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| 4 | * Millennium Films has quite an anchor on its back with its president Avi Lerner, whose dismissive attitude towards sexual abuse, while always controversial, has gone into sharp disapproval in the [=#MeToo=] era. First, there was the news that Lerner pressured Creator/TerryCrews to drop his sexual assault lawsuit against William Morris Endeavor, alongside receiving his own harassment accusation. Then things got even worse when he hired Bryan Singer to direct an adaptation of ''ComicBook/RedSonja'' just when Singer's own sexual assault accusations were being pulled back into the spotlight, with Lerner dismissing the accusers as liars (the fact that [[RapeAsBackstory Sonja's backstory involves getting gang-raped]] makes the choice even more tasteless). Only under months of scrutiny did he finally decide to fire Singer, though he also decided to cancel the film in the process, giving the impression he is willing to kill a whole movie and put everyone assigned to it out of work just so he can defend an alleged rapist. It was later reported that the film would resume production with ''Series/{{Transparent}}'' creator Joey Soloway writing and directing, although it remains to be seen whether or not anything legitimate will come of that report. |
| 5 | * Bollywood as a whole was accused of supporting nepotism after the suicide of beloved new actor Sushant Singh Rajput in June 2020, as several of his colleagues speculated that the actor was a victim of the Indian film industry's nepotistic nature and it didn't acknowledge Rajput's work, which led to his mental suffering. This led to certain films getting review-bombed: |
| 6 | ** ''Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl'' was the first film to be targeted for being produced by Karan Johar and starring Jahnvi Kapoor, a member of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_film_families#Kapoor_family_(of_Surinder_Kapoor) Kapoor dynasty,]] as the title character. However, the film did receive generally positive reviews, and it currently holds a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. |
| 7 | ** ''Sadak 2'' was the next film to be targeted for starring Alia Bhatt, the daughter of the film's director, producer and co-writer Mahesh Bhatt. The trailer became the second most disliked Website/YouTube video within a week of its release. Unlike ''Gunjan Saxena'', ''Sadak 2'' has no genuine defenders. The teaser for ''Kkaali Peeli'' also got a similarly negative response, though not to the extent of ''Sadak 2''. |
| 8 | ** As the year progressed, two more films were given similar treatments - ''Laxmii'' and ''Coolie No. 1''. In both cases, producers disabled the like/dislike feature on the [=YouTube=] trailers, although the comment section remained up. |
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| 12 | * ''Film/Adam2019'' attracted controversy as soon as its plot was announced--it's a romantic comedy about a cisgender boy who pretends to be a transgender boy in order to pursue a bisexual girl who intially identifies as a lesbian. Regardless of intent, it reads far too much like a "converting the lesbian" fantasy for comfort. Besides the obvious AudienceAlienatingPremise (especially for the LGBT+ crowd), further controversy arose when the studio tried to highlight the large number of actual transgender performers in its cast, only for the performers themselves to report that they'd been hired under false pretenses and had no idea what kind of movie they were filming. There were also reports that the extras were constantly mistreated by the filming crew. However, the director Rhys Ernst himself is a trans man and defended the film. Much of this criticism derives from [[https://www.themarysue.com/adam-movie-ariel-schrag-book-not-lgbtqa-friendly/ the original novel by Ariel Schrag]], which is full of unfortunate implications. |
| 13 | * ''Film/Adrift2018'' is based on the story of Tami Oldham, who in 1983 was caught in Hurricane Raymond along with her fiancé Richard Sharp during a sailing trip. Richard was swept overboard to his death, and Tami was left alone on the badly damaged boat, which she managed to pilot to Hawaii during a grueling 40-day trip. Controversy arose when it appeared the filmmakers rewrote history to have Richard [[SparedByTheAdaptation survive]] and assist her. The actual movie, however, ends with the revelation that [[spoiler:[[DeadAllAlong Richard really did die]] at the same point he died in real life, and his further appearance was Tami's hallucination.]] |
| 14 | * ''Film/AliceThroughTheLookingGlass'' went from being remembered as Creator/AlanRickman's last film before his death to largely getting overshadowed by the nasty divorce of Creator/JohnnyDepp and Creator/AmberHeard, especially after allegations that [[DomesticAbuse Depp abused Heard]] came out the week before the film was released. |
| 15 | * ''Film/AllGoodThings2010'', a film based on the Robert Durst murder case, jumped into the public eye when it was actually named as a piece of evidence by the prosecution against him, arguing that him making no attempt to stop this film, which outright states he committed the murders, indicates he was guilty. Then it ''really'' jumped into the public eye when Durst, who professed admiration for the film, offered to be interviewed by its director Andrew Jarecki, despite not having previously cooperated with journalists, and the resulting documentary miniseries, ''The Jinx'', leading Durst to be arrested on first-degree murder. |
| 16 | * ''Film/AllTheMoneyInTheWorld'' is mostly remembered for sexual molestation allegations against Creator/KevinSpacey coming out shortly after filming completed, requiring him to be digitally replaced in every scene by Creator/ChristopherPlummer. |
| 17 | * At one point it became impossible to talk about ''Film/{{Allied}}'' without mentioning the rumors that the reason Creator/BradPitt, one of its stars, separated from his wife Creator/AngelinaJolie during production was because he allegedly had an affair with his co-star in this film, Creator/MarionCotillard, who was herself already in a relationship. It went to the point that Cotillard's partner issued a public declaration stating that he backed her and lashing out against those who spread the rumors. The rumors eventually fizzled out after the movie came out to mixed reviews and reviewers mostly agreed that, while Pitt and Cotillard gave good performances, they had next to zero chemistry together on screen, with one critic writing that if they were actually lovers in real life, they should be given an Oscar for how well they "hid it" on the film. |
| 18 | * The 1931 movie adaptation of ''An American Tragedy'' is mostly remembered for the fact that Theodore Dreiser, author of the book it was based on, unsuccessfully sued to have the movie's release suppressed due to being displeased with changes made by director Josef von Sternberg and screenwriter Samuel Hoffenstein. |
| 19 | * ''Film/AngelHeart'' has a devoted cult following, but it's probably better known in mainstream circles as "that movie that caused Lisa Bonet to be fired from ''Series/TheCosbyShow'' because she performed a sex scene." The fact that Creator/BillCosby's image would be tarnished with claims that he had a long history as a sexual predator nearly 30 years after the fact (for which he was eventually convicted) only adds to the irony of Bonet's firing. |
| 20 | * The 2013 religious drama ''Film/AloneYetNotAlone'' most likely would have been forgotten if it weren't for the fact that the film's sole Oscar nomination, for the title song, was immediately revoked, prompting baseless accusations from conservatives (whose resentment towards "liberal" Hollywood is well known) that it was due to an "anti-Christian" bias in the Academy. This argument conflicted with the Academy's claim that the song's co-writer, Bruce Broughton, violated certain campaign rules, and the song was pulled out of the running for those reasons. This was the year that [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 "Let it Go"]] won the Best Song category, and it was argued that "Alone Yet Not Alone" would not have stood a chance against it anyway. |
| 21 | * ''Film/AptPupil'' is largely overshadowed by the reports that Creator/BryanSinger preyed on and sexually abused young cast members on the film, which became revisited when an investigative article published in ''The Atlantic'' detailed that Singer molested an extra. |
| 22 | * The 1997 French-German-Italian {{Biopic}} ''Film/{{Artemisia}}'', about the female Italian Baroque painter Creator/ArtemisiaGentileschi, soon became overshadowed by a controversy over its portrayal of an incident of Artemisia's life. In real life, Artemisia was raped by fellow painter Agostino Tassi, for which he went on trial and was convicted (although the verdict was later annulled). The film, however, portrays Artemisia and Tassi as being in a consensual relationship, the rape accusation coming from his incensed father, Artemisia as refusing to testify that she was raped (when in reality transcripts of Artemisia's testimony at the trial exist, in which she describes the rape in vivid detail) and the conviction being the result of a devastated Tassi making a sham confession to protect her (despite Tassi initially claiming to never having relations with her, and part of his defense at the trial consisting of portraying Artemisia as promiscuous). This resulted in feminist Gloria Steinem, incensed by the film's portrayal, organizing a campaign (in conjunction with art historian Mary Garrard) to inform audiences, as the film was advertised as being "BasedOnATrueStory", resulting in the distributor retracting said claim (though the film's portrayal nonetheless found support in feminist Germaine Greer). |
| 23 | * ''Film/TheAssignment2016'' is best known for the heavy criticism it received from trans activists, for the way it portrays gender reassignment (portraying an EasySexChange, when it's actually a difficult process many transgender people find themselves gatekeeped out of, and can take many years), and the many unfortunate implications of its premise (for example furthering the idea of someone who isn't trans somehow going through the entire process and erasing the stigma actual trans people suffer through, even when they pass). |
| 24 | * Brazilian film ''Amor Estranho Amor'' (''Film/LoveStrangeLove'') is best remembered nowadays for having a scene featuring Xuxa, who later became that country's biggest children's TV hostess, ''seducing a 12-year-old boy while dressed as a teddy bear''. In 1982, when the film was made, Xuxa was a model best known for doing naked pictorials and softcore porn movies; while she's never seemed to make any bones about this, even making statements to the effect that "sex symbols and children go hand in hand," she did successfully sue Google and various other sites to block search results for the film, thus combining it with the StreisandEffect. |
| 25 | * ''Film/BadLieutenant'' is best known not, surprisingly enough, for its transgressive content, but for its original version being banned over use of a rap song with uncleared samples. Director Abel Ferrara still feels sore about it to this day. |
| 26 | * ''Film/TheBasketballDiaries'' is more notorious these days for allegedly inspiring UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} co-conspirators Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris to go on the infamous school rampage. The controversial part in question involves the main character walking into his classroom in a BadassLongcoat and mowing down everyone he hates with a shotgun while his friends cheer him on. A school rampage wasn't even the main subject of the movie or the memoir of poet Jim Carroll that it is based on; this scene was actually a ''fantasy'' that the character has as his [[DrugsAreBad drug addiction]] starts spiraling out of control. |
| 27 | * ''Film/TheBatmanSerial'', though as low-budget and ill-made as one might expect a 40s action serial to be, is a pretty important production for the character, being the character's first live-action adaptation and thereby one of the first things that helped nail Batman down as a cultural force, [[RetCanon influencing the comics in its introduction of the "Bat's Cave" and its portrayal of Alfred,]] and perhaps most of all, being the direct inspiration (albeit for SoBadItsGood reasons) for ''Series/Batman1966'', which would go on to save the franchise. However, the thing that forever marked it in history was the fact that it came out during World War II, which led to a war propaganda angle. That meant not only a YellowPeril Japanese villain (portrayed by a white man in {{Yellowface}}), but also more than a few instances of full-on textual anti-Japanese racism: the most infamous being when the narrator speaks of how "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans a wise government rounded up the shifty-eyed Japs.]]" Because of this, the serial has gone down as one of (if not ''the'') most racist ''Batman'' stories ever told, and whatever merits it might hold are largely cancelled out by discussion of that. |
| 28 | * ''Film/BillionaireBoysClub'' struggled to find a distributor. It eventually did... only for star Creator/KevinSpacey to get caught up in a sexual misconduct scandal. When the film was released, though with little publicity in the West, there was no shortage of headlines that neglected to mention how allegations against Spacey had not been made yet when the film was shot more than two years ago. |
| 29 | * ''Film/BirdBox'' resulted in a huge amount of videos of people trying to do various tasks while blindfolded, often putting themselves and others in a good deal of danger. Creator/{{Netflix}} was actually driven to make an official statement asking them to stop (and covering their ass legally if any of them do go horribly wrong), and it likely played a big role in [=YouTube=] banning all videos of dangerous stunts a few weeks after the film's release. And then there was backlash from a group of French-Canadians who survived the 2013 Lac-Mégantic rail disaster after it was revealed that the film used stock footage of said disaster. Even worse was that despite apologizing, they initially kept it in the film (but they did remove it later). |
| 30 | * Creator/DWGriffith's film ''Film/TheBirthOfANation1915'' is a milestone in the history of cinema as an art form, pioneering many techniques [[GenreTurningPoint that would shape motion pictures for decades to come]]. Unfortunately, it's also a film that glorifies the UsefulNotes/KuKluxKlan, uses white people in {{blackface}} to portray the black characters, portrays said black characters as either savage criminals or lazy idiots, and has been cited as a key influence in [[TheRedStapler the revival of the Klan]] in the 1910s and '20s. These aspects have overshadowed most of its historical significance. For these reasons, many Griffith fans prefer to point to the mostly inoffensive ''Film/{{Intolerance}}'' as his landmark Hollywood film, even though it had almost zero impact on American cinema (at least at first) and was [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff better appreciated overseas, especially in Russia]]. |
| 31 | * Nate Parker's film ''Film/TheBirthOfANation2016'' intended to reclaim the title of the 1915 film and turn it into an important work in African-American cinema and was poised to make Parker a big name in independent film. However, that was all derailed when a 1999 rape case involving Parker and his co-writer Jean Celestin came into the spotlight (not helped by the fact that the alleged victim later committed suicide), after ''already'' receiving complaints about a non-existent rape scene being added in the middle of a real-life historical event in order to motivate the hero's rebellion. Parker [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor wouldn't work on another picture in any capacity]] until the independent film ''Film/AmericanSkin'',[[note]]which won the Sconfini Section Prize for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival but wasn’t released until 2 years after its showcase[[/note]] and the film was completely absent from that year's award season. |
| 32 | * The Creator/BruceLee biopic ''Film/BirthOfTheDragon'' got a lot of accusations, just based on the trailer alone, of whitewashing by having his story be told through the eyes of a white man loosely based off of [[Creator/SteveMcQueenActor Steve McQueen]], one of Lee's real-life friends. The character, Steve [=McKee=], also has a [[MightyWhiteyAndMellowYellow relationship with an Asian woman]] in the film, while Linda Lee Cadwell, Lee's real-life Caucasian wife, is nowhere to be seen. Lee's daughter, Shannon Lee, has gone on record as to distance herself from the film, claiming that it lacks any understanding of her father's philosophy and approach to martial arts. |
| 33 | * While ''Film/BlazingSaddles'' is still well-known and still hailed as a comedy classic, most modern discussions of the film are usually tied to the perceived political correctness in modern comedies than for any of its merits. Although Creator/MelBrooks intended the film to be anti-racist, (though he is also an [[TheGadfly admitted provocateur]] and was probably ''hoping'' that some people would be offended by it), one who had never seen ''Blazing Saddles'' could easily be forgiven for thinking that the movie ''is'' racist just by hearing people argue that "it could never be made today." It went to the point that, in the wake of the George Floyd protests and HBO Max briefly pulling ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'' from their service so they could put a ContentWarning in front of it, prominent conservatives, including Ted Cruz, suggested that liberals were calling for a boycott of ''Blazing Saddles'' [[https://www.salon.com/2020/06/11/no-the-left-isnt-canceling-blazing-saddles--but-the-right-wants-you-to-believe-that/ despite no evidence to suggest that such boycotts are really happening.]] |
| 34 | * ''Film/BohemianRhapsody'': |
| 35 | ** The Music/{{Queen|Band}} biopic has a very controversial standing owing to the presence of Creator/BryanSinger as director during the [=#MeToo=] era. Going into production, Singer was already contentious due to longstanding accusations of sexual abuse towards underage boys long before the Weinstein effect, with many raising questions about the baggage he would bring. During filming, Singer was noted for his many absences and abusive behavior toward the cast that led to his firing, though he was still credited and financially compensated for his work under [=DGA=] rules. Things got worse when history was revisited in the wake of the film's financial success and awards season tour when an investigative article was released on his accusers the day after it received Oscar nominations. This led to an increased level of scrutiny towards the film being nominated for awards in light of Singer's actions, leading to GLAAD and BAFTA withdrawing their nominations and Singer's career becoming radioactive. In particular, Creator/RamiMalek very noticeably avoided mentioning Singer during any of the numerous awards he won for the film when the director is usually one of the first people thanked. |
| 36 | ** There was more controversy over the film's alleged homophobia, with it being accused of downplaying Music/FreddieMercury's bisexuality, associating his man-on-man sexual activities with psychological dysfunction, and treating his death from AIDS as "punishment" for not being straight. All of this being quite ironic as Singer himself is openly bisexual and admitted to treating the ''X-Men'' movies as if they were gay rights allegories. |
| 37 | * In the early-1990s, Creator/KimBasinger was sued into bankruptcy for refusing to fulfill her contractual obligation to star in ''Film/BoxingHelena''. The lawsuit against Basinger got so much media coverage that ''Boxing Helena'' ultimately became associated with said trial. In hindsight though, it is viewed that Basinger made the right choice to not star in the film, which had an extremely AudienceAlienatingPremise. (The plot of the film is that a surgeon becomes obsessed with a woman, and amputates both of her arms and both of her legs so as to keep her in a box.) |
| 38 | * ''Film/BreakfastAtTiffanys'' is impossible to talk about, let alone screen, without having to confront Creator/MickeyRooney's [[{{Yellowface}} extremely offensive portrayal of Mr. Yunioshi]]. Later DVD and Blu-Ray releases of the film include a featurette discussing the depiction of Asians in Hollywood, as well as apologies from some of the people involved. |
| 39 | * ''Film/TheBrownBunny'' is a film known mostly for an unsimulated oral sex scene, being booed harshly at the Cannes Film Festival, and the subsequent media catfight between Creator/RogerEbert and its outspoken director Vincent Gallo. The film was later ReCut and given a wide release, and Ebert gave the recut a positive three-star review; however, he still held to his previous statements that the original cut was one of the worst films he'd ever seen at Cannes. |
| 40 | * ''Film/CafeSociety'' had the unfortunate distinction of being the movie Creator/WoodyAllen was working on in 2014 when his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow reaffirmed her allegations that he had molested her; this news swallowed up absolutely everything about the film itself, and its female cast members garnered quite a bit of criticism for being willing to continue working with Allen. |
| 41 | * ''Film/{{Caligula}}'' has been a notorious subject since its release for its extremely TroubledProduction, wrought with constant tensions between scriptwriter Creator/GoreVidal, director Tinto Brass, and producer Bob Guccione of ''Penthouse'' (yes, '''[[NotSafeForWork that]]''' ''Penthouse'') and resulting in a {{gorn}}-laden PornWithPlot film that ended up being a GenreKiller for the "porno chic" movement of the 70s. Even after receiving a ReCut that removed the Guccione-shot hardcore porn scenes, making Brass's intentions of a scathing political satire more apparent, the film is only really known for its acidic production and for being what co-star Creator/HelenMirren dubbed "an irresistible mix of art and genitals." |
| 42 | * ''Film/CannibalHolocaust'' was notorious to such a degree that it forced director Ruggero Deodato and the actors to prove in a court of law that nobody died in production and the gore was just special effects. There is still a great deal of controversy to this day relating to animal cruelty, such as an infamous scene in which an actual live turtle is brutally decapitated and eviscerated onscreen. Seven animals were killed during the film's production. Although the director himself condemned his past actions and seems genuinely regretful, many people are turned off by the presence of actual animal deaths onscreen. |
| 43 | * ''Film/{{Captivity}}'' would be a forgotten horror-movie footnote if not for its disturbing advertising campaign, most notably a four-panel billboard that depict the female main character being kidnapped, tortured, and slumped over dead. People were outraged at such violent imagery shown in very public areas, especially where children could see it. It got worse when it was reported the MPAA had already rejected the billboards and the studio went rogue in releasing them, forcing the studio to delay the film by two months to scrub the promotion; otherwise, the MPAA would have not rated the film at all, which would have been a death knell for the film theatrically. It hardly mattered for the film's box office chances regardless; the film grossed a meager $2 million total in the U.S. and the very public backlash of its ad campaign made studios re-think the TorturePorn genre, leading this film to be a GenreKiller. Studios shunted films of this ilk, save for the established ''Saw'' franchise, to direct-to-home release, while later that year, a little film at Screamfest premiered two years before becoming one of the greatest success stories in movie history and steered the theatrical horror genre into a more psychological and lucrative direction: ''Film/ParanormalActivity''. |
| 44 | * ''Film/{{Cats}}'', a film adaptation of [[Theatre/{{Cats}} the 1981 musical]] by Creator/AndrewLloydWebber, quickly became one of the most infamous films of 2019 because of director Creator/TomHooper's decision to manually [[{{Rotoscoping}} rotoscope]] CGI cat costumes over the actors' skintight bodysuits, instead of just using MotionCapture, as is standard, in the name of realism[[note]]which works for some of Hooper's other films like ''Film/TheKingsSpeech'' or ''Film/LesMiserables2012''. However, applying realism to such a surreal musical as ''Cats'' misses the point of the original production[[/note]]. As a result, the cats are widely seen as [[UnintentionalUncannyValley too creepy]] and [[FetishRetardant sexualised]], especially for a [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids family film]]. The film is also infamous for HostilityOnTheSet between Hooper and the (overworked) VFX team. |
| 45 | * ''Film/ChildsPlay3'', and the ''Child's Play'' franchise in general, is still notorious in Britain over sensational media stories linking it to the murder of James Bulger in 1993 by two eleven-year-old boys. One of the boys' fathers had rented the film from a video store a few months before (although the boy in question had not been living with him at the time, and the boy himself denied watching it), and there were exaggerated claims that the details of the murder replicated scenes in the film. |
| 46 | * ''Film/{{Chinatown}}'' is generally agreed to be an excellent film, but what people who haven't seen it tend to know about it is that it includes ParentalIncest as a major plot point. The BigBad of the movie also happens to be a pedophile, and while it was made well before Creator/RomanPolanski's arrest for child molestation, it has still prompted cynical comparisons between the character and the director. Adding to the unease is the fact that it was Polański who insisted on changing the original screenplay ending [[note]][[spoiler:a BittersweetEnding where the villain is shot dead by his daughter and she's arrested (but her daughter--who is a product of incest-- is saved from a life of sexual abuse and the villain and his corrupt water-utility operation loses its mastermind)]][[/note]] to the ending in the movie. |
| 47 | * ''Film/{{Chocolat}}'' is mostly remembered for having an absurdly aggressive Oscar campaign despite mediocre reviews that garnered five Academy Award nominations but no actual wins, with many detractors arguing that it only got nominated because Miramax and Harvey Weinstein (himself covered in the real life section) twisted arms behind the scenes. |
| 48 | * The UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} film ''Film/ChoriChoriChupkeChupke'' was an important film that cast a light on surrogate motherhood, an otherwise taboo issue in India. It even portrayed both the couple hiring the woman to bear their child, and the surrogate mother, sympathetically, showing them all as just doing what needs to be done, quietly and discretely. However, the movie was suspected by [[UsefulNotes/KhakisCarryingLathis the CBI]] of having been funded by notorious Mumbai crime boss Chota Shakeel as a way to launder money. |
| 49 | * ''Film/CitizenKane'' once had such a reputation, although it eventually managed to escape it. It was once best known for the fact that William Randolph Hearst believed the film to be slandering him (even though his name was never mentioned in the dialogue) and tried to stop the film from being made. It was also known for director/star Creator/OrsonWelles's somewhat arrogant attitude toward the Hollywood establishment while making the film, which stirred up so much resentment toward Welles that ''Kane'' was snubbed at the Academy Awards. Today all of that is forgotten except by film buffs and historians, and ''Kane'' is recognized as perhaps the greatest film ever. |
| 50 | * ''Film/{{Cleopatra}}'' is remembered less for whatever merits it had as a movie and more for its legendarily TroubledProduction, notably including a major scandal from the romance between Creator/ElizabethTaylor and Creator/RichardBurton, both of whom were already married to other people at the time it started. The movie was such a financial and public relations disaster that it nearly drove 20th Century Fox into bankruptcy. |
| 51 | * Everyone will agree that ''Film/AClockworkOrange'' is a controversial film. However, in the United Kingdom, its reputation is more legendary because the film was pulled from distribution there at director Creator/StanleyKubrick's request from 1973 until his death in 1999. Therefore, its controversial reputation remained far more intact than in other countries. |
| 52 | * ''Film/CloudAtlas'' will probably be remembered more for the controversy over the decision to have white actors appear in {{Yellowface}} than for its story. |
| 53 | * While doing publicity for the film ''Film/ColdPursuit'', Creator/LiamNeeson was asked about getting into the headspace of a character filled with rage and seeking revenge and revealed that in his 20s he was driven into a similar all-consuming rage after a close friend was raped. When the only detail she could remember was that the attacker was black, he spent a week roaming the streets of black neighborhoods with a club in the hopes that someone would attack him and he could kill them, which led to a personal epiphany about the pointless CycleOfRevenge he'd witnessed while growing up in the middle of UsefulNotes/TheTroubles and caused him to abandon those racist feelings. This promptly kicked off a heated argument about how much forgiveness he deserved which caused significant damage to his public image, and in which the film itself was forgotten. |
| 54 | * ''Film/TheConqueror'' is best known for three things: the [[QuestionableCasting questionable]] decision to cast Creator/JohnWayne as UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan, playing a major role in destroying Creator/RKOPictures, and the fact that most of the filming took place downwind of a nuclear testing site, which has been speculated to have played a role in the deaths of many of the cast and crew from cancer. |
| 55 | * ''Film/CoolCatSavesTheKids'' wouldn't have reached its level of infamy if it weren't for director Derek Savage's attempts to remove parodies and negative reviews of his movie from [=YouTube=]. The irony of the film's anti-bullying message [[BrokenAesop being undermined by Savage's tactics]] is not lost on people. |
| 56 | * The 1996 film ''Crash'' (based off [[Literature/{{Crash}} the book of the same name]], not [[Film/{{Crash}} a 2004 film about racial tension]]) is a film that revolves around a couple reviving their failing marriage by replicating famous car crashes and getting sexually aroused by it. The premise caused the UK's MoralGuardians, most notably the ''Daily Mail'', to campaign against both the violence and the sex (the latter of which was agreed to be the source of the controversy, ''somehow'' overlooking the whole "recreating car crashes" premise) and cause a huge national debate that lasted for a few years. The film was agreed by critics to be okay, but some said that the campaigning against it had heightened their expectations, leaving them disappointed. |
| 57 | * The 2004 ''Film/{{Crash}}'' itself is best remembered for its unexpected victory over ''Film/BrokebackMountain'' at the 2005 Oscars than its actual content, a decision many felt both then and now to be the result of either homophobia or fear of backlash from homophobes on the part of the Academy voters. Some have even argued that this extends to ''Brokeback Mountain'' itself, saying that the film, [[FairForItsDay whose treatment of homosexuality has come to be viewed as dated in the following decades]], is only seen in a positive light ''because'' of the AwardSnub. |
| 58 | * ''Film/TheCrow1994'' is often remembered for the tragic death of its star Creator/BrandonLee during filming as the result of injuries sustained from a malfunctioning prop gun. Although it was a critical and financial success, most still remember it as the final film in his career that Lee never lived to see finished. And when Michael Massee, who played [[TheDragon Funboy]], passed away in 2016, [[NeverLiveItDown the one thing every obituary mentioned about him was that he fired that fatal shot]], even though he was so horrified by it that he kept a low profile for years afterward. The only other thing that the film tends to be remembered for nowadays is being the inspiration for the DarkerAndEdgier persona used by pro wrestler Wrestling/{{Sting}} from the late-90s onward. |
| 59 | * ''Film/TheCurse1987'' is a low-budget horror movie that ended up failing both critically and financially before falling into obscurity. Nowadays, anyone that remembers it likely does so for Creator/WilWheaton's recollections of how much of a nightmare filming it was for him ([[StageMom his parents]] forced him to do it despite his protests and he and his sister were regularly endangered and abused on set), to the point it ended up giving him PTSD. |
| 60 | * ''Film/{{Cuties}}'' (known in its native France as ''Mignonnes'') was initially well-received when first shown internationally at the Sundance Film Festival and would've flown under the radar if not for Netflix releasing the film in September 2020. Netflix's poster and trailer for the film were criticized for depicting the 11-year old cast in skimpy dance clothing doing suggestive poses, [[MisaimedMarketing which clashes heavily with the movie being a criticism of child exploitation in the media]]. This led many people to accuse Netflix of promoting pedophilia, despite the fact that Netflix only had the distribution rights to the film. Netflix apologized and removed the poster and description, but the damage was done, with several American and Turkish politicians asking for Netflix to be investigated before Netflix received felony indictments from the state of Texas in 2022. |
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| 64 | * The American ''Film/{{Death Note|2017}}'' film is little known for anything but the many accusations it has gotten from many people for transplanting the setting to America and whitewashing the predominantly-Asian cast, as well as the numerous changes from the original [[Anime/DeathNote anime and manga]]. Controversy erupted again in January 2019 when it was revealed that the news footage of a train accident was misappropriated footage of a real-life train accident from 2010. |
| 65 | * ''Film/DeathOfAPresident'', a British film about the fictional assassination of a U.S. president, would've flown under the radar if not for the fact that not only the film chose a real-life U.S. president for the fictional assassination, UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush, but it was made while said president was still in office (the film was released in 2006). As such, the film was criticized by political figures, including Gretchen Esell of the Texas Republican Party and then-junior Senator UsefulNotes/HillaryRodhamClinton ([[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch even though she personally hadn't seen the film]]). The Bush administration declined to comment on the film, claiming that it didn't "dignify a response". |
| 66 | * [[Film/DeathWish2018 The 2018 remake]] of ''Film/DeathWish'' has largely been overshadowed by the unfortunate timing of being released a month after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoneman_Douglas_High_School_shooting the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting]]. |
| 67 | * ''Detainment'', a 2018 short film based on the trials of the 1993 murder of James Bulger, would have likely gone without controversy until it was nominated for the 91st Academy Awards for the Best Short Film. While it didn't raise attention in America, the film ended up attracting much controversy in the United Kingdom (Bulger's home country and where the murder took place), with Denise Fergus, Bulger's mother, claiming that the film would cast Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, his killers, in a sympathetic light.[[note]]While Thompson hasn't been in trouble with the law since then, Venables has been jailed twice for child pornography offenses and was jailed again in 2017 for such.[[/note]] [[CowboyBeBopAtHisComputer Although the film doesn't portray the killers sympathetically]], the film is little known besides the controversy regarding its content. |
| 68 | * Creator/KenRussell's ''Film/TheDevils'' (1971) has been banned, censored and re-cut in so many countries that several different versions of different lengths exist--and Creator/WarnerBros is hell-bent on ensuring it ''stays'' censored, and that's when it even ''allows'' any release. Its offensive blasphemous content has brought more attention than the actual picture itself. |
| 69 | * ''Film/LesDiables'' is mostly remembered for the fact that its female lead, Adele Haenel, later accused director Christophe Ruggia of stalking and sexually harassing her from the time she was 12 until she turned 15. His behavior upset her so badly that she quit acting for around five years. Ruggia would end up being expelled from the French Directors' Guild and prosecuted for sexual harassment and sexual aggression. |
| 70 | * ''Film/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'': |
| 71 | ** It's not very easy to talk about ''[[Film/DiaryOfAWimpyKidDogDays Dog Days]]'' without mentioning all the [[YouAreFat fat-shaming]] Rowley's actor, Creator/RobertCapron, suffered from during a screening of the movie which culminated in him developing an eating disorder that went un-noticed until he got caught throwing away a ham-and-cheese sandwich his dad made. |
| 72 | ** The fourth film, ''The Long Haul''. On top of the intense negative reception the movie garnered from fans and critics alike, many people were especially outraged with the new cast (they don't even look like they could be related - especially Susan); specifically, Rodrick's new actor, Charlie Wright, got hate mail and ''death threats'' for ruining Rodrick's entire character. It eventually led to the infamous [=#NotMyRodrick=] to start spreading. |
| 73 | * ''Film/TheDilemma'' is better known for the character Ronnie's homophobic remarks (one of which, infamously, is ''the very first line'' of one of the trailers) and Creator/VinceVaughn's real-life defense of them than the movie's actual content. |
| 74 | * ''Film/TheDisasterArtist'', a film about the making of famous SoBadItsGood film ''Film/TheRoom2003'', was released to critical acclaim, with director and star Creator/JamesFranco winning a Golden Globe for Best Actor... which happened to be on the exact same night when serious allegations of sexual misconduct and abuse were levied against him. While the film was considered a shoo-in for several other big awards that season (including buzz of Franco being nominated for an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward), [[AwardSnub such potential was sidelined]] as it appeared nobody wanted to award him anything amidst very public and uncomfortable accusations. |
| 75 | * ''Film/ADogsPurpose'' got hit with outcry from animal rights groups when a behind the scenes video featuring a German Shepard being forced to perform a water stunt and ending up soaked got leaked online. While the authenticity of the clip has come under question,[[note]]The American Humane Association reported that a third party animal cruelty expert said safety measures were used and that the video was deliberately edited to mislead the public.[[/note]] the film got hit with several negative reviews before release from people who did believe the video. |
| 76 | * Even before its release, ''Film/DontWorryDarling'' was less known for its plot or overall quality and more known for the HostilityOnTheSet that occurred behind the scenes, largely centered around the former casting of Creator/ShiaLaBeouf (with conflicting accounts over whether he quit or was fired) and the alleged affair between Creator/OliviaWilde and Music/HarryStyles. As the film itself got a fairly lukewarm critical reception, some people find the behind-the-scenes drama more compelling than the actual movie. |
| 77 | * ''Film/DrivingMissDaisy'' is best remembered for winning the Best Picture Oscar over ''Film/DoTheRightThing'' (which wasn't even nominated), a move that is often considered one of the biggest {{Award Snub}}s in the history of the Academy Awards. Not helping matters was the subject matter of both films: ''Do the Right Thing'', being a Creator/SpikeLee joint, was one of his trademark race relations studies, while ''Driving Miss Daisy'' chronicles several years in the life of a white woman and her African American chauffeur in the Deep South, which is also about race relations but from a very different perspective. |
| 78 | * The films of Creator/ClintEastwood |
| 79 | ** ''Film/AmericanSniper'' is a well-received film, but it's at least as well known for what many found to be [[HistoricalHeroUpgrade overly sanitized depictions]] of UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror in general and its protagonist, the late Chris Kyle, in particular. While the film portrays Kyle as a [[TheParagon saintly figure]], according to some of his former comrades-in-arms, he was actually a racist and a religious zealot who frequently broke protocol and was extremely difficult to work with due to these facts. Other controversies include the fact that the only Muslim characters in the film are either helpless victims for Kyle to save or over-the-top villains for him to kill and the fact that ordinary soldiers and Marines are portrayed as incompetent next to Kyle and the elite Navy [=SEALs=] and often need to be rescued by them. |
| 80 | ** ''Film/{{Sully}}'' did well with both critics and audiences at the time, but is now more known today for the fact that Eastwood gave a HistoricalVillainUpgrade to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) than for any of its merits. |
| 81 | ** Although critics proclaimed ''Film/RichardJewell'' to be another Eastwood masterpiece, the film caught a lot of flak for ''two'' different controversies that resulted in the film becoming a BoxOfficeBomb upon release and be shunned for the vast majority of categories during awards season: |
| 82 | *** The film depicts journalist Kathy Scruggs (who wrote the article that led to Jewell being wrongfully accused for the 1996 Atlanta bombing) trading sex with an FBI agent for inside information. Scruggs was a real person, who was also dead by the time of the film's release and unable to defend herself. (It didn't help that, while Scruggs was a real person, the male FBI agent depicted trading sensitive information for sexual favors was a completely fictional creation.) All her former colleagues vehemently insisted that she had never slept with a source, and Jewell's legal attorneys defended Scruggs, saying that it was posthumous slander. The ''Atlanta Journal-Constitution'', the paper Scruggs worked for, threatened to sue Warner Bros. for defaming her, but backed off after learning about a ContentWarning in the film that insisted that "dramatic license" was taken. That controversy was further boosted when Creator/OliviaWilde, the actress who played Scruggs, released a statement that completely ignored the main issue being raised, and seemed to not be aware she was a real person, before quickly changing her tune after her comments got serious backlash, saying that as the child of two journalists she'd never want to unfairly malign the profession, she doesn't believe that the real Scruggs ever did it, and that she did not have any control over that aspect of the film. Fox News presenter Jesse Watters defended the film on-air, insisting that female reporters slept with their sources "all the time", which got ''him'' in addition to the movie attacked for misogyny. |
| 83 | *** Public reaction to the plot of the film was also split across political lines, with right-wingers claiming as a great work of filmmaking about the life of an American everyman hero, and a template for how conservatives could succeed in Hollywood, and left-wingers calling it pro-Trump[=/=]MAGA propaganda for depicting the media and FBI as corrupt and duplicitous, and accused Eastwood of hypocrisy for the aforementioned portrayal of Scruggs. |
| 84 | * ''Film/TheEliteSquad'' already suffered before release with its digital leak. Then came the discussion on whether the aggressive special corps were glorifying police violence (though it was mostly [[ValuesDissonance overseas]]; in Brazil, reviewers considered criminality was high and cruel and [[PayEvilUntoEvil at times can only be fought by using equally brutal methods]], and also thought it wasn't a work [[DoNotDoThisCoolThing glamorizing criminals]] for a change). |
| 85 | * TheFilmOfTheBook ''Film/EndersGame'' was boycotted because of Creator/OrsonScottCard's homophobic views, despite his not getting a single penny from ticket sales[[note]]He had sold the rights for a flat fee years earlier[[/note]] and said film having absolutely zero homophobic themes or undertones. |
| 86 | * ''Film/TheEnglishPatient'' is perhaps best-known today for the accusations that it robbed ''Film/{{Fargo}}'' of a Best Picture Oscar. Other than that, it's otherwise known for being mocked on a ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' episode. |
| 87 | * While ''Film/EnterTheDragon'' is remembered for being Creator/BruceLee's final completed film appearance before his death in 1973, being released a month after Lee's death, it's also remembered for being a good martial arts film on its own right, being the most commercially successful martial arts movie ever made, a record it has held ever since its release. In the UK, however, it is at least as well known for kicking off a ban of nunchucks on the screen under controversial BBFC director James Ferman as it is for its merits as a martial arts picture. Copycat crimes inspired by the film are said to have caused Ferman to take a hatchet to any film or television program that so much as ''showed'' nunchucks for his entire career at the board. |
| 88 | * ''Film/{{Eraserhead}}'' has the baby. Primarily because no one associated with the film, ''especially'' not Creator/DavidLynch, cares to discuss what the baby was made out of, leading to persistent rumors that it was a real animal fetus... or even a real ''human'' fetus: |
| 89 | -->"They're not even sure it ''is'' a baby..." |
| 90 | * If you see any articles on ''Film/ExodusGodsAndKings'', chances are they're more about the film's casting choices (white actors playing Egyptian and Middle Eastern characters) than of the actual film itself. Among the religious crowd who would generally be this movie's target audience, there's Creator/RidleyScott, an atheist, choosing to depict the Plagues and Parting of the Sea as mostly natural phenomena instead of divine miracles. There's also Scott defending his casting choices with the much-publicized quote "I can't mount a film of this budget and say that my lead actor is Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such, I'm just not going to get financed". Furthermore, before the film came out, Creator/ChristianBale got some flack for describing the real Moses as "likely schizophrenic and one of the most barbaric individuals that I ever read about in my life." |
| 91 | * ''Film/ExtremelyLoudAndIncrediblyClose'' is known primarily for two things: being transparently obvious OscarBait (a coming-of-age drama with an AllStarCast following [[HollywoodAutism an ambiguously autistic child]] who lost his father in the September 11 attacks), and the fact that the Academy Awards took it hook, line, and sinker, nominating it for ''Best Picture'' with only one other nomination (Best Supporting Actor), despite the film's reception being lukewarm at best (it has a 45% approval rating among 191 critics on Rotten Tomatoes, the worst of any Best Picture nominee by a vast margin), with it being entirely ignored by other major award shows. This unsurprisingly led to a lot of hoopla about the integrity of the nomination and voting process, and ''Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close'' is most often cited as a case study of the highly questionable studio politics in attempting success via [[OscarBait Oscar prestige]], and how easy it is to achieve vis-à-vis premise alone (the movie itself won neither nominations and only made $55 million from a $40 million budget). |
| 92 | * The ''Film/FantasticBeasts'' series has multiple controversies overshadowing its entries. |
| 93 | ** After Creator/JKRowling provided new details of international wizarding schools in the lead-up to ''Film/FantasticBeastsTheCrimesOfGrindelwald,'' she was accused of appropriating and misrepresenting the associated cultures. Most of this criticism regarded the film's American setting; aspects of several Native American cultures are mixed together and portrayed as ''Franchise/HarryPotter''-style magic. |
| 94 | ** Prior to the release of ''Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'', Creator/JohnnyDepp's then-wife, Creator/AmberHeard, filed for divorce and alleged he perpetrated domestic violence against her. Protestors called for recasting Johnny Depp's role and grew more heated with his increased prominence in Film/FantasticBeastsTheCrimesOfGrindelwald. Creator/JKRowling issued a statement defending Depp and his casting. Depp later alleged Heard abused him and legal filings have flown back-and-forth; the controversy is hard to separate from the films. It got more heated when he was in fact recast for ''Film/FantasticBeastsTheSecretsOfDumbledore''. |
| 95 | ** ''Film/FantasticBeastsTheCrimesOfGrindelwald'' depicts Nagini the snake as a [[ForcedTransformation cursed East Asian woman]], which received [[http://www.pajiba.com/film_reviews/jk-rowling-is-in-danger-of-becoming-the-next-george-lucas.php criticism from many East Asian viewers]] and further worsened Creator/JKRowling's reputation for awkwardly-portrayed retroactive diversity in her works. |
| 96 | ** The release of ''Film/FantasticBeastsTheSecretsOfDumbledore'' was overshadowed by Rowling's increasingly controversial posts vilifying and bullying transgender women, which led to fear of people boycotting the film due to her involvement. This became more heated after the film's trailer was released, as it significantly downplayed Rowling's involvement in the film with her name being barely visible. The film itself also contains dialogue that some saw as an attempt to defend her comments (with one line stating that all views should be heard even if some find them repugnant). This is seen as a factor in the film's below-average performance at the box office (being the lowest-grossing film in the Harry Potter franchise) which led to the apparent cancellation of the rest of the series. |
| 97 | * ''Film/FantasticFour2015'' became far better known for its well-publicized and ''very'' deeply TroubledProduction and for being made [[AshCanCopy to prevent the Fantastic Four film rights from reverting to]] Creator/MarvelStudios than for its quality as a film. Even there, critics and audiences alike tore the film to shreds due to [[InNameOnly the numerous changes]] made from the source material and [[QuestionableCasting miscasting the characters]]. In particular, there were those who took umbrage over the casting of African-American actor Creator/MichaelBJordan to play Johnny Storm, [[RaceLift who was Caucasian in the comics]]. Jordan's claims that Creator/StanLee approved of the casting didn't do much to help. Suffice to say, the movie [[BoxOfficeBomb bombed so badly at the box office]] that it did damage to Fox's stocks at the time, [[StillbornFranchise completely killed the franchise before it had even started]], and the actors themselves have [[CreatorBacklash all gone out of their ways to distance themselves from it]] (Jordan, in particular, managed to redeem himself in the eyes of Marvel fans with his well-received performance as Erik Killmonger in ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}''), and Disney eventually announced that it would be buying Fox and its associated [=IPs=], including the Fantastic Four film rights, with the acquisition being finalized in early 2019. |
| 98 | ** Creator/{{Marvel}} disliked it so much that the Marvel NOW's run of ''ComicBook/ThePunisher [[http://www.slashfilm.com/fantastic-four-movie-cast-killed-comics/ #12]]'' opens up with CaptainErsatz versions of the actors getting blown to smithereens. Though the writer of the issue [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial denied actually killing the characters off]. |
| 99 | * ''Film/FirstMan'' would have very well been seen as yet another entry into Creator/DamienChazelle's oeuvre if it weren't for certain conservative groups complaining about the film's omission of UsefulNotes/NeilArmstrong placing the American flag on the moon.[[note]]While the film does not show Armstrong's act of placing the flag, it does show the flag on the Moon later...[[{{Irony}} where it was knocked down by the blast of the Lunar Module launching]][[/note]] This decision caused the film to take a lot of widely publicized flack from said groups, with many among them going so far as to call Chazelle a traitor for making the omission. A lot of them even accused the film of never even showing the flag, which only demonstrated that [[CommonKnowledge the critics hadn't actually watched the movie, or they would have seen the numerous American flags on screen]]. |
| 100 | * ''Film/TheFlash2023'' is known less for being an adaptation of ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'' featuring Creator/MichaelKeaton's return as [[Film/Batman1989 his iteration]] [[Film/BatmanReturns of Batman]] and more for its notoriously TroubledProduction after spending ''years'' in DevelopmentHell, the multiple behind-the-scenes changes [[ExecutiveMeddling made by the studio]], a planned spinoff film involving ''Batgirl'' being cancelled due to tax write-offs by Warner Brothers Discovery's president David Zazlav, and ''especially'' the numerous legal scandals involving the film's lead actor Creator/EzraMiller. All this led the film to be one of the biggest {{Box Office Bomb}}s of all time, and any discussion regarding the film will always circle back to Miller's many troubles and how it significantly hurt the movie's chances. |
| 101 | * The middling 1991 romantic comedy ''Film/{{Flirting}}'' is now remembered entirely because it later turned out its director John Duigan had sexually assaulted Creator/ThandiweNewton during filming. |
| 102 | * ''Film/TheFourthKind'' is a film that was advertised (and is strictly enforced throughout the movie itself) as a sort-of docudrama based on real case studies about a series of disappearances in the town of Nome, Alaska that were blamed on UFO abductions, and as using actual real-life footage divided into a dramatization, in which actors portray the individuals involved, and a "documentary", in which video footage purports to show the actual victims undergoing hypnosis. However, the film would gain infamy when attempts to corroborate the events on the movie were met with dead ends or bogus websites, leading to assumptions that the movie was most likely BasedOnAGreatBigLie. As it turns out, the movie ''was'' loosely based on a rash of disappearances that occurred in Nome, Alaska and the surrounding area, but it turned out most of them had just gotten lost and died of exposure because they were drunk. Plus, it was later discovered that a person claimed in the film to be Abbey Tyler, one of the "real life" people involved in the alleged events on which the film was based and who is shown purportedly in the "documentary" section being interviewed on television, was actually actress Charlotte Milchard (though in hindsight, the fact that Milchard is credited as having played "Nome Resident", even though the film made it clear that she was supposed to be the "real" Abbey Tyler, should have been a dead giveaway). |
| 103 | * ''Film/GangsterSquad'' ended up having some scenes reshot [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents because a theater shooting that occurred in the film resembled the real-life theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado]]. Yet even with the reshoot, the film as a whole was deemed to be so violent that it was still hard to forget the parallel with Aurora. |
| 104 | * Prior to release, ''Film/GhostInTheShell2017'' became embroiled in a whitewashing controversy over the decision to have Creator/ScarlettJohansson play the Major, who is Japanese in the source material. The controversy consumed the entire discussion about the film, so much so that Paramount admitted that it was the main factor for its [[BoxOfficeBomb financial failure]]. |
| 105 | * Any discussion about ''Film/Ghostbusters2016'' tends to focus on the massive backlash the film got, including valid criticism and sexist criticism in regards to the all-female cast[[note]]Notably, right-wing journalist Milo Yiannopoulos was permanently suspended from Twitter after allegedly encouraging racist troll attacks towards Creator/LeslieJones[[/note]], and accusations of Sony allegedly deleting valid criticism in response. All this likely played a part in the film becoming a BoxOfficeBomb with [[SoOkayItsAverage largely mixed-to-positive critical reception]] and a ''massive'' BrokenBase, due to the controversy and lackluster marketing causing casual moviegoers to be turned off from seeing the film. |
| 106 | * ''Film/GodsOfEgypt'' started to get this immediately after its trailer came out. All everyone talked about, before and after its release, is the fact that most of the "Egyptian" cast [[RaceLift are played by white actors]]. |
| 107 | * ''Film/TheGoldenCompass'' was hit with controversy before it was even released, because Creator/NewLineCinema announced that the villainous Magisterium from [[Literature/HisDarkMaterials the source material]] would be changed from a parallel Catholic Church to a generic EvilEmpire, to avoid offending real Catholics. This move ended up [[AudienceAlienatingPremise pleasing no-one]]; those who had complained about ''His Dark Materials''' anti-religious content didn't back down, and HDM fans were confused as to why the studio would bother securing the rights to make a film adaptation if they were unwilling to go all out. In addition, the film is notorious for its TroubledProduction and sheer amount of ExecutiveMeddling to make it more marketable, which partially contributed to [[BoxOfficeBomb its financial failure]] and [[CreatorKiller the end of New Line as an independent studio]]. |
| 108 | * While still a popular film, it's hard to discuss ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'' nowadays without discussing its idealized portrayal of the Confederacy and its portrayal of the African-American slave characters, who have been accused of being either submissive (Mammy) or stupid (Prissy). Whenever a racially-motivated hate crime is committed in America, especially if the person committing it has pro-Confederate leanings, a heated debate over whether ''GWTW'' is complicit in provoking racist attitudes is likely to follow. In June 2020, Creator/HBOMax announced that it would remove the film from their library for this exact reason following a series of civil rights protests across America, although the removal was temporary while a ContentWarning was recorded to be placed before the film, after which it was reinstated later that month. |
| 109 | * The 1937 film adaptation of ''Literature/TheGoodEarth'' is one of the most notorious cases of whitewashing in film history, with the largely Asian cast of characters mostly played by white actors in yellowface. Adding insult to injury was not just the fact that Creator/LuiseRainer won an Oscar for a role in the film originally intended for the genuinely Chinese Anna May Wong, but that the studio even offered Wong the villain role after turning her down. |
| 110 | * ''Film/{{Gotti}}'' would have already gone down in infamy as a member of the [[MedalOfDishonor "0% on Rotten Tomatoes"]] club, but then the crew made it even worse with their bizarre claims that the savage reviews were actually due to a conspiracy among the critic elite and rebranding it as "the movie critics don't want you to see", all while never giving the slightest explanation of what the point of such a conspiracy would be, particularly as the film ''[[NotScreenedForCritics wasn't screened in advance for critics]]''. |
| 111 | * ''Film/TheGreatWall'' was initially extremely controversial in the U.S. for starring Creator/MattDamon in a movie set in Song Dynasty China, which immediately led to accusations of his character being an example of either [[RaceLift whitewashing]] or MightyWhitey (made all the more puzzling for the film actually being a Chinese production), which the first trailer just made worse. It died down a bit when later trailers made it clear that his character is a foreigner and died entirely when the movie was actually released and he turned out to be a SupportingProtagonist. The whole movie was then almost entirely forgotten immediately. |
| 112 | * Creator/CecilBDeMille's ''Film/TheGreatestShowOnEarth'' is less known for any of its merits and more for the fact that it won the Best Picture Oscar over ''Film/HighNoon'', leading to accusations that the only reason the former won was because the latter was written by a blacklisted screenwriter and because there was backstage pressure to give [=DeMille=], by then in his seventies and still Oscar-less, [[ConsolationAward an Oscar before he died]]. |
| 113 | * ''Film/GreenBook'' has gotten much ire over its troubling subtext and message-undermining drama. The film is about the relationship between African American jazz pianist Don Shirley and his Italian-American chauffeur/bodyguard Anthony "Tony Lip" Vallelonga, and upon its release, many African American pundits and Shirley's surviving family criticized it for exaggerating said relationship, pointing out that Shirley considered Tony more of a casual acquaintance at best rather than a close friend. The film became further embroiled in controversy when Nick Vallelonga, Tony's son and the film's co-writer, had to apologize for previously supporting then-candidate Donald Trump's discredited claim that numerous American Muslims celebrated the September 11 attacks; this was particularly damming since Mahershala Ali, who played Shirley, is a Muslim. These revelations have led to many accusing the film of distorting the narrative to portray the Vallelonga family in a more positive light, and in doing so created an uncomfortable "[[MightyWhitey white savior]]" [[WhiteMansBurden narrative]]. Ali himself also stated the crew had lied to him that Shirley had no living relatives who could have acted as consultants, and upon the truth coming out he called them and profusely apologized. Making matters even worse was co-star Creator/ViggoMortensen [[NWordPrivileges using the N-word]] during an on-camera Q&A. When the film was unexpectedly victorious in the Best Picture race at the 2019 Oscars, comparisons to the aforementioned ''Crash'' and ''Driving Miss Daisy'' sprung up within mere minutes due to the perception of it having a "[[WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency patting yourself on the back for doing the bare minimum]]" approach to race relations, which the previous films were also accused of (some even mockingly calling the film a sequel to the latter, due to the fact that both share a similar RoadTripPlot), and Creator/SpikeLee, who himself took home his very first Oscar that night and infamously feuded with ''Driving Miss Daisy'', noted his displeasure with the selection. |
| 114 | * Most public discussion about ''Film/TheGreenInferno'' is arguments over director Creator/EliRoth's publicity campaign at the time of its eventual release. Said campaign was seen by many as a direct appeal to [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic the alt-right]] that can be summed up as: "Come and enjoy [[SoapboxSadie social justice warriors]] like the ones you hate getting [[TorturePorn horribly violated, butchered and eaten]] by the evil indigenous cannibal tribes who they thought needed defending!". |
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| 118 | * The Creator/{{Toho}} film, ''Film/HalfHuman'' (notable for being the first monster movie they produced after ''Film/Godzilla1954'') has never been officially released on home video outside of the 1958 American dub. It's strongly believed that the film was removed from circulation in Japan for its offensive depiction of "buraku" (a term associated with the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burakumin Burakumin]] Japanese ethnic minority group, which were considered the absolute lowest social class in Japan for centuries) villagers as violent and deformed inbreds; discrimination against Burakumin was increasingly frowned upon after the film's initial theatrical release, leading to Toho [[OldShame shunning the film]]. To this day, the only way to see the original Japanese cut is via bootlegs. |
| 119 | * The Thai-produced ''Film/HanumanVs7Ultraman'' is less known amongst Franchise/UltraSeries fans for being good or bad, and better known for the fact that Chaiyo (the studio the produced it) would later use the movie (and a variety of dubious forgeries) to attempt to steal the international distributions rights to the Ultra Series from Creator/TsuburayaProductions, resulting in a gigantic legal hassle that made it almost impossible for [=TsuPro=] to export their own creation outside of Asia until 2017. |
| 120 | * ''Film/HarlemNights'', a period crime comedy starring, written and directed by Creator/EddieMurphy, is best remembered for a series of violent incidents on its opening night than anything that happened in the movie itself. Two people were shot to death in a Detroit theater shortly after the movie began, and a woman fleeing the theater was hit by a car. Another fatal shooting happened during a screening in Richmond, Virginia, and there were other violent incidents in Sacramento and Boston. The night's events led to theater chain AMC pulling the movie from their theaters. While ''Harlem Nights'' had a great opening weekend, it underperformed in subsequent weeks due to both negative reviews and the violence controversy, and nowadays, it's seen as the start of an AudienceAlienatingEra in Murphy's career that lasted through the early-to-mid 1990s. |
| 121 | * ''Film/HeavensGate'' is perhaps best remembered for its infamous TroubledProduction than anything else. Director Creator/{{Michael Cimino|Director}}'s perfectionism (most infamously stopping shooting until a certain cloud was in front of the camera) drove the film's budget from an $11 million to a whopping ''$44 million''. There was also the matter of the New York premiere, which managed to be responsible for a vicious review by Vincent Canby of ''The New York Times'', and Cimino's decision to have the film pulled from circulation for further reediting. That decision may have played a factor into it becoming one of the biggest flops in Hollywood history that managed to kill a major studio (Creator/UnitedArtists) no less, as well as bring an end to the UsefulNotes/NewHollywood era. Although a Director's Cut in 2012 managed to get great reviews, with some critics already declaring it an underrated masterpiece, the film itself has yet to redeem its damaged reputation. |
| 122 | * The 1968 TV movie adaptation of ''Literature/{{Heidi}}'' was infamous for interrupting the end of a Jets-Raiders game, leading to numerous complaints and setting the precedent for longer-than-intended sporting events overriding scheduled programming on American television. |
| 123 | * ''Film/Hercules2014'' is more remembered for being one of the most infamous cases of NeverTrustATrailer at its time than anything else. The film was advertised as a ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|2010}}''-esque series of monster battles, with some trailers featuring next to nothing else. These parts of the movie actually happen in a flashback montage that isn't much longer than a trailer itself and are then revealed to be fabrications in-universe. Moviegoers questioned why the filmmakers didn't ''actually'' make a mythological monster mash, if they knew that was what people wanted to see. |
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| 126 | * ''Film/{{Hounddog}}'', as quoted on the website ''Website/{{Cracked}}'', was infamously referred to as "the Creator/DakotaFanning rape film" by critics and moviegoers alike. |
| 127 | * ''Film/HowGreenWasMyValley'', a Creator/JohnFord film about the death of the Welsh mining industry, is best known today for the fact that [[AwardSnub it somehow beat out]] both ''Film/CitizenKane'' and ''Film/{{The Maltese Falcon|1941}}'' at the 1942 Oscars, a decision many felt was guided by [[ExecutiveMeddling backstage politics]], namely the aforementioned William Randolph Hearst controversy, above all else. |
| 128 | * ''Film/TheHuntsmanWintersWar'' was never really able to escape the fallout from Rupert Sanders's affair with Creator/KristenStewart while filming the movie ''this'' movie was a sequel to, ''Film/SnowWhiteAndTheHuntsman'' (mentioned elsewhere on this page), which got them both removed from the movie. Unfortunately, the ExecutiveMeddling caused by that incident alone was enough to torpedo not just the film's chances at the box office but also Universal's plans for its own fantasy franchise to rival the live-action adaptations of the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon. |
| 129 | * Whenever people talk about ''Film/{{Idiocracy}}'', it's less to do with its quality as a movie and more to do with how its premise of "stupid people outnumbering smart people leads to the degradation of society and the world at large" comes off like it's endorsing eugenics (which director and writer Creator/MikeJudge has adamantly sworn was not the intention) and generally having an overly simplified/reductive and highly classist view on intelligence. |
| 130 | * ''Film/{{Inchon}}'', a UsefulNotes/KoreanWar epic with an AllStarCast led by Sir Creator/LaurenceOlivier as General [[UsefulNotes/DouglasMacarthur Douglas [=MacArthur=]]], will probably be forever associated with the fact that it was funded by the controversial Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. The film's producer, who had close ties to Moon, kept the identity of the financier a secret to the cast and crew, and only eight weeks into the shooting did the secret get out. ''Inchon'''s association with Moon led to boycotts against it and made the film toxic to potential distributors until the Unification Church made a rent-a-distributor deal with MGM and ''Inchon'' was finally released in 1982, three years after production wrapped. The film received poor critical reception, many calling it one of the worst films ever made, not helped by Moon burying a negative review by a critic from his own newspaper, ''The Washington Times'', and the film became the biggest box-office disaster in film history until ''Film/CutthroatIsland'' 13 years later. The result destroyed Moon's attempts at movie moguldom and the career of director Terence Young, and the Unification Church have since [[BuryYourArt suppressed any further releases]] of ''Inchon'', aside from a period in the early-2000s when it aired on Moon's now-defunct [=GoodLife=] TV Network, which resulted in bootleg copies being made from these broadcasts. |
| 131 | * At least in the West, ''Film/InternationalGuerillas'' is a movie best known for its [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade blatant demonization]] of Creator/SalmanRushdie as a sadistic, megalomaniacal DiabolicalMastermind who conspires to destroy Islam. The movie was actually almost banned in the UK for the way it portrayed Rushdie, until the man himself protested against censoring it. |
| 132 | * ''Film/TheInterview'' had already attracted controversy for playing its plot of an assassination attempt on North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un for laughs (especially after North Korea threatened action against the United States if Sony released the movie), but after a fired employee [[BestServedCold hired anonymous hackers to leak]] massive amounts of sensitive information relating to Sony Pictures and issued fake terrorist threats for any theater that screened the film, Sony announced they would pull the film from theaters... only to release it on a smaller scale (limited cinemas, wide digital) a week later. Between the cancellation and the eventual theatrical release, a very large debate over the limits of free speech was waged with respect to the film. |
| 133 | * It's nearly impossible to talk about ''Film/{{Ishtar}}'' without mentioning its TroubledProduction, a vortex of logistical nightmares, protracted delays, ballooning costs, and on-set feuds between cast and crew members. Inevitably for a shoot that made headlines for all the wrong reasons, the finished film was labelled a disappointment by contemporary critics and became a notorious BoxOfficeBomb (recouping less than a third of its $51 million budget) and a punchline of "bad movie" jokes for a quarter of a century after its release;[[note]] Gary Larson drew a strip for ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' entitled "Hell's video store" in which said establishment is entirely stocked with copies of ''Ishtar'', inspired purely by the film's bad reputation. When he later saw and enjoyed it, he publicly apologised for the joke.[[/note]] director Creator/ElaineMay later snarked that if everyone who professed to hate the film had paid to see it, she "would be a rich woman". The film's reputation has improved since the early 2010s, but discussion surrounding it remains dominated by the production chaos. |
| 134 | * ''Film/TheIslandOfDrMoreau1996'' has largely been overshadowed by the massively TroubledProduction it suffered, to the point of getting [[Film/LostSoulTheDoomedJourneyOfRichardStanleysIslandOfDrMoreau a documentary]] about it that only scratched the surface of how insane it got. |
| 135 | * The Norwegian film ''Is-slottet'' (or ''Ice Castles'') is mostly remembered for the brief nude scene within the first 10 minutes involving its two preteen leads. |
| 136 | * The ''Film/JeepersCreepers'' films are far less known for their content than the fact that Victor Salva, who directed the first three films, was convicted of sexually abusing a child on the set of one of his first films. |
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| 139 | * ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'' had Creator/ZackSnyder, the original director, step down shortly after post-production began due to his daughter's suicide, causing co-writer Creator/JossWhedon to take over directing duties. This was well received until Whedon was accused of infidelity and misogyny and the final product was hurt by its [[MoodWhiplash wildly inconsistent tone]] and weak story and characters. ''Justice League'' became a major critical and financial embarrassment for the studio and the franchise given its budget and caliber of the source material. This was prolonged by [[SendingStuffToSaveTheShow the #ReleaseTheSnyderCut movement]] from fans wanting to see the movie closer to Snyder's original vision, which was dismissed as a toxic and entitled fandom only for the [[Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague "Snyder Cut"]] to release to much better reception. Thus the original theatric cut is better remembered more for [[TroubledProduction the production drama]] than the actual work. |
| 140 | * ''Film/LastTangoInParis'' was notorious at the time for its explicit sexual content that led to the film being banned or censored in some countries and several people involved in it, including director Creator/BernardoBertolucci and stars Creator/MarlonBrando and Maria Schneider, were hit with obscenity charges in Italy. In the 2010s, however, the film has gotten a lot of criticism for Bertolucci's abusive treatment of his actors on the set, particularly Schneider. Schneider said that making the film was her life's only regret, that it "ruined her life", and that she considers Bertolucci a "gangster and a pimp". In 2011, Bertolucci denied that he "stole her youth" (she was 19 at the time of filming), and commented, "The girl wasn't mature enough to understand what was going on." Schneider remained friends with Brando until his death but never made up with Bertolucci. She also claimed that Brando and Bertolucci "made a fortune" from the film while she made very little money. Brando said to Bertolucci at the time, "I was completely and utterly violated by you. I will never make another film like that". Brando refused to speak to Bertolucci for 15 years after the production was completed. Much like Schneider, Brando later said he "felt raped and manipulated" by the film; however, he and Bertolucci participated in not telling Schneider about her rape scene ("The Butter Scene") beforehand and thus she was forced to participate in it without her consent. |
| 141 | * ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' became infamous prior to its release for [[RaceLift changing the races]] of several characters (most infamously Katara and Sokka, who were dark-skinned in [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender the show]], being played by white actors in the film, as well as the villainous Fire Nation, who were mostly pale-skinned in the show, being played largely by actors of Indian and Middle-Eastern descent), which garnered [[https://io9.gizmodo.com/avatar-casting-makes-fans-see-white-5111680 accusations of racism]] and led to the coining of the term "Racebending". |
| 142 | * ''Film/TheLastDaysOfAmericanCrime'' quickly became infamous for its violent content and depiction of PoliceBrutality due to [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents being released around the time of the George Floyd protests]], with pretty every review of the film bringing up the poor timing of the film's release. |
| 143 | * The film adaptation of ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' is infamous for the fact that it was made against the wishes of Creator/AlanMoore, the creator of the original comic; being the subject of a [[FrivolousLawsuit flimsy plagiarism suit]] against Fox by a screenwriter that the company left Moore holding the bag for (further embittering him against adaptations of his work); and the final product being such a disappointment that it became a major reason for one of its stars, the legendary Creator/SeanConnery, to swear off acting for good, three years later. |
| 144 | * ''Franchise/TheLoneRanger'' movies: |
| 145 | ** ''The Legend of the Lone Ranger'': Virtually everything else related to this movie is eclipsed in the popular consciousness by the producers attempting to prevent Clayton Moore -- who ''was'' the Lone Ranger to many, having played him in the 1950s television series -- from appearing in public wearing the Ranger's trademark black mask, and the PR nightmare and ugly legal battle that resulted. |
| 146 | ** ''Film/TheLoneRanger2013'': More than any marketing campaign, the film was in the spotlight for its casting of white actor Creator/JohnnyDepp as Tonto. This announcement was hit with a firestorm of criticism, with many noting that even the '50s TV show cast actual Native American actor Jay Silverheels to play Tonto, and ''The Legend of the Lone Ranger'' followed suit with its casting of Michael Horse. Not helping matters was the fact that Tonto featured more heavily in the marketing than the Lone Ranger himself. Depp was given significant creative control about the character, and he has said he based the look of the character mainly on a single painting, [[http://kirbysattler.sattlerartprint.com/ "I am Crow" by Kirby Sattler]]. No Native American ever wore a dead bird on their head, and in the painting a crow is flying ''behind'' the head of the subject. Sattler himself is not a Native American, and openly says his paintings come from his imaginings and do not depict any specific native culture. With the whitewashed casting and open admissions of deliberate inaccuracy, it's not hard to see where the controversy came from. |
| 147 | * The 1958 Creator/LouisMalle film ''The Lovers'', about a woman who rekindles her sense of romantic passion during an affair, was critically acclaimed and won numerous accolades. However, among both lay audiences and film buffs alike, it's much better known for being at the epicenter of the United States Supreme Court case ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobellis_v._Ohio Jacobellis v. Ohio]]'', in which a theater owner was charged with violating Ohio's obscenity laws for screening the film. |
| 148 | * ''Film/{{Lucas}}'' has been dogged by the allegation that Creator/CharlieSheen (then nineteen) raped the then fourteen-year-old Creator/CoreyHaim, a charge that Creator/CoreyFeldman reignited in his 2020 documentary ''(My) Truth: The Rape of 2 Coreys''. |
| 149 | * ''Maladolescenza'' (also known as ''Spielen wir Liebe'' or ''Puppy Love'') is a little-seen German-Italian coming-of-age drama notorious for its disturbing, albeit simulated, sex scenes involving underage actresses Eva Ionesco and Lara Wendel. This has led to it being labeled as child pornography and consequently [[BannedInChina banned from distribution]] or replaced with censored versions in several countries. |
| 150 | * ''Film/ManchesterByTheSea'' managed to avoid this reaction on its initial run, succeeding critically and commercially in spite of the rather serious sexual harassment allegation levied at its star Creator/CaseyAffleck, namely that he had crawled into bed with a female co-star on one of his previous films, without her permission, while drunk. Following Affleck's Best Actor win at the 2017 Oscars, however, the film started to be looked at with more scrutiny, which only increased after the Harvey Weinstein sex scandals and the [=#MeToo=] movement led to a flurry of sexual misconduct allegations against many celebrities, including Affleck's brother Ben. Facing mounting backlash, Affleck recused himself from the 2018 Oscars, breaking the tradition of the previous year's Best Actor winner announcing the current year's Best Actress award and vice versa. |
| 151 | * ''Film/ManhattanMelodrama'' came into full publicity not with the film itself, but with how the notorious Midwestern gangster John Dillinger was fatally gunned down by FBI agents outside the Biograph Theater after watching the film. One of the cast members expressed disgust over the events surrounding Dillinger's death eclipsing the film itself. |
| 152 | * ''Film/{{Melancholia}}'' gets remembered more for the infamous interview of its director Creator/LarsVonTrier about how he empathized with the Nazis, and then how that got him banned from Cannes. |
| 153 | * The 1987 Brazilian film ''A Menina do Lado'' ("The Girl Next Door", not to be confused with [[Film/TheGirlNextDoor2004 the 2004 film]]) is best remembered for the controversy caused by its premise: A middle-aged man falling in love with an underage girl, played by ''an actual underage girl'' (a 14-year-old to be exact). It went to the point that the filmmakers actually had to explain the tricks used to simulate the sex scenes between the two leads, but which still involved the underage girl having nude scenes and kissing her several-decades-older co-star on the mouth. Interestingly, in later years it was noted that as big as the controversy it caused was, it was for some reason still overshadowed by the one caused by ''Amor Estranho Amor''. |
| 154 | * The biopic ''Film/{{Minamata}}'' would likely have faded into obscurity had it not been for fans of Creator/JohnnyDepp rallying together to get the film nominated for the 94th Academy Awards' "Fan Favorite" category (which, unlike most other Oscars, was decided via Twitter votes), allegedly resorting to the use of Internet bots in order to garner more votes. |
| 155 | * ''Film/MohammadMessengerOfGod'' was plagued by this from the start. False rumors that it actually portrayed the Prophet Mohammad onscreen, condemnation from numerous Muslim clerics, funding from Muammar Gaddafi, violent protests abroad and a terrorist attack in Washington, D.C. conspired to make ''Mohammad'' notorious for reasons other than its artistic merits. |
| 156 | * ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'' was considered by the troupe to be their best movie, but the protests surrounding its alleged blasphemous content will always limit its popularity with religious viewers. At the time of release, protests by religious groups were described by the Pythons as [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity the best publicity they could have hoped for]]. It really raised a lot of awareness of the film's existence and led to much higher box office takings. |
| 157 | * ''Film/Mulan2020'' was overshadowed by controversies related to its development and Disney's collaboration with the Chinese government. First, lead star Liu Yifei reshared an image posted by the official Communist Party newspaper ''People's Daily'' which implied she supported violent crackdowns by police against pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, which led to Yifei dropping out of the 2019 D23 Expo. Then, after the film's release, it emerged that Disney had collaborated with four Chinese [[PropagandaMachine propaganda departments]] (listed in the end credits as "[[NonIndicativeName publicity departments]]") and the [[BackedByThePentagon public security bureau]] in the region of Xinjiang, where the government is carrying out an ongoing campaign of forced resettlement against the Muslim Uyghur population. It went to the point that many accused the film of being Chinese nationalist propaganda and [=#BoycottMulan=] became a popular hashtag. |
| 158 | * ''Film/Music2021'', directed by pop singer Music/{{Sia}}, garnered controversy before its release for casting Creator/MaddieZiegler, a neurotypical actress and Sia's backup dancer, [[QuestionableCasting as the titular non-verbal autistic girl]], which Sia defended by [[DearNegativeReader insulting people opposed to the casting]]. After release, the movie gained backlash for its portrayal of autism. Music's body language and behavior was accused of resembling an offensive caricature of a mentally handicapped person, [[note]]Reportedly, Ziegler recognized the potential for offense and broke down in tears during filming[[/note]] and a scene depicted her being subjected to a dangerous prone restraint.[[note]]Sia claimed that the scene would be removed from later editions of the film, and that a disclaimer against the use of such restraints would be added, [[LyingCreator but these changes were never made]][[/note]] All of these problems were made even worse by Sia approving support from Autism Speaks, a highly controversial charity with messaging that some have called eugenicist, around the time of the film's release. |
| 159 | * ''Film/NaturalBornKillers'' is most notable for inspiring a number of killers who would get with a lawyer and allege that the movie inspired them to commit crimes in imitation of the fame-seeking homicidal OutlawCouple in the film. They carefully left out that they were also on acid, but the film became rather controversial because of this in spite of its [[DoNotDoThisCoolThing intended condemnation of]] [[IfItBleedsItLeads media sensationalism]]. |
| 160 | * The 1928 movie ''Film/NoahsArk'' is mainly remembered for the fact that three extras drowned during the filming of the climactic flood scene, along with many other people being injured, one badly enough to require a leg amputation. Public outcry led to the implementation of stricter stunt safety regulations the year after the movie's release. |
| 161 | * ''Film/NoEscape2015'' is mainly remembered for the controversy regarding its plot, which the marketing made out to be "a white man must defend his [[MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome also white wife and daughters]] from the entire population of an unspecified Asian country". The fact that the family does find non-white allies within the country [[spoiler:and is eventually saved by the Vietnamese army]] didn't do much to mitigate the unfortunate implications in the eyes of various critics and the public at large. |
| 162 | * ''Film/NotCool'' was originally made for the reality show ''Series/TheChair2014'', but nowadays it's primarily remembered for being a culmination of everything wrong with WebVideo/ShaneDawson's brand of shock comedy and how it controversially won the show over the much better-received ''Film/{{Hollidaysburg}}'' because they used an online poll to determine the results, one which Dawson's then-massive fanbase promptly flooded. Consequently, ''Hollidaysburg'' is also stuck in the shadow of this controversy, especially since its creator got harassed by the aforementioned fanbase in the aftermath to the point of suffering a CreatorBreakdown. |
| 163 | * ''Film/TheNun'' is solely remembered by the general public for a [=YouTube=] ad consisting of a fake [=iOS=] volume bar being lowered and muted, attempting to trick users into raising their real volume, followed by the movie's monster [[JumpScare suddenly appearing]] and [[ScreamerPrank screaming loudly]]. Some people had panic attacks or accidentally dropped and damaged their phones due to the shock, resulting in the ad getting taken down shortly after due to severe backlash, as well as the ad violating the site's shocking content policy for advertisers, as the ad was known to play before innocuous and unrelated videos. |
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| 167 | * Upon the release of ''Film/AnOfficerAndASpy'' in France, the ugly shadow of Creator/RomanPolanski's past sexual offense was revived yet again by another woman (photographer Valentine Monnier) accusing him of raping her when she was 18 in 1975. The affair made so much noise that several French government ministers were asked by the press if they would see the movie or not, and several screenings in Paris and Rennes had to be cancelled because of feminist protests. The film was briefly pulled out of six theaters in the Seine-Saint-Denis area before resuming screening in them by local administrative decision. Then the controversy was renewed again when the entire board of France's César Awards resigned in February 2020 after the French Academy gave the film 12 nominations, the most out of any film that year. Polanski winning the Best Director award was received very divisively. Most notably, actress [[Film/PortraitOfALadyOnFire Adèle Haenel]], director Creator/CelineSciamma and host Florence Foresti walked away from the ceremony. The film has yet to be released in the United States, in large part because no distributor there is willing to touch a Polanski film. |
| 168 | * ''Film/{{Padmaavat}}'' is best known for infuriating MoralGuardians, being banned in several parts of India, and for its opponents protesting against it and trying to attack the people involved in making it. |
| 169 | * The 2015 Peter Pan reboot ''Film/{{Pan}}'' is primarily remembered for the controversy over white actress Creator/RooneyMara playing Tiger Lily, a Native American character. |
| 170 | * ''Film/{{Passengers|2016}}'' is a sci-fi romance film that attracted criticism for its [[NeverTrustATrailer deceptive ad campaign]] that masked its creepy premise. The trailers made it out to be the story of a man and a woman who are accidentally awakened from a [[HumanPopsicle suspended animation]] spacecraft too early and fall in love in the depths of space. In the actual film, only the man's awakening is accidental, and he then wakes the woman to avoid [[GoMadFromTheIsolation going insane from loneliness]], lies to her that her awakening was also accidental, and then seduces her. Reviewers overwhelmingly agreed that this premise, described by some as being comparable to UsefulNotes/StockholmSyndrome, drags down every other aspect of the film. Critics were so disgusted that they went so far as to spoil the film's plot and urged viewers not to see the film, resulting in the film becoming a BoxOfficeBomb and producer Neal H. Moritz jumping ship to [[Creator/{{Paramount}} Paramount Pictures]] the following year (his feuds with Rothman also contributed to this), taking the [[Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020 film rights]] to ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' with him in the process. |
| 171 | * Creator/MelGibson's ''Film/ThePassionOfTheChrist'' owes its record-breaking success with audiences who weren't devout Christians to this. [[ItWasHisSled Practically everyone in America already knew the story]]; unlike ''The Last Temptation'', the plot itself wasn't revisionist in any way, so the most interesting two things about the movie for most people were that it was ridiculously violent for a "Christian" film (as well as being probably the only R-rated film in history that Christian leaders ''urged'' their congregations to see) and that it was that rare post-1945 Western film with (alleged) anti-Semitism as part of the subject matter. Gibson himself, from this film onwards, has become more of a presence in the media for his various run-ins with the law, [[DomesticAbuse abusive treatment]] of his ex-girlfriend, far-right views, and anti-Semitic comments than for any of his films. |
| 172 | * The 1990s thriller ''Film/ThePelicanBrief'' received this when it was leaked that both Creator/JuliaRoberts and Creator/DenzelWashington were going to have a lovemaking scene, which by itself isn't a problem, especially since it stays true to the original novel. The problem was, it resulted in a huge backlash from fans of both actors because both were considered sex symbols at the time and fans on both sides didn't want to see their movie crushes together in an interracial relationship. This resulted in the writers editing every planned romantic scene out and rewriting it so they part as just friends in the end. Afterward, Julia Roberts said she was still okay with the lovemaking scene despite the backlash, but Denzel Washington decided it was best if they didn't go through with it for the sake of the film. |
| 173 | * ''Film/PrettyBaby'' is perhaps best-known for nude scenes involving a then-12-year-old Creator/BrookeShields and all the backlash it received because of it. |
| 174 | * ''Film/ProjectX2012'' quickly became infamous after several attempts were made at doing a real-life version of the titular WildTeenParty, including (most infamously) one in Haren, the Netherlands that resulted in a series of violent riots that resulted in €1 million (US$1.32 million) in damages to properties and businesses. |
| 175 | * ''Film/ThePromise2016'' was the first Hollywood film since the silent movie era to be centered on the Armenian genocide; which the government of Turkey denies took place to this day. Turkey did all that it could to bury the film, and more articles were written about their attempts to do so than about the film itself. For instance, thousands of Turkish trolls bombarded the film's IMDB page with one star reviews long before the film premiered in theaters and they could possibly have seen it (it premiered at some film festivals several months before being in theaters, yet had suspiciously already amassed tens of thousands of one-star reviews before its widespread release), and bought advance tickets to theater screenings only to ask for a refund at the last minute, ensuring the seats in theaters showing the film would be reserved and people couldn't get in. It's been speculated that the film ''The Ottoman Lieutenant'', financed by the Turkish government, was even released to be the genocide denier's counterpart to this film (the resulting controversy being the only reason that film got any media attention at all) |
| 176 | * ''Film/ProofOfLife'' is a mixed-reviewed BoxOfficeBomb that's perhaps best known nowadays for being the movie where Creator/MegRyan and Creator/RussellCrowe had an affair during filming, which resulted in ruining her marriage to Creator/DennisQuaid. |
| 177 | * The Japanese disaster film ''Film/PropheciesOfNostradamus'', by Creator/{{Toho}}, became infamous for its gruesome depiction of mutated human beings, which was considered so disturbing that the studio was forced to withdraw the original uncut version from circulation. In addition, survivors of the UsefulNotes/AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki were appalled by the film's depiction of radiation victims as vicious, mindless monsters, believing such a portrayal would only serve to perpetuate discrimination against those affected by radiation exposure in real life. |
| 178 | * The North Korean {{Kaiju}} film ''Film/{{Pulgasari}}'' is much more well-known for the bizarre behind-the-scenes events that led to the creation of the movie than for any actual story merits ([[QuirkyWork which are, in itself, very unusual]]). Specifically, the South Korean director and his wife were kidnapped on the orders of ''Kim Jong-il himself'' (who was a big fan of international films, including the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' movies, and wanted North Korea to have its own film industry), forcing them to make communist propaganda movies, and then tricked the production team behind the Godzilla films into providing the costume and effects for ''Pulgasari'' (under the guise of it being a Chinese production). ''Pulgasari'' was the last film they were forced to make before they managed to escape. |
| 179 | * ''Film/RamboIII''. Besides being even more violent and PatrioticFervor-inducing than [[Film/RamboFirstBloodPartII the second]], this movie had Rambo helping the Afghan Mujahideen fight the Soviet occupiers... which [[UsefulNotes/ColdWar left Afghanistan]] a couple of weeks before the movie premiered. Two decades later the film would receive much renewed attention, and not for any better reasons: the Mujahadeen had splintered into bickering factions, and those that came out on top became enemies of the United States, in particular Al-Qaeda led by UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden. ''Rambo III'' is now not on cable television as much as it used to, and the film is now hard to find as many streaming services also don't show it. |
| 180 | * ''Film/RamboLastBlood'', the GrandFinale of the ''Rambo'' series, has been largely overshadowed by accusations of xenophobia in its depiction of the villains (in particular, the Mexican cartel) as the film was released during the UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump presidency in which a wave of renewed right-wing nationalism and anti-immigration sentiments (especially against people from underdeveloped nations) exploded among conservatives in the US, and many outside the political right, and human rights' groups felt that the film would only fan the already big flames of xenophobia and American exceptionalism that were being pushed by the presidency, leading to more discrimination and violence against Hispanics in the US. Ironically, the movie is largely popular with Hispanics ''because'' they hate drug cartels and sex traffickers too. |
| 181 | * The 2011 film ''Rampart'', which is based off the real-life [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampart_scandal Rampart scandal]], would have been another forgettable film had it been not for the infamous Website/{{Reddit}} AMA disaster by Creator/WoodyHarrelson's attempt to focus more on the movie rather than the other questions, spawning the subreddit [[https://www.reddit.com/r/AMADisasters/ r/AMADisasters]] as a result. |
| 182 | * The only reason ''Film/TheRamrodder'' is remembered at all is because of its connections to the [[UsefulNotes/CharlesManson Manson Family]]. The film was shot at the Spahn Movie Ranch, and features two actors who became members of the Family: Catherine Share and Bobby Beausoleil. |
| 183 | * ''Film/RedScorpion'' is infamous due to its ties to Apartheid-era South Africa; its producer, Jack Abramoff, was an American political lobbyist who used his pro-Apartheid credentials to have the film shot in South Africa. These reasons caused its film's intended distributor, Warner Bros., to drop the film as a result of boycotts made against the film. |
| 184 | * ''Film/TheRidiculous6'' is mostly remembered for the controversy that ensued over its portrayal of Native Americans, which resulted in a number of Native American members of the cast and crew walking off in protest. |
| 185 | * The 2021 documentary ''Roadrunner: A Film About Creator/AnthonyBourdain'' was released to great critical acclaim, only to be immediately mired in controversy over an interview in which director Morgan Neville admitted to using deepfake software to have Bourdain’s voice read aloud a private email Bourdain sent to a friend admitting he was unhappy (particularly meaningful in regards to Bourdain’s later suicide). Neville also claimed other lines from the movie were generated via AI but refused to specify which. This sparked an intense debate on whether it’s ethical to have a documentary use AI to obtain audio of things its (suicidal) subject has never said. It proved even worse when in the aforementioned interview Neville claimed the use of the AI was cleared with Bourdain’s ex-wife and executor of his estate only for her to publicly claim she did not. |
| 186 | * The 1981 adventure-comedy film ''Film/{{Roar}}'' is known less for its plot or its environmentalist themes and more for the gruesome injuries sustained by anywhere from "at least 70" to "over 100" members of the 140-person crew as a result of the filmmakers deciding to use hundreds of untrained wild animals, including lions, tigers, and elephants. So heavily did the injuries overshadow the film's content that Alamo Drafthouse's promotion for a 2015 screening focused primarily on the former, calling it the "{{snuff|Film}} version of ''[[Literature/TheSwissFamilyRobinson Swiss Family Robinson]]''." |
| 187 | * The 1975 Italian film ''Film/SaloOrThe120DaysOfSodom'', a SettingUpdate of a book written by the notorious Creator/MarquisDeSade, concerns a quartet of wealthy [[UsefulNotes/FascistItaly Italian fascists]] who purchase a group of teenagers as {{sex slave}}s, subject them to every indignity imaginable (in the film's most infamous scene, the victims are force-fed their captors' feces), before finally slaughtering them once they get bored. Given its extreme content, it has been dogged by controversy since its premiere. The movie is commonly brought up in debates on where the lines of free speech should be drawn, several countries have banned it (including democracies such as Australia), and it is in general impossible to bring up without getting into a discussion over whether it's a heartwrenching artistic statement about the suffering of the people in a totalitarian society or brainless, tasteless schlock that the director slapped a moral onto just to avoid coming off as a complete degenerate. |
| 188 | * ''Film/SavingChristmas'' would have been just another bad Christian movie had it not been for the already-controversial Creator/KirkCameron's attempts to save the movie's positive ratings from the "haters and [[HollywoodAtheist atheists]]" by asking fans to add positive reviews in review aggregator sites. This ended up ''[[GoneHorriblyWrong increasing]]'' the movie's bad ratings further when people who saw the pleas [[StreisandEffect went on to add negative reviews in review aggregator sites instead]], which ended up causing the film to go to the near-bottom of [=IMDb's=] lowest-rated films list. It also [[CreatorKiller killed whatever was left of Cameron's career and reputation]]. It's also controversial for its message, which many felt boiled down to "It's okay to be greedy and materialistic." |
| 189 | * Creator/MartinScorsese has been hit by this trope at least three times in his career: |
| 190 | ** ''Film/TaxiDriver'' is good enough to stand on its own merits, but it will forever be linked to John Hinckley and his attempted assassination of UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan. Even Creator/JodieFoster had to keep a low profile for many years to avoid her name becoming tainted by the incident. To this day, any interview with her has the host warned beforehand not to bring it up, and the few times this was ignored she simply [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere got up and walked out without another word]]. |
| 191 | ** ''Film/TheLastTemptationOfChrist'' is best known for depicting Jesus Christ getting married, having sexual relationships and fathering children after walking out of his crucifixion, which sparked protests from religious groups worldwide, including the infamous attack at a Paris cinema where the use of Molotov cocktails injured 13 patrons and brought the theater under heavy repairs for the next three years. All this can leave people actually surprised when told that in the film all those scenes were actually a vision by Satan.[[note]]Specifically, Satan gives those visions to Jesus in an attempt to convince him to not sacrifice himself; Jesus refuses and dies on the cross as told in the scriptures.[[/note]] |
| 192 | ** ''Film/{{Kundun}}'', a movie about the 14th Dalai Lama, became more known for [[BannedInChina its ban in China]] and the geopolitical fallout. Not only did the Chinese government ban the film, but the regime decided to punish Disney (who produced the film via their Creator/TouchstonePictures subsidiary) by pulling all animated Disney shows and threatening to ban all future Hollywood films. Disney's then-CEO Michael Eisner quickly apologized to the Chinese authorities and abandoned the film. To this day, the film can't be seen on streaming, likely to avoid another geopolitical controversy. |
| 193 | * ''Film/ASerbianFilm'' is a low budget TorturePorn flick that has been seen by few but is well known by many for being extremely bloody and disgusting, and it's been banned in several countries due to as-yet-unsubstantiated but persistent rumors that it contains footage of ''unsimulated'' child molestation. The actual plot concerns a destitute man who gets sucked into the SnuffFilm industry as a way to make ends meet, and the director insists it's meant to all be a metaphor for the atrocities of UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars. [[ParodyRetcon Most don't believe him]]. |
| 194 | * The one thing that ''Film/SexLivesOfThePotatoMen'' is best known for aside from its AudienceAlienatingPremise is its usage of nearly £1 million of public money, comprising about a third of its budget, from the National Lottery via the UK Film Council, with many in the British press criticizing the Film Council for devoting taxpayers' money to a low-brow gross-out comedy instead of more worthy productions. |
| 195 | * ''Film/ShowDogs'' was already infamous for its poor quality and for being directed by Raja Gosnell of ''Film/TheSmurfs'', ''Film/TheSmurfs2'' and the ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' live action movies infamy, but it became particularly controversial for featuring a scene where a dog is forced to have his genitals fondled by a dog show judge, [[https://slate.com/culture/2018/05/show-dogs-movie-accused-of-spreading-unsafe-ideas-about-child-sexual-abuse.html which led to it being accused of normalizing child grooming]], especially in the light of the [=#MeToo=] movement. Most of these scenes were edited out after the second week in theaters and the DVD release. |
| 196 | * The Creator/JacquesCousteau documentary ''Film/TheSilentWorld'' is famous for two things: its breathtaking underwater SceneryPorn… and the shocking cruelty to marine life including dynamiting a coral reef, severely injuring a whale and then killing all the sharks that responded to it, and riding on sea turtles as they visibly struggle to surface before they suffocate. It became a ''huge'' OldShame for Cousteau as he gained a better understanding of the environment, and [[TheAtoner he spent the rest of his life trying to make up for it]] as one of the world's biggest proponents of conservation. |
| 197 | * ''Film/SixteenCandles'', once acclaimed for its then-contemporary handling of teen angst and for being the StarMakingRole of Creator/MollyRingwald, is now infamous for the fact that it has suffered from major ValuesDissonance. Even Gedde Watanabe had a hard time being lambasted for playing Asian ButtMonkey Long Duk Dong. |
| 198 | * ''Film/SlenderMan'' was struck by controversy for being based on the [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos eponymous creepypasta]], which had largely fallen out of favor due to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slender_Man_stabbing Slender Man stabbing]] incident that took place four years before the film's release. This unsurprisingly painted a target on the film, especially due to one of the trailers featuring scenes roughly similar to said incident, causing many, including the father of one of the perpetrators of said incident, to [[https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2018/01/03/slender-man-movie-reactions/1002527001/ label]] it as being in poor taste; theaters in the area where it happened refused to show the film to respect the families of who it happened to, and said scenes were [[MissingTrailerScene removed from the final cut]]. |
| 199 | * ''Film/SnowWhiteAndTheHuntsman'' is best known for the Rupert Sanders-Creator/KristenStewart affair. While Stewart would rebound from the incident, the franchise tanked because of it, and Sanders didn't direct another film until 2017. Since then, Sanders's name has been attached exclusively to controversial projects, such as ''Film/GhostInTheShell2017'' (mentioned elsewhere on this page) and ''Rub and Tug''. |
| 200 | * Creator/WaltDisney's ''Film/SongOfTheSouth'', like the stories it is based on, is remembered more for the portrayal of a former slave living happily in the American South, and the allegations of racism that have since sprung up, than for anything other than, perhaps, "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" and Ride/SplashMountain. This aspect of the film has made it enough of an OldShame for Disney that [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes they have locked it up in the Disney Vault forevermore]]. Even with the creation of Creator/DisneyPlus and its much-ballyhooed demolishing of the Vault, this film was still left out, and Splash Mountain is in the process of being reskinned into a ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' ride due to the controversial associations. |
| 201 | * ''Film/SoundOfFreedom'', a film about Tim Ballard's efforts to stop child sex trafficking, was dogged with controversies upon its unexpected box office success. Chief among them were star Creator/JimCaviezel's support of the [=QAnon=] movement [[note]]A conspiracy theory that believes that high-ranking Democratic politicians and celebrities are part of a [[SatanicPanic satanic cabal]] that abducts and sexually abuses children. The movement has been noted for several domestic terror incidents, notably the January 6 Capitol insurrection.[[/note]], including accusations that the film endorses said movement (the film's director, Alejandro Monteverde, has denied this claim), and for the studio's "pay-it-forward" campaign to buy an extra ticket for others to see the film being accused of being an {{astro turf}}ing campaign. |
| 202 | * The Music/DavidBowie biopic ''Film/Stardust2020''[[note]]not to be confused with the Creator/NeilGaiman novel or its film adaptation[[/note]] got it on ''the very day it was first announced'', as Bowie's son Creator/DuncanJones was quick to state that contrary to the studio's press release, no one in the family had given their approval for the film, and it didn't even have the rights to use any of Bowie's music. |
| 203 | * ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'', while still the highest grossing film in the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' franchise, is overshadowed by the controversial twist that John Harrison, played by Creator/BenedictCumberbatch, is actually [[spoiler: Khan Noonien Singh]], which resulted in fans criticising it for [[TheyCopiedItSoItSucks emulating]] ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'' and causing a RaceLift of a popular character like [[spoiler:Khan]]. |
| 204 | * The last two films of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' Sequel Trilogy were hit with controversies upon release. While the first film in the trilogy, ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', got some complaints about [[RecycledScript repeating plot threads]] from ''Film/ANewHope'', it was overall well-received. The other two, however, soon became infamous for dividing audiences. |
| 205 | ** Shortly after its release, ''Film/TheLastJedi'', became more infamous for sparking heated internet debates than for its actual story, with its detractors accusing the film of [[{{Deconstruction}} being an author rant against the franchise's recurring tropes]], [[AbortedArc abandoning]] or unsatisfyingly wrapping up plot points from its predecessor, and [[WriterOnBoard inserting his personal politics in it]]. The very passionate response from the film's detractors went so far that a VocalMinority started personally harassing Johnson and actress Kelly Marie Tran, who played the BaseBreakingCharacter Rose Tico, on social media.[[note]]Tran in particular received so much harassment that she reportedly began to legitimately fear that angry fans would come after her in RealLife and [[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings deleted most of her social media accounts to attempt to prevent this]], resulting in a firestorm of bad press covered even on news outlets unrelated to the franchise.[[/note]] The harassment apparently stopped when Jar-Jar Binks himself, Ahmed Best, went on record as to saying that similar attacks against him led him [[DrivenToSuicide to contemplate suicide.]] Even so, the harsh response to ''Last Jedi'' became a textbook example of how toxic modern fandoms can be. |
| 206 | ** The next film, ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'', ironically got its controversy from rectifying, clarifying, or outright ignoring the more controversial aspects of the previous film (most notably, the movie returns to the status quo, tone and humor of ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' rather than continuing where the ''Last Jedi'' left off), which ended up also dividing the fans (even those who didn't like ''Last Jedi'' thought that [[{{Retcon}} retconning]] wasn't a good idea), and also ended up dividing the critics, who were much kinder to ''Last Jedi'' than the fans who were more accepting of the following film. There was also the issue of what some of the changes entailed, such as the aforementioned Rose Tico [[DemotedToExtra being relegated to a glorified cameo]][[note]]To the point where she, [[AbortedArc despite being previously built up as a major character]], only had ''seventy-six seconds'' of screen time across the whole movie; compared to approximately 11 minutes in the previous instalment[[/note]], which was seen varyingly as either a lazy way to address the problems levelled at the character, or to have outright pandered to the people who had harassed and bullied her actress. |
| 207 | * ''Film/TerminatorSalvation'' was dismissed by most movie critics as a rather forgettable action/sci-fi flick, and it turned out to be one of the lowest grossing movies in the ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' franchise. Unless you're a hardcore ''Terminator'' fan, you probably don't remember much about the plot beyond "Creator/ChristianBale fights robots in the future". But there's a good chance that you ''do'' remember Bale's infamous profanity-laced rant towards the film's lighting technician, which became an internet sensation when it was recorded and leaked, which forced him to issue a public apology for his behavior. |
| 208 | * The French film ''Tom and Lola'' is mostly remembered for the fact that its two titular characters, a pair of prepubescent children, spend nearly the entire film stark naked. |
| 209 | * ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie'' will be forever tainted by [[FatalMethodActing the helicopter crash that caused the death of three actors during filming]], Creator/VicMorrow and two child actors, said child actors being illegally employed, and Creator/JohnLandis, the director of the segment where Vic Morrow appeared, being acquitted of manslaughter. |
| 210 | * ''Film/UnitedPassions'' is a drama film about the origins of FIFA, the world governing body for association football. It had the misfortune of being released at the same time as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_FIFA_corruption_case details about corruption within FIFA]] became public, which could explain why the film made less than $1,000 at the box office, with a total American gross of '''[[EpicFail $918]]''' it's the [[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jun/18/fifas-united-passions-lowest-grossing-film-us-history lowest grossing film in U.S. history.]] No surprise that it's also a member of the 0% club on Website/RottenTomatoes and one of only 6 films to have an aggregate score of 1 (out of 100) on Metacritic. |
| 211 | * ''Film/VaseDeNoces'' is mostly a LeaveTheCameraRunning film, starring a man with an ambiguous disorder and his faithful pig, going about on random hobbies and at one point [[BestialityIsDepraved porking each other]]. That one scene is thus the most highlighted part of the film for those who've heard of it, to the point that the DVD release even added the subtitle "The Pig Fucking Movie". Ironically, according to some critics such as [[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Kyle Kallgren]], the film's even-worse scenes (including unsimulated piglet hanging and eating feces) avoided public outcry due to being overshadowed by the one (simulated) zoophilia scene (which happens much earlier in the movie). |
| 212 | * Many movies which were put on the VideoNasties list in the UK during the early 1980s have gained more notoriety for being on that list than for their actual artistic merits. In a lot of cases, the violent and/or sexual content of the movies was much exaggerated and it's obvious that the people who compiled that list probably didn't see many of the films and just based their opinion on the titles or rumors. |
| 213 | * The 1958 NatureDocumentary ''[[Film/TrueLifeAdventures White Wilderness]]'' was acclaimed in its day, but nowadays is overshadowed by two controversies that overlap with each other. First, it perpetuated the myth that [[SuicidalLemmings lemmings are suicidal]], which on its own would not be too bad... except that the filmmakers deliberately threw the lemmings off of the cliff shown in the documentary, drowned them and then [[ManipulativeEditing edited footage to make it look like natural suicide]]. Thus, the documentary has been CondemnedByHistory and considered [[BuryYourArt unreleaseable]] by Creator/{{Disney}}. |
| 214 | * ''Film/ZeroDarkThirty'' went from being a very strong Oscar contender -- Creator/JessicaChastain winning for Best Actress seemed like a lock -- to a long shot by the time the ceremony rolled around, due to the controversy over its torture scenes. |
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