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The 25 Most Controversial Movies Ever

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boo5000, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16Let's* start off* the comments with some spelling and grammar lessons.
- kalisphoenix, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19You don't know how much I hate you for having no errors in that post ;)
- PunkRampant, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1And *continue* the comments with conversations that have nothing to do with the story.
- sathias, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0It also had several academy award winners and other very respected actors in it, I can't remember too many pornos that can claim that.
  
  (Sir John Gielgud, Peter O'Toole, Malcolm McDowell)
RadicalBender, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Aladdin? Well, uh, yeah. That one line caused a lot of fuss. Queen Noor of Jordan even took offense to it in her memoirs...eleven years later.
borninda818, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18http://www.ew.com/ew/article/commentary/0,6115,1202224_1_0_,00.html
no frames version.

I think wizard of oz should have been in there. When it was released many people thought it was pro communist
robbh66, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3borninda818 beat me to it.
- borninda818, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4sorry. Iambored.com is good but the submitter should have put the original article.
- tobsterius, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Well, when your producer is Bob Guccione, who just so happened to be the founder of Penthouse, I don't think classifying Caligula as porn is a stretch. At all.
aurrea, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9"Passion of the Christ" nudges out "Clockwork Orange" for first place.... Darn!
- Scottamus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I just realized they both have the scene of Jesus carrying the cross. It would have been quite amusing if they had shown those side by side.
Warptera, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Wasn't Caligula that one movie with ridiculous amounts of full frontal nudity for both males and females?
- kalisphoenix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6It was porn. I seem to recall a couple guy-on-guy blowjobs, too, which you don't see that often on, say, Masterpiece Theater.
- LucasVB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Well, it had nudity, and lots of hardcore sex. But it wasn't technically a porn movie.
  
  In a way, it was lame porn wrapped around a lame plot, making it a lame movie. Bah!
- tobsterius, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Well, when your producer is Bob Guccione, who just so happened to be the founder of Penthouse, I don't think classifying Caligula as porn is a stretch. At all.
  
  Mod me down, above. Wasn't paying attention. Obviously..
- gwinerreniwg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1When I used to sneak through my dad's hidden porn collection in the 70's, I recall seeing ads for Caligula in his Penthouse mags - It was marketed as an "art-y" porno with a story.
kalisphoenix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3What was that Italian movie that was basically a film version of "120 Days of Sodom?" *searches* Salo.

I've seen most of these films, but Salo is completely *****.
- kalisphoenix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/394623/612504/
  
  Now is the time to save your soul.
sembetu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Strange, Clockwork is one of my all time favs, and I thought Passion was very well done. I seem to be a lightningrod for disturbing movies, but, hey, I already knew that.
usp8riot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Also Top 50 Teen movie list from EW which was recently dugg if anyone's interested:
http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,1532588_1_0_,00.html
naterd00d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3225. Aladdin
24. Caligula
23. Kids
22. Do The Right Thing
21. Bonnie and Clyde
20. Cannibal Holocaust
19. Basic Instinct
18. I Am Curious (Yellow)
17. Freaks
16. United 93
15. Triumph of the Will
14. The Warriors
13. The Da Vinci Code
12. The Deer Hunter
11. The Message
10. Baby Doll
9. Last Tango in Paris
8. Natural Born Killers
7. The Birth of a Nation
6. The Last Temptation of Christ
5. JFK
4. Deep Throat
3. Fahrenheit 9/11
2. A Clockwork Orange
1. The Passion Of The Christ
- bgoodknight, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6crap, should have read the comment section before going to the webpage.
  
  Money hungry webmasters, forcing us to read through 5million pages to see a top 25 list.
  BTW, nice domain name, idiot.
- republicoftexas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thanks, now I don't have to keep clicking next to see all the films.
TruthElixirX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1223 KIDS
DIRECTED BY LARRY CLARK (1995)
THE PLOT A group of teens (played by, among others, Rosario Dawson and Chloë Sevigny) prowl the streets of NYC in search of sex, booze, drugs, and other high-risk kicks.

This honestly sounds like a night most of the teenagers around here partcipate in every weekend...
- kalisphoenix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5It is, pretty much... which is what makes it brutal to sit through. The most *****-up thing about that movie isn't mentioned in that little summary blurb, though. I won't give it away, but it truly depressed the ***** out of me.
- Poco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5You obviously haven't seen the movie. Of all the ones in that list that I have seen, this is the most disturbing. I think the most disturbing part of the movie is how it made me feel a bit envious. (edit: Well, except for the part that kalisphoenix mentioned. I wasn't envious about that.)
- kalisphoenix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"You obviously haven't seen the movie. Of all the ones in that list that I have seen, this is the most disturbing. I think the most disturbing part of the movie is how it made me feel a bit envious."
  
  Far out. I was just horrified through and through, but I've always been a gentle freak, given only rarely to dropping acid/getting ***** drunk/getting into a fight. Generally, I'm about as conservative, morally, as it gets. I was surprised to find myself far more deeply affected by it than my wife, who actually laughed at some of the ***** that happened (I wanted to cry).
- TruthElixirX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3*Potential spolier warning*
  
  The thing about AIDs? I don't see how that is depressing, so much as realistic. I am a teenager. I'm don't do permiscuous sex, drinking, or drugs; but all of my friends are. I go to parties and hang out and see what they're doing to themselves. I haven't seen the movie, but it sounds like a slight hyperbole of real problems.
- kalisphoenix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4*** BIG SPOILERS ***
  
  "The thing about AIDs? I don't see how that is depressing, so much as realistic. I am a teenager. I'm don't do permiscuous sex, drinking, or drugs; but all of my friends are. I go to parties and hang out and see what they're doing to themselves. I haven't seen the movie, but it sounds like a slight hyperbole of real problems."
  
  What happens to Chloë Sevigny's character is what messes with my head the most. She was, uh, 12 or 13 I think. A child -- but the only heroic character of the movie. She runs around town trying to catch up to the kid to tell him he has AIDS before he deflowers any more virgins, and she ends up getting drugged and raped for her troubles. Just plain *****-up.
  
  And the actual problem -- virgins catching AIDS the first time they have sex. What a wretched, awful thing that is -- aside from being guaranteed an early death, just the simple tragedy of never being able to enjoy making love. I say "never" because wazzisname didn't seem to be much of a lover, so I wouldn't count the first time.
- TruthElixirX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I never said it wasn't sad, but the youth of today is so amoral that I know this crap goes on.
- floridiot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have no legs.... I have no legs!
  
  *ding goes the quarter*
nzjrs, on 10/12/2007, -10/+5What about V for Vendetta. Americans hated that one, while the rest of the world loved it.

The oppisite of United 93 i guess.....
- martin993, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Nope. The rest of the world loved United 93 as well.
- chrischrischris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I wasn't aware most of Americans hated V. First time I heard that. Most of what I heard when the movie was coming out was really just commercial trying to get people to go see it.
Bonobo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2surprised 2001: Space Odyssey isnt on the list
- kalisphoenix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+92001 was controversial?
  
  (I'm not being deliberately slow here -- it's my favorite movie of all time, and if there was any controversy over it aside from the requirement of an attention span, I dunno what it is)
- Poco, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4It was, no doubt, opposed by the Christian right in the US because it actually had realistic physics. You know how they hate science.
- SuperCow1127, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Monkey's evolving: For some reason, that's a difficult thing for a lot of people to swallow.
- TheCasablancan, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3Monkeys evolving into humans IS difficult to swallow, but we didn't evolve from monkeys. We have a common ancestor, but to say "Humans evolved from monkeys" is like saying "I evolved from my distant cousin, Bertha."
  
  I would like to meet a person who doesn't understand/believe in evolution and have few cups of coffee with them. The only people I've known who went the ID route are on television.
  
  Because I don't understand how their logic works. Saying dinosaurs walked around with humans and what not. Or that there is a being that controls every aspect of the universe.
  
  I don't get it, what is the thought process?
  
  ...What if the universe was one giant Quantum Computer? Would that make God the hardware or the software?
- Aquinas315, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6God would be a geek. He builds the universe (hardware) and writes the software (plants animals, etc).
- chrischrischris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The whole monkey bit was very disturbing and weird to many. Really it was just long and boring.
dante21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i was looking for this list when I read an article on it but I could never find it! Thanks for putting it up.
neuropsychguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What!? Driving Miss Daisy isn't on the list; what a worthless controversial movies list.
bgoodknight, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2#1 being passions of the christ was a let down.
Being as I am not religious and pay religion no mind what so ever, I still dont understand all the fuss over that movie, seemed super lame and boring IMO. =
SgtCrispy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What? The Basketball Diaries. Hello!
- kgool, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4How about some love for Trainspotting?
Animal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Does anyone know if this was released before somewhere? It might just be deja vu but I could swear I've seen this list before even though this is dated for today. The formatting of the list is even the same.
flamingmb, on 10/12/2007, -5/+31 THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST: everyone and their cousin was guilted into seeing this movie by their churches.
- andreo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Hmm, good thing I don't go to church. So I've not seen it. Someone gave me a copy. I really tried to watch it but I saw no point in doing so.
- gwinerreniwg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I think it was the boys from South Park who said something to the effect of " I don't want to watch a two-hour snuff-flick".
- kgool, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@gwinerreniwg
  
  speaking of snuff flicks, how about 8MM. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134273/
  
  I remember that moving ticking off a few people at the time.
- unrealJEDI, on 10/12/2007, -0/+38 MM with Nick Cage... that was a rad movie
- martin993, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1But 8mm was about as daring and scary as Bambi 2. It was entertaining but it might as well have been a Die Hard movie for all the daft Hollywood nonsense with the James Bond stuff.
tuna1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I always thought that Russian Roulette scene in Deer Hunter was pretty far-fetched.

The French rioted over the "The Last Temptation of Christ"?
- kalisphoenix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I didn't care for that movie, overall. It seemed waaaaaay too slow when I watched it.
  
  But the scenes in Vietnam ***** with my head a good amount.
JavertHolmes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Aladdin is on there, but no Song of the South? Disney won't even release Song of the South on DVD because of its controversial past: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_of_the_South
- Poco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Good point. They even have a whole ride dedicated to this movie and I bet 99% of the people who ride it have never seen it (I haven't).
- theblooms, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I got it on DVD. I show it to my kids (6 and 8). SotS is a WONDERFUL movie, and about as ANTI-racist as can be. A young privileged white boy falls in love (platonically you sick *****!) with an elderly black man who tells him stories that shares his near endless wisdom to the young lad. Slavery is NEVER mentioned anywhere in the movie.
  
  The only people who call this movie racist are the same ones who thing Mark Twain's masterpiece Huckleberry Finn is a racist book. In other words, THEY NEVER ***** READ IT!
- Antaeus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1is Aladin the disney film where they show the boner of the guy that is doing the wedding? or was that The Little Mermaid? and I know the one where they show the kings boner in the movie Shrek.
ePlus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8On websites like those, I don't even know which JavaScript to enable to view it properly!
ike368, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i love the warriors, but i didnt think it was very controversial

maybe in '79 it was
- JustinCase18, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think the "Controversial" part of this piece is when the movie was first released. When the Warriors was first released, its violence was pretty intense for movie audiences. Unfortunately, now, it's common place.
  
  Take "Deep Throat" for example. Back then oral sex was fairly new. Now every porno star has at least one oral act in "their scene." Its become standard.
kgool, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3bury please
WetFdStamp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Gummo - Written and directed by the same guy that wrote Kids.. This one is much more disturbing..

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119237/
- kalisphoenix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"Bully" is pretty *****-up too... but totally in a "The River's Edge" kinda way.
- gwinerreniwg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Agree - Gummo was very very distrubing. And a good flick too, but prob. didn't make the list because it didn't get a big release like the others.
- nothing7899, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think out of all of Larry Clark's movies, Ken Park is the most disturbing and controversial. It begins with a kid blowing his head off in public and also features a father's sexual relation with his daughter and a kid jerking off to anna kournikova.
  
  The movie is ***** up.
kalisphoenix, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Oh, God damn you Digg.

*mis-commented*
ICSU, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Controversial ...
religious zealots protesting - checked
political corectness ***** portesting - checked
done for today
... what about Mississippi Burning?
flubba, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2mel gibson doesn't exist.
orph3us, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Some great movies in that list. Controversy is good for people. Gets them out of their comfortable ruts.
jamessavik, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I too am bored.
WildYams, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Lotta people here are mistaking "disturbing" with "controversial".
- AriseNow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's because many "disturbing" movies create controversy and get banned instead of publicized in the mainstream like some of the ones on the list.
geekee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2How about Submission? Theo Van Gogh was assasinated over it, and the writer is in hiding now because of it.
greg540, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0how about Bad Lieutenant?
redsox32, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1They seemed to fail to mention the "take off your clothes" line that is in the Aladdin movie.
np374, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Where's "Pink Flamingo"? It should be in the top 5.
omnithought, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It makes sense that a snuff film would be #1. What's really scary is the rabid zealots taking their kids to see this. I hope they can afford the therapy those kids'll need.
- AriseNow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Somehow it isn't surprising to see doublethink from the same people that ban anything controversial and get all worked up about sex-ed in schools but indeed use one of the most violently and sexually disturbing books as their guide to heaven.
  
  Disclaimer: I was born and raised in a Catholic home, so please spare me anything about me not knowing what I'm talking about.
- omnithought, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@ AriseNow
  
  I've noticed that as well all over the place. It's ok to show people killing each other in every way imaginable, but not loving each other. I say, more sex, less violence!
BadLeroy2000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Good List. I would have added David Cronenberg's "Crash" to it. Maybe somewhere in the teens. Lot's of Sex and violent car crashes. I think it was somewhat banned in the UK when it was released.
- martin993, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Crash should replace Da Vinci Code which was all marketing bollocks anyway. The article says 100s of people swamped the sets and then even Ron Howard says "Well, most of them just wanted autographs." If ever a movie just got out there and BEGGED for controversy as a marketing tool then Da Vinci Code is it. It's pathetic.
indortas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Boo and burried for frames with ads.
AriseNow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Good list but many recent movies, more like an attempt to get more than just movie aficionados interested. No Salo or the 120 days of Sodom, Pink Flamingo or Men Behind the Sun. Also the Guinea Pig series, dumb "snuff" but still there's the urban legend that Charlie Sheen saw it and called the FBI thinking it was real. Apparently if it passed under the radar of the Super *(add ultra conservative group) Sensors it just isn't controversial enough.
unrealJEDI, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Not really understanding Passion of the Christ as #1? It was violent, but controversial? Not really understanding that at all. A re-enactment of the Bible...

You are really breaking some new ground there Copernicus...
MasterSharma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well, since Jesus seems to be such a "controversial" topic (since it made it on this list a couple times) I would recommend Jesus Christ Superstar ( 1970's)
- clownguyx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't like musicals, so I thought this movie was ridiculous. I'm not religious, but if I were Christian I may be offended by this movie. It seems to make a mockery of the characters in the bible, in my opinion at least.
HarleyQuinn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No "Dogma"... I'm Surprised.
etidings, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0...namely the 25 most controversial movies ever IN ENGLISH.

What about all those controversial movies made in other languages: in non-Hollywood cultures?

What does 'ever' ever mean anyway?
- wallacesimon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yes, like a lot of these polls it seem to forget that- guess what- people sometimes make films in other countries. For controversial- try The Battle For Algiers.
HsoKinees, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1goddamn.. I was expecting #1 to be The Matrix! that movie can really make you wonder..
I refuse to watch some crud about religion -.-
- martin993, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I think you managed to both miss the point of the article and The Matrix.
CaptainChad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anyone notice that Malcolm McDowell starred in *two* of the movies on the list (A Clockwork Orange and Caligula)? That's pretty impressive.
jeffreym, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What? No mention of "Artie Lange's Beer League"?
hmoulding, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Lots of other (English language) movies could have been in that list. I immediately thought of Monty Python's Life of Brian, Monty Python's Meaning of Life, and Mel Brooks' A Short History of the World Part 1, all of which were controversial for their irreverent approach to a variety of topics that people generally feel should be taken seriously. Here in Salt Lake City all three movies were picketed by the usual suspects.

I certainly think that these three movies were more controversial than some of the movies that did make the list (like Aladdin or Bonnie and Clyde). Is there an objective way to measure controversy?
- weeFred, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah Life of Brian should definitely be in there, it was banned around Britain when it came out and had the clergy quite pissed, can't ever remember Aladdin being banned.
jacks0n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1no no no.
"Salo, or 25 days of sodomy" is much worse.
These are commertially made.
Duffy101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0not surprised at all that Clockwork Orange was in the top 3, very very strange film. I only checked it out to see what all the fuss was about and kinda wish i hadnt now
AzraelKans, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah Im noticing several films missing there: the blair witch project, hostel, texas chainsaw massacre, 8mm, dogma, kids those were very controversial films too. A whole lot more than "aladdin." at least.
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