Easy. When the new NC-17 rating came out in 1990; the religious nutters like Jerry Falwell put pressure on all the major chains to refuse to show NC-17. So of course they got their way and now it's virtually impossible to show NC-17 movies. It wouldn't be hard to keep children out of NC-17 movies, any movie theater could do it, so it's mostly the right wing attacking that which they can't understand and don't like.
Apollo 13 is a great first choice, along with 2001, Contact and the Wrath of Khan, while First Contact and The Undiscovered Country being the two most overrated of the Star Trek films. Star Wars is more mythology than "space movie" so I don't think they belong on the list. I'm a bit disappointed that plenty of good (and not so good) 50's and 60's space movies were ignored for this list. It's like the guys making the list were all born after 1975.
Remember when the government started Medicare and Medicaid and now how cheap and efficient medical care is compared to back when everyone had to responsible for their own medical care? It'll be just like that. Forcing companies to give everyone broadband will just make it all that much cheaper!!!
Women especially with technology if they use it enough to get by will claim they're experts.
Agreed (my sister claims to be an expert on everything). However, being an expert on DVR isn't hard to accomplish. All it takes is about fifteen minutes of use and you got it down. How can there be people who can't figure out how it works? I mean we're not talking about how to program with Assembler, this is DVR. Find me someone who can't figure out DVR and either the person is over 65 or is the same person who can't figure out a microwave.
I have a bad feeling about this. And here I was hoping that we all had seen the last Star Wars movie ever. Not because I hate the prequels or anything, but because I don't want to see it run in to the ground like Star Trek was. I don't care if they have a Yoda/Wookie/Droid/Ewok cartoon hour; but another movie would look like nothing more than a money grab.
My boss doesn't appreciate slacking or skipping out of work to see movies. Therefore, I will probably see it at midnight or the next day after a doctors appointment. Either way, I'm not missing work for this...
Have you seen recent photos of Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher? Time hasn't been too good to them (to put it mildly!).
Suppose 15 years from now George decides to make 7, 8 and 9, George could simply have his ILM guys edit out all the ugliness and fatness. Hell at that point, he would just hire them as voice actors and not worry about all the problems with stages and acting and filming and all that. He could make all three movies at ILM.
My point was that Almost Famous was rated R despite a clear lack of violence and death. It's the first one that came to my mind. But I think Amelie is a better example. First of all it's dubbed so most young children in the US wouldn't "hear" the swearing. As far as the sex and nudity: my point was that movies that are not violent are given "R" ratings. Sex and nudity are not violence (except rape) and there are no rape scenes in that movie.
He meant in "entertainment" you idiot. For example: in a certain PG rated movie, the "bad guys" blew up a planet (possibly billions of people living there). Later in the movie, the good guys blow up the space station (thousands of more people living there) and what happened next? They got medals. Through out this movie, people are shot, tortured, burned alive, and all kinds of nasty stuff. Yet parents allow their young children to watch this movie.
In a certain "R" rated movie about a young man who goes with a rock band on the road and writes an article about them, nobody is killed, maimed, shot, tortured and no mass murder last I checked. The worse that happens is that the plane almost crashes. Yet it's rated "R" because there was a nip slip from Kate Hudson.
I spent two years working a job that had me listening to recorded telemarketing and customer service conversations. If you've been recorded and people listen to it within the company, we're not listening to the customer (outside of answering questions and getting their names and addresses spelled correctly). Honestly, we were more concerned with what the employee was saying. We were making sure the customer wasn't being scammed or otherwise screwed by the person selling. Also made sure the employee was polite and professional.
If they were unsatisfactory, we would send them to the "callback" department. I had to spend some time doing callbacks when they were under-staffed and needless to say a lot of people would get angry about not getting "free X" or "free Y". Then all of the callbacks would be recorded too.
If you've been recorded, you shouldn't worry to much or at all about domestic disputes that could be heard in the conversation. We were more interested in getting other people working in the company fired.
It was addictive for a few days, then it just dies out and it's just another game sitting on the shelf. I can't imagine that Sims 2 will be much better.
Of course. I can half way understand keeping books like "The Joy of Gay Sex" out of school libraries, I mean it has no real educational value. But Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn? WTF? Geez, at least I didn't see Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
I might actually purchase this game. I've never liked the Madden series. But this sounds interesting. (I personally love the idea of black mailing the mayor of cities to build me a new stadium).
You think that stuff will change anything? Enterprise will still suck. Last night I had the choice of either watching new (taped) Enterprise episode or (taped) Babylon 5 episode I've seen on DVD. I went with B5. It sucks enough that I've quit watching it. The quality of Star Trek has fallen so far so fast I can't believe they have enough fans to watch Enterprise. I've seen more support for Farscape than for Enterprise.
If Paramount came out next year and said they were canceling Enterprise, I wouldn't care in the least and I know a lot of other people who wouldn't care either. When Farscape, Firefly and Futurama were canceled, I heard lots of noise about them. For Enterprise, I bet most would say: "That shows still on the air?"
Instead of making more Farscape episodes, they're going to waste their money on a show that sucked a lot with horrible special effects, bad acting and dull story lines. Thanks Sci-Fi channel. You guys suck ass.
I don't get it. I mean why would you want to cut out violent/sex filled parts of the movie? Isn't that censorship? Also when did Hollywood ever claim to be a babysitter for lazy parents? I dunno; the fact that anyone would ask for such a thing seems stupid. I'm with Hollywood on this.
Ya know, just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should do it. I loved how at the beginning of the episode the Captain is told he has a call on line one. When did Star Trek take on corporate speak? The captain should have just told him to give the guy his voice mail. There's also lots of other little points that annoyed me, but I won't go in to it now.
I get laid off for real reasons; not "you're mean to us in your blog". It's mostly "We are no longer able to pay all you people and you all must leave." I have slandered most companies I work for and never got a letter; I guess they don't care one way or another. Plus they don't know about my blog anyways..
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Easy. When the new NC-17 rating came out in 1990; the religious nutters like Jerry Falwell put pressure on all the major chains to refuse to show NC-17. So of course they got their way and now it's virtually impossible to show NC-17 movies. It wouldn't be hard to keep children out of NC-17 movies, any movie theater could do it, so it's mostly the right wing attacking that which they can't understand and don't like.
Apollo 13 is a great first choice, along with 2001, Contact and the Wrath of Khan, while First Contact and The Undiscovered Country being the two most overrated of the Star Trek films. Star Wars is more mythology than "space movie" so I don't think they belong on the list. I'm a bit disappointed that plenty of good (and not so good) 50's and 60's space movies were ignored for this list. It's like the guys making the list were all born after 1975.
Remember when the government started Medicare and Medicaid and now how cheap and efficient medical care is compared to back when everyone had to responsible for their own medical care? It'll be just like that. Forcing companies to give everyone broadband will just make it all that much cheaper!!!
Agreed (my sister claims to be an expert on everything). However, being an expert on DVR isn't hard to accomplish. All it takes is about fifteen minutes of use and you got it down. How can there be people who can't figure out how it works? I mean we're not talking about how to program with Assembler, this is DVR. Find me someone who can't figure out DVR and either the person is over 65 or is the same person who can't figure out a microwave.
If it's just Peter wrestling the chicken for three straight seasons, it sure as hell beats The Simpsons right now.
I have a bad feeling about this. And here I was hoping that we all had seen the last Star Wars movie ever. Not because I hate the prequels or anything, but because I don't want to see it run in to the ground like Star Trek was. I don't care if they have a Yoda/Wookie/Droid/Ewok cartoon hour; but another movie would look like nothing more than a money grab.
My boss doesn't appreciate slacking or skipping out of work to see movies. Therefore, I will probably see it at midnight or the next day after a doctors appointment. Either way, I'm not missing work for this...
Suppose 15 years from now George decides to make 7, 8 and 9, George could simply have his ILM guys edit out all the ugliness and fatness. Hell at that point, he would just hire them as voice actors and not worry about all the problems with stages and acting and filming and all that. He could make all three movies at ILM.
My point was that Almost Famous was rated R despite a clear lack of violence and death. It's the first one that came to my mind. But I think Amelie is a better example. First of all it's dubbed so most young children in the US wouldn't "hear" the swearing. As far as the sex and nudity: my point was that movies that are not violent are given "R" ratings. Sex and nudity are not violence (except rape) and there are no rape scenes in that movie.
In a certain "R" rated movie about a young man who goes with a rock band on the road and writes an article about them, nobody is killed, maimed, shot, tortured and no mass murder last I checked. The worse that happens is that the plane almost crashes. Yet it's rated "R" because there was a nip slip from Kate Hudson.
If they were unsatisfactory, we would send them to the "callback" department. I had to spend some time doing callbacks when they were under-staffed and needless to say a lot of people would get angry about not getting "free X" or "free Y". Then all of the callbacks would be recorded too.
If you've been recorded, you shouldn't worry to much or at all about domestic disputes that could be heard in the conversation. We were more interested in getting other people working in the company fired.
It was addictive for a few days, then it just dies out and it's just another game sitting on the shelf. I can't imagine that Sims 2 will be much better.
Of course. I can half way understand keeping books like "The Joy of Gay Sex" out of school libraries, I mean it has no real educational value. But Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn? WTF? Geez, at least I didn't see Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
I might actually purchase this game. I've never liked the Madden series. But this sounds interesting. (I personally love the idea of black mailing the mayor of cities to build me a new stadium).
If Paramount came out next year and said they were canceling Enterprise, I wouldn't care in the least and I know a lot of other people who wouldn't care either. When Farscape, Firefly and Futurama were canceled, I heard lots of noise about them. For Enterprise, I bet most would say: "That shows still on the air?"
I don't know, where is it?
As long as it doesn't interfere with Futurama or Home Movies; I don't care.
Instead of making more Farscape episodes, they're going to waste their money on a show that sucked a lot with horrible special effects, bad acting and dull story lines. Thanks Sci-Fi channel. You guys suck ass.
I don't get it. I mean why would you want to cut out violent/sex filled parts of the movie? Isn't that censorship? Also when did Hollywood ever claim to be a babysitter for lazy parents? I dunno; the fact that anyone would ask for such a thing seems stupid. I'm with Hollywood on this.
Our society also has "Friends" which seems like it will continue on for years and years; sadly.
Ya know, just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should do it. I loved how at the beginning of the episode the Captain is told he has a call on line one. When did Star Trek take on corporate speak? The captain should have just told him to give the guy his voice mail. There's also lots of other little points that annoyed me, but I won't go in to it now.
Nah; the computer cheats sometimes. I mean I once saw a Hockey game where the computer cheated. The computer cheats all the time and I hate it.
Let's here it for anti-gun freedom hating liberals. Hard at work they were, yes.
I get laid off for real reasons; not "you're mean to us in your blog". It's mostly "We are no longer able to pay all you people and you all must leave." I have slandered most companies I work for and never got a letter; I guess they don't care one way or another. Plus they don't know about my blog anyways..
Was I asleep, probably. Did I care? No, not really. It was just an idea I had, at any rate, I'm not a scientist.