fan in me has read a lot of Joker related material and the 1st movie can have a place in there, akin to the samurai batman adaption. The problem this movie had was that it got really popular (not just with "white men"...) and certain people who knew nothing about the Joker, reviewed it as-is. It was strange and had glimpses of a character displaying traits of typical mental health 101. Granted WE KNOW the Joker and his exploits + the dynamic between him and batman.
But yes the 2nd was horrible. I believe was due to the clear attempt to ride that bandwagon the director saw from the first.
The people surprised where the average, shallow media personalities who NEED a new topic to ride on.. and they did ride on it like clockwork
IKR, he's always been portrayed as such a charitable man of peace in the comics.
Violence depicted as "lighthearted fun"? In "A Clockwork Orange"? We must have seen a different movie. There's nothing lighthearted about it.
its ultra violence
Well, it was fun for Alex.
@@minsapint8007 funny that his friends became police officers, continuing the ultra violence but behind a badge
Literally most of the movie is Alex getting the piss beaten out of him and humiliated, so I think it's fair to say that the violence that was already depicted wasn't glorified. Even then, stuff like the singin in the rain scene is naturally played as horrifying, "lighthearted fun" is a complete lie.
@@MilesJungbacker the point is they were all horrible and in the end they were rewarded. what ever alex's punishment was did not equal the horror he bestowed upon others
1:47 No. HE DISLIKED IT SO MUCH THAT HE MADE DRAGON BALL SUPER. He didn’t want that film to be the last dragon ball movie because it was *THAT* bad
Resurrection F that then spawned Super
I’m completely unable to comment on my Chris channel because censorship I guess??? Ffs.
Battle of gods was the first one. That’s the one Toriyama came back for to wash the taste of that movie out of everybody’s mouth. Then resurrection F came.
@@HanmaHeiro I’m completely unable to comment on my Chris channel because censorship I guess??? Ffs.
Battle of gods was the first one. That’s the one Toriyama came back for to wash the taste of that movie out of everybody’s mouth. Then resurrection F came.
Regarding Ghost in the Shell. I've lived in Japan for 16 years and I act in Japanese movies and commercials here and know lots of Japanese directors. When I ask my directors about Ghost in the shell they all say the same thing. Something always along the lines of "The character is a cyborg not Asian. Cyborgs don't have race so any person can play it." And they don't understand why Americans (typically white Americans) get all pissed off when a white character plays an Asian character in the first place. They care more about if the character is played well.
I've been saying that since the movie was set to release. I told people time and time again, THE CHARACTER ISN'T ASIAN BUT A SHELL AKA ROBOT. The people who got pissed off never actually watched the anime or read the manga, the character is portrayed as a WHITE Shell with an Asian GHOST inside of it.
@@Mortal209 My problem with the movie was the script was underwhelming. Great special effects, interesting idea, but they completely failed in that respect. I know it didn't stick close to the original film or Second Gig, which was fine. I have no problem with people reimagining canon, but please do it well.
White people were probably the only ones complaining I bet 😂
@@mgpitt8331 Yup that's what I'm saying.
I'm Asian and a long fan of Ghost in the Shell and never had issue with the race of the actors cast. My issue with the movie was the writer/director was a clueless moron that had no understanding of the characters he was dealing with and turned them into Hollywood cliche.
"Life of Brian" is an absolute CLASSIC and hilariously funny.
💯💯💯❣️
Like how is that even on this list? Like yeah, sure, they pissed off a bunch of religious people, but those people would have been just as pissed if a movie portrayed Jesus as a Protestant instead of a Catholic, or vice versa. The whole point of the movie was that it was a satirical dig against religion and how fanatical and unreasonable religion can lead some people to be. It's a "check yourself" PSA, specifically designed to aggravate people that can't take a joke or accept different points of view because they drank the kool-aid and took the blue pill...
As a Christian, both me and my husband liked the movie. Jokes and comedy in general are used to talk about hard subjects and/or get people talking 🤷♀️
100% classic!
@@MaverickBlue42 Yeah, I don't this these "people" who compile these lists really know what they're talking about. Many completely forget that Brian, according to this story,, was born "next dorr to Jesus and was therefore confused by the radicals as Jesus the Christ of Nazareth. All of which is tongue and check but certainly with a modocum of truth within the words and sentiment. Some people just take themselves far too seriously.
I’m an ardent believer in the Lord, and I love well-made satire.
Life of Brian is a classic - one of my favorite films!
I am also a firm believer in Jesus. And I also think Life of Brian is hilarious!
There's actually people that went and watched Nymphomaniac and then complained about getting exactly what they ordered?
Like, it's in the title, people. What did you think it was?
I think the von Trier fans accepted it for what it is, and that anyone else who wasn't familiar with his body of work were just deadass shocked (especially if you watch the uncut 5 and a half hour intended version). Without knowing what Von Trier is all about (especially with films like Antichrist in particular) for people that saw the Vol 1 and Vol 2 versions - they may have heard the news that there would be real sex in the movie, and were interested to see if a director could pull off a movie about an crippling addiction that included actual sex scenes.
To be completely honest, for the people that may have been somewhat interested in a movie about the subject but was turned off by this one in particular. You could instead go and watch Gasper Noe's Love; which did also include real sex scenes from the actors and came out a pretty interesting film, and Shame; an absolute masterpiece about sex addiction from the males point of view. These two movies may give some people who ALMOST liked or wanted to like Nymphomaniac something to check out.
People get mad beucause, show us the real nature of a Nymphomaniac, they backlash the movie for is true nature, but in real live they see and do worst LOL. Still one of the best movies. And congrats too Von Trier to show how can be a world of a Nympho!!!
Who sits through five hours of a movie titled Nymphomaniac to get what the movie is about... by the first 15 minutes you can summerise that the title isn't satirical.
Imagine being so lame you are a fan of Lars von Stinkpot.
I don’t remember Titanic getting massive backlash! What in the world?!!
Exactly. That's definitely NOT true. They must think we're all 25.
Yeah. I never heard of any backlash for the movie. Thought it was loved by all. Well almost by all apparently.
Tiitanic got backlash from Murdock and Molly Brown's family.
There's always been that talking point of him dying and her surviving and the old 'there was room on the raft for both', saying there was backlash doesnt have to mean people hated it, just that one particular part received backlash. Ever seen Bill Burr's 'Titanic is a horror movie' bit? I enjoyed the movie, but a couple of parts bothered me, and others. And I'm not 25, I saw it in the theater when it came out.
@@Heathcoatman but that's not what this video is referencing.
Blake Lively lying to people and telling them that It Ends With Us is a rom-com (despite her knowing about the domestic abuse) is like trying to convince people that Fifty Shades Of Grey is a love story
My friend and I left the film early because it was annoying. And we hadn't even gotten to the DV parts. The early part of the movie *did* seem like a romcom. A bad one.
Ah, with that logic Lolita is also a love story.
@@Leto85BRUH. Not Lolita being a love story! 😂😂
I don’t think she lied, it was her approach.
Correct, 50 shades is a (unfunny) comedy.
The "franchise" part about the Joker was the problem. It wasn't meant to be a franchise. It was supposed to be one movie but because the first one was successful they made a second one which made little to no sense.
I remember when Kids came out. I remember all the adults being all shocked, horrified, etc. I remember watching it to see what all the fuss was about. I remember thinking, "If the grownups think this is anything other than a pretty realistic depiction - at least of kids living in a big city - they are more out of touch than I thought."
The denoument of that movie involves the transmission of HIV during a rape. If that was just a regular day in your childhood, then in the words of Will Ferrell as Alex Trebec on SNL celebrity Jeopardy, "You have lived a horrifying life."
@@phimed Maybe my childhood wasn't exactly as the movie shows, but yeah - drug use was stupidly common, people I knew got killed or went to prison, several people experienced various forms of assault, homelessness, abuse, etc. It didn't have to be exactly like the movie for it to be familiar to us. And I'm not trying to say that my life growing up was the stuff of movies. Plenty of my friends had it way worse than I did.
I know boys who did what the character of Casper did in that movie and not a single one of them would have thought of it as r@p3 because we had been conditioned to believe that r@p3 involved much more overt violence. And she didn't fight him so to him, it wasn't r@p3. (No, I'm not defending him. He's obviously a r@p!st. And yes, I realize she didn't fight him because she was mostly passed out, but that she did protest and told him to stop and he ignored her.)
The point of the film is that childhood now isn't like it was when our parents were growing up. Modern kids are much less innocent at a much younger age than their parents and society at large truly realize, but that ultimately, they are still kids. They make stupid choices because they don't have all the information and because they don't have a proper grasp on consequences. The adults around them either aren't paying very close attention to them, or never taught them to think critically, or both, making it much easier to make those stupid choices.
@@carynfisher9463 Total slam dunk, can't think of a better explanation.
@@carynfisher9463yup this is pretty much it.
And for the other comment about HIV being passed on via SA - this isnt uncommon either.
@@phimedthat isnt uncommon. The film is set in the mid 90s during the tail end of the HIV/AIDS crisis. HIV has been passed on millions of times due to unprotected sex, and SA, whether unintentionally or because someone wanted to infect others. If anything, thats a realistic part of the film. Its also still a realistic part of life. SA and unprotected sex can lead to STI's and HIV.
The backlash against Ghost in the Shell still annoys me. Notice it wasn't the Japanese creator or fans starting it? If anyone read the source material they'd get the fact that the whole point of the Major's character was to show the horror of having one's essence transplanted from one body to another. It's body horror without the 'horror'.
The backlash was from the media who aren't bright enough to understand that the Major is using a shell (a cyborg body).
Yet it is a little strange to use a shell manufactured in Japan, for moving around Japan, to look nothing like being from Japan. (All according to source material)
That way the major would stick out like a sore thumb in her daily job … and the original art had Japanese features included in the character (The hair is often color-coded)
But that could have been only a side issue, had the movie been better. Instead the script was also a shell of the original story, which had an overall more decisive main character - Motoko Kusanagi actually grew up with artificial bodies and even chose to serve in Section 9. She never was abducted and forced into her android body.
(Stand Alone Complex showed us that she had a condition in her youth, that afforded her to get a full body prosthesis. She later served in a war against Russia.)
There also was no 'body horror' in either the Manga or the Animated movies, only existential questions.
She just reminisced of how much humanity she had left in her, when even her mind (ghost) might just be a copy of herself.
@@Cau_No The original manga showed people of multiple races even though it took place in Japan. The only clearly Japanese looking characters were the section chief Aramaki and Ishikawa.
And even though she may have volunteered it doesn't take away from the trauma of waking up with a different face. It may not be 'body horror' in the traditional sense but it can be argued that it qualifies.
Imagine waking up tomorrow with a different body. How much of our sense of self is tied to how we look and perceive ourselves. That's the question and the point of the series and why the creator insisted he didn't care.
@nishikaze 1. So Togusa, the guy with the least cybernetic changes wasn't Japanese in your eyes?
Either You hardly understand the drawing style when you just go by appearances, or you never met actual Japanese people. There were a lot more of them in the originals. The great thing about the movie's style was the variations in characters not seen in standard anime TV shows.
2. Young Motoko didn't abruptly change her face. She adapted slowly with succeeding bodies. Watch the show to see about it.
3. I guarantee you there are people who'd jump at the chance to change their body or face. It is also a main theme of cyberpunk. Just because you could not stomach it, that does not mean everyone does. Have you ever seen current body modifications? (And no, I don't like them either.)
At this point you are just making baseless assumptions for your own confirmation. Not sorry for bursting that bubble.
Want GitS-Manga not quite way more light-hearted while existential themes weren't that much in depth?
Didn't read em myself but remember something like that
The biggest backlash for Avatar was it's controversial use of Papyrus in its title font. PAPYRUS!!!
Should have been comic sans
Nah, another mid tier Cameron movie (although it was a quite beautiful movie) that made more money than it should have. That's why most people just roll their eyes when it's mentioned.
The meme of hating on specific fonts is so old. Can anyone actually explain a good reason not to use any font? Why do we have access to dozens of fonts if we're only allowed to use 2 of them? Who made this rule about what font is okay to use for things? I think Impact and Times New Roman are the dumbest ugliest fonts you could use, and those are literally everywhere. So who gets to decide what fonts are okay or not? What font would you guys use for an alien movie, Garamond Bold? Webdings? Courier New? Maybe we should all just use one font for everything like children in school. 12 point Times New Roman, nothing else allowed 😂
I KNOW WHAT YOU DID!
Both of the SNL skits about Avatar's Papyrus are in my top 5 most loved 😂
leslie jones just being herself and then getting called a harmful stereotype. reality's turned into satire more everyday
As a guy on the Spectrum, it's totally okay for neurotypicals to play characters with autism, as long as they and the producers know what they're doing and only for the right reasons. This was NOT the case with Music - clearly nobody did their research.
Yah they did.. All autistic people give themselves a massive overbite and grunt all the time with rolled back eyes.. Geeeeezz what planet are you on!? (This is a joke).
What specifically was the problem with they're portrayal though? Like what did they get wrong or misrepresent?
@@kingofnewyork8092 Autistic people don't act like that. You tell someone to act like they are autistic (low functioning) and they come back with grunting and an overbite. What would you say? I have never seen an autistic person (low function) do that overbite. Some kind of do it, but not like the way that poor girl who didn't even want the part did it.
Given the subject matter, I think someone was always going to complain about it regardless
The role that really made Daniel Day-Lewis a star was as Christy Brown in "My left Foot", playing a writer and artist who had cerebral palsy!
Daniel really studied up on the subject so he could play the part correctly. He helped bring awareness to the public about the disorder.
If Juno got an abortion.. there wouldn't have been a movie.. honestly, how are people so god damn dumb?
American education system.
Sure it could It's just be a short.
There could still be some 400 hours of material of her trying to get health insurance to cover it.
So much for her being a "dude" and chopping off her chesticles 😂
Comedy gold! 🤭
@@RFC3514😂
No one thought Joker would incite violence other than hysterical journalists.
I'm surprised that Showgirls didn't make the list.
Yeah, the star should’ve been Kelly Kapowski, not Jesse 😂
I don't think it face backlash, just lambasted.
@@c0lutchor split lead roles
But she was “SO EXCITED! SO EXCITED! Sooooo Scared…”
Yeah, that movie was horrible.
I liked The Interview. I don't care what Kim Jong Un thinks.
Sweden had a different take on Monty Python's Life of Brian: "So funny it was banned in Norway." 😛
A Møøse once bit my sister...
Wow really!?
Cuties - Outrage, yet Dance Moms played for years. Hm...
@@Rkenton48 the irony, I know.
OG Ghost In The Shell she never looked or acted Asian. She seemed white in the first movie and gets put in the body of a young white girl at the end. Seems on track with the anime. Just because something comes from Asia doesn't mean it has to have Asians in it.
maybe they thought she was japanese because of her name? Motoko Kusanagi?
@eraltokami2753 So American born Japanese with Japanese names aren't Americans? I know I'm splitting hairs.
@pezster8324 Her shell was white, but she was japanese. She had given up her japanese body for a shell to be a better spy/government agent.
While I like Blake Lively, and think her and Ryan Reynold's are such a likable couple. Her complete ambivalence on the press interviews for that movie just prove why she doesn't do many interviews. She came off so clueless and tone deaf it was insane.
She just shows how privilege she is and how naive she is about her surroundings are problematic
She's a hollywood celeb. They don't live in the real world with real people and real problems.
Celebs deals with everything u deal with and then some.
@@joelwillems4081 What does that have to do with anything?
There is no such thing as an ethical billionaire.
I grew up in a small conservative (Christian) town in northern Indiana. My friend and I were very curious what all the controversy was for The Last Temptation of Christ, so we managed to find a theater showing it. We both had the same thought leaving the theater: Christians SHOULD watch this movie! It genuinely reinforces your faith because it was quite literally Satan tempting Jesus on the cross with a better life. But sadly, like today, people are ready to hate without knowing the facts. This taught me an important lesson at a young age to always keep an open mind.
Reinforced self-sacrifice did it?
Exactly, people with shallow beliefs oppose it because they really dont what temptation is!
Typically, any time a story presents itself as historical fact when it's clearly fictional it's going to create backlash. Same thing happened with Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code which also made big claims about Jesus and Mary which have zero historical evidence. Titanic got some criticism about Jack/Rose not being a real thing. Sully was criticized for the portrayal of the NTSB. I think American Sniper was also criticized for some liberties taken. It's always touchy because sometimes the writers want to make changes to make things "more interesting" which inevitably upsets people.
Oh yeah, Christians are all about facts and open mindedness.......right. 🤭
I'm an atheist--reading the Bible did it--but I was appalled by the idiots who brought their little kids to see it. Even I didn't want to see Jesus scourged for 20 minutes.
People who got pissed about Ghost in the Shell have no idea what they're talking about. Her appearance is the "shell". It's a robotic/cyborg body. The "ghost" (brain) inside is Japanese.
The actress playing it, did not have a Japanese brain
So if Watchmojo is so fixated on backlashes about actors of the "wrong" race people being cast, where is Cleopatra?
Maybe it will appear on the list of controversial series
They wont go against the woke narrative and actually be unbiased it shows in what they say about what theyre reviewing. they glossed over ezra miller like ok he was accused of this but moving on.
@@gabe472 And actually called him "they/them". Nope. I can respect the non binary thing for kind souls but he is a complete POS. I will not bow down to anything that bunghole demands.
@@gabe472 The video was already 30 minutes long, they couldn’t put EVERY controversial movie in there.
I don't think that works because she actually did look white. The only issue is her nose length. She looks like an albino Gerudo honestly.
As much as I love it, I'm surprised Team America: World Police wasn't on this list.
Same with Tropic Thunder (again, I loved it)
2 words, glitter vampires. There's no such thing as too much hate for Twilight.
the first one had 0 marketing in my country back in the day , myself and my buddies (we were at the uni at the time) went in in a late time showing prepared to watch graphic vampire violence we were so disappointed we almost walked out! I have not seen any sequel since!
So agree
As someone who likes the movies - for some odd reason + also seeing the problematic gaslighting etc. 😅 I giggled at the “glitter vampires”. Fantastic comment 😂👌
Being sparkly wasn't my problem with them, it was the fact vampires consist of a solid material like statues. I can overlook a transformation that gives someone a sparkly pigmentation, you can explain that off as crystalisation of skin cells or something, but a person turning in to a stone-like material when they become a vampire? That was my WTF moment when watching the movie.
🐀🐀🐀
By my knowledge, the Birth of a Nation was facing severe backlash even in 1915, and was banned in parts of the U.S.
Good old glorification of the South. Woodrow Wilson loved it.
A funny thing is that when we were taught about that film in art class in Sweden nothing was said about its racism, only about its storytelling techniques.
@@Snobiker13boy are y’all f’ed up
@@chistake7585 to this day many do not realize how racist he was
It was literally a blockbuster when it came out, and wasnt banned until MUCH later. It is a horrible movie.
Life of brian bigus dikus will always be funny.
Yes! 😂
But not just biggus dickus - there are loads of hilarious scenes in Life of Brian. IMDB 8.0 - very high rating - deservedly.
Biggus's wife, Incontinencia Buttocks 😂
Where's the fetus gonna gestate? You gonna put it in a box?!
I'm surprised Stanley Kubrick's Lolita didn't made the cut.
Even if extremely toned down from the novel, the movie still maintained the controversial topic active, more so considering that Lolita's actress was 14 at that time and was cast (and I quote) "because she looked older than her age and was intended to be showed as a sex object and not as a perverted girl"
It’s because it didnt have controversy the pedos in Hollywood loved it
or the other controversial 70's movie with Malcolm McDowell in starring role, aka Caligula. That might have them clutching their pearls LOL. Or A Serbian film... or Salo... cult movies that require a strong stomach.
@@m0t0b33 Caligula isn't really a movie, it's more of a softcore porno lol
The word "casted" is an adjective that means having or belonging to a caste. For your sentence the word cast, is the one to use.
@@Thurgosh_OG thanks
What race is Goku supposed to be? He’s not Japanese, he’s a Saiyan.
He’s not even an earthling! He’s a saiyan! Hahaha I agree.
However, they still did a shit job making that movie. It should have never been produced.
Im sorry but committing violent acts because you saw the joker or teens getting pregnant because they saw Juno is bullshit. That just shows they already had violent thoughts and intent and no one paid enough attention to notice as well as a failed mental health system, and failed sex-ed because teenagers didnt do anything to prevent pregnancy (because remember - teeenagers will have sex whether you like it or not. You cant yell or scare the horny out of them, you need to educate them).
I hated Blonde so hard. It was so exploitative and insulting to Marilyn’s memory. I know it’s “fictional”, but it depicted real people. An imaginary throuple and a sexual assault by a US President is taking it way too far.
Wasn't Marilyn Monroe kinda a prostitute? Yeah I don't glorify her
I hated the film myself, too much of it was pure fiction and it was more of an up its own ass art house movie than anything. I oddly laughed at the JFK scene because the actor look nothing like him plus how the act is shot suggested he had a small pecker.
That said I would really like a proper movie of her life both the ups and downs. It seems most movies just show as sad, abused and sometimes crazy.
it was a great movie
The backlash against Cuties wasn't just about the poster. It was the fact that the film was guilty of the very thing it was claiming to be critical of; they exploited actual minors to make their point. Plus the "audition" process was really gross.
They did not exploit minors at all. Stop putting words in the actors' mouths. Also, the film was supervised and approved by France's Child Protection Services and child psychologists were on set.
It sounds like you didn't actually see the film yourself.
@@michaelsangster2354 Yeah, it is clear they didn't.
bruh the “audience” needs to grow a damn spine.. offended by everything fr
"Life of Brian" is an absolute comedic gem! Comedy is subjective, and so is life. People need to lighten up and laugh...Im sick and tired of people i dont know, telling me what i should say or think. Get over yourselves!
I’m old and conservative and I loved LOB.
I liked in Ghostbusters when Hemsworth controlled 100 peoples bodies and made them do a choreographic dance. Seemed vital to the story.
This movie has grown on me, but I don't like that, unlike all the rest of the movies, I wouldn't let anyone under 12 watch it.
I thought Juno’s brief but effective depiction of the character considering (and deciding against..) abortion was handled in a straightforward and tactful manner that didn’t dive too far into the subject’s intricacies.
Nymphomaniac was graphic but necessary. Unlike THAT scene in Irreversible.
Agreed.
I'm not shocked easily but those 2 scenes in irreversible were horrid.
Yeah, claiming Cuties is against the sexualization of children comes off as honest as claiming that the message of Saw is that torture is bad.
Like, did we really need a close-up of a girl twerking in her underwear?
An artist's job is to hold up the mirror. The idea was to shock people into taking the problem seriously. Sadly, nothing has changed.
I don't think you actually watched the movie.
Why am I not surprised that foreigners are more upset about Ghost in the Cell than Japanese. Like I saw an video with an white dude wearing an stereotypical Mexican outfit and asking Americans if they were offended and all of them said yes. Then he went to Mexico and asked the same thing and they didn’t care at all and found it funny 😂
Particularly, as in the anime and manga, Major chose a Caucasian style avatar for herself, as part of her cyborg procedure to differ from her former Japanese look.
@@Thurgosh_OG She's definitely, 100% not Japanese (her shell). And the only people really upset were the media that couldn't understand the concept of Shells and ghosts.
Blonde. Disrespecting Marilyn Monroe through graphic imagery and falsehoods by the author of the book and the director. Also, Back to Black. Similar to Blonde, albeit making Amy Winehouse more of a caricature than a real person.
Back to Black was an insult to Amy's legacy and an affront to her fans simply by virtue of having someone else who couldn't sing, sing her songs.
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@@BlackHatCinephile still wrong
It's not just that the character was a cyborg, but what really shocked me about the people who didn't like Scarlett Johanssen in Ghost in the Machine was the apparent racism of those (mostly) American critics. You go and read their comments and pretty much all the alternate actresses they suggested were Chinese, Korean or Malaysian as if all Asians are the same.
Life of Brian being on here is absolutely ridiculous. Its so funny. No topic is ever safe from mocking. So get used to it.
Life of Brian was a classic!
‘I’m NOT the messiah!’
‘Only the messiah would say that!’
‘Okay, then I am the messiah?’
‘The messiah!!!’
The biggest complaint about Avatar was the casting of Jake Sully, a human, to play the role of a Na’vi. Despite the film receiving critical acclaim on the planet Pandora.
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The Passion of the Christ depicted the subject matter quite well. I can't imagine depicting the Crucifixion of Christ in any way other than brutal. The brutality was in proportion to the weight of man's sin. Gibson did a masterful job.
Amen!
Absolutely!
I agree, and there was nothing antisemitic about it. I have Jewish friends and it didn't bother them. Gibson gave us a beautiful film unlike that blasphemous Scorsese film.
I think it may be one of the worst movies I've ever seen, but to each their own. No backlash, I just think it sucked and just used shock value to get to people's emotions. I was hoping for a more thoughtful story that actually focused on Jesus's teachings, in part because I feel like there's a large sect of modern Christians that have almost completely separated themselves entirely from the content of Jesus's message.
But again, all just my opinion.
@@drewc771 The title directly refers to The Passion of Christ...capitalized it means the sufferings of Christ between the night of the Last Supper and his death. If it were about his teachings it would have been titled something else.
The Mother, is one of the most stress inducing movies I have seen, but it is so underrated. It is an excellent allegory about our planet, people who take it for granted and God figure, that restarts everything, hoping next time strangers (people) will become aware of what they are doing and how negative it affects THE MOTHER and house (our planet). One of the strongest films I have seen
I liked Mother, OK?
Yes. I thought it was excellent. Having just gone through birth as$ault prior to watching it, the allegories hit hard. It’s unfortunate though that the main actress was reportedly mentally tortured by the director to get her into form for the film
I had it tied with The Big Short for film of the decade.
20:50 The problem with "Cuties" is it supposed to be a criticism of society for sexually exploiting young girls, but they did that by sexually exploiting young girls. It literally was the thing it was supposed to be criticizing.
So you suggest they criticize something by never showing or mentioning it? Maybe films about the holocaust shouldn't include any nazis or concentration camps?
It was a typical case of Americans _pre-acting_ to a poster for a film they never saw. It's fine to have heads blow up, but show a kid in a leotard (even if the whole message of the movie is to _criticize_ that), and it must be censored.
@@RFC3514 No, to use your example, it would be like putting a bunch of people in a concentration camp, and then filming them as they starve to show how bad the holocaust is.
Also, I never said it should be censored. I just pointed out it was the thing it was supposedly criticizing. The point wasn't concerning censorship, but hypocrisy.
@@EcnalKcin - I'm pretty sure the kids in the movie were perfectly safe, same as any actors who _pretend_ to be starving in war movies.
What exactly was your problem with the film, and how would you propose telling the same story and getting the same message across without showing any of the things it was criticising?
@@RFC3514 You are missing the point, probably willfully so. The example you gave was flawed, because you equated people pretending to do something with Cuties, but Cuties actually did exploit the girls in a sexual manner to make and publicize the film. Meaning they actually did the thing, not just _pretended_ to do the thing.
Do you get it now?
@@EcnalKcin - No, at most _Netflix_ did that, to make people notice the film and generate more media coverage. Something that lots of films, TV shows and books do. They're not even "exploiting" the actors, they're exploiting the viewers' imagination (and subsequent hypocrisy).
And anyway, that's like saying that Agatha Christie "exploited people's death" and suggesting that she "condoned murder" because she _wrote about it._
Again: what exactly was your problem with the film, and how would you propose telling the same story and getting the same message across without showing any of the things it was criticising?
You can't judge an old movie by today's standards.. Not just that, but ones like a Clockwork Orange were thought-provoking! Unlike most of today's movies. It was meant to touch a nerve, so to speak.. Same for a life of Brian.
Mother is a fantastic film that deserves a couple watches.
If it was made in France and subtitled it would be considered an absolute masterpiece.
The "casting all white people as lead roles" caught me off guard not going to lie. lol
right? i wonder if they'd dare use it for all the race swapping in the other direction...
Yup, they should change their name to woke mojo
For real! y’all are so oppressed on Planet Earth. Hope the aliens recognize this injustice and come save y’all
@grkdude405 Aww, you mad whenever people talk about white people being cast in Asian roles? Cope. 😂😂
@qadashchaayah144 No, I'm just mad because their saying all movies casted with white people as the lead roles are bad. It's like their saying that white people should be in the background of EVERY movie. Everytime they mentioned a movie, the first thing they said was that it was bad because the lead roles were white. I get why people are mad about white washing, but their calling movies that were supposed to have white lead actors bad too. It's like saying the entirety of the white race can't act.
Nyphomaniac I and II Director's Cut was on Netflix with regular movies back in 2013 😂😂😂 I watched both back to back. I didn't know what I was in for. The second part is crazier.
They were on Disney + earlier this year, with the kids movies.
He makes super unsettling movies. Have you seen Meloncholia? A depressed chick blissfully watches the world collide with another planet killing everyone. It's... Unsettling.
@@amandabeaty1492I don’t think it was meant to be interpreted as her “blissfully” waiting for the end of the world. She was severely depressed so I doubt she would suddenly be feeling bliss. Her feelings and reactions were likely muted by the depression. With her deep depression she already expects bad things to happen. The way each character dealt with life determined how they dealt with impending disaster.
Regardless, his films are definitely unsettling. The feelings of existential dread throughout melancholia and how each character deals with their impending doom was frightening. Thinking about death is something most people can relate to.
@amandabeaty1492 I heard about it, nah I'm not watching it. I saw The House That Jack Built, too much evil.
@@NurseKayP Maybe blissfully is the wrong word but when some chronically depressed people die by suicide, they're kind of euphoric for a few days before and it almost is like their mood has shifted because they've made the decision and they can finally see an end to the depression. I kind of thought it was the same with this movie. It's been a long time since I've seen the movie but from what I recall she was she was the only one not freaking out not because of her depression but because she got to that stage where she knew her pain was finally going to end. There was an end in sight. That's the way I took it. Def not a feel good movie.
The Twilight Saga could've been done better but I still love the series.
it's because they kept changing directors...
Kim jong un getting blown up with Katy Perry playing in the background is FIRE !!!!!!
You're seriously claiming people didn't like Cuties because of the poster?
Not the sexual actions of children?
Well they banned it based on the poster before it was released, so, yes.
Interestingly, Avatar has ZERO cultural imprint. It was a fun remake of "Pocahontas," but no one wanted to be a Navi, not even for Halloween. I am pretty sure the merch (was there any?) did not move and no one cared about it after watching.
I actually saw a few Na'vi cosplayers at conventions. But those were deep fans.
Not at Halloween though, which isn't even a big thing where I live.
The main impact the movie had was a bunch of made for 3D movies along with more cheap uprendered fake-3D ones.
And Avatar wasn't even using the tech to its best effects - there are only a handful of movies, which I'd recommend for a watch in 3D.
I was hoping to see The Dictator, Borat, Bruno or any of the Sacha Baron Cohen films. Dude's hilariously offensive.
Ali G In Da House is the best, though.
I just think people should grow up. People watch things just to be offended
This
Problem with not trying to offend anyone is that different people are offended by different things and you'll always manage to offend someone no matter what. Avoiding all offence is a zero sum game. You may as well try to be bold and create something great, even if that might offend someone.
"This movie's biggest crime is that it's just terrible." That line, describing why "Avatar: The Last Airbender" is on the list, is one of the best ever on a Watch Mojo video. I saw the beginning of this movie on a plane, and turned it off mid-flight because it was that terrible. The droning of the airplane engine for the next 4-5 hours was much preferable to finishing the movie.
Avatar is just Fern gully
And "The Jesus Incident" and "The Word for World is Forest".
Some even compare it to Pocahontas
that might be true, but you have to admit, the faries in Fern Gully didn't look even HALF as sexy as the big blue tree aliens..
I always thought it was a sci-fi Dances With Wolves
@@tesslucetram7231 Having NEVER seen that movie, I will simply take your word for it hon..
The media crucified the 'Passion of the Christ'
Lol
The Hobbit only needed to be one film
Lord of the Rings could've been a single film too. Peter Jackson got so successful with the first movie that he seemed to stop having studio control of what he was producing and so it ends up being incredibly bloated with huge pacing issues and the final movie's timing makes it genuinely seem (at least in the theatrical release) to end at least eight times. I literally remember sitting with a friend and both of us half-standing that many times because the course of the end of that movie seemed like there were eight endings packed on, having been edited out previously and then added back on so it the movies overall structure kept signaling it was over.
@nochannel1q2321 Lord of the rings wasv1 movie , the twin towers was one movie and return of the king was 1 movie , each film was based on 1 book in the trilogy of books that tolken wrote
@@stephenmills5133 That's definitely something a fan or the author would say. But it's not. It's a very, very long, tedious movie.
@nochannel1q2321 fellowship is 1 movie ( 3 hours 35mins ) twin towers 1 movie ( 3 hours 25 mins ) return of the king 1 movie ( 3 hours 45 mins ) longer if you watch the extended editions ( which I do ) but each book is a single film
The Hobbit should never have been made, they should have just done a re-release of the animated one from the 1970's.
One Movie Missing from this List is THE DA VINCI CODE
Oh come on now. Life of Brian is fantastic! And so is Clockwork Orange! And The English Patient is so heartrending it kills you.
What gets tiring is when people are upset about a movie because of something OUTSIDE the movie. These days PCrrorism is more important than to judge a work of art on its own merits. Not to mention, the purpose of acting is to portray a character that is NOT the actor. Otherwise nobody would be allowed to act who is NOT the actual character being portrayed.
I just watched Kids for the first time. I honestly don’t know what viewers are supposed to learn from that.
That you shouldn't engage in activities that result in you becoming intoxicated and incompasitated.
That being an unsupervised teen in 90s New York was the best 😅
@ You think rape is funny?
That kids grow up quicker than you think, that they do whatever you tell them not to, that they want to be adults, it's not a hard movie to read.
@@totallybored5526 Wow, miss the point much?
Most of these movies weren’t THAT problematic, were they? Just asking.
nope. most ok, some were Bad means boring, medicopre played by some of the Cast, etc, so how to pep it up so ppl watch it:=) Drama!
The problem with Ghost in the Shell wasn't the casting of Scarlett Johansson. The actual problem was it took a story with many thought provoking themes, threw those all out of the window and instead turned it in just another generic, dumb Hollywood action flick.
Right? What a waste of opportunity. The soul of the original movie was completely lost. Johanssen was actually a good casting choice that fit the character well, but the movie completely lost what made the original one so good.
One of the main problems with this movie was indeed the casting. There was already push back coming from groups being either ignored or poorly represented. Unfortunately, this movie, which ended up being garbage, was released, and fueled the anger. Folks were saying they had enough.
Then, as what I felt was retaliation, movie makers really started casting minority actors to play white characters. It was hilarious and brilliant, and of course white folks got mad, as usual. Don't be confused, the casting was 100% the problem
00:43 They Were Arrested ? How many of them exactly ? Dealing with mental health issues ? IM SHOCKED
Glad you put LToC and Kids on this list... a few others would be The Exorcist, I Spit on Your Grave, Requiem For a Dream, and Cannibal Holocaust.
I just wanted to say that the people who started the theater on fire are not Christians. They may claim to be but that’s against like everything Jesus taught. Also people seem to forget how violent the Bible is. There was all sorts of violence happening and to depict something as accurate as possible you need to include it
Christian fundamentalists that's the key word
Sadly, a lot of people, even in modern times, have called themselves Christians and committed horrible violence. Look at the Florida abortion doctor killings.
A majority of Christians do many, many things that are against what Jesus taught. Just look at the gruesome history of Christianity.
They are all still Christians.
It's just annoying how, instead of acknowledging the harm done, Christians just point at each other and claim the other Christians aren't Christian.
Not WM saying that the “passion of the Christ” was relentlessly CRUCIFIED by the media 😂
It's a lie . it wasn't.
Not a W making false and generalized statements about men 😂
It Ends with Us shouldn’t be on the list because the backlash had to do with the promotion of the film and not the film itself.
I honestly don’t get the idea of “white washing” anime. They’ve already done it themselves. Rarely do I see anime characters that actually look Asian and when they do, they are almost never the lead.
The gang in Clockwork Orange were supposed to be teenagers? You called out other films - those "teenagers" actors were in their 30's
Compared to your typical American high school movie where everyone looks 25 the teenagers in A Clockwork Orange could definitely pass as teenagers.
I'm sorry but that thumbnail is wild fam 😂
Correct.
What movie is that?
@@professorxaviour3649 Nymphomaniac. I think it's number two on the list.
No one ever cared what critics think because we know the official critics are bought and paid for.
A Clockwork Orange is amazing both book and movie.
Life of Brian is flipping hilarious!
Well, we now know that Blake Lively was told by the studio to promote It Ends With Us as cheery and happy. So it's not her fault.
Genuinely pissed off they turned a Colleen Hoover book into a movie. Her books are so problematic and harmful.
I agree. I read her book Verity and left feeling infuriated that it ended the way it did. I refuse to read her books after that
I must admit, the twilight movies are my guilty pleasure at times.
It feeds into some pretty negative messages. Turning a murderous undead guy into a hunky love story that young girls swoon over is pretty cringe.
@Heathcoatman not just that. But it romantizes rushing headlong into relationships even when they are toxic. Bella and Edward barely know each other and are ready to off themselves the second they can't be around one another. Bella was willing to sacrifice her entire life for someone she barely knew. Its really offputting if you really think about what happens in that series.
American History X and The Sound of Freedom are two movies kissed but awesome
What exactly was the controversy about the film "Crash"? This little detail was never expressed. Crash deserved every nomination it got.
I haven't seen it but I do remember that it attracted a lot of controversy due to the subject matter, people who seek sexual thrills during car crashes. Likely people thought it would inspire folks to crash cars.
@@krashd Wrong movie... Same title.
@@lodrbyroni I was thinking the same thing... didn't even see the one they showed here, but I did see the controversial one with Elias Koteas and Rosanna Arquette in it.
There's been a weird uptick in people commenting that the subject matter of Crash is "dated," when. Like. *looks around* Is it though?
@@nixeleth Well, I mean it's from twenty years ago so in a sense it has to be dated to some degree.
As a Catholic, I find not only Life of Brian, but the butthurtery over it to be hilarious.
I get the engagement point of the thumbnail, but I hate it just the same
Which movie in the list was it from?
@@thomasrpokorny I don’t know, but I would guess Nymphomaniac.
@@martinedwards2004 Yeah, I just found that thumbnail where she's somehow tied to the couch associated with that movie.
You know the Major in Ghost in the Shell is supposed to be white right? The creator even said he made her without a race in mind but definitely not Asian. And it is fine if a white actress plays her. Plus you know it's a android! They don't have a freaking race!!!
Mother! is my favorite movie that I'll likely never watch again. And I'm not just talking about That Scene. I've never related to the anxiety of a character so much. As an introvert, I clocked Mother! as a horror story early on, I've never been so anxious watching a movie.
"Avatat: The Last Airbender" did NOT deserve to be done dirty by Hollywood by being adapted into a live-action feature
Something I find funny about it is my mom loves it. She watched it in a drive in and knew 0 about the source material.
@@jasonwethy8360I do love it too. It's just I recieve death threats and I even get harassed. Funny enough is that all Avatar fans give these harassment claims and death threats directed at me a go.
I watched Kids for the first time about 12 years ago. Yes, the movie has a lot of controversial and graphic scenes/ topics, but I feel like it showed how some kids really live life away from adults and how seriously shit can escalate. Honestly I feel teenagers should watch it to see how serious issues like that can become very real very quickly.
Vampires don't sparkle in the sun!
While I did like the books at first
I didn't understand this
How does sparkling in the sun make them a better hunter
Too much glitter could blind you😂
Thank Goodness Ghostbusters: Afterlife And Frozen Empire Came Out And Saved The Franchise 👍
Ghostbusters never should have been a franchise to begin with.
How come? They are all terrible.
Goku technically isn’t Asian. He’s not even human. So no one can argue that he should’ve been played by an Asian. And all the locations on earth are fictional so not necessarily in Asia. So all the complaints about white washing here is stupid. The issue with dragon ball evolution was that it just plain sucked.
It still sucks
@kenshin1644
Mohandas K Gandhi: It's a clever argument, I'm not sure it will produce the end you desire.
Seriously?
I agree. It's not the casting. It's the story.
There was no Joker in the Joker.
Avatar was just Dances with Wolves in space.