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** And it gets worse: A Texas jury indicted Netflix for the film, citing a scene showing genitalia of a minor. Some commented on how this became a test case over the limits of First Amendment rights on free expression, especially as the scenes in question was seen by some as being unambiguously obscene and lacking in artistic value, while others criticised the indictment as "absurd", citing the Sundance award as indicative of the film's supposed merits.
* The entire ending of the 2013 film ''[[Gangster Squad]]'' had to be rewritten and reshot due to the above mentioned Aurora theatre shooting. Regardless, the film's violence is still too close for comfort as the Colorado massacre was still fresh in everyone's minds.
* Not only was ''[[Saving Christmas (film)|Saving Christmas]]'' derided as a hammy Evangelical Christian film for its [[Anvilicious]] premise, its reputation soured even further when [[Kirk Cameron]] vainly called for netizens to add positive reviews in an attempt to save the film's positive ratings from the "haters and atheists"; Cameron instead got the opposite response, with trolls review-bombing the living daylights out of ''Saving Christmas''.
* The 2014 FIFA biopic ''[[United Passions]]'' had the misfortune of being released just as when the 2015 FIFA corruption scandal was taking place. Director Frédéric Auburtin lamented about how he was commissioned to direct a propaganda piece on behalf of a corrupt organisation, adding that he tried to strike a balance between "a Disney propaganda film [and] a Costa-Gavras/Michael Moore movie" only for [[Executive Meddling]] from FIFA to prevail which further skewed the film's tone in their favour, and both Auburtin and the cast described it as a disaster, especially as Sepp Blatter was sugar-coated as a heroic figure vowing to stamp out corruption in the association (Spoiler alert: he isn't). A bemused [[John Oliver]] lampooned the film in a segment on his show ''Last Week Tonight'', wondering "Who makes a sports film where the heroes are the executives?"
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