15 Movies Banned Overseas For Ridiculous Reasons
15. China Fears Time Travel - Back To The Future
The Reason: Because it features heavy use of time travel (China).
Back in 2011, China began to institute a crackdown on TV and movies which featured time travel plots, for fear that it would encourage a culture of political dissidents attempting to "rewrite history" rather than uphold the country's current values.
The Chinese government's statement said, "Producers and writers are treating serious history in a frivolous way, which should by no means be encouraged anymore."
Strangely, though, China did grant Terminator Genisys a release back in 2015, and perhaps owing to national thirst for big-budget time travel movies, it made more than $110 million in the region despite being absolutely terrible.
Still, it's absurdly heartless and tone-deaf to think that Back to the Future could be harmful to anyone. Why so serious, China?