15 Most Controversial Movie Moments Of 2015

7. Christopher McQuarrie's Pervy Direction - Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

The Moment: Despite it generally being agreed that Christopher McQuarrie did a stellar job directing Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, it's hard to think much of all those pervy shots of fantastic female lead Rebecca Ferguson, including the above sneaky panty shot, the blatant sideboob during a costume change, and that hilariously pandering shot of her leg suggestively stretched across the screen as she readies her sniper shot. Why It's Controversial: Because though the film deserves a measure of praise for making such an excellent female action star in Ferguson's double agent Ilsa Faust, this is somewhat undermined by how subject she is to the "male gaze". Even star Simon Pegg criticised the movie's marketing campaign for depicting her in a sexualised fashion unlike her male co-stars, and this seems to transpire through to the final movie itself. In an otherwise slick, well-made movie, this feels like the sort of pandering to hormonal teenagers you'd expect to see in a Transformers film, and even the most red-blooded of straight men may have found themselves rolling their eyes at McQuarrie's uneasily leering camerawork.