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The Controversy Behind 'The Toy,' 'Revenge of the Nerds,' 'Soul Man,' and 'Heathers'"
Join us on Retro Renaissance as we delve into the iconic 1980s cinema, exploring the laughter, controversies, and cultural reflections embedded in 'The Toy,' 'Revenge of the Nerds,' 'Soul Man,' and 'Heathers.' From racial dynamics to dark humor, these films have left an indelible mark on the cinematic landscape. Buckle up for a journey through the highs and lows of 80s movie nostalgia! #RetroMovies #80sCinema #MovieControversies
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:51 The Toy
03:34 Revenge of the Nerds
07:45 Soul Man
11:36 Short Circuit
16:01 Heathers

[@CyclopsWasRight616]

the fact that you bleeped out the word "pants." in "Did you get in her pants ?" is what's wrong with America in 2023. The idea that grown ups in college might want to get into the pants of other grown ups is so terrible, that you can't even say the word "pants."

[@kemolowlow]

Why does she have a penis? The snowflakes would really lose it and say that some women have penises.

[@know_not_wickedness]

Lol

[@rogerk6180]

Yeah, really don't understand why that got bleeped.

[@ActionJackson1982]

I’ve seen certain words on tiktok they can’t use that aren’t offensive 🙄

[@originalsusser]

I don't have a clue wtf you are on about as 4 out of these 5 movies were forgettable trash that I watched but could never remember. But I concur completely with your statement. If he bleeped the word 'pants' because of its context... well, Retro R is pandering to a crowd I'm not a part of and will not bother watching another soft c*ck production from him again

[@doug6191]

I'm 45. I somehow survived all of those movies. I'm a miracle!

[@pettykittyfam]

Lol you Rayyyy cyst 😂😆😂 😂

[@libratude9595]

Funny how in the 80s, these movies weren't triggering and everyone grew up to be productive citizens of society. 2023-24 comes along and people need safe spaces and their protective blankies to barely make it through a movie from the past. There is absolutely nothing wrong with these past movies, other then some were just better than others.

[@TheKevinGHutton]

You're right but, who raised the snowflakes of today? It was the people who grew up in the 80s.

[@mikeschuler2946]

@@TheKevinGHuttonthe internet

[@TheDopekitty]

The Toy was very much disputed in the day because of the racial stuff

[@pferreira1983]

@@TheDopekitty It's because they cast a black actor, that's the only reason. Could have been white and it wouldn't have been a problem.

[@pettykittyfam]

​@@mikeschuler2946BINGO 🎯 My generation X We raised the first generation of these snowflakes... But we didn't do any kind of half azzed decent job & yep we relied on TV and Internet to raise our kids. Lol I call it out but I didn't raise a snowflake... My son loves these classics and he has no illusions of the world being a soft and nice place. I raised MY SON RIGHT 😂 LOL

[@corywilliams2255]

About REVENGE OF THE NERDS, they did not form their own fraternity. They were allowed to join Lambda Lambda Lambda, a Black fraternity, because they were the only ones who would accept them.

[@CoreyT127]

Yeah these channels never do their due diligence !

[@cyrusblackwood33]

Thank you, you took care of that for me.

[@kanedaku]

Of course he hasnt seen it, just read some basic synopsis, or even just an article about the film and then tries to critique it.

[@lexluthermiester]

This video only highlights the very serious problem of special snowflaking that runs rampant in today's society.

[@bladerunner3314]

Woukd that be the ever offended youth or the always satanic screaming geezers?

[@MrBooone]

alright granpa, go and cry woke elsewhere

[@newforestpixie5297]

i agree with you . I want to live in a less cruel world & suggest those whom are terrified of stereotyping should actually join together & support for example the millions of parents whom only approve their kids’ draft towards wars because of fear of bullying & being labelled traitors or fight against exploitative world famous corporations’ treatment of young employees- instead of picking holes in soft targets such as the attitudes of mainly elderly or aged over 50 folk which is creating just as much misunderstanding & division. To criticise 80s movies which fought against cruel stereotypes & created a basis for todays’ culture of polemic political obsession is somewhat ironic. 🙄👍

[@thegood9]

ABSOLUTELY true. We have NOT evolved in a "good" way in MANY ways. Comedy and self deprecation is necessary for the world to progress and live, yet we are suppressing and oppressing it at every turn.

[@TimCarter]

Indeed, and because Hollywierd is completely woke, they no longer make anything funny. A lot of this review is taken completely out of context. Like "The Toy" has no relation whatsoever to slavery. He was offered a job that he really didn't want to do, but he took it anyway, because it was like a year's salary for a few weeks time, and he was never not free to leave.

[@g00glian0]

Revenge of the Nerds. Excellent movie. Screw the ones that cannot handle it. Poor babies.

[@joscot9081]

What a sad, butt-hurt world we live in now....wow did humanity as a whole go down the wrong path

[@dearjohn795]

I bet your house smells like an ashtray

[@Captainkirk88410]

I miss the old days where people could make jokes about each other. And still function as a society.

[@dearjohn795]

@Captainkirk88410 what if the joke caused somebody TOoff themselves?

[@MrBooone]

No? We became less cringe.

[@MrBooone]

@@Captainkirk88410 you know that racism and bigotry ran rampant more so then, right?

[@lysanderofsparta3708]

Yeah, none of these movies could get made today. Now we know why today's movies generally suck.

[@michaelblack9458]

😂agreed

[@nathan_the_barbarian7974]

Word

[@andywinslow9638]

Short Circuit could be. Just leave out Ben.

[@lysanderofsparta3708]

@@andywinslow9638 Nah. They would have to make Johnny 5 gay or something.

[@kanedaku]

This video auteur had an Idea. He just didnt/couldnt execute it. All of these films could be made today, without a single problem. He complained about certain things, which could easily be shown either again through a modern lense, or be updated with snowflakey tinted specs.

[@COMPFUNK2]

Rae Dawn Chong must have really fallen for the ruse because she and C. Thomas Howell were actually married in real life for a while.

[@JaxonSmithers]

She was a cutie back in the day.

[@kanedaku]

@@JaxonSmithers 💯 a hottie too back then. Still a cutie now though. Just older, like the best of us

[@zroy9263]

I'm a middle-aged Black man who grew up in the 1980s and loved it! I also went to Junior and High School with C. Thomas Howell. He was a really cool dude and I liked him very much! I went to the theater with my fellow Black High School homies back in 1986 to watch Tom Howell in Soul Man and we were laughing out loud at that silly shit! The white folks in the audience thought we were crazy! Ironically, people today have become so soft, sensitive, and pathetic that films are no longer allowed to be funny anymore. Thanks to the Obama administration and his constituents!

[@debsreno911]

SO true! It's become so PC, people get offended so easily and get catered to. Sad.

[@Digital_Ghost_]

Whatever you say, random dude on the internet who says he knew C. Thomas Howell.

[@jsmacks11]

wow. I loved the Outsiders. One of my favorite movies with him. Soul Man is a movie that should be made today as alot of its subject matter is still relevant today. This is actually one of the best movies that describes White Privilege. I guess many people who have issues with this one never get to the end to get the full message.

[@zroy9263]

@@jsmacks11 It's going to be a very long time before WOKE HOLLYWOOD makes another SOUL MAN flick! I don't think that it will work in these sensitive, pathetically weak, and politically correct times! Don't forget about the censorship factor as well.

[@zroy9263]

@Digital_Ghost_ Growing up in Los Angeles with celebrities as classmates or clients in business is commonplace! It's not a big deal, to be honest. Tom Howell was just a suburban ordinary white dude back in the early 1980s. Actually, back in the early 2000s, he was also a patient at my optometry office. We caught up on old times. This is the Santa Clarita Valley where we went to school in Castaic and Saugus. You'd be shocked to hear about the people that I know out here in Hollywood!

[@leeheverly]

I miss the 80s, the movies were way more interesting than most of what we get now, I love it when people make movies that piss other people off

[@lexluthermiester]

Right there with you!

[@alvexok5523]

​​​​​​​@@lexluthermiesterMe too. I grew up in the 80s. There sure were some strange movies, such as Killer klowns from outer space or The Hidden. And alot of horror movies such as the Nightmare on Elm Street movies, the Halloween movies, or The Fly (Killer klowns and The Hidden were horror too, but also weird). And adventure movies like Labrinth or Flight of the Navigator. And action such as the first 2 Beverly Hills Cop movies or the Rambo movies. And some very funny comedies such as the National Lampoon Vacation movies or Planes, Trains, Automobiles or Trading Places or Ruthless People or the first Naked Gun. And of course, there was also Back to the Future. And the great John Hughs movies Weird Science, Breakfast Club, and Ferris Bueller.

[@kevingallagher188]

It's ironic that most of movies you talk about was meant to be seen as just wrong as not meant to be seen as accepted behavior. That's why it causes people to laugh, the audience understands how wrong the situation is, it's not meant to be a serious take on social issues.

[@alvexok5523]

@@kevingallagher188 Was your response to my comment or to @leeheverly's up top? If mine, I'm not sure why the movies I mentioned have been seen as unacceptable behavior.

[@AliciaHudson-ui6dh]

Heathers and Short Circuit are just nit picky, silly. Has Euphoria not been seen by this poster.

[@latedecember2805]

So it's wrong to have a movie like Soul man but okay to have White Chicks? To be fair I hated both equally.

[@francisc1854]

Look up the movie True Identity (1991) lol

[@andywinslow9638]

If I'm not mistaken, the former was criticized for actually having a black character actually played by a white actor that uses blackface as comedy and the latter was made by the same people who made Mrs Doubtfire so many accept that as a goofy story of a bumbling person in a different personality. But I agree the logic doesn't make sense

[@kanedaku]

@@andywinslow9638 That is absolutely ridiculous. Soul Man was about a white guy using blackface. Are you even remotely suggesting that it was criticised for not having a black actor play the -duel- dual role and then whiten up to portray the character in the beginning of the film, and the last scene? The "black character" wasnt black, at any single point in the film. The character was a white guy pretending to be black in the story. The 'complaints' in this video were useless anyway, but your suggestion is cracked. No one said that. 2nd edit: oh I get it now, you havent seen the film.

[@PhatGirlLuvr68Comix]

Porky's would never be made today

[@michaelblack9458]

All time great

[@koolaid117]

There's enough wool there to knit a sweater

[@chrismulwee4911]

Says who?

[@kanedaku]

@@chrismulwee4911 Tell 'im again, and shout it for the people at the back!

[@RipleyStrom]

American Pie as well

[@thehashtagtrashbag]

Everyone of them. Because somebody will find fault no matter how miniscule the reason to complain is

[@Gonner453]

Think about this, they can’t even make another Mel Brooks film because too many people would be upset about it. And it’s not because of his age. Although I will say that it does have a little bit playing another one ever getting made, but I strongly believe that any script he wrote, or turned in would be denied because people would be too afraid to film it

[@dhenderson1810]

I think Pryor was hired for *The Toy" not because of the black stereotype thing, but more that the comedy in it is right up his alley.

[@melodiefrances3898]

If that were true nothing would get produced.

[@johntrimpe2032]

@@dhenderson1810 Weird Fact: The child actor that portrayed the bratty boy became a porn star as an adult...I wonder if he starred in a porno parody called the Sex Toy 🤔

[@keithvincenttucker9923]

This is why all modern movies suck.

[@tenzingnorgay93]

So much fragility.

[@thelordofhellaz]

The real insult of Soul Man is when he goes through how much 3 years of Harvard costs, and it's almost the cost of a semester of most colleges today........

[@melodiefrances3898]

😢

[@CoreyT127]

And their degrees actually had value. And got them jobs. Not some faux activist degree!

[@sargonsblackgrandfather2072]

And blackface

[@Cat-Tiger-Taegi-Cult]

He learns how the other half lives and was better man for it

[@fr.chiphines1414]

I thought the same thing

[@NotData]

Some of these movies could be made today with minor tweaks. If Fisher Stevens' character is the only problem with Short Circuit, I'm sure they could still make movie today using an actual Indian actor.

[@Aushra1969]

I was thinking the same thing. I feel that the reason behind him playing an Indian character is because there probably weren’t many Indian actors available at the time. If made today, they wouldn’t have a problem filling that role authentically.

[@noth1ng5id]

No disassemble 😢

[@jsmacks11]

It might have been awhile ago but I remember Short Circuit as a fairly family friendly movie. I had no idea the Indian character was White in the 80s. This movie is definitely tweakable.

[@Roving_Ridge_Runner]

So following the same logic Robin Hood, Prince of thieves could not be made today. Cause kevin costner was not english. Or highlander could not be made because christopher lambert was not scottish.

[@katieandkevinsears7724]

Or have the part be a white man.

[@jamesday9701]

I'm very surprised that "Trading Places" didn't make this list.

[@laserblast92]

Blazing Saddles would really trigger him.....

[@RandallStevenson]

@@laserblast92 wrong decade

[@hellobirdie0617]

“It’s a Cosby decade”…..oh Lord if they only knew, actually they probably did. 🤦‍♀️

[@ricomajestic]

Only Hollywood insiders knew if the public had know the Cosby show would've never been a success.

[@jrobertlysaght]

The prologue to this video is amazingly self absorbed. The 'but we are better now' statement doesn't seem to grasp how time and society works. In 30 years, we could smugly make the same list of films now, once sensibilities change again. And I would contend the proper term is CHANGE, not IMPROVE. Some this are better, some worse, and most often what today finds all the rage tends to go too far toward and then past an important 'good idea'. I'd be this video producer is at the most 25 years old.

[@melodiefrances3898]

You nailed it.

[@pettykittyfam]

👏👏👏 YOU GET A STANDING OVATION! BINGO 🎯 SPOT ON! 😉 Couldn't have said it better myself ❤

[@JennaLeigh]

Yep. People today definitely get outraged and offended much more easily don't they!

[@MsFreakyPaws]

'In today's context there is no greater awareness of authentic representation in media' meanwhile Anne Boleyn and Cleopatra have been represented as 'black' and Beyonce rocked up on the red carpet sporting 'white face'.

[@johnnyguitar6639]

Yeah.Isn't that ironic. If you try to sport dredd or afro,you get called out. But if Beyonce try being blond,it's completely OK

[@SanFranDentist94301]

​@johnnyguitar6639There are Black blondes and redheads.

[@johnnyguitar6639]

@@SanFranDentist94301 That may be so.But Beyonce ain't one of them

[@SanFranDentist94301]

@@johnnyguitar6639 Same could be said for Marilyn Monroe, Suzanne Somers, and Farrah Fawcett. Anybody can be a fake blonde.

[@bladerunner3314]

Denzel Washington as Macbeth, that dude in Doc Who that played Newton. Their sensibility only goes one way.

[@gargoyleb]

Are you kidding me? You tell me just exactly how you make any movie today and you don't piss someone off. Just yell at the fish to get out of the water too while you're at it.

[@TommyJonesProductions]

The Toy was poking fun at racism, not perpetuating it. Geez. Did the writers of this video even WATCH the movie?

[@JCSuperstar777]

Much of this video amounts to an apology for all the films it reviews. Why not make a different video, therefore, if you’re just going to model for us, like patronizing officialdom, how we should be intellectually and emotionally responding to what you’re showing us?

[@johngrayatkinson1214]

WE HAVE BUSH!!!!! 😂❤😂❤😂

[@sevenwonders1717]

Actually, I think Booger said "We've got Bush!"

[@Mr.White10-65]

@@sevenwonders1717 Oh...hair pie.

[@kevinmarcus5125]

That’s why we were lucky to see them in theaters and then on home video back in the 80s! I don’t know any of today’s movies that will still be as beloved 40 years later, much less remembered. These movies played all summer long and now movies play a week before going to steaming to get lost in the shuffle. I’m sick of today’s generation of tik tok creators criticizing classic and all time favorite movies when they have no idea what a good movie is. Movies are meant to entertain and enlighten when possible.

[@deannadrake2040]

When you're a hammer, everything is a nail.

[@Ninjabadger76]

Quite frankly the decline of cinema is due to the PC police taking everything too damn seriously and putting out junk that makes sure no one gets their precious little noses out of joint. God I miss the 80's.

[@bladerunner3314]

Not that christians didn't try their darndest back then and are still doing it to censor stuff. If people could just stop being butt hurt all the time and tell others they have to follow THEIR sensibilities.

[@sargonsblackgrandfather2072]

It’s capitalism. They want to sell as many units/tickets/views as possible to it has to appeal to the most people and offend nobody

[@Ninjabadger76]

@@sargonsblackgrandfather2072 You are correct there but in the 80's people generally were OK with things and didn't get their little sensibility's offended by something small and stupid that didn't really need a giant issue made of it. Sure you shouldn't go out and deliberately offend people but people are just too quick to be offended by the slightest thing these days.

[@sargonsblackgrandfather2072]

@@Ninjabadger76 I agree to a certain extent but I think you’ll always have this generational divide in thinking too. I remember as a kid in the 80s tv and films were constantly telling us racism was bad and I bet our parents (our age now) got fed up with it, they didn’t see anything wrong with the culture they grew up on which in turn was alien to us. And I bet the it’ll be the same with our kids and their kids. The big difference these days is social media and the ability to publicly complain about these things. I also remember when I was young the papers were always going on about health and safety and political correctness “gone mad” and that was nearly forty years ago

[@Ninjabadger76]

@@sargonsblackgrandfather2072 Yeh I guess so you make some valid points maybe I'm just playing my right to be old and grumpy at the state of things card lol.

[@toddjackson3136]

Im sure in 20yrs they will be looking at today's movies and saying, "woe I can't believe they did that in a movie/song/tv show"

[@CoreyT127]

To the commentator who made the video. You’re in that same group of people. Who are the reason we couldn’t make these movies today! Modern/new doesn’t automatically equal = Better!

[@glenbmc3734]

Heathers is one of my favorite movies of all time. Dark comedies will always offend someone since they are taking on the "taboos" of our culture. I don't know how the 80s movie Parents with Randy Quaid and Mary Beth Hurt didn't make this list. Harold and Maude from the 70s must really set people off.

[@alvexok5523]

Yeah, I agree with you. Heathers was an iconic movie of the 80s, and it's still loved by most of us who grew up in the 80s. I have actually never seen Parents before with Randy Quaid, I gotta check it out sometime. Short Circuit is a very good movie too. The Fisher Stevens character was playing an Indian, but he was not intended to be offensive, and was actually a very likable character, smart and with a good heart. Generally speaking, it's not offensive unless a character has exaggerated faults based on faults that are known to whoever he/she is portraying. But Stevens' character was likable and did not have notable faults, unless you count the way he sometimes got common phrases mixed up, but that's not a notable trait with Indian people, it's hardly a major issue, plus it was funny the way he got phrases mixed up such as calling the john the jack, or saying bimbo instead of bingo, lol

[@CoreyT127]

Trans is the 80s teen suicide . Trendy fade of today!😢

[@JaxonSmithers]

We live in an era now where a lot of people are seemingly offended by their own shadow.

[@patrickc3419]

These are the same people who wear a mask. Alone. In a car. In 2024.

[@frelvisbrady]

I can't tell whether the overly woke narration is sincere or ironic.

[@iancormier7550]

It's neither. It's just saying information gathered from sites and remarks left by others over the years and what happened from then to now.

[@pegacorn13]

It's video discussing why these movies wouldn't have been made today. How is that "woke"? And even more importantly, how are you still misunderstanding the term, using it incorrectly and being an ignorant victim of brain washing propaganda? Unless of course you actually think that turning racism and sexual assault into comedy is a good thing.

[@ericafuller7133]

Gen Z's.... just don't. All these movies were great!

[@forestoldboy]

I love all these films!!! The 80's were great and christ to many woke agendas and snowflakes, nobody complains about white chick's but soul man is racist? Its just these are just movies so enjoy and if a snowflake don't watch them!

[@pegacorn13]

You're the one getting offended by a video simply discussing why these movies wouldn't be made to today. So remind me again: who's the snowflake here?

[@forestoldboy]

Im not offended???? Didn't you read my comment? It's just movies so enjoy them!!!! 😉

[@dano_the_collector8421]

Oh yeah that’s right Soul Man can’t come out today cause who wants to go to Harvard anymore 😂

[@BigRayHernandez]

OMG!!! What has happened to this world. Sooooo soft! IT IS ACTING!

[@MrHorse-by3mp]

The "Revenge of the Nerds" part about sex by mistaken identity is a joke going back at least to the Middle Ages. Both Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" and Boccaccio's "Decameron" had the same thing.

[@SanFranDentist94301]

It's still r thoug

[@jnnx]

These aren’t men of culture. . .

[@jaycee330]

Betty Childs still invited him to sex, and didn't seem to be too displeased afterwards...

[@ParodyKnaveBob]

This video and the culture that inspired it mostly missed the mark, but that one "joke" wasn't cool, especially with her being 100% okay after the reveal instead of understandably horrified.

[@jsmacks11]

I think this movie wasn't supposed to be a serious movie and be kind of cartoonish. In real life, there is basically no way everything would be OK after the pie selling scene. How does Betty never know about the Pies? Seems basically impossible a very popular girl with a huge social life doesn't realize nude photos of her are being leaked right under her nose even in an age without Social media. I think people try to take this movie too seriously. Movie is definitely a product of its time. Definitely wouldn't be made today but doesn't make it a bad movie.

[@Zamnek]

I've seen all of these with the exception of Soul Man. I remember it existed, but I can't recall seeing it. I may have, but it wouldn't have been more than once. I actually thought Stevens was Indian at the time. I still love Revenge of the Nerds, but even back then, as a pre-teen, I knew the bouncy room scene was wrong. Ditto with The Toy. But it was the absurdity of the whole situation that made it fun. In the 70s and 80s everyone was a target. Like the old Dean Martin roasts. But this is how we learned from and confronted society's problems. Head on and with humour.

[@henrikechers9995]

Richard Pryer was annoying as hell, in all his movies...................... But the rest is just movies being stories. Stories, and not reality...... Some were offended - OH NO.... Offended - OH NO

[@All3n1973]

Sad that just a few years ago you could make great movies that are classics, and people watch them today and have emotional breakdowns...

[@Mcelly58]

Maybe the people who had a problem with this movie were completely silent because we didn’t have social media

[@ozymandiasultor9480]

No, people were silent because people were not offended. Woke ideology wasn't a thing then.

[@Mcelly58]

@@ozymandiasultor9480 IDK because some movies back then would be considered woke, especially spike Lee, Robert Townsend and KeenanIvoryWayans

[@ozymandiasultor9480]

@@Mcelly58 Some movies back then would be considered woke but from today's perspective of those who are woke. Back then people were not so sensitive while at the same time having reserves and knowledge about racism, sexism, and other types of chauvinism.

[@Mcelly58]

@@ozymandiasultor9480 good point

[@michaelblack9458]

All these movies were awesome I'm showing most of them to my teenage son who loves them this generation is way too sensitive

[@thewordmasterblog]

not going to lie, this video makes it seems that cinema is suppose to be a place where we are to be educated and indoctrinated. that's why we have schools and religious institutions.

[@cjmiller6741]

I think they could, and probably would. In fact they are tame by today's standards. That you can make a KZbin video that exploits the topics, claiming social evolution, even, is proof enough that they could get made, but considering the state of entertainment today, would probably be much more explicit.

[@pferreira1983]

None of these films are offensive. They've probably dodged a bullet not getting a remake. 😆

[@the40yearoldgamerbkatemper52]

I think this says something about society, not the movie....😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

[@brianculham1180]

This is why I keep my DVDs.😅

[@inanimatecarbongod]

If Lady Ballers can be made in 2023, any of these movies can be made now.

[@bladerunner3314]

Doesn't mean it's a good film. In fact, nothing that has Ben Shitiros paw prints on it is worth what my cats leave in the litter box, but I would feed it to Matt Walsh.

[@jnnx]

This script sounds like it was written by AI.

[@sargonsblackgrandfather2072]

The Toy was a big movie when I was a kid and it’s been pretty much air brushed from history now

[@RockLibertyWarrior]

Yeah some things have changed for the better and some for the bad. Too many people need to stop being uptight and getting offended by every little thing.

[@CyclopsWasRight616]

if Fisher Stevens can't play a "brown" guy, then Elliot Page shouldn't be allowed to play a woman.

[@TheDopekitty]

Has Elliott played a woman since transitioning?

[@bladerunner3314]

This comment is so dumb ...

[@michaelblack9458]

Agreed

[@bladerunner3314]

@@TheDopekitty According to Wiki, just a voice gig.

[@CoreyT127]

@@bladerunner3314I mean? Bit dumber then let’s say? A girl pretending to be a boy!😂😂😂

[@JoeyArmstrong2800]

Keep in mind that everything is offensive to somebody. Seek and ye shall find.

[@Cat-Tiger-Taegi-Cult]

Don't tell them about "Imma get you Sucka" its nothing but one stereotype after the other, it's a scream

[@dianewright6204]

Soul Man was a great movie, there really were Suntanning Pills. I was in my 20's in the 1980s and thought about trying the pills but I lived close to a beach so I never tried them. I wonder if they really worked? 🤔

[@thoughtfulbobcat1872]

Most of of all media needs to be viewed in the context in which they were created. Books of centuries before and films of the last century or so viewed today will trigger those looking tone triggered. BTW, Porkys, Bachelor Party, and Can't Buy me Love would make people go nuts today, however in context they were made weren't that bad. Movies today suck because creativity has been so diminished nothing can be made without pissing someone off.

[@danielmarquis5258]

The Toy, I can understand not being made today. However, Revenge of the Nerds, NOT OFFENSIVE AT ALL.

[@Tripp393]

Incorrect. You could make all these movies today people would still enjoy them.

[@gogoyubari366]

Why are these movies offensive?

[@pegacorn13]

Did you watch the video?

[@littleaussierippa]

They aren't.

[@ozymandiasultor9480]

Those movies are not offensive, but some oversensitive snowflakes will find anything offensive.

[@pettykittyfam]

The comments are giving me back some faith in humanity 😂😂😂

[@Chelaxim]

Heather's is more popular now than it was back in the day. It lost 2 times it budget in 1988 but has had an EXTREMELY international successful musical (and has a censord version high school kids perform) as well as the TV show you mentioned. Sorry Gen X but Heathers is the epitome of " I guess you guys aren't ready for that. But your kids are going to love it".

[@inspiredinthedark23]

I loved it back in the 80s, and still love it.

[@MikeyJules69]

I'm Gen X, and I LOVE this movie.

[@andrewpearson3516]

The heathers literally has a TV show a few years back , this is why this entire video is talking shit 😊

[@markallen2984]

Despite everyone being fatter now than in the 1980's, everyone has gotten thin-skinned.

[@markallen2984]

Despite everyone being fatter now than in the 1980's, everyone has gotten thin-skinned.

[@jesse7918]

Thanks for pointing out how much better Hollywood and life used to be......

[@raulzavala9061]

I have not seen Soul Man since the early 90's and the Bill Cosby reference is what I remember most as The Cosby Show was still a juggernaut in syndication.

[@sootsrichmore6421]

REVENGE OF THE NERDS almost got a remake back in the 2000s... But eventually got shut down

[@PMB827]

Sixteen Candles would get destroyed these days also lol one of my favorites

[@johnnyguitar6639]

Yeah.That one I can get. Especially since molly is all over the net screaming rape. Completely excusing the blonde goes down on farmer ted. first

[@patrickc3419]

The gong in the background anyone a character says Long Duck Dong’s name 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@melrupinski88]

@@patrickc3419The Donger!

[@jaysw9585]

Amazon just made Totally Killer, which is about a high school serial killer and there is a mean girls sequel coming out. There are plenty of movies about high school murders and bitch clubs. Even teen suicide. Heathers would totally be made today, and will be.

[@amandawilkinsontarot7096]

I loved it.

[@BrianJamesShanley]

I don’t have a problem with any of the movies being critiqued here. This was clearly done by a kid,.

[@tmapes1989]

Yet when Eddie Murphy does the opposite, its fine???!!!

[@alexhickenbottom2820]

Revenge of the Nerds is by far middle school shenanigans by today’s standards of what goes on with hazing at colleges all over the US, it’s a travesty.

[@efjefe]

No one had any issues till 5 years ago. F em.

[@dhenderson1810]

Hell, people today would be triggered by "Home Alone" because they might think it encourages "child abandonment".

[@patrickc3419]

I’ve literally heard that. Didn’t somewhat recently people start being triggered by Elf because they say it mocks developmentally disabled people??? (“You’re a special elf, Buddy”) 😳😳😳😳

[@sevenwonders1717]

Revenge of the Nerds was AWESOME. Those who are "Offended" by it should Get a Life!

[@DJThump1]

Revenge of the Nerds was AMAZING!!!!

[@David35687]

It is funny how no one is offended by everone picking on Nerds simply because they were nerds. Bullying nerds is still not "problematic".

[@melrupinski88]

Or Short Circuit. I mean seriously?

[@newforestpixie5297]

But in 1988 Short Circuit broke new ground when portraying an Indian guy as a brave hero with a huge heart - something most white English kids hadn’t seen from Hollywood. We’d seen Indians belittled in sitcoms & never being lead roles in movies. Movies like this laid the foundations for a fairer or less ignorant society when opening eyes & minds & cannot be judged against today’s expectations. I get your overall point but it in itself is unfair & cruel to the makers. It’s absurd those how those actors were expected to apologise for playing those roles. Thankyou for your work 😁👍❤️

[@alexhickenbottom2820]

Revenge of the Nerds is by far middle school shenanigans by today’s standards of what goes on with hazing at colleges all over the US.

[@MrDman21]

The character of Booger from Revenge of the Nerds would today be considered an incel 😂

[@ObsessedCollector]

Wheres my time machine? I miss the 80s and 90s lol

[@johnashley327]

I still love Revenge Of The Nerds. Still mostly holds up.

[@wendyhiggins902]

This is true of all movies from all eras. They should be viewed in the context they were filmed. I just hope that banishment or banning or overediting of these films should discouraged. A brief warning should satisfy.

[@80sdreamwave32]

Dark comedy will not work now but it did back then some movies are my favorite heathers

[@andrewpearson3516]

This idea that movie cant get made today because of people being sensitive isnt right. Because movie standards were so much more harsh back then in comparison, hell they put waring and up rating to 18 if there was any gay or lesbian characters. So many movies rated 18 back then would be rates 15 or 12 today , before that interacial couples where completely banned in tv and movies. Trust me any gay representative that we see today in movies, its the bare minimum that the studio allowed it as the cut scene from the original screenplay The onlt thing that was super problematic was how rape and Sexual assault was depicted. Its what cultivated rape culture. Because they made it in to a joke of boys being boys. Here is the thing this still happens in movies and TV shows the difference is its not glorifying it and making it clear that its a crime.. We see this all the time in legal dramas and police tv show all the Time. Can we also stop using the word banned to when talking about this . Because the only time movies are.banned are in countries in the middle east , Russia, china. From everything from sex , LGBT characters, anything that goes against that countries politics like china banning anything that has Tibet in it these are thing's that are banned movies. One thing i do dislike is KZbinr misrepresent how it works. Its very lazy. Labelling it Hollywood like some entity that makes movies. Not understanding the dichotomy between creator and publishing studio

[@stingrey1571]

even as a kid i knew revenge of the nerds had issues. luis pretends to be betty's boyfriend. they bang. and now she's in love with him.

[@johnnyguitar6639]

Well..She could just insisted on him taking of his mask. He tricked her at best. Woouldn't call it rape though

[@echt114]

This whole video seems to be advocacy of the idea that it's perfectly fine to ridicule, trash and abuse some people, but that other people must be obsessively protected from it.

[@ericpanissidi6761]

Heathers are the real mean girls.

[@amandawilkinsontarot7096]

Yes!!

[@frogger2513]

If it was pitched to a studio today lolz maybe we’d actually have a good film

[@ericpanissidi6761]

If your kids get affended kickk them out of the house

[@WillMassey-by5nk]

Technically the idea of revenge of the nerds was more about underdog nerds in going against the hypocrisy of Greek life in 1980s colleges and in by singling out the bullying in by being the better person and winning over the people within their college and that was more popular in pop culture at the time of the 80s and goes for the same thing for like say Ghostbusters because that be like saying the same thing for that movie too

[@LADYJAYY19788]

Leave short circuit alone!!

[@JohnSmith-zw8vp]

If there was modern google/wikipedia back in 1985 poor Johnny 5's head would explode!

[@ENDTIMEsVideoLibrary]

The only one that I have seen is Heathers even though I remember when the others came out I had no real desire to see them... I think your list is pretty Spot On though with this New Sensitive World that is far less caring than it was back in the 70s up to the early 2000s, there would be many more..!

[@RandallStevenson]

I still have my copy of The Toy and my copy of Short Circuit.

[@BCBaron]

Been a long time since I saw Short Circuit, but I didn't think Fisher Stevens was portraying a negative stereotype. As I recall, the character was one of the protagonists. He was a very intelligent robotics expert, a good friend to Steve Guttenberg's character, and someone who cared about protecting the life of the newly self-aware Johnny 5 robot. I mean, so what if he had an accent?

[@brandonpage7087]

These aren't the only 80s films, that couldn't be made today. A few others come to mind, like Trading Places, Parents, Sleepaway Camp, even 48 Hours, to a degree. All awesome flicks, mind you, exactly like the ones, in this video. Though, tbh, i've never really found the Toy, to be very funny, & do have to wonder what they were smoking, when they greenlit that one, lmao! I do love all the others covered here, as well as the ones i mentioned above. Something really awesome that does come out of all these films perceived "offensiveness", is that they can & do inspire deep discussions about all these taboo subject matters. Btw, my fave films covered here are Short Circuit, Soul Man, & Heathers. I love Revenge of the Nerds, too, & i'm struggling, truly struggling, to find any racism, in that flick, as the article, in the video claims! Where's the racism, in Revenge of the Nerds???

[@cjmiller6741]

Oh, the stereotypes are all over that movie. Racist, classist, sexist and really, just about everything. Because it's all thrown in, the various offenders seem to cancel each other out.

[@step5732]

This video is a great example of a giant snowflake crying over nothing!

[@christopherdieudonne]

To be fair, I don't think he is crying. I think he's simply saying that these movies couldn't be made today.

[@JennaLeigh]

And this comment is proof that often, certain people are looking for reasons to insult others. No one is crying about anything here. There's a reason history class is important, and many times the people who missed the point expose their ignorance willfully. Isn't that something?

[@pegacorn13]

No, this video is not that in any way shape or form but the comments section absolutely is in almost every respect.

[@CuBills51]

I think we call this Closed mindnes

[@Aushra1969]

A couple of movies that comes to mind for me is “The Jerk” and “Trading Places”. I doubt those would fly today.

[@johnnyguitar6639]

Why? I haven't seen em in ages. Refresh my memory about them,as to what wouldn't fly?

[@patrickc3419]

@@johnnyguitar6639 As far as The Jerk goes, because Steve Martin’s character’s racial outlook.

[@kshinokevin]

in "The Toy," there were two comedic greats: Richard Pryor, a stand-up comedy legend (a dirty comic ("Car Wash," feat. George Carlin & Franklin Ajaye; "Live at the Sunset Strip" comedy concert film) who was usually paired with Gene Wilder ("Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory"; comic Paul Mooney helped write his & Eddie Murphy's material) and Jackie Gleason ("The Honeymooners" sitcom; "The Jackie Gleason Show"); I have read that the spoiled rich kid, Eric Bates (Scott Schwartz), had turned out to be a Corn Star. Back in the 1970's, "Blazing Saddles" was both directed and co-written by Mel Brooks and 4 other people: Richard Pryor, & three other guys. Fisher Stevens' Ben Jabituya (from "Short Circuit") 1990's equivalent would be like Hank Azaria as "Apu N(ahasapeemapetilon,) the shop owner of the Kwik-E-Mart in the long-time cartoon series, "The Simpsons." Much later (in 2017), comic Hari Kondabolu created a documentary called "The Problem with Apu."

[@freddakin7119]

Richard Pryor would never have touched the movie,”The Toy” if he thought it racist for a split second. Man please, give me a break.

[@foreignparticle1320]

It's incredible how puritanical today's culture is.