Favorite controversial films

[charp13]

The Eli Wallach scene has always puzzled/disturbed me. And I also always think about what kind of movie it would have been if Bruce Lee had lived. I guess that's part of my obsession with the movie- I try to figure things out that went awry.
I still think the monkey scene is super weird!! And I can't explain why it delights me so much. Oooh, and Jeff Cooper isn't too hard on the eyes.   

[Haunted hearse]

The Eli Wallach scene has always puzzled/disturbed me. And I also always think about what kind of movie it would have been if Bruce Lee had lived. I guess that's part of my obsession with the movie- I try to figure things out that went awry.
I still think the monkey scene is super weird!! And I can't explain why it delights me so much. Oooh, and Jeff Cooper isn't too hard on the eyes. 

That Bruce Lee shot so little footage before he died, and some awful footage had been shot for filler, pretty much sums up what went awry. 

[Frankenmarx]

Is High Noon controversial?

[Haunted hearse]

Is High Noon controversial?

Idon't know about now, but when it was made, it was very controviersial.  John Wayne hated it so much, he made "Rio Bravo" as an "Anti-High Noon Film".  By the way, although Michael Blakes's (Who could be the leading expert on Lon Chaney Sr.) father appeared as the bartender, he was unfairly not given any screen credit.

[marsattacks666]

The Last Temptation of Christ(1988) Highly controversial. Starring Willem Dafoe.

[The Batman]

My wife & I enjoyed it so much that we rented it a 2nd time less than a year after we saw it for the first time. The bad guys do such a superb job of making you want to leap onto the screen and decimate both of 'em. 'Disturbing, as this type of crime could easily be achieved, a couple of young kids overpowering and praying upon wealthier people.

[long live kong]

Freaks
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Excorcist
Scum
Romper Stomper
Martyrs
Scarface
Star Wars Episode 1 : The Phantom Menace
Twilight

....just kidding on the last two!

[Haunted hearse]

Freaks
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Excorcist
Scum
Romper Stomper
Martyrs
Scarface
Star Wars Episode 1 : The Phantom Menace
Twilight

....just kidding on the last two!

Are you sure?  Twilight may have generated as much hate as love with prople, and a lot of die hard Star War fans, hated Epiode 1, but it made a lot of bucks at the theatre.  Plus as a father, I had to deal with how much my daughter LOVED Jar Jar, when she was a toddler. 

[marsattacks666]

My wife & I enjoyed it so much that we rented it a 2nd time less than a year after we saw it for the first time. The bad guys do such a superb job of making you want to leap onto the screen and decimate both of 'em. 'Disturbing, as this type of crime could easily be achieved, a couple of young kids overpowering and praying upon wealthier people.

Great film and disturbing.

[Mord]

Check out the original (by the same director), even more chilling.

[marsattacks666]

Check out the original (by the same director), even more chilling.

I remember seeing the film. Very cool.

[long live kong]

  Are you sure?  Twilight may have generated as much hate as love with prople, and a lot of die hard Star War fans, hated Epiode 1, but it made a lot of bucks at the theatre.  Plus as a father, I had to deal with how much my daughter LOVED Jar Jar, when she was a toddler.

I listed a handful of my personal faves. I was trying to be funny with the last two. I haven't actually seen any of the Twilight films, but hey, maybe one day I'll be lying in a hospital bed in traction and the opportunity will arise! 

I'll have to check out Funny Games.

[Haunted hearse]

I listed a handful of my personal faves. I was trying to be funny with the last two. I haven't actually seen any of the Twilight films, but hey, maybe one day I'll be lying in a hospital bed in traction and the opportunity will arise! 

If that's the case, make sure they remove any medications you could overdose on within reach of your hospital bed.

[long live kong]

If that's the case, make sure they remove any medications you could overdose on within reach of your hospital bed.

And any objects suitable for gouging out one's own eyes!

[Monsters For Sale]

Is High Noon controversial?

At the time it was hated by the old school film makers who thought it was a sacrilege to show the main hero in a western movie to be going around town asking for help.  He was just supposed to go out and silently kill all the bad guys single-handed.

John Wayne was very outspoken about the film.  I believe he asked Gary Cooper not to make it.

The politicians got in on the debate and some argued that it was anti-American to show the town's law enforcement being weak and not up to the job.  They went so far as to say it was communist inspired and meant to weaken Americans' self image and national resolve.  (It did not help that some blacklisted artists worked on the picture.)

It all seems so silly today, but back then it was taken very seriously by some.

"High Noon" is on my short list of the best films ever made.  It had been parodied so often that it was almost unwatchable for some years.  Now the parodies have faded from memory and the movie is easier to take at face value.

It is a true treasure of a film.