tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24904037.post6193947331388492796..comments2024-01-11T04:57:37.530-04:00Comments on The Furious D Show: Hollywood Babble On & On #858: Rated "I" For Irrational!Furious Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07934529688753875751noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24904037.post-4062852999565193242012-03-03T13:22:48.535-04:002012-03-03T13:22:48.535-04:00I think furioso hit on the problem but missed the ...I think furioso hit on the problem but missed the cause. Most of America doesn't want their kids exposed to a PG-13 titty-fest or endless repetitions of the F-bomb or explosions ripping torsos in half but the mental midgets who run the system don't understand any of that. So instead of using their limited brain-power they set a sliding scale where a 'damn' = this and a 'hell' = that all the way to 'two f-bombs = R'. Context doesn't matter nor does the assumed maturity level of the audience. Same goes for sex. Nipple = this, pudenda that, and penis goes R. Violence appears to be slightly more nuanced but it is hardly fair or equitable. <br /><br />This is all because the idjits behind the system have nothing but missunderstanding of the American public and even more contempt. According to their dim view, Americans are gun-toting yokels who hate sex and cannot understand the difference between movies marketed to children and those marketed to teenager and those aimed at adults. <br /><br />Worse conventional wisdom says teens are your target for blockbusters. Nobody has the brains or guts in the studio system to try anything but idiot vanity projects or blockbusters with with elephantitis of the budget. 'Act of Valor' is proving them all wrong from every angle. Their hatred and contempt for middle-America is such they cannot learn from it.<br /><br />We have two theaters in town both owned by the same people. One is an old neighborhood theater sub-divided into several small screens the other is a modern multiplex. Guess which theater they chose to screen 'Act of Valor' on? They show art-house crap to empty rooms and pack anything remotely patriotic into thirty or forty seat sold-out substandard retro-fitted seventy year old screens.<br /><br />RainforestgiantAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24904037.post-28048714986431495222012-03-01T15:27:03.313-04:002012-03-01T15:27:03.313-04:00*ahem*
(Al Pacino Voice)
"THE WHOLE DAMN SY...*ahem*<br /><br />(Al Pacino Voice)<br /><br />"THE WHOLE DAMN SYSTEM IS OUT OF ORDER!"Furious Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07934529688753875751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24904037.post-7108838493013208232012-03-01T12:58:04.526-04:002012-03-01T12:58:04.526-04:00For the record, the theater owners aren't bein...For the record, the theater owners aren't being (totally) irrational, they're following a standard policy that's been in place at least since NC-17 came into being. ANY film that chooses to go unrated is treated as if it were NC-17. <br /><br />Which is why producers submit and re-submit films to get an R, rather than releasing it unrated -- in order to be able to advertise, they *have* to.<br /><br />The policy is silly, but following an established policy is not completely insane.Jasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01352453457821140561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24904037.post-24133049660809862012012-02-29T19:44:38.809-04:002012-02-29T19:44:38.809-04:00We all agree that Stephen Fry is all kinds of awes...We all agree that Stephen Fry is all kinds of awesome, right? Right?<br /><br />He has the definitive word on the joys of swearing:<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_osQvkeNRMBlast Hardcheesenoreply@blogger.com