jriddle73 — 2 years ago(April 05, 2023 05:44 PM)

Ok, it's a pretty standard practice to slap some eye-catching title on one's content, something clever or funny or sensational that will make it stand out and thus draw attention. This Youtube video goes for the sensational. None of the movies this fellow describes in his video are either "banned" or gone forever. In fact, he includes some of the most beloved movies ever made, movies that are never likely to go away (even the ones we wish would just go away).
The vid is, instead, a sort of variant on the old "they'd never make that one anymore" theme, the kind of conversations cinephiles have about flicks like BLAZING SADDLES (which is included in his list). But it's a rather dark and perhaps even disturbing variant, one in which the narrator is disposing of wide swathes of great movies of the past–most, the fairly recent past–because they aren't "racially sensitive" or get "gender-roles" "wrong" or include "stereotypes." It's offers what, these days, rightists would pejoratively describe as a "woke" analysis. But it also repeatedly expels movies (and says they deserve to be forgotten) based on some of the right's bugaboos–"insensitivity" to religion, too much sex and nudity, etc. Cumulatively, it's an analysis so insanely out of touch as to be unifying: those rightists and the most progressive of progressives can–and will–join together in making fun of it and wondering, in the course of watching it, WTF is wrong with some people.
All of this, of course, assumes the vid is supposed to be taken seriously and isn't intended as satire. If that was the point, it would be pretty damn effective. He says, HEATHERS "normalized bullying" and that MR. MOM's title damns it because implies woman's place is in the home, "which is not connected to today's views." CROCODILE DUNDEE is no good because (in part) of its "explicit language and crude comedy."
Ex-Laxx, not a reevaluation of cinema, is what is called for here.
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