Politically INCORRECT as usual…

Cool.

Unk

On a serious note, I wonder if any of those kids that watched “Brokeback Mountain” in that classroom started smoking the bone.

Poke

You mean we’re not going to live forever? LOL.

Great comment. Seriously. It shoulda been a post it’s so good.

Again, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.

Unk

However, like you say, this isn’t really about smoking or even about ratings, it’s about whether the organisation that purports to act as the industry’s moral guardian is acting in people’s best interests or whether they’re just reacting to external pressure groups.

Personally I’ve always felt that any group who lobby for specific forms of censorship in order to “protect the children” ultimately have a moral adgenda which has nothing at all to do with protecting children and everything to do with forcing their narrow moral worldview on other people.

I don’t think anyone in their right mind would ever claim that smoking was a good idea — me included. I also think the issue here is more complicated than it appears to be. It all comes down to whether movies/music/computer games actually have a specific influence on behaviour and if they do, what other factors are involved.

Personally I think even if I’d never seen Bogie light two cigarettes and pass one of them to Lauren Bacall I would still have ended up smoking. But, how will I ever know? All I can do is guess. It’s as subjective an opinion for me to believe I smoked because I had problems, as it is to believe Boggie is to blame, it coukd also be that I smoke because I’m genetically inclined to addictive behaviour – and at this point it’s academic why I started.

The real problem I have with all of this, is I think behind anti-smoking, diet fads, food fads and a million other “health” related issues is a real attempt in contemporary culture to deny our own mortality. I really think people believe that if the eat right, exercise right, avoid any form of smoke, including passive and if they read enough self help books, then somehow they’ll not only be happy, they’ll also live forever.

Again, I agree. Fuckin’ let’em do whatever they want. Who gives a shit? Apparently grammar school teachers don’t:

Brokeback blowback

Okay… Well at least ONE grammar school teacher… LOL.

My point being that the MPAA does cave in to pressure. My point being that the MPAA is influenced by more than sex, violence, and smoking in films.

MaryAn,

David who?

Unk

An association that shall remain nameless, but goes by the initials R.W.A. (*gg*) would love to keep trashy hoes like me out of the romance biz altogether. God forbid women find out they should not only get, but LIKE, hot sex with their love relationships. We just can’t have that sort of sin going on in the world.

But they can’t stop it.

There’ll always be the small rabid groups trying to force their vision of life on others. Luckily, they’re almost always ignored by the majority of the thinking population.

I say almost because, occasionally, they do amass significant, hurtful power. But really, it’s rare, and is a whole ‘nother post altogether.

I say let ‘em put the warning on the movies if it makes them feel better and holier than thou. If that’s their definition of righting the wrongs in this world, let them continue on, happy in their pure, clean, transparent bubbles. The better to see them through.

We wouldn’t want them working on the serious stuff, would we? Would you want to fight beside them and depend on them in the trenches? I know I wouldn’t.

Let them have their fluffy causes. It keeps them out of our hair and away from important issues.

One more thing though: Momma always told me no one looks under the bed unless they’ve been there. If these freaks think so many people are being influenced badly by movies, it’s because they themselves have.

Personally, I know FAR more people who’ve been smart enough to be influenced by the GOOD movies. Myself included.

Gotta tell ya…

FUCK ALL THAT.

I don’t give ONE SHIT about ANY OF THE SMOKING, THE “R” RATING, ETC. I think Laura’s correct… If cigarettes were invented TODAY, they’d probably be illegal and that in and of itself brings up something that Clive said that again, I just plain do not give a shit about but I will address it…

Cigarettes WERE FUCKIN’ SEXY in Bogie’s day… Everyone smoked back then. In fact, in my travels, I fuckin’ MARVEL at the places I cruise through where it seems that people are not aware of the health risks (or more likely, they don’t give a shit), and smoke like chimneys… Cheyenne Wyoming for instance. The Village Inn there has an enclosed glass cage (small) for the non-smokers… LOL. Everybody else in the place… Even waitresses… SMOKE ‘EM IF THEY GOT ‘EM.

What I refuse to fucking believe is that in THIS DAY AND AGE, we have that many children watching movies and deciding to fuckin’ smoke. Most of the kids I knew growing up that smoked had PROBLEMS. Lots and lots of problems. Not huge problems to ME, but they were certainly problems to THEM.

Today, there’s just so much IN YOUR FACE talk and coverage of not smoking being the healthy way to go that I refuse to believe movies are the root of the cause.

But again… I DON’T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THAT.

What I do give a shit about is a self-appointed organization that touts itself of being our children’s gatekeeper to health and saftey. What I do give a shit about is an organization that purports that it does not give in to pressure and those 10 to 13 people of mature intelligence with parenting background perform all the rating decisions on their own with absolutely ZERO outside influence.

That infuriates me… The ratings mean NOTHING to me. Fuck ‘em. The organization behind the ratings is what’s got me pissed.

Carry on… LOL. I like fighting.

Unk

It’s ridiculous that a woman should be imprisoned for selling her body. It’s hers to do with as she wishes. The same for the men (or women) who want to pay for it.

I will say this about drugs though, it’s utterly absurd and inhumane to not allow a dying person any and all substances they wish, for fear they’ll become addicted. I’d definitely like to see an end to that stupid policy.

But when it comes to drugs, I’m all for Amsterdam . . .