Doom. A game that, compared to modern games, just says "You know what? Fuck realism, let's have some fun!"
They'd never make that now
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Maybe, but I still hold out some hope for the newest Bond.
Rowan and Martin's Laugh In. A show where they'd air the funnier outtakes with the unfunny sketches, just because it was better when people were bungling their lines! Preposterous! Actually, I'm amazed they gave it a go even then.
Maybe, but I still hold out some hope for the newest Bond.
Rowan and Martin's Laugh In. A show where they'd air the funnier outtakes with the unfunny sketches, just because it was better when people were bungling their lines! Preposterous! Actually, I'm amazed they gave it a go even then.
Hogan's Heroes. It's a comedy show about a Nazi prisoner of war camp. Yeah, that would have never happened today.
John Carpenter's The Thing was not only an influential horror movie, it's one of the only horror films with an all-male cast--since you always have at least one woman to be the token screamer. (Also, most horror films are billed as date-movies.) Wouldn't happen today [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0905372/].
I'll be shocked if Hollywood ever makes a WWII (or even WWI) movie again that isn't all about the American forces (I'm still surprised--but happy--that Enemy at the Gates was ever made.) You used to get movies like Paths of Glory (French soldiers mutiny in WWI), The Battle of Britain, Cross of Iron (German soldiers on the Eastern Front). Even The Great Escape, with its three American characters, didn't forget the fact that the real-life "Great Escape" was carried out by mostly British Commonwealth POWs. I'm looking at you, U-571!
I'll be shocked if Hollywood ever makes a WWII (or even WWI) movie again that isn't all about the American forces (I'm still surprised--but happy--that Enemy at the Gates was ever made.) You used to get movies like Paths of Glory (French soldiers mutiny in WWI), The Battle of Britain, Cross of Iron (German soldiers on the Eastern Front). Even The Great Escape, with its three American characters, didn't forget the fact that the real-life "Great Escape" was carried out by mostly British Commonwealth POWs. I'm looking at you, U-571!
Blazing Saddles is the first thing that came to mind as well. All of the Mel Brooks movies I've seen are great, too bad people these days would rather watch people dance in 3D and 6 episodes of CSI a night than some real entertainment.TheBlueRabbit said:
Dracula: Dead and Loving It > Twilight.
Actually, they did make a film about the true story of German commanders in WWII trying to other-throw the Nazi government called Valkyrie. It wasn't a particularly excellent film, but it stars Tom Cruise and Bill Nighy among others so I can assume it counts as "Hollywood".Falseprophet said:
OT: Somehow I doubt that if the first S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game were released today instead of in 2007, I highly doubt people would be so willing to overlook the graphics. I guess it's because now that this console generation has firmly rooted itself in, people would expect graphical quality that reflects that.
How about a horror movie that relies on atmosphere, subtlety and mood instead of cheap 'jump-scares' and large quantities of blood and gore.
Just thought of another one.
All in the Family.
Dig up an episode online and you'll see what it would never work in the today times.
All in the Family.
Dig up an episode online and you'll see what it would never work in the today times.
Clearly my brain was elsewhere--how could I forget Valkyrie? Thank you, I stand corrected.SomeBoredGuy said:
Some of the old Bond movies would never fly today. NEVER.
Not only is stuff that he is doing with women questionable, not only does he appear a bit chauvinistic (chauvinistic as hell), not only are some Bond girls in the movies absolutely dense... but some of the movies are racist as hell.
Take a look at Live and Let Die. Seriously. Just take a look.
Not only is stuff that he is doing with women questionable, not only does he appear a bit chauvinistic (chauvinistic as hell), not only are some Bond girls in the movies absolutely dense... but some of the movies are racist as hell.
Take a look at Live and Let Die. Seriously. Just take a look.
The first thing that came to mind were a few choice Mel Brooks movies.
I'm glad a few of us think alike here.
Attempt at an original suggestion: Custer's Revenge.
Was that it? The Atari game where you went a-rapin' you some injun wimminz.
Under-the-table or not, it'd be all over the news in ten minutes, and the lawsuits would come pouring in.
I'm glad a few of us think alike here.
Attempt at an original suggestion: Custer's Revenge.
Was that it? The Atari game where you went a-rapin' you some injun wimminz.
Under-the-table or not, it'd be all over the news in ten minutes, and the lawsuits would come pouring in.
Mystery Science Theater 3000. Theres no way anyone who watches TV nowadays has the same sense of humor as then.
I thought Get Smart would never get remade... Until the film with Steve Carell showed me the folly of my ways...Plinglebob said:
There's an episode in the UK TV comedy show Fawlty Towers which has an episode which they use the 'n' word two or three times. That would NEVER be allowed today, but back in the 70s, it must have been OK...
