15 Movies Banned Overseas For Ridiculous Reasons

15. China Fears Time Travel - Back To The Future

Back to the Future Doc Marty
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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?

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