View Full Version : The 50 most controversial movies ever.Warning: What follows is explicit. These movies
It’s time to get delightfully offended with these all-time shockers.
http://newyork.timeout.com/arts-culture/film/725761/the-50-most-controversial-movies-ever
Note: By David Fear, Joshua Rothkopf and Keith Uhlich
Takeda Shingen
02-06-11, 08:55 PM
From this list I have seen in entirety:
Titticut Follies (always sounded like a smut film)
Basic Instinct
The Man with the Golden Arm
The Last House on the Left
The Texas Chainsaw Massacare
Song of the South
Dirty Harry
Scarface
Midnight Cowboy
The Silence of the Lambs
Do the Right Thing
The Passion of the Christ
Crash
The Exorcist
Life of Brian
Freaks (saw it in a Paris hotel room of all places)
A Clockwork Orange
The Birth of a Nation
Triumph of the Will
The Last Temptation of Christ
From this list I have seen in entirety:
Titticut Follies (always sounded like a smut film)
Basic Instinct
The Man with the Golden Arm
The Last House on the Left
The Texas Chainsaw Massacare
Song of the South
Dirty Harry
Scarface
Midnight Cowboy
The Silence of the Lambs
Do the Right Thing
The Passion of the Christ
Crash
The Exorcist
Life of Brian
Freaks (saw it in a Paris hotel room of all places)
A Clockwork Orange
The Birth of a Nation
Triumph of the Will
The Last Temptation of Christ So Freaks for you, have very special feelings, one might say...
Takeda Shingen
02-06-11, 09:04 PM
So Freaks for you, have very special feelings, one might say...
Well, more of a connection with a place and time. It was July of 1999, and I had been out all day sightseeing on foot. I was hot and tired when I returned and l finally laid down and turned on the TV. My reaction was 'what the hell is this?'
Sailor Steve
02-06-11, 09:06 PM
I'm amazed at how tame some of those are today. I don't think Midnight Cowboy would get worse than a PG-13 if released today. Of course I might be forgetting parts, as I only saw it once when it was released.
A list? I never thought of that. Okay.
The Wild Bunch
Basic Instinct
Resevoir Dogs
The Song Of The South
Dirty Harry
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
Scarface (yes, the original, and yes, it's better)
Midnight Cowboy
I Am Curious (Yellow) (and the Blue version)
The Outlaw
The Silence of the Lambs
The Exorcist
Life of Brian
Straw Dogs
Bonnie and Clyde
Last Tango in Paris
A Clockwork Orange
The Birth of a Nation
I'm actually surprised at the number of them that I haven't seen.
Well, more of a connection with a place and time. It was July of 1999, and I had been out all day sightseeing on foot. I was hot and tired when I returned and l finally laid down and turned on the TV. My reaction was 'what the hell is this?' And then,you pull up your whiskey, and then the film was a distant memory.
TLAM Strike
02-06-11, 09:13 PM
Ones I've seen
Dirty Harry
The Silence of the Lambs
The Life of Brian
The Exorcist (got bored, didn't watch it all)
A Clockwork Orange (Same as above)
Geno_Mariner
02-06-11, 11:03 PM
I've only seen Life of Brian from that list. I don't really watch a great deal of movies.
There is a lot missing, for example Death Wish - Charles Bronson.:yep:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071402/
bookworm_020
02-07-11, 03:15 AM
Here is a list of the ones I've seen, having an ex-wife who loved horror films bumped up the total
A Clockwork Orange
The Exorcist
BASIC INSTINCT
UNITED 93
THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT (remake)
DIRTY HARRY
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST
As well as bits and pieces of several other films
:hmmm:
Basic Instinct
Reservoir Dogs
Cannibal Holocaust
Faces of Death
The Silence of the Lambs
Kids
The Exorcist
Life of Brian
A Clockwork Orange
Dirty Harry
papa_smurf
02-07-11, 07:00 AM
Ones I've watched:
Dirty Harry
Life of Brian
Passion of Christ
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
There is a lot missing, for example Death Wish - Charles Bronson.:yep:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071402/ YES, YES you are right, the other is missing, so the list can get rather long if you want to expand it, so it may be your homework Reece :yeah:
Jimbuna
02-07-11, 11:02 AM
I agree with Steve regarding how tame some of them are by todays standards so I'll simply add one quickie....Rambo IV.
I agree with Steve regarding how tame some of them are by todays standards so I'll simply add one quickie....Rambo IV. What a sh!t movie, :yawn:
the_tyrant
02-07-11, 12:22 PM
I have seen exactly 0:wah:
Sailor Steve
02-07-11, 12:34 PM
Did Death Wish and Rambo IV generate a lot of controversy?
Rambo IV was a sleeping pill, and Death Wish in his time a good movie both had opponents in various groups ranging from defense of legal rights and political moves of those who did not come home from Vietnam.
Ones I've watched:
RESERVOIR DOGS
THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (1974)
DIRTY HARRY
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
PEEPING TOM
THE EXORCIST
LIFE OF BRIAN
BONNIE AND CLYDE
LAST TANGO IN PARIS
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
What I saw from the list:
THE WILD BUNCH
THE DEVILS
BASIC INSTINCT
HAIL MARY
RESERVOIR DOGS
THE MOON IS BLUE
KEN PARK
DIRTY HARRY
DEEP THROAT
SCARFACE
MIDNIGHT COWBOY
HENRY & JUNE
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST
“UN CHIEN ANDALOU” (1929)/L’AGE D’OR
CRASH
THE EXORCIST
LIFE OF BRIAN
IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES
BONNIE AND CLYDE
LAST TANGO IN PARIS
FREAKS
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
SALÒ, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM
TRIUMPH OF THE WILL
THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST
Like sailor steve, several films were controversail at the time and some of them still are. But then, there is also the personal taste or endurance. I do not like horror/gruge or what ever films. I know and saw a few scenes of canibal holocoust but I refuse to see it as other films of that kind. Salo, I saw once and possibly never again. I didn't went to see the brown bunny beacuse several indie films for me doesn't have any appeal.
Why the first movie is the last temptation? For me it isn't controversial. Where is the antichrist? Or the scenes there are not controversial now?
It is rare when these kinds of questions and lists of movies coming up, it made films that would be involved, to be reasonably complete.
Penguin
02-07-11, 05:04 PM
Interesting list, especially in the relation of the time the movies were made.
I've seen:
THE WILD BUNCH
BASIC INSTINCT
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM
THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT
THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE
DIRTY HARRY
CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST
THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE
DEEP THROAT :smug:
FACES OF DEATH
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
KIDS
THE EXORCIST
LIFE OF BRIAN
BONNIE AND CLYDE
LAST TANGO IN PARIS
FREAKS
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
120 DAYS OF SODOM
TRIUMPH OF THE WILL
(Reservoir Dogs still lying around here since some time - I feel a little ashamed for not having it seen yet...)
And shame on you guys that nobody has seen "The Testament of Dr. Mabuse"! :nope:
A brilliant movie! Even if you don't put it into the context of the rise of fascism it is still a great story.
Interesting list, especially in the relation of the time the movies were made.
I've seen:
THE WILD BUNCH
BASIC INSTINCT
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM
THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT
THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE
DIRTY HARRY
CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST
THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE
DEEP THROAT :smug:
FACES OF DEATH
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
KIDS
THE EXORCIST
LIFE OF BRIAN
BONNIE AND CLYDE
LAST TANGO IN PARIS
FREAKS
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
120 DAYS OF SODOM
TRIUMPH OF THE WILL
(Reservoir Dogs still lying around here since some time - I feel a little ashamed for not having it seen yet...)
And shame on you guys that nobody has seen "The Testament of Dr. Mabuse"! :nope:
A brilliant movie! Even if you don't put it into the context of the rise of fascism it is still a great story. And not...SCARFACE...yet
Penguin
02-07-11, 05:42 PM
not the original, "only" the version with Al Pacino (great film) - didn't know that this was a remake - but making one is ok after 50 years.
not the original, "only" the version with Al Pacino (great film) - didn't know that this was a remake - but making one is ok after 50 years. Quite right, :yep:
Sailor Steve
02-07-11, 06:51 PM
I have to disagree. I thought the remake was awful. But of course that's just me.
Jimbuna
02-07-11, 07:19 PM
Rambo IV showed more blood and guts than the majority of those on the original list IMHO :yep:
Rambo IV showed more blood and guts than the majority of those on the original list IMHO :yep: "Guts" everything is relative from the viewer's eye,:cool:
Takeda Shingen
02-08-11, 09:31 AM
I think that The Last House on the Left still shocks and nauseates just as well as it did in 1972.
Penguin
02-08-11, 09:46 AM
I have to disagree. I thought the remake was awful. But of course that's just me.
Well, I love the early 80s Florida scenario, but I was a big Miami Vice fan, that's why I'm quite prejudiced... But I'll watch the original, as I also was a fan of the Untouchables :cool:
"Guts" everything is relative from the viewer's eye,:cool:
Yes, that's why Bonnie and Clyde was so shocking at its' time, today it is maybe the Zeitgeist to make shootouts more realisticly.
I think that The Last House on the Left still shocks and nauseates just as well as it did in 1972.
Well, 120 Days of Sodom still shocked folks after 200 years ;)
Well, I love the early 80s Florida scenario, but I was a big Miami Vice fan, that's why I'm quite prejudiced... But I'll watch the original, as I also was a fan of the Untouchables :cool:
Yes, that's why Bonnie and Clyde was so shocking at its' time, today it is maybe the Zeitgeist to make shootouts more realisticly.
Well, 120 Days of Sodom still shocked folks after 200 years ;) "Untouchables" I love that film,very good :DL
Penguin
02-08-11, 11:02 AM
"Untouchables" I love that film,very good :DL
Yes, indeed, good movie. However I meant the TV series from the 50's. I loved it, one of the reasons it was so great, is maybe the fact that it was made relative shortly after the real events happened (20 years).
For example, I saw 5 minutes of a movie about the Hindenburg 2 days ago - that was enough! The costumes were great, the decoration was good, but the actors talked and acted like today, they didn't behave like someone in 1937 would - that alone made the movie bad. Ok, the story line was also laughable, trying to make a mixture between the Titanic and Pearl Harbor movies is always a bad idea... :damn:
Sailor Steve
02-08-11, 11:03 AM
...that's why I'm quite prejudiced...
As am I. That's why we have opinions and taste.
"One man's meat is another man's poison."
-Old saying
"One man's theology is another man's belly laugh."
-Robert A. Heinlein
"One man's great film is another man's worst ever."
-Me, just now
And speaking of which, I also hated Untouchables. It was a good movie, but I'm a fan of the true story, and they made a hash of that.
Penguin
02-08-11, 11:20 AM
As am I. That's why we have opinions and taste.
noooooooooooooooo, I have taste, y'all are tasteless!
"Le guy who is right c'est Penguin" :|\\
Louis XIV of France
Did you also not like the series? :cry: I watched it when I was younger, so I can't tell you how much it followed the real eventsand how much was fiction.
TLAM Strike
02-08-11, 01:54 PM
Did Rambo IV generate a lot of controversy?
Maybe there was some because the movie's hero was someone who previously aided Al Qaeda terrorists...
:O:
Maybe there was some because the movie's hero was someone who previously aided Al Qaeda terrorists...
:O: :haha:
I think that The Last House on the Left still shocks and nauseates just as well as it did in 1972.I got about a third the way in and turned it off!
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Judge-Clark-Brown.jpg
Disgusting!!
Sailor Steve
02-08-11, 09:59 PM
Did you also not like the series? :cry: I watched it when I was younger, so I can't tell you how much it followed the real eventsand how much was fiction.
I was too young to know better. I hadn't read Ness's book yet. After the movie there was a new series. The pilot was very accurate. The show itself? Not so much.
Armistead
02-09-11, 02:30 AM
What a sh!t movie, :yawn:
How dare compare Rambo with chit....at least chit has a purpose.
bookworm_020
02-09-11, 02:56 AM
I think that The Last House on the Left still shocks and nauseates just as well as it did in 1972.
The remake had me leaving the room. My Ex-wife watched it till the end.... Maybe she was looking for ideas?:hmmm:
How dare compare Rambo with chit....at least chit has a purpose. Now it was about Rambo IV, and not number one to take one example, but some sh!t have a purpose, it also "
Yes, indeed, good movie. However I meant the TV series from the 50's. I loved it, one of the reasons it was so great, is maybe the fact that it was made relative shortly after the real events happened (20 years).
For example, I saw 5 minutes of a movie about the Hindenburg 2 days ago - that was enough! The costumes were great, the decoration was good, but the actors talked and acted like today, they didn't behave like someone in 1937 would - that alone made the movie bad. Ok, the story line was also laughable, trying to make a mixture between the Titanic and Pearl Harbor movies is always a bad idea... :damn: OK! I understand you meant the series, I did not think about it, was obsessed with film, :DL
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