Please list down the 10 MOST CONTROVERSIAL MOVIES based on your own opinion.
To start, here is mine...
10. KIDS (1995) - Kids offers a bleak, unblinking view of a group of vacuous, thoughtless New York City teens in their ceaseless quest for ***, drugs, and trouble. The film primarily follows Telly (Leo Fitzpatrick), who, having just realized the conquest of his latest virgin, brags that by day's end he will claim one more. While he and his friends brag to each other about their sexual exploits, Jenny (Chloë Sevigny) describes her own less-than-romantic encounter with Telly. Soon after the conversation, she learns that Telly, the only boy with whom she has slept, has infected her with the AIDS virus. Devastated, she sets out to find him and share the news. Meanwhile, Telly has set his sights on Darcy (Yakira Peguero), a lovely young girl whom he invites for a skinny dip at the local pool. Together with his friends, Telly drags Darcy along, and the entire crew jump the fence after hours. There he presents his now-familiar spiel which Darcy naïvely accepts, and the scene is set for disaster as the group heads back to a vacant apartment for an evening of ***, booze, drugs, and debauchery. Jenny finally locates Telly at the impromptu party and rushes to confront him, although she may be too late to save the next virgin in line from sharing her fate.
9. EL CRIMEN DEL PADRE AMARO (2002) - Gael Garcia Bernal plays a young priest who had a sexual affair with a 16-yr old parishoner. The girl became pregnant and the priest had her submitted for abortion. The girl suffered severe bleeding and died.
8. NATURAL BORN KILLERS (1994) - In "Natural Born Killers," Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis go on a killing spree. While Oliver Stone considered the film a satire on American media, critics said the over-the-top violence only fueled the worst elements in society. Months after its release, several copycat crimes were said to be inspired by Stone's sociopathic tale.
7. PRIEST (1994) - The head priest of a Liverpool church likes to shag the pretty housekeeper while the younger priest acts on his homosexual desires. The younger priest got caught with his act inside a car and thus the whole community learned about it.
6. DEEP THROAT - Perhaps no other porn movie has had as much mainstream impact. The story of a young Linda Lovelace overcoming her sexual inhibitions with the help of Harry Reems -- a doctor with unorthodox prescriptions -- was banned in parts of the country and still became a big hit.
5. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971) - Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" -- a grim vision of violence and government-sponsored brainwashing in futuristic Britain -- earned the No. 2 spot on the list. Scenes with Malcom McDowell gleefully beating and raping his victims while crooning Gene Kelly's "Singing in the Rain" helped the film initially earn an x-rating in the United States. In the United Kingdom, where Kubrick was living, the 1971 film was banned for nearly three decades.
4. FARENHEIT 9/11 (2004) - Michael Moore's Bush-bashing "Fahrenheit 9/11" became the first documentary to gross more than $100 million in the United States. Disney prohibited Miramax, one of its studios, from releasing the film, but eventually let studio chiefs Bob and Harvey Weinstein purchase the rights and release it, a few months before the 2004 presidential election.
3. THE DA VINCI CODE (2006) - Critics panned "The Da Vinci Code," and several religious groups protested, but that didn't stop the film from becoming an international sensation, grossing more than $600 million in less than a month since its release.
2. THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST (2004) - Perhaps controversy sells. Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ" sparked debate two years ago for its unflinching and brutal look at Christ's final hours of suffering at the hand of mankind. Gibson's film top's the "Entertainment Weekly" list of the 25 most controversial films of all time.
1. THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST (198
- Martin Scorsese's version of Christ's final hours included ruminations of the domestic bliss and normal life he could have had with Mary Magdalene. The director considered Robert De Niro for "The Last Temptation of Christ," before settling on Willem Dafoe in the lead role, with Harvey Keitel as Judas. The nudity and sexual overtones spurred picketing and other protests.
Other personal controversial films:
Y Tu Mama Tambian
La Mala Educacion
Primal Fear
Brokeback Mountain
Dogma
JFK
The Magdalene Sisters
United 93
Birth of a Nation
Salo
What are your 10 MOST CONTROVERSIAL MOVIES?
Originally Posted by mata_hari
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