Most Controversial Movie(s)

Nothing I can say thats already been said

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Last movies I have seen

Platoon
Evil Dead
Goodfellas
Alice in Wonderland
Rocky Horror Picture Show

Romance (1999) by Catherine Breillat
Irréversible (2002) by Caspar Noé
Lilja 4-Ever (2002) by Lukas Moodysson
The Wild Bunch (1969) by Sam Peckinpah
Ken Park (2002) by Larry Clark
Tystnaden / The Silence (1963) by Ingmar Bergman
The Great Dictator (1940) by Charles Chaplin
Bamboozled (2000) by Spike Lee
Fight Club (1999) by David Fincher
Taxi Driver (1976) by Martin Scorsese
Casino (1995) by Martin Scorsese
Salň o le 120 giornate di Sodoma / The 120 Days of Sodom (1976) by Pier Paolo Pasolini
M (1931) by Fritz Lang
Priest (1994) by Antonia Bird

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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good".

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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.

It's belgian...

Rules of the Game
Citizen Kane
The original Manchurian Candidate

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"Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others."- Groucho Marx

your right . I was just quoting the person the mentioned it before...nice call though

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Trainspotting...
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Boondock Saints

ichi the killer

Baisse Moi (**** me, rape me, kill me)
Fritz the Cat
Blood Cult
Cannibal Holocaust
Platoon
Natural Born Killers
Schindler's List
Psycho

I remember Basic Instinct caused a bit of a stir.

i just thought of Salo...hell was raised when it was released in Italy

The Dreamers
Showgirls - Both of these movies for sex and there ratings
Birth of a Nation- Sadly less during it's time and more during our own
Plup Fiction - For it's glorification of violence
Boyz n the Hood - I do thing too many folks were ready for this one

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Justice will be served/ And the battle will rage/ This big dog will fight/ When you rattle his cage/ And you’ll be sorry that you messed with the U.S. of A./ Cause we`ll put a boot in your ass/ It`s the American way.
Courtesy Of The Red, White & Blue - Toby Keith

Scarface, mainly because of what was going on around the time it was made...in Florida, they got such a bad response to it that they ended up filming it in Cali. I believe.

Paths of Glory in Europe
Actually, almost all Kubrick in Europe

Cannibal holocaust
Da Vinci Code
Clockwork orange
Last tango in paris

The Exorcist
Basic Instinct
Those are the two that I remember being the most controversial at their time of release (or just previous to release).

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"Miss Jean Louise, Mr. Arthur Radley."

my vote goes for Clockwork Orange.

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"Anything less than immortality is a complete waste of time."

Last house on the left was pretty controversial.

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"Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?"
Steven Spielberg

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Although I never saw Jay & Bob Strike Back, Dogma, A Bronx Tale, Passion of Christ (a movie I didn't want to see), The Exorcist or Sweet Sweetheart's Badass Revenge, I did see American History X and Bowling for Columbine, both of which were excellent, and touched on extremely important issues and problems that're present in our society even unto this day. Farenheit 9/11 is also a good film to add to this list, btw.

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"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)

I wouldn't say Passion Of The Christ was slamming the Jews, what you see is what the Christian Scriptures say.
Ok, there were complaints from the Jewish populous but many of the antisemitism arguments it caused actually came from, of all organisations, the Catholic Church.
There were even some members of the Jewish community who dismissed the claims of antisemitism and said they actually thought the film had "sympathetic portrayals of Jews". Believe it or not, one of the supporters is actually a Rabbi.

I guess though, for the reason that it's the Catholic Church being upset and saying it's an antisemetic movie, TPOTC is certainly controversial.

Still a bl**dy good film though.

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I didn't want to see Passion of the Christ, at least in part because Mel Gibson himself has a pretty long history of being openly antisemitic, and partly because of its portrayal of Jews, which, from what I understood, was unsympathetic. Braveheart was the last Mel Gibson film that I saw, and that was before Mel Gibson's bigotry came out to the public.

The Brown Bunny

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