Revenge of the nerds. A rape by deception is considered a major victory over the bad guys.
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Don't forget when they show the whole school the nudes they took of the jocks' girl friends with the spy cameras they hid in the girls dorm, to "hurt the jocks" by devaluing their "property".
Yeah that movie is problematic in a variety of ways
Came to make sure this was represented, have an upvote.
Why Him from 2016 It has James Franco and Bryan Cranston in the main roles.
It is a Meet the Parents type of movie, but in reverse, where the parents are meeting the boyfriend who is a Silicon Valley tech bro with a crazy lifestyle. The movie pretty much glorifies the types of tech-bros who are currently destroying the world in present day.
I borrowed a copy from my local library last year because we wanted to watch more comedies (and we are strictly anti-streaming in my household) and it was a very awkward movie to watch in 2025.
On a much darker note, the movie Enchanted from 2007 has also been permanently tarnished for me because the movie ends with an epilogue in a pop up book. Giselle has her company where girls can be princesses for a day and you see her surrounded by little girls in princess dresses before the page is flipped to a bookstore where a bunch of middle aged men are standing in line, waiting for a book signing by one of the villains. Notice the name of this bookstore.
The top producer on this film, Barry Josephson, was one of Epstein's close friends and has been photographed with him many times and is in the files where he talks about recruiting girls for him.
So yeah, while I love Enchanted, I don't think I can ever watch that movie ever again without feeling gross.
holy fuck
The original Police Academy has a scene where Mahoney hires a prostitute and sneaks her under a podium, where she performs what one might call "surprise fellatio" on Captain Lassard while he gives a speech. Afterwards, Mahoney pops out from under the podium and waves to Lassard, suggesting that he was the one who performed the fellatio. Edgy and hilarious in 1984, but I think most modern audiences would recognize it as sexual assault followed up with a homophobic response. (Although I will say Lassard's response was almost progressive by 80s standards.)
Hamburger: The Motion Picture has a similar oral sex related sexual assault gag as well, where a guy goes down on a girl from under the table. The scene also takes place in a Chinese restaurant with, you know, one of those menus with the racist jokes. (The movie itself is still pretty funny, though.)
In terms of rape in movies, though, there's one in particular in Saturday Night Fever, of all things. For the most part, it's a classic movie, but there's a scene where the protagonist's friends all gang rape one of their other friends for reasons that are not really clear, and afterwards John Travolta's character tells her she deserved it, and yeah, just an awful scene that, I don't know, maybe it made sense in 1977 but it aged poorly very fast. Saturday Night Fever is very culturally relevant, it's the movie that made disco a mainstream phenomenon in the US, but that one scene is fucked up.
The first Ace Ventura has a few scenes that would make modern audiences cringe or cry.
Yeah the finale reveal is so incredible transphobic it's hard to rewatch.
The person that isn't trans?
Yeah, technically he isn't trans. He's just pretending to be a woman. But it's hard to read the reactions of everyone else, immediately barfing and so on, on reveal not as anything but transphobic. It's also reinforcing the typical trans cliches. So, yeah. Depicted person is not actually trans. Depiction is still transphobic.
It's hard to watch, but its not because they are transphobic but its implied they all had sexual encounters with their boss and were deceived.
Do you read those comics with adults fucking kids "that are really 1,000 year old demons"?
I've never seen it myself, but from what I've been told Revenge of the Nerds is the definition of this.
Yeah, but it still manages to be watchable because the cast was great, and the underlying story resonates. You just have to put blinders on lol
I've never seen it. Might be time to dive in.
I would mention that they did the rape scene classy and all. As classy as being in a fun house and banging someone that you thought was your boyfriend can be......ya know classy for the 80s
Rape scene in a frat house? Is this a documentary?
Oh, wow. That is a bit rancid.
If it makes it any better, the victim finds out the dude isn't her boyfriend while they were cuddling afterwards. She seemed unreasonable cool with it. Something along the lines of my jock bf never made me cum before and you did. She ended up dumping the jock and staying with the nerd.......so....yay happy love story ending?
I mean, if anything makes that scene any better is that there's nothing super explicit about it. They position themselves with their clothes on, there's a cut to a different scene, and when they cut back they're already done. Yes, it's rape, but the way people talk about it you'd think it was much more hardcore than it really is.
The thing about Revenge of the Nerds is that there was tons of backlash even when it was new. The sequel barely has any sex in it at all by comparison, it's because the creators caught a fair amount of grief so they had to make Part II a tad more family-friendly (there's still a scene where they all get stoned though lol).
The movies were progressive for their time. I guess for the current times as well. They have questionable scenes, but the Nerds were always very open and supportive of all groups and walks of life. Gay people, people from different countries, people from different walks of life (booger) to include former jocks that changed their ways.
Someone already prepared you for the worst part. There's also a scene where the nerds install hidden cameras into a sorority house to spy on the women getting changed.
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Yeah, the payoff is very literally a rape joke, and we transit through a bunch of non-con plot points to get there.
There's a pub scene in Crocodile Dundee that makes it a difficult watch.
I don't recall that scene, what was it about?
I do remember watching nthst movie again about a few years ago and oh god it was booooooring
There is someone female presenting and he grabs her genitals and says something along the lines of them not being a Sheila.
There's a scene in the beginning of The Hangover where they use the f slur as a joking insult, which hasn't aged well. In fact it's aged so poorly that the scene is used perfectly in Nirvianna the Band the Show the Movie
The second feature for RotNerds, if you're making an evening of regrettable comedies, would absolutely have to be Hot Dog: The Movie.
Features David Naughton, the American Werewolf In London, the I'm A Pepper guy, the Makin' It guy, a true icon of the early 1980s.
Also features the line, "Now that's a girl I can take advantage of!" in reference to a girl who has just been handed and drank a large enough sum of mixed liquor to pass out on the floor.
I mean I love me some Leslie Nielsen, but the OJ Simpson bits are rough in Lethal Weapon
Welk yeah, but it's not like anyoneat the time could have known he would go in to become a famous murderer
Yeah that's why it didn't age well. I loved them at the time but that just puts a shade on it, watching it today.
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This movie is actually worth watching.
The Stuntman with Peter O'Toole. Incredible action sequences, great acting, twisty mystery script. 10/10.
Except...
At one point, the hero is angry because he's found out the woman he loves slept with the guy he hates. An older fellow pulls him aside and throws him some wisdom.
"What did you think? She was a virgin? I had a virgin once. She was 14 years old and I had to fly to Guatemala. Cost me $1,000."
You can tell it was a 1980's movie because that stuff was completely ignored for decades.
https://youtu.be/fVLrUEyYLAI Full movie.
I mean it's a very dark joke but it's still a joke. The actor didn't actually do that. And those people exist in real life. I hate where we've gotten to a point where mentioning something bad gets interpreted as being in favor of and promoting that thing, because it's not. That's not how comedy works.
The point I was making that when it came out it wasn't considered particularly dark. Think of it this way, in 'Revenge of the Nerds' the heroes were spy camming the sorority and at the time it was considered light hearted and amusing.
That would've been shockingly bad taste even then - they were probably going for shock value.
I'll check it out - got me curious.
Edit: Peter O'Toole and Barbara Hershey in the 80's? Sign me right up!
According to people I know who saw it when it first came out, it was on the level of him saying that [in 2026] he'd had an affair with a wife's friend. A regrettable peccadillo, not a giant moral failure.
No one in the movie treats him differently after, and it's never mentioned again.
And yes, Barbara looks really good.
Not a movie but a Bo-Selecta, a British comedy show from the 90s should definitely get a mention
For some reason I thought it had a movie, apparently not
Watching a guy do a recurring blackface Michael Jackson character was… something else.
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For a flat listacle, this one is pretty solid: https://www.boredpanda.com/movies-that-aged-poorly/
And if you want something that's a bit more data-driven in terms of overall approval level, there's this: https://www.statsignificant.com/p/which-movies-have-aged-poorly-a-statistical
Revenge of the Nerds and Song of the South would be my quick go-to answers.
I wanted personal opinions, not something AI summaries could tell me
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