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The Most Controversial films

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Times Critics Controversial films 6 members have voted

  1. 1. Category 1: SEX? The One you have to see?

    • Ai no Corrida
      0
    • Baise-Moi
      2
    • Crash (Cronenberg)
      1
    • Deep Throat
      1
    • The Idiots
      1
    • I'm No Angel
      0
    • Last Tango In Paris
      1
    • 9 Songs
      0
    • Pandora's Box
      0
    • Sebastiane
      0

  2. 2. Category 2: DRUGS! If you only see one film here see?

    • Christiane F
      0
    • Easy Rider
      0
    • Human Traffic
      0
    • The Lost Weekend
      0
    • The man with the golden arm
      0
    • performance
      0
    • Reefer Madness
      0
    • Requiem For A Dream
      1
    • Trainspotting
      5
    • The Trip
      0

  3. 3. Category 3: VIOLENCE! If you only see one film here see?

    • Battle Royale
      0
    • Bonnie and Clyde
      0
    • wild bunch
      1
    • irreversible
      1
    • last house on the left
      0
    • natural born killers
      0
    • no orchids for miss blandish
      0
    • straw dogs
      1
    • texas chainsaw massacre 1974
      1
    • i spit on your grave
      1
    • driller killer
      0
    • the evil dead
      1

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There have been lots of controversial films over the years, but which one left an impression on you.

It could be because of the violence,political,sex, etc.

 

Some examples I can think of......

 

The Passion of the Christ :angry:

 

A Clockwork Orange :blink:

 

Deep Throat :o

 

What films can you add to this list.

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Number 3 is probably because of the James Bulger thing (though it's not really fair blaming a film just coz they watched it or it was was their favourite one etc) but not the rest of the films.

 

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"Last Temptation of Christ" is really rather good

 

"A Clockwork Orange" is a major classic or modern cinema

 

"Natural Born Killers", depending on what mood you're in is a rather excellent film, a very good critique on the modern media which fetishises and celebrates mass murderers and serial killers. Yes, it is extreme, excessive, batters you over the head and lays it on with a trowel, but that is the whole point really...

 

"Reservoir Dogs" - was hardly ever out of the news at one stage in the early 90s. A truly great film though..

 

"The Exorcist" - Not the 'greatest horror film ever made' as some would have us believe, but still a pretty damn good one...

 

"Last Tango In Paris", pretty fukked up, but is still a rather good film

 

"Ai No Corrida" (In The Realm of the Senses)

 

"Straw Dogs" - A pretty controversial rape scene, but when you look at its context within the film, you can sort of understand why it had to be done like that. A point that was clearly missed by the censors at the time...

 

'Passion Of Christ'

'Trainspotting'

'Monster'

Resevoir Dogs'

 

just a few i can think of

Yeah Reservoir Dogs is a candidate for best film EVER

 

I have seen it some 40 times

 

 

Omg could you explain it to me please? I actually beg of you!

 

Apparantly it's really simple but the ending goes straight over my head whenever I watch it :( :blush:.

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Omg could you explain it to me please? I actually beg of you!

 

Apparantly it's really simple but the ending goes straight over my head whenever I watch it :( :blush:.

 

I've never seen it and just get it muddled up with Dog Soldiers.

How about Deliverance? A chilling, disturbing and amazing film.

 

David Lynch's films aren't really "controversial" as much as... divisive. But I love them. Mulholland Drive is an all-time favorite of mine.

There have been a lot of good controversial movies that I have enjoyed:

 

A Clockwork Orange

The Life Of Brian

Natural Born Killers

Straw Dogs

 

 

But a two controversial movies that I regard as offensive as an Englishman were both directed by Mel Gibson.

 

(From Wikipedia)

"Braveheart" - Gibson was accused of Anglophobia by English audiences and press based on the direction of two of his major films and the liberties taken with historical content.

 

Although he did not write the screenplay, in his film Braveheart Prince Edward of Carnarvon (later King Edward II of England) was depicted as an effete homosexual who was not the true father of his son, the future Edward III of England. The film also propagated the mythical calumny against the English of Droit de seigneur which almost certainly never existed anywhere and definitely not in Britain. Gibson has admitted this, however, and has stated that it was more cinematically compelling to falsely include the Droit de seigneur because it portrayed villain Edward Longshanks, the King of England played by Patrick McGoohan as a sinister tyrant.

 

In the film The Patriot, English officers are seen as both cowardly and malevolent. In one scene a church, full of women and children, is knowingly torched by the redcoats. This is unlikely to have occurred.

 

According to Wensley Clarkson's unauthorized biography, Gibson's Irish-American family has always been openly anti-British. Clarkson further cites family friends and relatives who allegedly told him that Gibson's maternal grandmother was raped by the Black and Tans during the Irish War of Independence.

 

....and I'm sure Jews feel the same about "The Passion Of Christ".

Plan 9 From outer space--

 

apparently staring Bela Lagusi, even though he died before filming even began. the scripts took nine hours to write. This films one of my favs

Omg could you explain it to me please? I actually beg of you!

 

Apparantly it's really simple but the ending goes straight over my head whenever I watch it :( :blush:.

 

Soz just seen this Sarah

 

Pretty much a case of 3 of them have a face off where they point guns at each other and they all shoot each other dead, Mr Pink then runs out of the warehouse and gets shot by the cops, Mr Orange admits to I think it was Mr White that he is the cop and just as Mr White is shooting the cop dead the cops burst in and gunshots are heard, its kinda left open whether Mr Orange etc dies :)

There have been lots of controversial films over the years, but which one left an impression on you.

It could be because of the violence,political,sex, etc.

 

Some examples I can think of......

 

The Passion of the Christ :angry:

 

A Clockwork Orange :blink:

 

Deep Throat :o

 

What films can you add to this list.

 

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Plan 9 From outer space--

 

apparently staring Bela Lagusi, even though he died before filming even began. the scripts took nine hours to write. This films one of my favs

 

Not exactly 'controversial' though, is it mate....? Just very, very silly... :lol:

 

GoodFella's

Casino

 

Both amazing films

may i just say Driller Killer is $h!t! and is about as controversial as a sun flower seed.

 

I never understood why the hell that got banned, unless it was for being utterly boring and tedious and likely to cause people to lapse into an irreversible fukkin' COMA...... :lol:

 

The acting was rubbish, the blood was very obviously fake, the effects were poor, the direction was flat, the script was non-existent.....

 

Actually, Driller Killer should really go into my list of "Worst Films Ever"..... :lol:

 

GoodFella's

Casino

 

Both amazing films

 

 

Amazing films, yes... But 'controversial'....? I dont recall there being too many screaming Tabloid headlines about either film being 'likely to corrupt' anyone....

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