View Poll Results: Vote for your fave
When Harry Met Sally... (1989) (deli scene/fake orgasm)
1
2.17%
Angel Heart (1987) (Casting of Lisa Bonet/graphic sex scene)
6
13.04%
Fatal Attraction (1987) (consequences of infidelity discussion/outraged feminists)
3
6.52%
The Blue Lagoon (1980) (Underaged Shields testified because of nude scenes)
2
4.35%
Red Dawn (1984) (outraged liberal critics/Most violent PG-13 movie)
4
8.70%
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) (outraged Christians)
16
34.78%
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) (tragic stunt helicopter crash)
2
4.35%
Dressed to Kill (1980) (outraged feminists)
3
6.52%
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) (kitchen table sex scene)
0
0%
Cruising (1980) (Gay community protest)
2
4.35%
Year of the Dragon (1985) (Chinese American and Asian American community protest)
0
0%
White Dog (1982) (no U.S. release after rumors began that the film was racist)
1
2.17%
Soul Man (1986) (criticized for featuring a Caucasian actor wearing blackface)
3
6.52%
other
3
6.52%
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Scandalous! Controversial 1980s Movies
07-29-16, 12:48 AM
#52
DVD Talk Reviewer & TOAT Winner
Re: Scandalous! Controversial 1980s Movies
I still don't get this hatred of Christians, i.e., pleasure of pissing them off. Is this a distaste for all organized religions inc. Islam or directly to followers of Jesus in all then myriad forms?
07-29-16, 07:50 AM
#54
Re: Scandalous! Controversial 1980s Movies
It's because they were pissed off by the movie without even having SEEN it. There was one famous religious figure who offered to buy every existing copy of it so he could burn them. On the news there were groups of people talking to theater managers saying that if "Last Temptation" was shown there, they would picket and/or boycott the theater, and some newspapers wouldn't print ads for it. Blockbuster and a few other video stores didn't carry it for rent for similar reasons. There was even a push to boycott the video release of "ET" that year because it was also from Universal, and they figured that'd hit them really hard. I can't remember any movie since then having that level of controversy.
07-29-16, 01:52 PM
#57
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