Crocker Jarmen

The Queer films tend to have better sex scenes than the Christian movies, giving them a slight edge.

Defiant1

Most of the mid-budget hit dramas and thrillers popular in the 80s and 90s wouldn't be made today.

aintnosin

A Christian movie with a good sex scene. That I'd pay to see.

johnnysd

A pretty literal Old Testament movie could easily be NC-17. Easily.

Love how religious people just have a blind spot to so much of what actually happens in the Old Testament.

I think most movies would have a chance to be made today just maybe not through the same studio process.

mrhan

If the Wanderers was made today I doubt the classroom scene where the teacher asks the students to name off racial slurs wouldn't be filmed. I still think it's funny and the teacher does try to give the students something to think about but I'm sure there would be a lot of outrage today.

RichC2

Utopia episode 3 wouldn't get made today, and that episode is like 2 years old.

d2cheer

Why? By that token any film made 20+ years ago wouldn't be made today.

Nick Danger

Have you ever had a good foot washing by a woman who's really into it? It's awesome.

hanshotfirst1138

The Foot Fucking Master?

inri222

Like I said before

Any film can be made depending on :

1. Filmmakers
2. Financing
3. Country

Ash Ketchum

A lot of stuff goes straight to video that might have been made for theaters 20 years ago. I'm thinking of all the action thrillers that used to be aimed at urban minority youth audiences. Think of all those Joel Silver movies that combined martial arts, hiphop elements, comedy relief and urban settings, e.g. ROMEO MUST DIE, EXIT WOUNDS, CRADLE 2 THE GRAVE. No one's doing those now for theaters. I'm guessing there must be DTV equivalents although I don't know of any offhand.

And then there were all the mid-range martial arts thrillers that Van Damme and Seagal used to star in (DOUBLE TEAM, ON DEADLY GROUND et al) and eventually Van Damme's and Seagal's output went straight to video.

The EXPENDABLES films are the closest theatrical equivalent to those films, but they wouldn't get made if it weren't for the star-heavy lineup at the top of the ticket (Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Willis et al).

inri222

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_movie...the_present%29

Most of the B-movie production houses founded during the exploitation era collapsed or were subsumed by larger companies as the field's financial situation changed in the early 1980s. Even a comparatively cheap, efficiently made genre picture intended for theatrical release began to cost millions of dollars, as the major movie studios steadily moved into the production of expensive genre movies, raising audience expectations for spectacular action sequences and realistic special effects.....By 1990, the cost of the average U.S. film had passed $25 million...by 2000 $50 million

hanshotfirst1138

Post Spielberg and Lucas, the junky B movies are now A movies which are made for budgets that dwarf the gross domestic earnings of Hong Kong. They're now glossy, expensive junk rather than cheap junk.

RichC2

Yeah, the VOD market is giant these days though with budgets inching higher and higher so it isn't necessarily a bad thing. They cash in on what's popular at the time (Jet Li, Jackie Chan, DMX, etc; ) which just isn't the case right now, but it'll come back around, it always does. Part of it probably has to do with how much advertising costs now.

Right now the big thing in action flicks is the older bad ass (Liam Neeson, Denzel Washington, and in other media, Bryan Cranston) mowing down younger or similarly aged people.

Ash Ketchum

And don't forget JOHN WICK.

Defiant1

A Few Good Men
The Firm
Crimson Tide
Misery
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
Cape Fear
Sleeping With the Enemy
The Pelican Brief
Seven

Movies like these aren't really being made any more. Those mid-budget popcorn thrillers headlined by one or more big stars. You can "blame" this on the rise in popularity of the television procedural.

bluetoast

Michael Clayton, Arbitrage and The Ides of March seemed to fit the bill of mid-budget popcorn thrillers. Sure there's not a ton of them, but they're still around. On a lower tier there's Broken City and Side Effects from 2013.

Defiant1

Yeah, they're still around but I bet you that George Clooney will be the first person to bemoan the lack of those types of movies being released these days. He's almost singlehandedly keeping those kinds of movies afloat. None of the modern day releases seem to capture the pop culture zeitgeist like those 90s movies did. You can actually use "Single White Female" as an expression and people will know what you're talking about!

bluetoast

Certainly true. I bet he'd be doing a lot more on both sides of the camera with those types of movies if they were more viable.

Rypro 525

Last Temptation of Christ, your welcome & that pissed off a lot of christians too

dhmac

The Living Daylights with its ending that featured James Bond fighting in Afghanistan alongside the Mujahideen, which means it was either the Taliban or Al-Qaeda (pick your poison as to which group it was, because either way it's a total disaster looking back at the movie now).

Ash Ketchum

I think RAMBO III has the same problem.