Solid Snake

really? I could have sworn I saw a cigarette or cigar? Also...not exactly what I meant. I meant in the period drama sense.

Ash Ketchum

CAPTAIN AMERICA's a period film--set in World War II, when everybody smoked.

Was there a lot of smoking in INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS? I don't remember.

I've been watching a lot of black-and-white films for the Criterion Challenge on DVD Talk (see link below) and everybody smokes like chimneys in those films, whether American, English, French or Japanese.

Solid Snake

Yes, Inglourious Basterds had smoking. Even a pipe! So weird to see, in a good way.

Mondo Kane

One of the entries on my list, Maysles' Salesman, had a ton of smoking....And that was a friggin' documentary!!!

Groucho

For every "anti-Christian movie" you name that that's been made in the last 11 years, I'll name two pro-Christian movies.

Mabuse

I'll name a pro-christian movie:

Howie2000

100% of people use the restroom every day but you don't see 100% of the castemembers use the restroom in a movie because in a 90-120 movie somtimes you have to take liberities to remove or condense every day activity to get to the meat of a story.

PopcornTreeCt

You do in Kubrick's movies.

Ash Ketchum

Famous scenes in movies of people using the restroom:

Groucho Marx in DUCK SOUP (1933) - "Let me out, let me out! Or throw me a magazine."

Edmond O'Brien in WHITE HEAT (1949)

Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins in PSYCHO (1960) - may have been the first time a toilet was shown onscreen in a mainstream Hollywood movie.

Charles Bronson in THE DIRTY DOZEN (1967) - "I slipped on a bar of soap."

Eli Wallach in THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY (1967) - "When ya have ta shoot, shoot, don't talk!"

Solid Snake

...well in TGTBTU he was taking a bath.

Ash Ketchum

Well, he does pee out of an open box car on the train, too. "I like big fat men like you. When they fall they make more noise."

Solid Snake

that he did.

Funny..yesterday I saw Poltergeist, it is a creepy movie indeed. BUT one thing that stood out to me was this: I don't think we'd have a kid being sent away in a cab (w/ his dog) without some parent. Especially in a more serious tone given like that film.

Matthew Chmiel

... and very misogynic.

The book sucks compared to the Irwin Allen spectacle. One of the rare cases where the film is exceedingly better than the novel.

sherm42

Saw The Goonies today. It is hard to believe you would see a movie like that today with a comic "monster" (Sloth) who is deformed because his mother continuously dropped him and tortured him as a child. The Sloth character is so off the wall, the filmmakers must have smoking something.

Rockmjd23

I think a lot of Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom wouldn't fly today.

JumpCutz

Yes. The Goonies could NEVER be made today. That movie was probably the most shocking and incendiary piece of subversive cinema from the 80's. Donner was pretty much blacklisted after this blistering piece of cinematic anarchy.

Shazam

Stick it in a fridge and it'll fly.

Nick Danger

I read the book then I was about 12. All I remember of it was that at the end, after our characters had struggled and fought their way to the propeller of the ship and gotten rescued, they saw most of the the rest of the passengers were also being rescued after taking the easy way out. I thought that was a total ripoff.

Ash Ketchum

What would have been the "easy way out"? Swimming out from the top (now bottom) of the ship? Wouldn't they have drowned trying to swim their way out and up the outside of the ship without breathing apparatus?

clckworang

I watched The Forbidden Zone with some friends recently, and we were all pretty shocked at the use of black face in the movie. That would be difficult to do now.

cungar

Many scenes in:

Kentucky Fried Movie
The Groove Tube
Tunnel Vision

wouldn't make it today. Catholic High School Girls in Trouble would never make it into an R rated movie these days.

L. Ron zyzzle

I heard that Lucas was considering digitally making both Leia and R2 smoke a bunch in Empire.

Also, Goodbye, Uncle Tom probably couldn't get made today.

LiquidSky

The scene with Donald Sutherland and a young Jackie Earle Haley.

mickey65

This one is pretty old, but I was still a bit shocked when I watched it recently and saw all the Southern racist attitudes in it:

Shirley Temple - "The Little Colonel"

whoopdido

The crows in Dumbo probably wouldn't be allowed.

Pretty ridiculous though. It's obvious that the crows were meant to be black people. Dumbo was such a gentle soul that he didn't give a rat's ass what people (animals) looked like or talked like...he just wanted friends. The crows and Dumbo became great friends and it was the crows that basically turned Dumbo's whole life around. I'm sure people nowadays would consider the ways the crows talked and acted to be racist, but it was a way to show that people of all walks of life can be friends if just given a chance.