Favorite controversial movies - Obligatory Blazing Saddles entry

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The Night Porter, which contains this NSFW and extremely inflammatory scene: a concentration-camp survivor dons a topless SS uniform and dances erotically for Nazis.

The film is a very haunting drama about forbidden love.

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Irreversible - that ten minute rape scene was incredibly hard to sit through. Great movie though

Happiness - Very fucked up dark comedy. Interesting character arc with Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and you’ll never look at a tuna fish sandwich the same way again.

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. Controversial only in that it bombed heavily on initial release, but I love this movie. It’s bleak as fuck in showing Laura’s last few days, and sheds some more light on the Black Lodge. Worth watching at least once
 
The films of S. Craig Zahler have had a lot of negative attention due his writing style and also due to the studio Cinestate releasing some of his films. Adam Donaghey (who was a part of Cinestate) was charged with the rape of a 16 year old during the filming of A Ghost Story in 2017. Oddly enough, Casey Affleck had some allegations against him as well. Not to mention that all of the films that Zahler has written have been described as racist, despite him being of Jewish descent. He's written three movies so far, and they have been pretty enjoyable for the most part.

Bone Tomahawk - A talky, b-list cast western that turns into a gory cannibal horror film towards the end. This was really enjoyable if you don't mind a movie that's over two hours.

Brawl in Cell Block 99 - A prison thriller with great dialogue. Vince Vaughn plays a bald, beefed up dude. A washed up boxer and former drug mule that gets thrown in jail and has to deal with a sadistic warden played by Don Johnson. There's an amusing scene where is slowly dismantling a car in anger. Udo Kier makes a cameo and the film has a bloody ending.

Dragged Across Concrete - Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn are two corrupt cops that are suspended without pay due to a police brutality scandal. Mel's wife is sick and her daughter is harassed for being a white girl in a black neighborhood. Mel concocts a plan to steal some gold, thanks to the intel provided by Udo Kier. This coincides with the story of Henry, who got out of jail and goes back home to find his mother prostituting herself in order to make money. Upset at this, he decides to take a sketchy job that his friend, played by Michael Jai White tells him about. There is also some anonymous killers who target people and kill them in odd ways, usually with a racial tinge/slur or joke. This subplot goes nowhere. There's a great joke that can be interpreted as a reference to Mel's infamous drunken gamer moment. It's also over two hours, but has its moments. It's more of a noir-ish police thriller and urban flick, in a way.

Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich - Tom Lennon (The State/Viva Variety/Reno 911) is a divorced comic creator that moves back home with his folks and finds an old doll, Blade, and finds out that there's a convention for the collectors of these dolls. Udo Kier (yet again) shows up as André Toulon, but this time he's an escaped Nazi criminal and controls the puppets to do his bidding (we get an illustrated credit montage that shows how he did this during the war) and gets away with murder. This has some great gallows humor and over the top gore. It's a great film to show friends while imbibing or smoking, but it has the humor of a Troma film. Sonny Laguna & Tommy Wiklund, directors of the Swedish film "Whither" share double duty on this flick. It's set up for a sequel that will never see the light of day.
 
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Probably have to be Do The Right Thing.

Because the next time someone asks me “Do you support Black Lives Matter?”, I always tell them, “No, but I do love Planet of The Apes.”
 
I watched Freaks for the first time a few month back, and it was a lot more down-to-earth than I was expecting, considering its reputation. Not that I was complaining, though. Those sideshows felt more like people than freaks, and I'd argue that its messages about acceptance and tolerance hold up better than most of today's aggressively anti-prejudice works. And this 1932. Imagine that, a movie from the early sound era is more progressive than the woke plague of current year.

If anything, the fact that Freaks is more of a slow burn actually makes the genuinely disturbing elements near the end all the more impactful. Imagine watching a rather conventional story that just happened to feature real circus freaks, only for a woman to be mutilated into a humanoid duck!
 
Singapore Sling and the French film Don't Deliver Us From Evil. This last one has the absolute best (in a worst way) ending ever for a film, never seen anything like it since. Not gonna spoil any of these two movies, you can read the synopsis, but it's best to go in blind.

As for more "mainstream-y" ones, I'd say the first Human Centipede was pretty much what I've expected when I was waiting for it to come out. The second one was too meta for my taste, and I haven't bothered watching the third one.

I understand the director Tom Six is going to release a new one, The Onania Club
Hanna secretly joins a group called The Onania Club. Its members, strong independent L.A. women, get aroused by the misery of others. Hanna meets more misery than she could ever hope for and in the process loses everything she cares for.

Guess we'll see.

Then there's the "controversial because they're too edgy" like Employee Of The Month (the Matt Damon movie), God Bless America, The Doom Generation (check it out if you want to see peak Rose McGowan), Natural Born Killers (someone already mentioned it), those sort of movies.


This scene cracks me up every time, it's movies such as these where I get my enjoyment of dark comedy.
 
An absolute genius. He appeared for around 4 minutes and stole the whole movie!
Dangerfield was a really by the book comedic actor and meticulously followed the script, whoever wrote it. When he was in Caddyshack, he absolutely hated the fact Chevy Chase and Bill Murray basically ignored the script and did whatever they felt like.

Caddyshack isn't really controversial other than that it was widely critically panned despite now being recognized as a comedic classic, much like Blues Brothers.
 
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