Well...I'M NOT THE ONE that bleeped out the Cookie Monster in the leg-crossing scene...
Posted on 11/14/2016 9:22:05 AM PST by C19fan
"Basic Instinct" director Paul Verhoeven complained on Sunday that Hollywood had stopped making "challenging" movies featuring provocative sex as it clamored to cash in on mainstream audiences.
The Dutch filmmaker, famous for a slew of films that shocked audiences with their sex and violence, said studios chasing ratings were now mainly interested in the lucrative "PG-13" market.
"If you say it has to be PG-13, there are a lot of things you cannot do. You cannot be provocative, you cannot be controversial, you cannot be sexual, erotic, in a direct way," he told AFP.
(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...
I submit, morals and values you old fart (Verhoeven).
One of the things I found delightfully impressive about Hollywood is that in an interview Chris Pratt said that he would not do nude scenes out of his wife (Anna Farris - with whom they had a child I think).
Guardians of the Galaxy...that newest Jurassic Park movie.....several good movies and the nudity and sex wasn’t needed.
out of respect for his wife
“I have seen complaints like this for awhile. These complainers don’t understand with an unlimited amount of porn available on the internet and HBO shows with tons of sex there is no need to go to a theater to see sexually provocative stuff.”
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Yup - and people are clamoring for movies that they can take the kids along to watch.
So ... what’s the reason for making a movie? Tell a story? Sell tickets? Show perverts copulating in front of a camera?
If I recall correctly, the movie rating system was introduced in the late 1960s, as the old Hays code of censorship of TV and movies was done away with. And the idea was that formerly banned nudity, violence, sexual themes, etc were now permitted, however, the movie rating would indicate that such movies had these elements.
So in don’t get what the problem is. They have the freedom to make whatever movie they want. They have the freedom to show full frontal nudity, strong sexual situations, extreme violence, you name it. So now these people are complaining that having a R or NC17 rating is somehow unfair to them? Unfair how? If the rating accurately reflects the content of their movie, what exactly is the issue???
Hey Paul, the porn industry is always looking for “talent.” No holds barred there.
Paul Verhoeven has made some good films, but several of his films border on being porn. Maybe he should just go into porn and be done with it.
Go back to the Netherlands and make pervert films. We don’t need more perverts here.
Studios want to make movies that have an audience... Imagine that~!
Well, sure you can.
But fewer and fewer of us are going to come see your movie.
I think PG-13 and R rated movies make less money than G and PG movies. Or maybe they’re tying to sex-up 13 year olds, which wouldn’t surprise me either. Brokeback Pokémon or something.
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Yup - and people are clamoring for movies that they can take the kids along to watch.
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I was commenting on another thread last week that I imagine the LIBS heads explode when the
REAGAN family, join for Sunday dinner and say GRACE prior to eating and FRANK (Tom Selleck) basically said ‘WE don’t do that’ when it was suggested that ALL hold hands for Grace.
Yes, I tolerate that and if a Muslim family were ‘featured’ and they show the daily prayers etc, if I ‘liked’ the show in general it wouldn’t ‘bother’ me and if I didn’t ‘like’ the show, would just join the list of reasons to quit it.
Old story about the showing of Star Wars and a Middle Easterner commented on how most races and ethnicity’s were depicted but there were no Muslims...
An American Marine General commented
“That is because Star Wars is in the FUTURE”
He needs to get HBO.
They have all he wants.
Generally not where it should be, but there anyway, like it or not.
I guess this means that Verhoeven is going to do a movie about Podesta.
Well...I'M NOT THE ONE that bleeped out the Cookie Monster in the leg-crossing scene...
NS, Sherlock. That's the point of the 13. You figure you wouldn't have to explain that.
The Show part has always been at loggerheads with the Business part.
‘One of the things I found delightfully impressive about Hollywood is that in an interview Chris Pratt said that he would not do nude scenes out (respect for) his wife (Anna Farris - with whom they had a child I think).’
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I saw that too. How refreshing! :)
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