Issue 84
News: Smoking will now affect the ratings system.
Ever since I saw Whale Rider rated PG-13, but with nothing to show for the rating but a blink and you'll miss it sight of drug paraphenalia, I have suspected that the MPAA rating system is flawed. But now, my suspicions have been confirmed. Now smoking is going to become a factor in ratings. Fortunately, the MPAA hasn't been taking it to the extreme that a number of anti-smoking groups have been suggesting it take (automatic R ratings), and underaged smoking has been a factor for the MPAA boards for years, but now adult smoking is to be targeted as a factor. I know that tobacco does more harm than any of the drugs than all the drugs that we have made illegal combined, but I don't think that should necessarily mean that this is a good reason that seeing it being done should be considered something that could potentially lead to a film getting an R rating in and of itself. Consider all of the movies of Humphrey Bogart, for instance. This was produced in the days when American cimema had to conform to the Hays Code, which prohibited swearing, drug use (even liquor except for the purposes of characterization or plot), depiction of crime, most references to sex (including married couples sleeping in one bed), disregard of religion and "vulgarity... presented in bad taste", but many of the stars chainsmoked. The one most identified with chainsmoking today was Humphrey Bogart, star of The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, and many other songs. With his constant smoking, and the lack of too many other criteria which could have an effect on the ratings, would Maltese Falcon garner an R rating in today's MPAA? Anyway, I doubt that making movies that show smoking R-rated would have much of an effect on the availability of the movies to the underaged market. If underaged kids cannot be able to get tickets to those films rated R for smoking only, they can just download them off the internet (Note that I am not suggesting anything here, but just stating a known fact.) In conclusion, I must state that I doubt that making smoking a criterion for rating would be effective and the very concept of adults (not just the under 18s, but adults as well) smoking making a film more likely to garner an R rating just seems ludicrous to me.
Band Name of the Day: Pervasive Smoker. From a variety article on the same topic I just ranted about earlier.
Film Idea of the Day: In the near future, Wyoming has become a penal colony. A young criminal sent there questions the meaning of his life. Mad Max meets Oz.
Film Review of the day: The House of Yes. Marty Pascal has decided to send his fiancee to his family thanksgiving ceremony, where she meets his dysfunctional family, including his slow brother Anthony, his psychopathic sister Jackie-O, obsessed with the eponymous first lady, and his mother, who insists that her family is perfectly normal. A very dark comedy which should be fun for those who are willing to see Dysfunctional families and the JFK assassination made light of.
Quote of the Day:
Mom: What's that gun doing there?
Jackie-O: Being gunlike, gunesque, gunonic.
Mom: Where did it come from?
Jackie-O: God?
_________The House of Yes.
Link of the Day: Another blog Focusing on the Fundies.
Ever since I saw Whale Rider rated PG-13, but with nothing to show for the rating but a blink and you'll miss it sight of drug paraphenalia, I have suspected that the MPAA rating system is flawed. But now, my suspicions have been confirmed. Now smoking is going to become a factor in ratings. Fortunately, the MPAA hasn't been taking it to the extreme that a number of anti-smoking groups have been suggesting it take (automatic R ratings), and underaged smoking has been a factor for the MPAA boards for years, but now adult smoking is to be targeted as a factor. I know that tobacco does more harm than any of the drugs than all the drugs that we have made illegal combined, but I don't think that should necessarily mean that this is a good reason that seeing it being done should be considered something that could potentially lead to a film getting an R rating in and of itself. Consider all of the movies of Humphrey Bogart, for instance. This was produced in the days when American cimema had to conform to the Hays Code, which prohibited swearing, drug use (even liquor except for the purposes of characterization or plot), depiction of crime, most references to sex (including married couples sleeping in one bed), disregard of religion and "vulgarity... presented in bad taste", but many of the stars chainsmoked. The one most identified with chainsmoking today was Humphrey Bogart, star of The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, and many other songs. With his constant smoking, and the lack of too many other criteria which could have an effect on the ratings, would Maltese Falcon garner an R rating in today's MPAA? Anyway, I doubt that making movies that show smoking R-rated would have much of an effect on the availability of the movies to the underaged market. If underaged kids cannot be able to get tickets to those films rated R for smoking only, they can just download them off the internet (Note that I am not suggesting anything here, but just stating a known fact.) In conclusion, I must state that I doubt that making smoking a criterion for rating would be effective and the very concept of adults (not just the under 18s, but adults as well) smoking making a film more likely to garner an R rating just seems ludicrous to me.
Band Name of the Day: Pervasive Smoker. From a variety article on the same topic I just ranted about earlier.
Film Idea of the Day: In the near future, Wyoming has become a penal colony. A young criminal sent there questions the meaning of his life. Mad Max meets Oz.
Film Review of the day: The House of Yes. Marty Pascal has decided to send his fiancee to his family thanksgiving ceremony, where she meets his dysfunctional family, including his slow brother Anthony, his psychopathic sister Jackie-O, obsessed with the eponymous first lady, and his mother, who insists that her family is perfectly normal. A very dark comedy which should be fun for those who are willing to see Dysfunctional families and the JFK assassination made light of.
Quote of the Day:
Mom: What's that gun doing there?
Jackie-O: Being gunlike, gunesque, gunonic.
Mom: Where did it come from?
Jackie-O: God?
_________The House of Yes.
Link of the Day: Another blog Focusing on the Fundies.
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