What are some concepts/themes that wouldn't work too well anymore in TV and Film?

There was a show called "Paranormal Lockdown" a ghost hunting show where they try and find evidence of ghosts. Anyway, it was pretty average. They did an episode where they spend some time walking around outside the place which is in a rural area. The team is made up of a man and a woman, they hear coyotes in the distance and the man just takes off! Leaves her for dead. Hilarious!

It probably would slow people down but then in those times the man was bound by a sense of honour and if he didn't make some attempt to keep the woman safe it would not go down well.

You don't see much of older people at all in shows anymore. In True Blood most if not all of the older characters are gone by the second season from memory.

I agree with About One Night, not a big deal to hook up anymore so no need to try and attempt to salvage a relationship out of it in some quest to not appear slutty.

Well consider what year it was made, 1934! This is one of my favorite all time films.

Sad but true

PC Police would never accept him these days.

In England there was a show called "Love Thy Neighbour" about a white couple (who are working class socialists) who have a black Jamaican couple move in next door. The slanging matches the two men would have at each other would make a SJW keel over now! "Nig Nog! Sambo!" "Honky" among many others.

The (not so odd) thing is they would go down to the pub and drink together. Gee, perhaps humour helps people cope with shit and men weren't such pansies back then?

In Australia we had "Kingswood Country" where one of the catchphrases of the main character was "Leave the money on the fridge wog!" when someone would grab one of his beers.

What about Eric Cartman in South Park?

South Park is a sitcom still on the air and I recall the shows creators saying they based Cartman on Archie Bunker, which makes sense what with all the antisemitic and racist views that character has lol.

Let's invest heavily in Skynet and see if we live long enough to collect

Same with Wargames a defence computer being unintentionally hacked by a teenager on a home computer via modem and Electric Dreams about a computer doing things that only now computers are just starting to do all because it's owner spills some coke over it.

You couldn't be more wrong. The danger of AI is more real today than ever before. Did you never hear what experts like Elon Musk have to say on the subject? Besides there has been plenty of films recently about AI going rogue, which directly refutes your argument.

I agree with actionkamen, maybe because I've thought this very same thing while watching various rogue A.I films.

Technology is so ingrained into our everyday lives, I can't see humans and A.I not working together even if the latter did come to life. And I don't think A.I going rogue would equate to A.I killing humans or forming some kind of anti-human vigilante group - to my mind, A.I going rogue would look a lot different to how we imagine it now.

Soul Man (86)...certainly not getting a reboot lol

There is a movie “Black Like Me” from 1961 where James Whitmore plays a real life white journalist, John Howard Griffin, who disguises himself as a black man in the South to see what life was like. In the movie Whitmore wears makeup so it is obvious but the real journalist actually darkened his skin by taking large oral doses of the anti-vitiligo drug methoxsalen, and spending up to 15 hours daily under an ultraviolet lamps.

Yeah, like a white guy playing an Indian guy from South Asia. They did that in "Short Circuit."

I had not read this but I just made a Blazing Saddles reference...that classic would never be green-lit today

Forgetting to take your kid on vacation = Negligent parents? Of course it is, but in context of the movie it was meant to be a comedy which I don't think snowflakes would realize now. And I'm not even a fan of the film.

Speaking of which I thought the battle scenes both on ground and in space in the Star Wars prequels were just over the top. The size of the armies just looked like a mess and I was surprised there weren't more collisions in the space battles.