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Controversial

Comments   3   Date Arrow  June 20, 2006 at 9:51pm   User  by William Speruzzi

Entertainment Weekly posted it’s 25 most, uh, controversial films of all time. I mean, yes, it’s EW and it has given us many hours of enjoyment while on the toilet but I know I have walked down the shock corridors and I can come up with at least ten that they didn’t even touch. This is their list:

1) The Passion of the Christ 2) A Clockwork Orange 3) Fahrenheit 9/11 4) Deep Throat 5) JFK 6) The Last Temptation of Christ 7) The Birth of a Nation 8) Natural Born Killers 9) Last Tango in Paris 10) Baby Doll 11) The Message 12) The Deer Hunter 13) The Da Vinci Code 14) The Warriors 15) Triumph of the Will 16) United 93 17) Freaks 18) I Am Curious (Yellow) 19) Basic Instinct 20) Cannibal Holocaust 21) Bonnie and Clyde 22) Do The Right Thing 23) Kids 24) Caligula 25) Aladdin

Here’s mine: 1) Salo 2) Irreversible 3) Bad Lieutenant 4) Crash 5) Crash 6) Heaven’s Gate 7) Taxi Driver 8) Henry:Portrait of a Serial Killer 9) Straw Dogs 10) Brokeback Mountain

1) Hands down the most disturbing film, ever. Let me repeat, EVER. 2) A close second 3) A cop jacks off on the side of a car filled with two underage teens. Need I say more? 4) Having sex with an open leg wound is probably not a good idea 5) Oprah can move mountains and so can the Academy 6) $$$ 7) Inspiration for assassins everywhere 8) Did I just witness a rape on camera? 9) Did she smile while being raped? 10) Boys, boys, boys

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3 Comments

  • #1.   prodioNo Gravatar 06.27.2006

    Oh, Irreversilbe. Wow, you’re right on target with that. From the brutal beating (I’m sure they just killed that guy for real) to the ridiculously long rape. I saw it once, never again.

    Also, don’t forget Fluke, that dog movie with Eric Stoltz. Brutal!

  • #2.   Devin B.No Gravatar 06.28.2006

    You forgot to mention the most controversial movie of them all… “Howard the Duck”. :-)

  • #3.   williamNo Gravatar 06.29.2006

    Patrick — Brutal beyond words. I read a Times article about Irreversible where the director Gaspar Noe explains how he incorporated a certain vomit inducing hum originally used on prisoners into the soundtrack during that club scene. It worked. When he screened it in Europe people were running out of the theater. If anything I did like the story device of everything being told in reverse.

    Devin — Oh, we’re all trying to forget Howard the Duck.

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