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The original Police Academy has a scene where Mahoney hires a prostitute and sneaks her under a podium, where she performs what one might call “surprise fellatio” on Captain Lassard while he gives a speech. Afterwards, Mahoney pops out from under the podium and waves to Lassard, suggesting that he was the one who performed the fellatio. Edgy and hilarious in 1984, but I think most modern audiences would recognize it as sexual assault followed up with a homophobic response. (Although I will say Lassard’s response was almost progressive by 80s standards.)
Hamburger: The Motion Picture has a similar oral sex related sexual assault gag as well, where a guy goes down on a girl from under the table. The scene also takes place in a Chinese restaurant with, you know, one of those menus with the racist jokes. (The movie itself is still pretty funny, though.)
In terms of rape in movies, though, there’s one in particular in Saturday Night Fever, of all things. For the most part, it’s a classic movie, but there’s a scene where the protagonist’s friends all gang rape one of their other friends for reasons that are not really clear, and afterwards John Travolta’s character tells her she deserved it, and yeah, just an awful scene that, I don’t know, maybe it made sense in 1977 but it aged poorly very fast. Saturday Night Fever is very culturally relevant, it’s the movie that made disco a mainstream phenomenon in the US, but that one scene is fucked up.
Revenge of the nerds. A rape by deception is considered a major victory over the bad guys.
Don’t forget when they show the whole school the nudes they took of the jocks’ girl friends with the spy cameras they hid in the girls dorm, to “hurt the jocks” by devaluing their “property”.
Yeah that movie is problematic in a variety of ways
Came to make sure this was represented, have an upvote.
Why Him from 2016 It has James Franco and Bryan Cranston in the main roles.
It is a Meet the Parents type of movie, but in reverse, where the parents are meeting the boyfriend who is a Silicon Valley tech bro with a crazy lifestyle. The movie pretty much glorifies the types of tech-bros who are currently destroying the world in present day.
I borrowed a copy from my local library last year because we wanted to watch more comedies (and we are strictly anti-streaming in my household) and it was a very awkward movie to watch in 2025.
On a much darker note, the movie Enchanted from 2007 has also been permanently tarnished for me because the movie ends with an epilogue in a pop up book. Giselle has her company where girls can be princesses for a day and you see her surrounded by little girls in princess dresses before the page is flipped to a bookstore where a bunch of middle aged men are standing in line, waiting for a book signing by one of the villains. Notice the name of this bookstore.
The top producer on this film, Barry Josephson, was one of Epstein’s close friends and has been photographed with him many times and is in the files where he talks about recruiting girls for him.
So yeah, while I love Enchanted, I don’t think I can ever watch that movie ever again without feeling gross.
I’ve never seen it myself, but from what I’ve been told Revenge of the Nerds is the definition of this.
Yeah, but it still manages to be watchable because the cast was great, and the underlying story resonates. You just have to put blinders on lol
I’ve never seen it. Might be time to dive in.
I would mention that they did the rape scene classy and all. As classy as being in a fun house and banging someone that you thought was your boyfriend can be…ya know classy for the 80s
Oh, wow. That is a bit rancid.
If it makes it any better, the victim finds out the dude isn’t her boyfriend while they were cuddling afterwards. She seemed unreasonable cool with it. Something along the lines of my jock bf never made me cum before and you did. She ended up dumping the jock and staying with the nerd…so…yay happy love story ending?
I mean, if anything makes that scene any better is that there’s nothing super explicit about it. They position themselves with their clothes on, there’s a cut to a different scene, and when they cut back they’re already done. Yes, it’s rape, but the way people talk about it you’d think it was much more hardcore than it really is.
The thing about Revenge of the Nerds is that there was tons of backlash even when it was new. The sequel barely has any sex in it at all by comparison, it’s because the creators caught a fair amount of grief so they had to make Part II a tad more family-friendly (there’s still a scene where they all get stoned though lol).
The movies were progressive for their time. I guess for the current times as well. They have questionable scenes, but the Nerds were always very open and supportive of all groups and walks of life. Gay people, people from different countries, people from different walks of life (booger) to include former jocks that changed their ways.
There’s a pub scene in Crocodile Dundee that makes it a difficult watch.
I don’t recall that scene, what was it about?
I do remember watching nthst movie again about a few years ago and oh god it was booooooring
For a flat listacle, this one is pretty solid: https://www.boredpanda.com/movies-that-aged-poorly/
And if you want something that’s a bit more data-driven in terms of overall approval level, there’s this: https://www.statsignificant.com/p/which-movies-have-aged-poorly-a-statistical
Revenge of the Nerds and Song of the South would be my quick go-to answers.
I wanted personal opinions, not something AI summaries could tell me
This movie is actually worth watching.
The Stuntman with Peter O’Toole. Incredible action sequences, great acting, twisty mystery script. 10/10.
Except…
At one point, the hero is angry because he’s found out the woman he loves slept with the guy he hates. An older fellow pulls him aside and throws him some wisdom.
“What did you think? She was a virgin? I had a virgin once. She was 14 years old and I had to fly to Guatemala. Cost me $1,000.”
You can tell it was a 1980’s movie because that stuff was completely ignored for decades.
https://youtu.be/fVLrUEyYLAI Full movie.
I remember The Fall Guy mentions it
I posted it and then decided to rewatch it.
I knew pretty much every single line, and I was still blown away by how good it is.
Blazing Saddles can probably fit in there.
While the overall message and story are probably fine still, the language and delivery has certainly aged poorly. Not even getting into Brooks himself.
I still absolutely love the movie, but it’s the first thing that comes to mind when someone talks about “they couldn’t make a movie like that today”.
That’s like saying Tropic Thunder aged poorly, the point of the racism is to mock it. Which for the time I think blazing saddles was pretty progressive in that regard.
The first Ace Ventura has a few scenes that would make modern audiences cringe or cry.
Yeah the finale reveal is so incredible transphobic it’s hard to rewatch.
The person that isn’t trans?
