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MPAA Gives Film About Ratings an NC-17 Rating
jtcm writes "An original documentary by Kirby Dick, called "This Film is Not Yet Rated" has been assigned an NC-17 rating by the MPAA. The film explores the MPAA's own film rating system and "its profound effect on American culture." The NC-17 rating was given due to "some graphic sexual content" and will likely limit the movie's distribution, as many theater chains will not show NC-17 movies. Among the filmmakers speaking openly in the movie are two of my personal favorites, Kevin Smith and Matt Stone. For those who are eager to view this exposé, fear not. The Independent Film Channel (IFC) will present the film uncensored and uninterrupted."
America might be overly violent and prudes when it comes to sex, but they see Europe as weakling hedonistic-pansies. It goes both ways, man. You can't understand why we fill our kids' heads with violence, yet hide them from sex, but I wouldn't want to live in a country that repressed violence any more than it repressed sex. You see how backwards we Americans are about sex: imagine if we were like that with violence too.
You have to do more than just rail against what America is like right now. The same views you find completely irrational when applied to sex, you think ought to be applied to violence. We're crazy over here in America, yes, but you European chaps are just as weird. Just in the opposite way.
Against stupidity the Gods themselves contend in vain.
I learned a lot from 9/11. For example I didn't know about what happened in the congress about the florida elections, that was interesting. I also didn't know people were egging the president's car and that he had to change course. That was also the first time I saw footage of the president being told about 9/11 and seeing the blank dumb expression on his face.
What I learned most was that the press in the US is not free to report those things. I should not have had to see a movie to see those things, they were news and they should have been in the news. The fact that the so called "liberal media" didn't report them says a lot.
Michael Moore may have been a little strident but at he was a wimp compared to what the right wing did to him. They made personal attacks on him a daily thing. What was funny was that they often resorted to attacking his weight and calling him ugly because they could not dispute the facts of his movie. At least Moore did not call bush ugly or made fun of how he looks.
I'll take moore over hannity, oreilly, teller (or is it penn?), dennis miller, and the rest of the right wing zealots any day. At least he tries to make sure things he says actually happened and does not resort to cheap shots like calling people terrorists or anti american.
evil is as evil does