Time Has Not Been Kind To These 21 Previously Beloved Movies From The 2000s, None Of Which Hold Up Today

“Forty Days and Forty Nights.” A lady and his friends win a bet that she can’t let her ex-boyfriend go the required number of days without having sex without raping him. She walks off into the darkness after collecting her winnings. In the meantime, the male rape victim begs for pardon from his new lover for allegedly “cheating on her.”

“The Blindside is most likely Hollywood’s worst case of white saviorness. What a disarray.”

3. “In the vein of The Blind Side, Radio.”

“Oh my goodness, I still recall Ed Harris saying in the trailer, ‘We thought we were teaching Radio, but he was teaching us!'” Shake yourself. I’ll never understand how he said that glurge without puking.

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Indeed, a great deal of those so-called ‘intellectual disability inspired porn’ films are terrible. In particular, radio adds racial elements to it. There are undoubtedly some excellent representations of intellectual disability made by non-intellectually handicapped individuals, such as Gilbert Grape and Forrest Gump. However, they are hard to find, and the most of them are so ridiculously extravagant that they almost pass for cartoons.”

“To be honest, I’m a little shocked that Anger Management could ever make me laugh in the slightest. Sexual assault is treated as a joke and is sexist and anti-LGBTQ. That movie is really repulsive.”

“Super Size Me, when it was revealed that Spurlock had a raging alcohol addiction during filming.”

“The Zohan is Not Someone to Mess with. Actor Adam Sandler portrays an Israeli counterterrorism agent who relocates to New York City to work as a hairdresser after staging his own death. He turns a failing salon around by beating elderly ladies in the storage closet until he develops erectile dysfunction as a result of falling in love with the Palestinian woman who owns the business.”

“Authors of Freedom.” A well-meaning white woman encouraging the impoverished students to have faith in themselves was the only thing preventing them from achieving academic success.”

After ten years of teaching high school, I find it really difficult to observe. I shudder at so much of it.”

“From the beginning, she had the most well-behaved class of “bad kids.” Nobody should try to imitate her terrible work-life balance. Her goal is undermined by the fact that she gets to spend her high school years with the same students. How awful a film.”

8. “I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry — it is just tons of ‘making fun of gay people’ jokes.”

“Captain Phillips, after it was discovered that he never took any safety measures and that he was really informed about the pirates but disregarded them. Not only was he a complete arsehole, but he wasn’t the one who abandoned ship and put his life in danger.”

“Talking about Tom Hanks, it turned out that much of the material in Catch Me If You Can was garbage. When Frank Abagnale Jr. authored the book, he essentially made up the whole plot, and Hollywood snapped it up for a movie contract. For the majority of the alleged incidents in the film, Frank was incarcerated.

“Hops for sure. ‘How could an Easter movie about the Easter Bunny reclaiming back Easter age poorly?’ you may be asking yourself now. The baby chick wanted to be in control of Easter, even though the rabbit didn’t want to at first. But the chief bunny, who oversaw Easter at the time, declared he would NEVER assign an Easter task to a young chick. The film continues by saying that the bunnies have a duty to “take back” Easter from the young chicks since they are “overrunning” the occasion.

“At the film’s conclusion, the bunnies have taken over Easter once more, and the young chicks are employed as workhorses to help them with manual labour. The newborn chickens have Latino accents, and the bunnies are British. The movie’s GOOD conclusion has the indicated Latino characters literally enslaved by the implied British characters. Though it’s still a passable Easter film, it may now draw some criticism.”

12. “Shallow Hal.”

“The thing that pisses me off about Shallow Hal is that with some tweaks, it could actually be a fun comedy about looking past looks, but instead, it goes out of its way to be the most juvenile, anti-trans film possible.”

13. “Get Him to the Greek, unfortunately. Jonah Hill, P Diddy, and Russell Brand. All shitty for unique reasons. Also, Jonah Hill’s character gets sexually assaulted in one scene, and it’s played as a joke. Yikes.”

“I was a teacher on a Rez once. I once gave the youngsters in my mentoring period the privilege of selecting an authorised movie from the library as a reward. I had never seen Windtalkers before, but they chose them. Like, work, I thought. Adam Beech, Christian Slater, and Nic Cage? Absolutely. That film was pure white saviour garbage. The whole point of the story was to show how difficult it would have been for the white soldiers to murder their windtalker interpreters in the unlikely event that they were discovered. What a bunch of garbage.”

“Avatar — we were wowed by the visual effects so much that the generic story with its white saviour narrative didn’t get the criticism it deserved.”

“Avatar came dangerously close to being a masterful satire as well as an artistic triumph.however, it chose the story of the white saviour. It would have been a masterwork if the script had depicted the displacement, loss, violence, and generational trauma that colonised civilisations experienced after the tree fell, and had given the Na’vi a character arc that showed how they dealt with it. However, it was unable to even come close to matching the extremely low bar set by Dances With Wolves, which ends with the tribes exercising their own agency.

“It gets much worse in the sequel. You’re telling me that the Na’vi who live near or in the ocean just so happened to establish a culture that is almost exactly like that of Pacific Island nations, when in the first movie they are just a generic mixture of native peoples with features of civilisations from all over the world? Did they acquire the same facial tattoos, behave in the same ways, talk with similar accents, and have similar hairstyles? All they are is blue Māori from Wish. It seemed strange, as though their whole civilisation was actually being used as a prop. seemed really strange to me.”

“Awaiting. In college, I adored it. I doubt I will be able to see it again now. I think much of the humour will come across as cheesy and uninteresting (well, maybe not Luis Guzman), but the whole thing about Ryan Reynolds being a child predator and having to hold up on having sex with a girl under the age of 18 until her birthday in a few weeks is simply awful. It’s strange to think that in the middle of the 2000s, everyone just went along with it since it was perceived as humorous.”

“Ryan Reynolds portrays an elderly townie who is fascinated with having sex with youngsters and is a sexual offender. All they say is that it’s a “pervert.”

At the restaurant, the males play a game where they creatively show each other their balls. If you get deceived into looking, they get to kick you for being gay.

While Waiting was edgy when it first came out, we soon realised that the reason much of its “edgy” humour made us uneasy was because most of the themes and topics were really screwed up. much of the films featured in this thread were horrible when they came out.

The most incorrect thing about it is how REALISTIC the portrayal of working in a corporate family restaurant is. all the messed up crap I just described. This wasn’t a writer using a made-up scenario to convey their absurd inner ideas and humour. No, that’s not the case. The culture of those eateries is portrayed really properly. I hope things aren’t like that now that I don’t work in restaurants.”

17. “What Women Want.”

“Isn’t that the movie Mel Gibson drops a hairdryer in the bathtub, and instead of dying, he hears women’s inner monologues? YIKES.”

“I have never seen it, but let me guess—he starts out as a sexist womanizer, then the hairdryer thing happens, leading to a series of comedic moments, but somehow ends up turning him into the Perfect Romantic Partner Guy and winning back his ex.”

“Love Actually… Anyone who is endorsing this film ought to feel embarrassed.” The main reason this movie should be thrown in the trash is because of the way Emma Thompson was dressed like a sultry frump and then had to stay with her trashy, unfaithful husband. However, there are 739 other issues with the movie as well.”

“Nearly every storyline is problematic, and I don’t find anything in it to be ‘feel good.’ I can’t even bring myself to hate watch it.”

“Andrew Lincoln being a creeper, the ‘fat girl,’ the guy horning on the woman who doesn’t speak English…so many issues.”

19. “I don’t know how Crash was ever okay.”

“Corniest shit I’ve ever seen. It’s like if a middle-schooler decided to make a movie about race relations and missed literally everything that makes it nuanced.”

It appeared to be an effort to create a serious film with the dated tropes of ensemble casts and spoof films that attempted to juggle an absurd number of storylines. It’s as if they attempted to fit Love Actually’s square peg through the round hole of racism. It was unsuccessful. I also can’t recall ever being more taken aback by a movie’s conclusion. The credits have just begun to roll.”

“I know I often get criticised for this, but I find Van Wilder to be practically unwatchable these days. What a funny joke, you think, when he jerks off his dog and stuffs doughnuts with its semen before feeding them to Tara Reid’s boyfriend’s fraternity? The dog cum sequence alone makes me never want to see the movie again, but there’s so much more to say about it and its recurring “the lady is the prize” motif.”