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When we watch films, we know that we’re not seeing real life. We can suspend our disbelief to accept that bullet holes won't zoom through car doors and humans can simply brush off brutal injuries and continue along with their days. But just because movies aren’t real life doesn’t mean they should be riddled with problematic content…

Cinephiles on Reddit have been discussing some of the most famous films and scenes from years ago that definitely wouldn’t be well received today. From casual examples of racism and misogyny to consent being completely ignored, we’ve gathered some of the most blatantly problematic examples below. So enjoy reading through and being reminded of which movies you don't need to rewatch, and be sure to upvote the films that aged like milk!

#1

“Everyone Just Laughed It Off”: 26 Movie Scenes That Definitely Didn’t Age Well Grease. That scene where Danny is pressuring Sandy in the car. And just his entire behaviour towards her. Ew.

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madbakes
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Are there things in Grease that are not acceptable today? Yes. Do I still love that movie and know every word? Also yes

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    #2

    “Everyone Just Laughed It Off”: 26 Movie Scenes That Definitely Didn’t Age Well The way Natalie is constantly body-shamed in Love Actually.

    mrgalikti , Universal Pictures Report

    #3

    “Everyone Just Laughed It Off”: 26 Movie Scenes That Definitely Didn’t Age Well American Beauty. Something about Kevin Spacey trying to have sex with an underage kid makes it tough to watch now.

    SatansFieryAle , Universal Pictures Report

    #4

    “Everyone Just Laughed It Off”: 26 Movie Scenes That Definitely Didn’t Age Well Jim shares nude video of Nadia on the internet in American Pie. Everyone just laughed it off.

    badRLplayer , Universal Pictures Report

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    laura lee
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    8 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah reminded me of revenge of the nerds, also gross behavior

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    #5

    “Everyone Just Laughed It Off”: 26 Movie Scenes That Definitely Didn’t Age Well Sixteen Candles. A lot of racism, casually addressing sexual assault, and later an actual date [sex crime].

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    16 Candles, the scene where he hands his drunk girlfriend to the geeky freshman and tells him to do whatever he wants... hella problematic.

    Talkback92 , Universal Pictures Report

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    #6

    “Everyone Just Laughed It Off”: 26 Movie Scenes That Definitely Didn’t Age Well Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Awful yellow face by Mickey Rooney.

    anonymous2222222222 , Paramount Pictures Report

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    The pigeon
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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is one of my favourite films, but his scenes always ruin it for me. Like why did they do this??

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    #7

    “Everyone Just Laughed It Off”: 26 Movie Scenes That Definitely Didn’t Age Well When Vince Vaughn is forced to have sex with Gloria in Wedding Crashers.

    hockeyjmac , New Line Cinema Report

    #8

    “Everyone Just Laughed It Off”: 26 Movie Scenes That Definitely Didn’t Age Well We saw Holiday Inn on Prime and said "It'll be a nice Bing Crosby movie with some Christmas songs," turned it on, and suddenly the cast is there in black face singing some of the most racist s**t I've ever heard.

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    Mi So
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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ohhhh yeah! There’s a reason you see White Christmas on cable every December but not Holiday Inn. Remember watching it as a kid (back in the ‘80s) & thinking “WTF is this?!”

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    #9

    “Everyone Just Laughed It Off”: 26 Movie Scenes That Definitely Didn’t Age Well Blank Check. An adult woman kisses the little boy on the lips for waaaay longer than I'm comfortable with. Imagine if the genders were reversed.

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    Giraffy Window
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    8 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why would reversing the genders be worse? It's completely disgusting no matter what adult is making out with what child.

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    #10

    “Everyone Just Laughed It Off”: 26 Movie Scenes That Definitely Didn’t Age Well Just saw this last night with the ladies in my family... Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.

    Those ginger fellas literally went one by one and abducted the hottest chicks from some town then held them hostage for months until through Stockholm Syndrome the women all fell for them.

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    pep Ito
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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I guess OP didn't realize that the movie is actually a version of the rape of the Sabines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rape_of_the_Sabine_Women#Adaptations

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    #11

    “Everyone Just Laughed It Off”: 26 Movie Scenes That Definitely Didn’t Age Well Revenge of the Nerds.

    Even if you chalk up the spy cams to be "80s College Comedy Hi-jinx" the scene where Lewis has sex with Betty because she thinks he's Stan definitely isn't cool today.

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    Enlee Jones
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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There’s a name for that, it’s called “R@pe by Deception”. Not to mention the sceneswhere those gosh-darn wacky nerds put hidden cameras in the girls’ house and watch them naked (oh, and one of the nerds is 12 years old), or put the nude pictures of Betty at the bottom of the pie. Comedy!

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    #12

    “Everyone Just Laughed It Off”: 26 Movie Scenes That Definitely Didn’t Age Well That scene in the first Rocky movie where he seduces Adrian by coercing her into his apartment after she's said no, physically blocking the exit when she tries to leave, taking his clothes off without any encouragement, and then kissing her without any consent as she clearly tries to resist.

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    #13

    “Everyone Just Laughed It Off”: 26 Movie Scenes That Definitely Didn’t Age Well White Chicks.

    Try making a movie with that premise with those kind of jokes today.

    anon , Columbia Pictures Report

    #14

    “Everyone Just Laughed It Off”: 26 Movie Scenes That Definitely Didn’t Age Well A whole segment in Peter Pan with a bunch of Native American people singing a song called 'What Makes the Red Man Red?'

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    Michael Largey
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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I saw it when I was a kid in the 1950s. I knew nothing about stereotypes, but - even though this was my favorite movie - something inside me said the equivalent of "Really?" I suspect that what my parents had told me about prejudice against black skins told me it applied to red ones too.

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    #15

    “Everyone Just Laughed It Off”: 26 Movie Scenes That Definitely Didn’t Age Well James Bond [commits serious sex crime] on P. Galore in Goldfinger.

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    Dread Pirate Roberts
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    8 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ngl, there were times in those early Bond movies when I almost wanted the bad guy to win lol

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    #16

    “Everyone Just Laughed It Off”: 26 Movie Scenes That Definitely Didn’t Age Well Never Been Kissed. The teacher becomes interested in Drew Barrymore’s character. She’s an adult but “plays” a high school student.

    not_n_there , 20th Century Studios Report

    #17

    “Everyone Just Laughed It Off”: 26 Movie Scenes That Definitely Didn’t Age Well Soul Man (1986) C. Thomas Howell in blackface to get a college scholarship.

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    SBocker78
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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To be fair, this movie was considered problematic and poorly executed when it was released. It pretty much destroyed C. Thomas Howell's career

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    #18

    “Everyone Just Laughed It Off”: 26 Movie Scenes That Definitely Didn’t Age Well Blade Runner. Hold on, don't get furious yet. The film still is 95% brilliance; the soundtrack, the directing, the acting. But there's that scene where Rachael is trying to leave Rick's home after discovering her life is a lie, Rick refuses to let her leave, holding the door shut and physically handling her until he pins her to a wall and kisses her "passionately". I think it's meant to be taken as "a man taking charge" in the way the 80's loved that, but it comes across as super, super ra**y now. TL:DR Rick Deckard sexually assaults a woman during a severe mental breakdown.

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    Katie Lutesinger
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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My ex tried that one on thinking it was sexy. It went over about as well as you would expect.

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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My impression on this scene is that Deckard does this only after discovering that Rachel is a machine. He's treating her like an object, in the same way that, when talking to Tyrell earlier, on finding out Rachel is a replicant, he stopped calling her "she" and started calling her "it". "How can it not know what it is?" This is actually one of the themes of the movie: all the replicants have feelings, like real people. Rachel has memories and even thought she was real. But to "real" humans, the replicants are machines, objects ... literally objectified. They're replaceable, disposable. Pris was a "pleasure model", and Roy was used for combat. They were enslaved, dehumanized, despite being as intelligent as the scientists that created them. I never felt the scene was supposed to be "sexy". I think it was always supposed to be disturbing, and an insight into why the replicants were rebelling ... that and the fact they living "designed obsolescence" with a four-year lifespan.

    Michael Wlodarczyk
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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Look at it this way. Rachel is a Replicant, an artificial person. In their society, that's the same as owning a sex doll. She isn't human, therefore she has no rights. Deckard can do whatever he wants with her. Technically, it is not assault.

    Tabitha
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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not everyone loved it, even in the eighties. Translation: Women have ALWAYS hated this kind of male fantasy b******t.

    MichelleDonut
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    8 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think OP was saying that 80s media loved it (media which was controlled by men)

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    Michael Danhauer
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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The point of that scene is to highlight that despite his attraction to her Deckard doesn't consider replicants to be full humans... So he ignores her basic rights to get what he desires... His attitude changes by the film's end after his run in with Hauer's character

    Beeps
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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, I never understood the point of that rape scene either. It seemed quite uncharacteristic. My best guess was always that once he realises that she’s an android, he believes that he can use her like a toy.

    JayWantsACat
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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This, to me, is a perfect example of why we shouldn't necessarily hold media and art to some arbitrary purity test. Set you own boundaries but to me It doesn't have to be an "all or nothing" situation. Blade Runner is a masterpiece and this is easily the worst part of it. I think "of the time" does excuse some things but ultimately this is a small, terrible part of a great whole. None of us are perfect, I'm sure especially so when we were younger or even just several years ago.

    JB
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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pretty much the whole premise of Bladerunner is the observation that dehumanizing people so you can treat them as nothing more than objects is a bad thing.

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    Nimitz
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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One of the reasons I never really liked the original. It was beautiful, but too much was about weird sex robot fetish

    David Marchisotto
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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think some people are missing the point...here, Deckard isn't acting towards her the way he would a human woman, he is having trouble seeing her as 100% real or 100%replicant, so his behavior matches that confusion. Is he acting inappropriately, I feel that way when I watch it but I try to keep the context straight... his character is not sure of how to act and so it comes across as wrong to the viewers, myself included. I think he is ultimately confused by his attraction to her and the part of him that is repulsed by replicants (and partially his attraction) makes him behave that way towards Rachael.

    rmandevi831
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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And yet, it completely fits in with the film. Remember, Rachael isn't a human, but a replicant, and Deckard's job is literally to discriminate between humans and replicants. He "retires" one in the movie by shooting it/her in the back.

    Pyla
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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don't touch my favorite movie ever made (next to The Third Man)!!!!

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    #19

    “Everyone Just Laughed It Off”: 26 Movie Scenes That Definitely Didn’t Age Well Tiptoes. For a movie made in 2003, it’s surprisingly offensive toward little people. Having to watch Gary Oldman waddle around on his knees with a fake hump on his shoulder (which is essentially a wadded up T-shirt shoved under the one he’s already wearing) is just too much.

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    glowworm2
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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What baffles me is that they had an actual person with dwarfism, Peter Dinklange, playing a supporting role in this film, who could have played the main role instead.

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    #20

    “Everyone Just Laughed It Off”: 26 Movie Scenes That Definitely Didn’t Age Well Mrs Doubtfire. Today, Daniel Hillard would never see the world as a free man again.

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    Katie Lutesinger
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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Did you know it was actually based on a book? I didn't. It's called Madame Doubtfire and the plot is pretty much the same. I don't remember if it's the same in the movie because I haven't seen the thing in about 25 years, but at the end Daniel gets busted and realises what a selfish a*****e he's been and that he needs to change his ways and stop being unfair to his ex by ignoring her valid criticisms of what an irresponsible slob he is.

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    #21

    “Everyone Just Laughed It Off”: 26 Movie Scenes That Definitely Didn’t Age Well TEACHERS with Nick Nolte. Warm fuzzy teacher helps a student get an abortion. She is knocked up by his buddy, the gym teacher, and they all want to keep it quiet. This was just a side story to show how much this teacher cared about his students...so gross....

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    #22

    “Everyone Just Laughed It Off”: 26 Movie Scenes That Definitely Didn’t Age Well Animal House, with its [sex crime]-contemplation scene.

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    #23

    “Everyone Just Laughed It Off”: 26 Movie Scenes That Definitely Didn’t Age Well National Lampoon's Vacation. If an IRL Clark W. Griswold really did the things in the movie he'd be branded a domestic terrorist, not including the stealing from a hotel and k*****g a dog.

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    #24

    “Everyone Just Laughed It Off”: 26 Movie Scenes That Definitely Didn’t Age Well The first Ace Ventura. Its still funny, but there is not way in hell they'd be able to make it now.

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    Kris
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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Personally i still find this movie funny. Im part of the LGBTQ+ community and i see it as a point in history but that doesnt mean i cant enjoy it now. Personally i dont find it offensive, the same way i dont find gay jokes offensive. If you dont like it then dont watch.

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    #25

    “Everyone Just Laughed It Off”: 26 Movie Scenes That Definitely Didn’t Age Well Dirty Dancing... P**ophilia isn't as accepted now as it was in the 80s.

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    Mimi La Souris
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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We didn’t see the same movie then, because she’s making the decision, not him. she makes it clear that she wants to be with him as he pushes her away

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