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Crazy times, and porn was on 8mm.

Y’all can mock but these people were simply trying to prevent their piece of civilization from becoming as degenerate as it is today. They were well aware of who runs Hollywood and just how perverse and subversive they are.

I was in high school when this was rereleased in 79. I saw it about 17 times.

Damn. I was around, as an adult, during this mess, and I didn't give a damn. It wasn't that good a movie anyway. Hard to call it porn with all the rest that was available (without the internet, I might point out).

I was a lot more concerned about the efforts to ban Blazing Saddles - first rating it as an "R" because of the farting scene around the campfire of all reasons. And the claims that it wasn't a good movie because it crossed so many 'norms' - but the early screenings proved wrong.

Give me multiple more Blazing Saddles (or Black Barts, or Tex T, or other possible names) - the Exorist wasn't one that lit any of my fires. (Not only did I not stand in line at Deville; I didn't drive an hour to Jackson to do so either.) And - not going next week, despite KF's offering the opportunithy to do so.

I was at Ole Miss and had to see it in Memphis.

The baptist influence was stout.

Now you won't even get arrested for murder in Jackson. We've come a long way.

@11:46
Did you boomers not realize that Hollywood used the controversy to get you to see these awful movies? There was not a single funny scene in Blazing Saddles and I have watched and enjoyed plenty of old funny movies. It was like every movie Brooks made had to have some sort of controversy to sell it. As if The Producers was prophetic.

6:09 trying in vain to hide his antisemitism.

He does not, however, conceal his contempt for the Bill of Rights.

"The Exorcist" showed evil as a tangible force in the world. It's message had moral value, albeit theatrically presented as a deeply disturbing horror movie.

Little did we know that MTV and satellite tv was just around the corner.

I was in high school when this was rereleased in 79.

It was released in 1973. I knew 79 didn't sound right. But, I worked with some people that demonstrated there. I didn't much care either way and didn't even watch the thing until much later. Don't care for that kind of a movie. The theater where it played is now or was a UMMC conference center.

I'd imagine that the REAL reason Blazing Saddles was banned, was not the farting, or the "Sheriff is NEAR" scene, but the ending, where the manly cowboy actors hooked-up-with the femmy dancers on the adjacent set, who'd been practicing "Doin' the French Mystique", . THAT would have been considered dangerously subversive (and a far too realistic behind-the-scenes look at Hollywood).

In fact, that scene has been CENSORED, in the present day, by many vendors.

9:16 Prozac does work. See your doctor.

Crazy how dark and demonic we have become.

Now leftists ban Sound of Freedom for being offensive because who else would be offended by a movie that celebrates saving children from pedophile human trafficking? Well, except same group who elected a guy known for sniffing little girls in public?

“9:16 Prozac does work. See your doctor”, is this from personal experience?

It's a shame that folks cannot take a joke any more.....Fred Sanford, Archie Bunker are examples of presenting BOTH sides of the situation with humor and was not taken seriously at the time. Pity that we have lost the ability to laugh at ourselves........

It seems that we have exponentially more mentally ill people today than a few decades ago. Some of the mental illness that cannot be explained or cured by medication or therapy can be attributed to demonic possession.

Re 11:05 - I wouldn't feel comfortable living next door to anybody who had watched it 17 times. By chance have you ever set an animal on fire?

Are we overlooking the fact that in some Catholic circles, this is still considered to be an acceptable practice?

That the practice was presented to us 45 years ago was a monumental 'achievement' and risk.