Most Controversial Film??

[Chuck]

Entertainment Weekly (consider the source) names Gibon's Passion of Christ as most controversial. (Death by Crucifixion certainly was neither pretty nor a walk in the park. Gibson's film was sort of Texas Chain Saw Greatest Story Ever Told, I guess. )

www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/12/film.mostcontroversial.ap/index.html

A Clockwork Orange is second.

(JFK and Natural Born Killers both made the list, neither of which I liked.

Deep Throat is on the list. And for what Deep Throat accomplished, it deserves its place on the list. (It brought porn into mainstream.)

Click on the link in the article to get the whole list. I couldn't link that, because they use commas in their addresses.

Kids is way down on the list. I saw it years ago and have never fogotten it.

Let the discussion commence.

[soundandvision]

chuck said:

Entertainment Weekly (consider the source) names Gibon's Passion of Christ as most controversial. (Death by Crucifixion certainly was neither pretty nor a walk in the park. Gibson's film was sort of Texas Chain Saw Greatest Story Ever Told, I guess. )

www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/12/film.mostcontroversial.ap/index.html

A Clockwork Orange is second.

(JFK and Natural Born Killers both made the list, neither of which I liked.

Deep Throat is on the list. And for what Deep Throat accomplished, it deserves its place on the list. (It brought porn into mainstream.)

Click on the link in the article to get the whole list. I couldn't link that, because they use commas in their addresses.

Kids is way down on the list. I saw it years ago and have never fogotten it.

Let the discussion commence.

The first few that popped in my mind before clicking the link were already there: "Do the Right Thing" & "The Last Temptation of Christ".

I too saw "Kids" around its initial realease and it has stayed with me for over a decade now.

[spacechief]

I had already seen the list before this, and it's pretty complete. On a totally different level you have "Gremlins" and "Temple of Doom" which were controversial enough to start PG-13 ratings, but that doesn't really fit into the controversy Time is speaking about.

I still say the controversy around the "Passion" was totally over-hyped. It's an exact telling of the Biblical account, and I've never heard the Bible being called "anti-Semitic".

[ashkenaz]

I personally think that Cannibal Holocaust should've been higher on the list in the top 5. They didn't even mention the animal killing in the review, just the real looking effects.

[LetGoOfItSlappy]

It is unbelivable to me that Passion of the Christ was more controversial than Kids or even The Last Tempatation of Christ to a lesser extent.

Kids is a movie that I am totally on board with chuck about....if you have ever seen it you will never forget it and in my opinion belongs at the top of the list.

The two "Christ" movies stand out to me as two movies that were overly criticized by people who did not see or had no intention of seeing which strikes me as ignorant. The Passion was in NO way Anti-Semitic but then again to a lot of people simply portraying anything that may be truthful but has any sort of negativity surrounding it would be considered Anti-"Whatever"
And again ALOT of the criticism of this movie was WELL BEFORE the movie was seen by anybody. The Last Temptation of Christ struck me as a movie about just that...The Devil's last effort to tempt Christ....I think a lot of people must not have gotten that. Iam Catholic and I know the Catholic church was one of the groups not happy with this movie as were a bunch of other Christian groups and my question was "Why?" It's not like Christ gave in to Satan.....Satan showed him what he could have had, he said no, the last scene is Christ's death scene on the cross. End of movie....some of the people of my faith have got to lighten up

[Shep]

I'm surprised "Caligula" didn't make the short list. Some great actors star in an epic porn film (!).

[ashkenaz]

At least the actors didn't perform in the porn parts. I thought Caligula did make it though? I have the magazine and i could've swore it was in there.

[Chuck]

It is, at the lower end of the list.

[ashkenaz]

Here's the list of films in there:

1. The Passion of the Christ
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. Fahrenheight 911
4. Deep Throat
5. JFK
6. The last Temtation of CHrist
7. The Birth of a Nation
8. Natural Born Killers
9. Last Tango in Paris
10. Baby Doll
11. The Message
12. The Deer Hunter
13. The Da Vinci Code
14. The Warriors
15. Triumph of the Will
16. United 93
17. Freaks
18. I am Curious (Yellow)
19. Basic Instinct
20. Cannibal Holocaust
21. Bonnie and Clyde
22. Do the Right Thing
23. Kids
24. Caligula
25. Aladdin

[Waldo Jeffers]

I don't know if any of you has seen the movie "Mysterious Skin", but that movie was kind of uncomfortable to watch.

[Waldo Jeffers]

I don't really know how 'Triumph of the Will' got on the list, it was basically a Nazi propaganda film with great cinematography. I guess if you considered it a proper feature length film, it would be controversial. I don't consider it that, though... because their are many more that fall into that category the Nazis made that are even more blatant.

[Chuck]

Last Tango In Paris is one of the most beautiful films I have ever seen. Saw it when it first came out, and it's a wow. Brando is incredible.

Freaks is amazing.

Triumph of the Will is extremely disturbing. Like Birth of a Nation, it should be seen and discussed.

Natural Born Killers bored me poopieless. And actually, I Am Curious (Yellow), for all its hype, is really quite a dull film.

[Waldo Jeffers]

I liked Natural Born Killers, it was a pop-culture treatment of the modern sensational view of violence. It was a great movie, despite the majority of reviews about it. I don't really like Oliver Stone (although I did like his movie 'Nixon'), but that was a good film.

[themanosguy]

Okay, I am going to say something that sounds alot like something I, Newski, would say:

The list, like everything Entertainment Weekly does, is major studio fluff to help sell Studio agenda. Thank you.

Obviously they want to SELL these movies.

Before you point out that Deep Throat (I'm assuming it's the 1972 sex comedy) is a no budget independent, I would like to point out that Universal is the current rights holder and is looking for a market to distribute the film as a cult classic.

Passion of the Christ is one of the least controversial on the list. That is proof enough of what I am saying.

Fahrenheit 9-11? Passion of the Christ? I wonder why these movies are so high on the list? Oh, yes, very profitable for the studios to push these films, don't you think? Meanwhile, Cannibal Holocaust is low on the list because of the fact that it is more widely available on bootleg then a legit DVD.

[themanosguy]

Excuse me, what reason is Passion of the Christ number one, or on the list at all? The movie is standard, and is only as controversial as the promoters decided to make it seem.