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Older movies with comedy that is really sexist, transphobic, homophobic, etc?

posted 4 years ago by [deleted]
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I'm making a list of movies with jokes that you just wouldn't see done today. I want to illustrate how PC times are now. I've started the following list:

1) Crocodile Dundee - Grabs transgender woman in bar by the balls upon realising it is a man. Tells everyone to watch out for her.

2) Jungle 2 Jungle (disney movie!) - tells jungle son that you raise your arm and a taxi pulls up. The boy says 'it's magic' to which he replies 'it will be magic if he speaks english' (indian taxi driver.)

3) Sleepless In Seattle - Rosie O'Donnell says of the mystery man (Tom Hanks) "He could be a crackhead, a transvestite, a flasher, a junkie, a chainsaw murderer" - - Really transphobic by today's standards.

The list is just for fun.

Please feel free to add to the list with movies that you know just wouldn't be allowed to say those jokes today.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

The Monster Squad - I have a lot of affection for this old 80s movie, but at one point in the movie the boys take pictures of a teenage girl while spying on her changing her clothes, then they use the pics to blackmail her into helping them.

It's all treated as harmless adolescent hijinks. Pretty messed up, especially in a kids movie!

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Good example. Reminds me of Goonies, where he jokes about sex toys being in the house. Totally inappropriate for a kids movie today.

[–] beavis (3249) 4 years ago

If you can't see the humor in some gay guys there's something wrong with you. Twinks lol

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

#2 doesn't seem racist to me.

He's not saying anything disparaging about Indian people.

In Back to the Future, one of Biff's friends calls the black band members "spooks", which kinda caught me by surprise when I watched it recently.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

I thought a spook was an undercover agent.

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[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

I just looked it up, it means undercover agent.

[–] Keelai (31790) 4 years ago

It's a very old racist term too.

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[–] BillHicksFan (10090) 4 years ago

"Who you calling.. spooks?"

"Look, I don't want any trouble with any REEFER ADDICTS"

[–] Vastuntitled (5424) 4 years ago

48 hrs.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

What in particular?

[–] Vastuntitled (5424) 4 years ago

The racial back-and-forth banter between Nolte and Murphy; the bar scene at Torchys where Murphy harasses patrons; rousting the ladies in their own apartment....don’t know if a studio would have the stomach to take a chance with some of the content...

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

I'll have to check that movie out. It's rarely on tv these days.

[–] Vastuntitled (5424) 4 years ago

Are you stateside?....I think it’s on the starz channel this month...

[–] 10200 (656) 4 years ago

Blazing Saddles has to be at or near the top of the list.

And a very old classic - Born Yesterday - that would go over really well today.

[–] PaladinNJ (20308) 4 years ago

I prefer to agree with Mel Brooks:
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/mel-brooks-political-correctness-blazing-saddles-gene-wilder-a7964216.html

[–] tcrum (29618) 4 years ago

This is a quote from the tv show Brooklyn Nine Nine..I don't know if I agree, but here it is...."Ace Ventura, classic film, one of my childhood favorites, and it only gets overtly transphobic at the very end, so, a win.”

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Lol funny

[–] tcrum (29618) 4 years ago

It was the first thing I thought of when I saw the thread.

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[–] aliensalmon (5078) 4 years ago

The Rush Hour series has a lot of black and Asian stereotypes.