Top 30 Movies That Caused Massive Backlash

[@WatchMojo]

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[@devingiles6597]

The Marvels

[@lunarmatt]

A Serbian Film

[@chrissaguaro7793]

Just because you can't handle watching uncomfortable scenes doesn't make it a bad movie.

[@MilesJungbacker]

By my knowledge, the Birth of a Nation was facing severe backlash even in 1915, and was banned in parts of the U.S.

[@chistake7585]

Good old glorification of the South. Woodrow Wilson loved it.

[@Snobiker13]

A funny thing is that when we were taught about that film in art class in Sweden nothing was said about its racism, only about its storytelling techniques.

[@brianhatcher2799]

I don’t remember Titanic getting massive backlash! What in the world?!!

[@mrsx7944]

Exactly. That's definitely NOT true. They must think we're all 25.

[@apexpredator4937]

Yeah. I never heard of any backlash for the movie. Thought it was loved by all. Well almost by all apparently.

[@karthu1993]

Tiitanic got backlash from Murdock and Molly Brown's family.

[@Heathcoatman]

There's always been that talking point of him dying and her surviving and the old 'there was room on the raft for both', saying there was backlash doesnt have to mean people hated it, just that one particular part received backlash. Ever seen Bill Burr's 'Titanic is a horror movie' bit? I enjoyed the movie, but a couple of parts bothered me, and others. And I'm not 25, I saw it in the theater when it came out.

[@mrsx7944]

@@Heathcoatman but that's not what this video is referencing.

[@donnahaynes138]

Blake Lively lying to people and telling them that It Ends With Us is a rom-com (despite her knowing about the domestic abuse) is like trying to convince people that Fifty Shades Of Grey is a love story

[@Chris-lk9ug]

1:47 No. HE DISLIKED IT SO MUCH THAT HE MADE DRAGON BALL SUPER. He didn’t want that film to be the last dragon ball movie because it was *THAT* bad

[@ERJOGAZ]

The biggest backlash for Avatar was it's controversial use of Papyrus in its title font. PAPYRUS!!!

[@TheImmortalTravis]

The "casting all white people as lead roles" caught me off guard not going to lie. lol

[@wert2345]

right? i wonder if they'd dare use it for all the race swapping in the other direction...

[@diarrheadisastr2114]

I'm surprised that Showgirls didn't make the list.

[@c0lutch]

Yeah, the star should’ve been Kelly Kapowski, not Jesse 😂

[@user-lb9xw4xf2q]

I don't think it face backlash, just lambasted.

[@JayJay_2531]

nowadays every fricking movie has to represent every f-ing spectrum of wokeness

[@chemrebel]

29:42 - I mean, isn't EVERY film that depicts the crucifixion technically a snuff film?

[@DVankeuren]

By that logic any movie depecting death is a snuff film.

[@Jeremiah_Rivers76]

_Joker_ might’ve been a box office hit, but I’d be out of the house shortly before Arthur’s interview.

[@LeroyFurious]

Nyphomaniac I and II Director's Cut was on Netflix with regular movies back in 2013 😂😂😂 I watched both back to back. I didn't know what I was in for. The second part is crazier.

[@MilesJungbacker]

They were on Disney + earlier this year, with the kids movies.

[@amandabeaty1492]

He makes super unsettling movies. Have you seen Meloncholia? A depressed chick blissfully watches the world collide with another planet killing everyone. It's... Unsettling.

[@klloydplata4098]

I already hated ezra miller FOREVER. I always remembering what has done wrong to those people and/or persons he hurt.

[@aminethbt885]

That shouldn't affect his career, he did well in his movies, he should be kept. May God bless him.

[@Devondavis-fm2dz]

I'm sorry but that thumbnail is wild fam 😂

[@BrotherDarkness721]

Correct.

[@traviskurtz1244]

“Everyone hated it (dragon ball)” goes on to say it got 14% on rotten tomatoes 😑

[@Autistic_Internet_Slap_Fights]

You are a dork

[@konohahurricane07]

86% is basically everyone. Don't defend that garbage movie.

[@stevenbirdhouse]

Don’t forget Death in Venice(1971). The subject matter of that movie was controversial enough but still should’ve faced even more backlash than it did. It reminds us that Epstein and Diddy were just the dark side of AMERICAN entertainment. Don’t even get me started on European.

[@CandaceDreamer]

I must admit, the twilight movies are my guilty pleasure at times.

[@Heathcoatman]

It feeds into some pretty negative messages. Turning a murderous undead guy into a hunky love story that young girls swoon over is pretty cringe.

[@COMPFUNK2]

I just watched Kids for the first time. I honestly don’t know what viewers are supposed to learn from that.

[@gfear24]

While I like Blake Lively, and think her and Ryan Reynold's are such a likable couple. Her complete ambivalence on the press interviews for that movie just prove why she doesn't do many interviews. She came off so clueless and tone deaf it was insane.

[@danielrubinstein896]

She just shows how privilege she is and how naive she is about her surroundings are problematic

[@robotzombie9]

I liked in Ghostbusters when Hemsworth controlled 100 peoples bodies and made them do a choreographic dance. Seemed vital to the story.

[@fourthwallbreak]

Regarding Ghost in the Shell. I've lived in Japan for 16 years and I act in Japanese movies and commercials here and know lots of Japanese directors. When I ask my directors about Ghost in the shell they all say the same thing. Something always along the lines of "The character is a cyborg not Asian. Cyborgs don't have race so any person can play it." And they don't understand why Americans (typically white Americans) get all pissed off when a white character plays an Asian character in the first place. They care more about if the character is played well.

[@Mortal209]

I've been saying that since the movie was set to release. I told people time and time again, THE CHARACTER ISN'T ASIAN BUT A SHELL AKA ROBOT. The people who got pissed off never actually watched the anime or read the manga, the character is portrayed as a WHITE Shell with an Asian GHOST inside of it.

[@mgpitt8331]

@@Mortal209 My problem with the movie was the script was underwhelming. Great special effects, interesting idea, but they completely failed in that respect. I know it didn't stick close to the original film or Second Gig, which was fine. I have no problem with people reimagining canon, but please do it well.

[@bobthedopeman7327]

White people were probably the only ones complaining I bet 😂

[@fourthwallbreak]

@@mgpitt8331 Yup that's what I'm saying.

[@Maxwell_Cain]

I'm Asian and a long fan of Ghost in the Shell and never had issue with the race of the actors cast. My issue with the movie was the writer/director was a clueless moron that had no understanding of the characters he was dealing with and turned them into Hollywood cliche.

[@laurenzopie7922]

Not WM saying that the “passion of the Christ” was relentlessly CRUCIFIED by the media 😂

[@mrsx7944]

It's a lie . it wasn't.

[@furniturerescue3949]

Not a W making false and generalized statements about men 😂

[@jamiepandohie9169]

One Movie Missing from this List is THE DA VINCI CODE

[@michaelvargas5144]

Thank Goodness Ghostbusters: Afterlife And Frozen Empire Came Out And Saved The Franchise 👍

[@Well3eyond]

Ghostbusters never should have been a franchise to begin with.

[@Pienimusta]

What's the thumbnail? Asking for a friend.

[@otf_tornaldo8399]

Nymphomaniac (I think 🤔) they're 2 parts

[@Pienimusta]

@@otf_tornaldo8399 Thanks

[@johnsltzr01]

Haha

[@kris242]

Definitely Nymphomaniac Pt.II. VERY much not for everyone. But I found both films strangely beautiful (in a fucked up Lars Von Trier way)

[@titans360ify]

@@kris242you’re weird

[@JeffreyDeCristofaro]

I definitely think the backlash against MUSIC was fully deserved - NO autistic person should EVER be depicted in THAT light and whatever apologies Sia made following its release will NEVER be enough!!!

[@apexpredator4937]

Life of brian bigus dikus will always be funny.

[@rileyfuckingrifle]

Yes! 😂

[@AJ-xc4qe]

Fate the Winx Saga is still the worse live action adaptation of a cartoon. At least the movie TRIED to look like the cartoon with the theme song, the music in general, the set design, the costume design and even the CGI didn't look bad. The show was such a global phenomenon that even people who don't respect animation at least know what the show is. Not enough people know what Winx Club is either because of generational divide or language barrier or just that it hasn't been on American television in a long time or just out of ignorance.

[@MrGleeiscool]

Ok everyone can hate dragonball evolution but the scene where he fights those bullies was low key badass

[@magua9563]

Last Jedi deserved to be in here. It fractured the SW fanbase and soured many to Disney's projects, rightly so.

[@SirsasthNigam.]

What about Holiday Special and Clone Wars animated film?

[@mikereger1186]

Those can be buried, a core film can't be done away with easily. It was vandalism that can only be scrubbed out with extreme measures.

[@kamsismith]

Blonde. Disrespecting Marilyn Monroe through graphic imagery and falsehoods by the author of the book and the director. Also, Back to Black. Similar to Blonde, albeit making Amy Winehouse more of a caricature than a real person.

[@georgeboyd5670]

Back to Black was an insult to Amy's legacy and an affront to her fans simply by virtue of having someone else who couldn't sing, sing her songs.

[@BlackHatCinephile]

🥉

[@Reaperguy67]

​@@BlackHatCinephile still wrong

[@1971kona]

In my opinion, Clockwork Orange is the best movie of all time. An absolute MUST Watch for everyone.

[@AdamPrather-m8t]

simpsons did their own version of clockwork orange for their halloween special

[@Autistic_Internet_Slap_Fights]

Clockwork Orange sux

[@docabrahammd]

I respect your opinion. I found it excruciating to watch. Just a truly awful film with no redeeming qualities.

[@Jamal-bl7yh]

Fun Size (2012) Nickelodeon's Controversial Debut Into PG-13 territory and I saw this earlier this month I can see why Paramount Global wants to bury this film

[@michaelwoods3760]

Twilight wasn't that bad chill ok ppl

[@IDONTLIKEMONDAYS-w2h]

I think it was terrible as are harry Potter movies.

[@jaynedavies2757]

It was just generic with bad effects and bad acting to me. Just your modern vampire for preteens

[@m.h.w.weckseler]

Movies like 'Joker' and 'Ghost in the shell' are prime examples of cases where the only ones upset were the media. It was only the media that was talking about potential mass killings for Joker, and it was only the media who was on a 'representation high' that was complaining about Scarlett Johansson playing the main roll in Ghost in the shell. Especially the last was around the same time where they were also complaining about non-deaf people playing deaf characters, and non-vision impaired people playing blind people.

[@supercyberfunk]

I liked The Interview. I don't care what Kim Jong Un thinks.

[@jonathanwright4732]

Nobody revisits My Left Foot. People constantly revisit Driving Miss Daisy.

[@gilanafaye]

that's not an indication of quality. schindler's list is an exceptional film, but it's not something most people are going to want to revisit.

[@MisatoBestWoman]

JOKER 2019 is a masterpiece. The backlash was ridiculous. Titanic still holds up and it’s been what 25 years ago. I absolutely still love it, especially for its special effects.

[@creamysauce5351]

The first joker was great… the second was tragically bad. The ending was bad. The shift into musical forms was unnecessary

[@jazclarinetist]

I get the engagement point of the thumbnail, but I hate it just the same

[@zachtwilightwindwaker596]

-Since when did religion not cause backlash? -The Flash caused backlash? It failed just because of Ezra Miller? -Watching the Dragonball movie with the TeamFourStar riff track made it even better. -I thought Joker 2 was the backlash one. Something about Joker rubbed me the wrong way and I didn't want to watch it. -I like Life of Brian but then again I'm an atheist and don't really makes a fuss over religion. I heard that people in Norway had to go a neighboring country just to see Life of Brian. Could you imagine going to another country just to see a movie? I feel sorry for the people in Ireland who want to see this movie. They can't exactly go to another country that easily. The controversy continued into the 21st century? It's been over 20 years already. Let it go. -I stopped watching Twilight after the third movie. -Ghostbusters 2016 isn't that bad. -How the hell is blue a warm color? -The Hobbit caused backlash? There are three parts so they can make more money. -I did not see Titanic in theaters and I think a kid like me probably wouldn't like the film if I saw it back then. -I won't watch Avatar 3 if it's another bloated movie. I regret watching the sequel since it was OVER 3 HOURS LONG! -I wanted to watch The Interview because it was controversial. 26:02 That scene made me laugh.

[@jolaine3225]

I was getting my hair done at the same salon as the dad of the lead character in the dragon ball movie "Goku". He was very proud of his son and was bragging all about him. Poor guy lol

[@TCB1975]

A Clockwork Orange was brilliant.

[@ajoliva95_vigilante_anime_86]

Terrifier movies were also caused backlash due to insane kills

[@chelseacanales8763]

I honestly like, not love, like the Twilight saga. Sure Pattison, and Kendrick hate being a part of it, but I like it because it’s a wolf thing. No need, I’ll see myself out 😅

[@386PapaLeche]

Passion of the Christ gives me a deeper seriousness for J Christ. That Crucifying scene man…sheesh.

[@KatiB5587]

@@386PapaLeche My stepdad who is a pastor (hello religious trauma) made me watch the film but skipped the flogging and most of the crucifixion when it came out (I was 16) but then forced me to watch them over and over and over after he found out I'd done something very normal for a 16 year old to do but that he wanted me to know was an unforgivable sin. Obviously I knew how things would end, but in the flogging I was crying and telling him to stay down, stop getting up. But homeboy didn't listen. Never watched the film since, and forcing me to watch the scenes as punishment for being a 16 year old didn't have the desired result of me being the perfect Christian woman, but actually pushed me away from the church.

[@gilanafaye]

@@KatiB5587 that's seriously messed up and i'm genuinely sorry your faith was weaponized against you.

[@COMPFUNK2]

It Ends with Us shouldn’t be on the list because the backlash had to do with the promotion of the film and not the film itself.

[@JonnySuite13]

"It's me, Casey."

[@evanlin8435]

How about the Little Mermaid(2023)?

[@creamysauce5351]

The insanely unhealthy amount of racism from US citizens was atrocious.

[@MarcVanPrey]

@@creamysauce5351 Yeah absolutely, the woke left is a racist cancer , I agree 👍👍👍

[@user-lb9xw4xf2q]

I think South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut also caused some drama because the idea of cartoons not just being for children hadn't been remembered yet.

[@TCB1975]

Mother! Was simply amazing.

[@saradodson7840]

A Clockwork Orange is amazing both book and movie.

[@TheWatcher-h5c]

Based on this, everyone should angry with DiCaprio for his portrait of divergent, that movie with Jhonny Depp. And how is different from the one of Daniel day Lewis? Just full of c"*ap

[@KatiB5587]

@@TheWatcher-h5c What's Eating Gilbert Grape, a d Rain Man? They were made a long time ago when people with disabilities or neurodivergence were not used for roles of people with disabilities, just like it's been rare for queer actors to play queer roles. There's backlash about not casting queer or disabled people for queer or disabled roles now because society has progressed and representation is important. Queer and disabled actors understand the nuances straight and able bodied/minded people don't about the roles so a film is going to be less insulting and more true if the casting team has gone to the effort of finding an actor that can adequately resonate with a role...

[@elizabethescalante8114]

That Dragon Ball and Last Airbender live action crap deserved all the booing, all the thumbs down and ALL the tomatoes, garbage and dead batteries thrown at it!!!! In the words of the Robot Chicken nerd: "You took the best cartoons of all time, And YOU PISSED IN THEIR MOUTHS!!!!!!"

[@laurenregnier3710]

Even Bobsheaux hated Ghostbusters , the female version . 😊

[@darrylbonner2380]

I don't remember most of this getting more backlash than the little mermaid

[@Mortal209]

The Blake Lively movie is actually hilarious that it was advertised that way because she wouldn't have been able to do a press tour for the movie and no one would have been blindsided by the film. That's actually genius marketing because it's essentially blindsiding you by showing that people only care about abuse when it becomes a controversial topic, they wouldn't give 2 shits if the film was marketed truthfully because no one would care about another movie about abuse. I've never seen it and even I can tell that.

[@user-lb9xw4xf2q]

James Marsters also apologised for being in Dragon Ball Evolution, but years ago. He would eventually portray a brilliant Dragon Ball character in Zamasu, but he used an alias to hide his involvement at first due to not wanting to bring the Evolution stigma.

[@balitangkamatis]

blue is the warmest color ain't got a backlash amongst blokes.

[@TheMags53]

In what universe The Flash received "decent" reviews?

[@paulparker1137]

What a surprise that in 2015 members of the academy saying another movie should have beaten a film about a Black man driving around a white women. Cancel culture was really kicking in then

[@Maxwell_Cain]

2 words, glitter vampires. There's no such thing as too much hate for Twilight.

[@DVankeuren]

No one ever cared what critics think because we know the official critics are bought and paid for.

[@donnahaynes138]

I still don't understand the backlash to the 2016 all-female remake of Ghostbusters. Women can be Ghostbusters too and Ghostbusters can be LGBTQIA too.

[@CandiceVidito32]

The Brown Bunny: This movie's infamous sex scene received a negative critical response at its Cannes premiere. Many critics speculated whether the actress had been pressured into performing the act.

[@AR-EX-SEVER]

I didn't fully understand, the scene of girl doing graphic blowjob, was that uncensored at cinema??

[@rollingthunder9087]

My Left Foot didn't deserve an Oscar for cripface.

[@katherinemcintosh7247]

I think there was so much backlash about The Last Temptation of Christ because so many Christians, due to their Christian training, were unable to look at its content critically. It was an imagination of Christ being tempted by Satan while dying on the cross. All that happened between the beginning and the end was a blip in Jesus’s head while hanging on the cross. And he chose to die, even though it was obvious he would have wanted that life which was imagined, he saw a higher purpose for himself. All the critics heard was, “he makes a home with Mary Magdalen instead of dying on the cross” which is the opposite of what happened.

[@weirdfoodcombos3249]

"The last temtation of Christ" was pure Blasphemy.

[@XenoAnimeAddict]

Frankly, I don't see why ANY movie gets backlash. I mean, it's all fiction. So what?

[@LowKeyJaded]

That thumbnail is insane.

[@BrotherDarkness721]

Agreed.

[@Janak-hb4bp]

If you criticise MOTHER...you never understand that movie.

[@birb1786]

My high school made the older students watch Passion of the Christ for Christian Studies (Went to a Lutheran college), and I got freaked out by the crucifixion scene so bad. Now I can't watch any scenes involving crucifixion or the movie without feeling ill

[@What_Makes_Climate_Tick]

I was a 5th grader when the mini-series Roots was shown. My teacher first recommended it to watch, then found out that there was a parental discretion warning on it. I believe this was mainly because it depicted whipping of a slave. The teacher then said that he wouldn't watch it himself because if it's not fit for children to watch, it's not fit for anyone. I say that if it's true to life it should be watched, even if disturbing. This applies to several on this list, but I'm thinking first of Cuties.

[@mrsx7944]

Your teacher sounds silly.

[@KatInJapan-q2e]

Zero Dark Thirty was soooo boring. I turned it off after 30 minutes.

[@sarahm8695]

Genuinely pissed off they turned a Colleen Hoover book into a movie. Her books are so problematic and harmful.

[@jeremywilliams5141]

My pick goes to Nina (2016). The film is based on the life of singer Nina Simone and starred Zoe Saldana as the title character. The majority, if not the entirety of the backlash came from Saldana's portrayal of Nina due to the horrific makeup and prosthetics. Portraying a real life person like Nina Simone is different from portraying a fictional character like Gamora and Zoe was not the right actress to play Simone.

[@gerardgerardo4185]

Is the fact "Blue is the warmest color" depicts a pedophilic sexual relation as ok not mentioned?

[@ironsteal]

"oh yea it's coming together" is was i would say .... great vid @WatchMojo

[@raudeloruna2600]

"THEY were arrested" lmao.

[@atrozzorta9602]

So much "because of white washing" in this video. Will never understand the complaints about whitewashing for GiTS:SAC though considering how pale Motoko Kusanagi is.

[@morgantaylor84]

For the haters of number seven, movies need to be simple to gain mass appeal because most people aren't as smart as you are. Now go out there and show the world just how much smarter than all of them you are.

[@Kevin.Wandertales]

Why is she saying „They“ when she‘s talking about the actor from Flash ?

[@user-lb9xw4xf2q]

Backlash, in a way: Dragon Ball Super: Broly. Unleashed two and more decades of dirty secrets that put the title character's American actor's career on ice, which he murdered by allying with an alt-right opportunistic sociopath.

[@DVankeuren]

Vampires don't sparkle in the sun!

[@bobthedopeman7327]

Running 20 accounts to stalk and harass people in the comments has caused tremendous backlash 😂😂😂

[@jessymonster]

Mother! was the best movie I saw until The Substance in terms of making me so uncomfortable. LOVED IT!

[@Arctic-void-z7f]

Yeah Blake dropped the ball there she tried to make Barbie / Oppenheimer with her husbands film Deadpool and wolverine in theatres at the same time but she failed miserably with the marketing She just came across so insensitive as well

[@stephenmills5133]

The Hobbit only needed to be one film

[@crystalshaw8744]

When I see " The English Patient " all I can think of is my favorite show, Seinfeld. Apparently, you guys had the same thought...giggle

[@CantonGirl1981]

I hated Blonde so hard. It was so exploitative and insulting to Marilyn’s memory. I know it’s “fictional”, but it depicted real people. An imaginary throuple and a sexual assault by a US President is taking it way too far.

[@IDONTLIKEMONDAYS-w2h]

Wasn't Marilyn Monroe kinda a prostitute? Yeah I don't glorify her

[@maxmazzotti6651]

The Hobbit Trilogy: 9 hours of life you will never get back. -Manu Bennett aka Azog the Defiler

[@robbinruffino1201]

Last Tango in Paris..Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider felt forced to do certain sex scenes by the director

[@ascjosh]

hey i'm josh

[@snoox27]

Twilight is a comedy, I convinced.

[@RCurry-yg3il]

Thumbnail looks crazy 😭

[@Ummmmple]

I liked Dear Evan Hansen and I don't think he looked that old at all. I'm confused by people's comments about him

[@jjjjjvvvvv]

The film Submission by Theo van Gogh and Ayaan Hirsi Ali not being on this list is brutal, it should be #1 without question. It received a lot of backlash, but furthermore, the director theo van Gogh was shot and stabbed to death 3 months after it's release by a muslim extremist.

[@PaolaBarrientos]

20:44 for me adding the character of tauiriel was so disappointing because of her arc.

[@AnastasiaSaenz]

And, why aren't any live-action Disney movies (i.e. Mulan, 2020) on this list?

[@Well3eyond]

Cuties is actually a very good movie about culture clash and the inappropriate influence of social media on young girls.

[@martinnevarez242]

Correct! The controversy was overblown.

[@Well3eyond]

@@martinnevarez242 - Severely overblown, and by people who never even saw the movie.