Researcher: R rating for movie smoking?
smoke 'em if you got 'em...
"The study was funded by the charitable foundation The Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund and the National Cancer Institute.
Glantz singled out The Walt Disney Co. for smoking in the PG-rated "Holes" and G-rated "102 Dalmatians," Time Warner for its PG "Secondhand Lions" and "What a Girl Wants" and Sony Pictures Entertainment for its PG "Master of Disguise."
Ugh, Why don't you rate every ****ing film made between 1910 - 2004 with an R rating and get it over with asshole.
Better yet...use those brain cells to topple tobacco companies instead. Loser.
Smoking? How about drinking? To baffled to continue...
Lights a godammn cigarette
"The study was funded by the charitable foundation The Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund and the National Cancer Institute.
Glantz singled out The Walt Disney Co. for smoking in the PG-rated "Holes" and G-rated "102 Dalmatians," Time Warner for its PG "Secondhand Lions" and "What a Girl Wants" and Sony Pictures Entertainment for its PG "Master of Disguise."
Ugh, Why don't you rate every ****ing film made between 1910 - 2004 with an R rating and get it over with asshole.
Better yet...use those brain cells to topple tobacco companies instead. Loser.
Smoking? How about drinking? To baffled to continue...
Lights a godammn cigarette
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Second thought: "Well, it does put it on the same footing as other drug use, and the rational there is that 'it protects the children'"
So yeah, I'm behind this, if for no other reason than to show the hypocrisy of the current double standard.
"No! Let ME tell you what's wrong or right! Leave us assholes to choose for you, or what you eat, smoke, drink, read, hear, think or see!"
**** them. Don't be a sheep. Choose for your self and educate others about the choices whether good or bad. But if we lose our freedom of choice (I guess thinking is involved here...right?)
Freedom is dead. God Damn America.
Which is why I support this move - the bigger the furor over it, the more it'll point attention at the entire culture that's been created of "Don't think for yourself, just listen to us, and do as we say." Why is alcohol legal, and pot isn't? Why is pot smoking 'dirty', but tobacco smoking is a right? This kind of stuff just irritates the hell out of me.
Educate, then get the hell out of the way and let people make their own decisions, and *accept their own consequences*.
Originally posted by Argento
This is what happens when idiots think they need to change the world.
While some see them as the crazy ones,
we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough to think
they can change the world, are the ones who do.
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Please. I see little kids smoke outside the theater all the time. Kids that look no older than 11. Do they smoke because they see Cruella De Ville smokeing? No, they smoke cuz they are soooo "badass" or their stupid heroin addicted whore of a mother doesn't give a flying f*^k about 'em.
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If I don't want my kids to see a movie where the characters smoke, I won't take them to that movie!
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Another thing that pisses me off are the dads who take like 11 12 year-olds to "R" rated movies like Old School. I'm trying to enjoy the movie, but two rows behind me 11 boys get all excited and squeal over "Boobies! Yea!"
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The problem in society is that we have morons and moron parents. Someone sees a moron doing or seeing something the moron shouldn't normaly see, stuff like this happens. Why don't these people realize that the majority of people can make a good choice?
Originally posted by murbot
While some see them as the crazy ones,
we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough to think
they can change the world, are the ones who do.
That's not funny!
Originally posted by Crusader
"Boobies! Yea!"
heh. he said "boobies". teehee
No more absurd than taxpayers paying for a crucifix in a jar of urine.
We have the freedom to be stupid. Not blame others for our stupidity.
It's a slippery slope, folks.
The "R" Rating thing reeks of Rob Reiner. And talk about reek.
Originally posted by Jubelum
No more absurd than taxpayers paying for a crucifix in a jar of urine.
Off-topic:
It's not Serrano's fault that you don't get it. Nor is it the fault of any curator who deems to exhibit it (with government funding, or not). You'd get along well with my father ... you could stand in front of a Rothko, wonder why it's worth $4,000,000, and say things like, "I could paint that".
Your subjective view of art is just that: yours.
'Piss Christ' was a photograph of a crucifix in a jar of urine, by the way. As far as I know, the original jar and figurine were never exhibited anywhere.
[Serrano is speaking at Ryerson University, in Toronto, tomorrow night (March 12th) if anyone is interested.]
Originally posted by Jubelum
We have the freedom to be stupid. Not blame others for our stupidity.
I agree, but try telling that to the tobacco companies.
I'm hooked on caffeine. Majorly. I suck down several cups a day.
But I don't believe that Starbuck's (ew) is collaborating with the other coffee providers to bury medical research that shows that their product is harmful, nor do I believe that they are then adding ingredients to *increase* that risk factor without informing the consumer.
If the tobacco companies had released that info, and simply said "Yeah, it's harmful, but people want it... go talk to them..." I wouldn't have a problem with them, the onus would have been shifted to the consumers completely. But they didn't, so screw 'em.
Originally posted by Artman @_@
Freedom is dead. God Damn America.
Vote Libertarian.
It's not Serrano's fault that you don't get it. Nor is it the fault of any curator who deems to exhibit it (with government funding, or not). You'd get along well with my father ... you could stand in front of a Rothko, wonder why it's worth $4,000,000, and say things like, "I could paint that".
Serrano is more than Rothko could fathom. As something of an art critic with no credentials, there's really nothing to Rothko. Nothing. Someone bought on, and monkey-see monkey-do did the rest. But many pieces of Serrano's work, from a purely aesthetic point of view, are so bizarre and interesting. Take the Blood and Semen series. Upon inspection, it's just a huge mystery. Rothko is entirely absent of the thing that makes humans special: brain power.
End of rant.