In a significant change to its movie ratings system, the Motion Picture Association of America on Thursday said portrayals of smoking would be considered alongside sex and violence in assessing the suitability of movies for young viewers. Films that appear to glamorize smoking will risk a more restrictive rating, and descriptions of tobacco use will be added to the increasingly detailed advisories that accompany each rated film.
You have got to be kidding me.
In tandem with the shift in its ratings policy, the Motion Picture Association and an allied producers group, the Alliance of Motion Pictures and Television Producers, on Thursday said they would join “Hollywood Unfiltered,” an initiative by the Entertainment Industry Foundation to reduce smoking among film industry workers and to spread information about the health effects of tobacco.
But the industry groups did not meet the various demands to eliminate recognizable tobacco brands in films, or to cut smoking altogether from films in the G, PG, and PG-13 ratings categories, to which children and teenagers are freely admitted.
So smoking is going to affect the ratings of a movie? Hell, they'd have to go back and change everything Humphrey Bogart was in to an R or an X rating.
Maybe it's just me, but I think this PC bullshit is getting way out of hand. If you are producing a movie, it is a little ridiculous if everyone in it is politically correct. What's next, make everyone vegetarian in the movies? It's getting any more where the only good movies left will be some of the old black and white classics.
Sorry for the rant, but politically correct crap like this gets under my skin and bothers the hell out of me.
Just my opinion.
4 comments:
You're not the only one who's annoyed. I've started just letting people know as soon as I meet them that if they expect me to be PC, they're going to have to either get used to the way I talk, or give up and go away, because I won't change my delivery for anyone.
I just hate that I have to do that, and that people have become so attention-hungry that they feel the need to make everyone bland to keep anyone from getting offended by either too much or too little attention. Because that's really what it's all about, in my opinion.
We are soon back to the silent-movies again. No talking shit, sex, war , violence or tobacco-smoking guys. :-)
Yep I guess everything prior to 1980 will have an x rating
I'm right behind you, Bob, and that little vein in my forehead sprouted a lit fuse; it's only a matter of time, now...
What do you expect, though? Damn near all movies come from Hollywood, which is Los Angeles, which is Cali-friggin-fornia! Looked into their state of mind lately?
Neither have they.
Nice post.
tweaker
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