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EVERYthing made by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Keaton

We've got laws, now, against the insane shit they did on-set, back then..

Lives were too-cheap, back then..

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Blazing Saddles.

Probably the Blue Brothers, but for different reasons. I feel like most of the blues legends are gone.

Tropic Thunder

American History X, easily. In fact, that movie had a troubled production during the time it came out, but it would be censored to hell and back were it made today.

The original Robocop as well because Hollywood is too scared of violence nowadays, fun fact, the original Robocop almost got an NC-17 (then X) rating for violence alone and had to be edited 13 times to get downgraded to a hard R* rating.

*Hard R in the movie rating sense, is when an R-rated movie truly earns that R rating through having a lot of violence, gore, swearing, explicit content, or a combination of those factors. It's when an R-rated movie is teetering on the edge of getting upgraded to NC-17, basically. This old AVPGalaxy post should go more into what the hard R rating entails. The original Robocop got downgraded to this from the NC-17 rating it almost got (X when that movie was in production) after 13 edits like I said.

Here's an archived version of the Bloody Disgusting article referenced in that AVPGalaxy post since that reference is a dead link.

Jurassic Park, Terminator 2, TMNT ‘89, Lord of the Rings.

Whatever the JP franchise is now, it will never go back to full scale animatronics, and without Stan Winston’s magic, it’ll never be quite what the first (and a bit of the second) were.

Cameron himself can’t recreate the magic of T2 even if his films make billions. He never risks having to “nail this in one shot” stunts.

As for TMNT. Nobody gives a shit they’re suits, we could suspend our disbelief and watched mindblowing performances by great stuntmen in some of the most advanced animatronics ever. Michael Bay can’t even fathom how much better that is.

The Hobbit was plagued by a lot of problems, but I don’t know if even Jackson could pull off the practical effects with digital overlay magic that was the first trilogy if he tried.

That era of Hollywood, practical first, digital to enhance (sparingly) is gone it seems. It’s sad Hollywood has forgotten that that boundary pushing era was what made those films iconic. Rexy had weight, she literally tore a car apart. You can see the chaos of the semi landing in the canal. The turtles hit. The Riders of Théoden truly rode for ruin. Tell me you don’t get giddy when you know that scene is about to hit.

Tiptoes. Gary Oldman was on his knees the entire time. I can't believe this was even made in 2003.

Famously, you couldn't make Blazing Saddles today because they already made that move in the 70s

Look up all the stunts Buster Keaton did, and shiver. Or The Little Rascals or Hal Roach’s Rascals, whatever they were called.

Or the 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet - while probably one of the best versions ever, nobody today would dare to think doing a movie like that today - it would be criminal.

My highschool physics teacher said the Nazis recorded X-ray video of Holocaust victims knees as they walked. Because MRI machines and other medical imagers aren't large enough to walk around in, the films are still one of the best sources of how the bones actually move naturally under load in situ surrounded by the connective tissue.

The radiation dose required to expose regular film at 24 frames a second killed the subjects.

I really hope they don't ever make movies like that again.

Idiocracy..

Team America. From the minds of South Park's, Matt Stone and Trey Parker 😁.

I think y'all know why.

Scream.

The killer would try to call the girl in the first scene and she would just be like "Ew, who actually calls on the phone?" and hit cancel. Roll credits.

Alternatively the scariest movie the girl ever saw would be Five Nights at Freddie's.

The Blue Lagoon (1980)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Lagoon_(1980_film)
and that's a good thing.

The General (1926)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tgQ8VwW19iw&t=115s

Blazing Saddles

Ace Ventura. I love the shower scene, it's hilarious, but today it's unthinkable to make a scene like this.

Trading Places. It should be a Christmas classic but...

Any of the stunts Buster Keaton pulled.

Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal. No way would a studio agree to do that much hand-crafted work. They'd just have the stars reacting to a bunch of tennis balls and "fix it in post."

Birth of a Nation.

Although Tarantino would probably try, so long as he could star in it alongside Samuel L Jackson, and call Samuel L Jackson the n-word 'for the cinematographic art of it, really, it's crucial to the film'. Because, aside from feet, that's his fetish.

Any 80s fantasy movie. The vibe is gone. And it's not just CGI.

not a film, but a show. Little Britain. God, they got away with soooo much.

Silent films using tens of thousands of performers and large-scale stage sets will probably never be made again.

This is because modern audiences take sound in films for granted, making it impossible to expect box office returns that match such an investment.

Big Trouble in Little China

Short Circuit. I always thought that guy was Indian.

In 2021 my friend's roommate said you couldn't make a movie like Borat these days. I immediately pointed out they made a Borat movie the year before.

I didn't point this out, but he claimed to be 6'2" while being a few inches shorter than me, and I'm 5'11".