Movies that won't age well in the 2020s?

One I watched the other day - Show Boat (1936?) It's set in the 1880s through to the 1920s, and it plays up a lot of the old racial stereotypes about black people. The men are shiftless and lazy, the women all fat, jolly motherly types. It was remade again in the 1950s, but I don't know what that one is like.

Not exactly about political correctness, but what about Contagion / any other virus movie? Just feels too fucking real to be entertaining after the last couple of years.

Or better still: Songbird. A Covid cash-in movie released by Amazon during the height of the pandemic. Or maybe that's just bad to begin with.

I'm up to six now, not counting Contagion. Latest pick will probably be okay from the cancel culture crowd and is certainly a controversial pick, but I intend to say my piece on it. 

Vertigo is still a good movie (for me it is not exactly quintessential Hitchcock), but there's definitely bits of that film that really wouldn't fly if made today. I guess when I first saw it I just put everything down to it being a product of its day, but I must admit on a re-watch last year it bothered me a lot more. Movies are always going to have characters of a questionable nature (as well they should), but the reactions of the people around that are what seals this one. I can't recall the line verbatim but I'm sure there's one in there while he's trying to change her that a shop assistant says something like 'there's a man who knows what he wants' as if it's all completely normal and above board what he's doing. I'll have to re-watch that scene at least before writing this one up. 

I've never seen it (not sure I want to). I think it's well called out already to be honest. Otherwise a good pick. 

Okay, so I'll reveal the films I've already got singled out and why I picked them (feel free to offer counterarguments if you think I'm calling these wrong or overthinking them).

Blazing Saddles: one of the recurring jokes in the movie is the continual use of the N word. Even the director said in 2012 that if they remade Blazing Saddles they wouldn't do that and then there's no movie. Hmm... This is otherwise a good film but seeing it for the first time maybe two years ago, it just wasn't funny. People complain when Tarantino does it in much more serious movies like Django Unchained. 

Goldfinger and James Bond in general: Bond basically rapes Pussy Galore in Goldfinger, which suddenly miraculous causes her to change sides. Yeah...right. Might be too called out already same as Revenge of the Nerds, but it was one of the first I thought of. For me this is still the best Bond movie I've watched, but that one scene is especially awkward. 

Isle of Dogs: I only watched this last night. It's a great movie. Got a fair of controversy since day one for perceived cultural appropriation and white saviour tropes, but I'm including it for the oft overlooked part about calling supposed cannibal dogs Aboriginals. 

Love Exposure: This movie is so well loved on RYM in particular it's fucking nauseating. It basically glorifies voyeurism through it's protagonist being an expert at capturing upskirt photos and if that wasn't enough, accidentally convinces the girl he actually likes while cross-dressing that she's a lesbian and continues to crossdress to lead her on and start a relationship with her, and it's obvious right through it that the relationship with his real self is completely one sided. The final nail in this coffin is that at the end of all this problematic shit, the girl goes and falls for him. This is the movie that's in RYM's top 100 and have an average score of over 4, which is so rare on that site. It's a really well made movie despite it's content, but the most awkward viewing imaginable. It's also almost four fucking hours long, though that's neither here nor there. 

Do the Right Thing: my controversial pick. Another great movie and it was especially poignant to see it for the first time last year not long after George Floyd's murder and the movie absolutely does it job at raising awareness of excessive force used by police; George Floyd proved that it's a very relevant movie for the 2020s. There's just one massive problem: everything happened because the two guys we're supposed to see as victims were complete arseholes. I'm going to have to be very careful about how I write about this one.