Way more crude than I remember.
I can't believe my parents let me watch this when I was 6. The language...the playboy...the violence...
shareI don't think it's crude. That's just how they rolled in the 80s. Everything became too sanitized after that era, people afraid of offending others etc. Back then there was an air of not taking things in films too seriously. Movies didn't talk down to kids as much, they figured they'd take anything they'd see with a grain of salt and it worked. It made for better films that had charm and an edge. All this pussy Disney stuff nowadays makes me puke.
He was my C.O. in Nam. CIA listed him as MIA but the V.A. ID'd his M.O. and put out an APB.
Political correctness was an invention of the Clinton era in the '90s. And it, far beyond sex or violence, is the most restrictive form of censorship today.
Colonel Miles Quaritch is like some sort of...non...giving-up...army guy!
... and it's killing movies as we know them. There's far too much paranoia now when it comes to how movies should be presented in terms of casting etc.
Imdb message boards - kick someone's ass on the first day, or become someone's bitch.
Lonestarr, youre right with both your posts. An example is Darryl's "raped?" joke. That sort of thing just doesn't make it into movies these days. Now, rape is of course a sensitive subject but the point is we have lowered the bar for all movies PG-13 and below to be poorly comedic CGI stuff. Movies like AiB are what keeps my love for films alive in this day and age. They just have a classic feel to them.
shareExactly, I agree with you 100%. This film was made for a universal audience. Today, in a film like this, most of the stuff you see would be absolutely forbidden and if it was somehow passed by the censors, then there'd be parent groups protesting this film and having it pulled from theatres. The PC police would be going ape$hit at every little thing from the black kid carjacker to calling people homo's and joking about stabbing and rapes. They'd never have the balls to put a line like "don't f-k with the babysitter!" in a film of this kind today, therefore all of the charm and the edge and the personality that makes this movie so good would just be lost.
AiB is a product of its time. It's what makes it so unique.
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Bull. The op specifically mentioned language, playboy and violence. The Reaganites started the demand to return to "traditional values", meaning that if they didn't do it in the 50's then don't do it now. Nothing to do with PC. Everything to do with Reagan and his "traditional values".
shareYeah, the so-called PC attitude started in the '80s during the Reagan years. Parents were complaining about the violence and gore in G-rated films (Gremlins, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom), so PG-13 was introduced in 1984. Granted, the whole PC craziness escalated in the '90s, but it had transpired a decade earlier.
sharethe so-called PC attitude started in the '80s during the Reagan years.
Are you serious? The whole PC thing is a liberal construct. There's a difference between encouraging traditional morality and political correctness. share
The left is forever rewriting history to move themselves onto the right side. Whether it is supporting slavery, forming the KKK, supporting Hitler, their fight against Civil Rights, and anything and everything in between, they'll find some explanation for how they're actually the good guys. Of course they'll blame political correctness and cancel culture on the right. :)
shareYeah. Can you imagine a movie today where one of the "heroes" says that a character is a homo? And so innocently?
shareBest line of the movie!
shareThat was the only thing I found offensive about the film, that is insulting to gay people, and being gay is presented as a bad thing or something to make fun of.
shareTo be fair, those kids most likely don't even know what it really means. It was a common insult back then and they just repeated it.
shareI certainly knew what a "homo" was, and at a younger age than those kids. But I had older brothers and sisters, and I didn't grow up in a particularly nice neighborhood... also knew what a joto and maricon was...
I went to a high school where a lot of kids commuted from all different areas, and I was shocked how naive a lot of these kids were from the nicer towns.