Posted on 06/20/2009 10:33:43 PM PDT by tang-soo
Many parents have been fooled by these ratings, taking a PG-13 rating at its word...I personally wouldn't take my 14-year-old daughter to a PG-13 movie without seeing it myself or doing real research. Heck, I wouldn't take myself to see most of them....even PG movies sometimes cross the line.
I guess I'm either getting really old and prudish, or the world is going crazy.......
Just my 2cents,
O2
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Godfrey was married to the former Mary Bourke from 1938 until his death in 1983. They had three children.
I made the mistake of renting 40 Yr old virgin NR version. WOW
I always liked her .. this seals the deal.
Dale, you’ve missed some really, really great stuff. I feel sorry for you.
MIDNIGHT COWBOY was rated X. Did they even use profanity? I suppose they did, but not so much that I remember. It got the rating for the subject matter treated, in particular prostitution and homosexuality, and not for the manner in which it was presented, which was fairly restrained.
Come to think of it, MEDIUM COOL, a politically oriented movie centered around the '68 Democratic convention in Chicago, was rated X, I believe because of a brief and incidental scene of full frontal nudity.
I just saw this movie with my wife. I really was hoping that they could capture some of the fun of “History of the World Part I” which was taboo, but i think good fun - poking fun of ourselves.
This movie was just awful. I think she’s got it right when she says it made her feel “dirty”. It made me feel dirty. There were 7 people in the theater (and it was an 8:50 showing at a popular theater) and not one time did anyone laugh until the outtakes. Everyone in the theater looked at each other as they walked out - knowing that they were now a lesser human being than the one they walked in as simply for seeing that movie.
I was hoping to get a good laugh out of this movie. With politics these days being so heated, I really wanted to take a lighthearted look at how crazy life of the past used to be in the eyes of today. Instead, I got a movie that was the equivalent of watching those Saddam Hussein movies where they throw people off the side of a building for punishment.
I did laugh at two of the outtakes. I guess for $26.00, that’s all I was entitled to.
And can I just say something to the gay community. Enough already. There were no lesbians in the the time of Isaac. No matter how much you want to show that your “kind” have always been around. They haven’t. Enough already. Get over yourself. If you need acceptance, see a shrink. Otherwise, can we please stop talking about your sexual preference. I don’t care what you do. I’m just sick of hearing it. You’re obsessed with yourselves.
I just looked this movie up on IMDB....I’ve never been one to find what I call ‘12-year-old boy’ humor to be very entertaining, but from the descriptions of this movie, I can’t imagine why anybody would want to have anything to do with it. The written accounts alone are disgusting. Who would pay to see this? Who would expend effort to make it?
I’ve decided, the world IS going crazy.
O2
Hollywood's movie writers today produce trite, vulgar, screenplays that lack the ability to be interesting, funny, or entertaining.
Most of us should spend little money on what they produce. Buy a Kindle and read the great books that you can get for free. See http://manybooks.net/categories/
If you walk out of a movie, the theater manager genarally will give you a refund upon request (or a pass to see another movie).
This should help to get a bad movie pulled from the theater.
GREASE was rated PG. Maybe you’re thinking of SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER. It was originally rated R, but the soundtrack was so hot, the studio re-edited it to get a PG.
Back then, profanity was edgy, unsettling, and created a conspiratorial bond between entertainer and audience.
Now it's just tiresome.
I have always liked Victoria Jackson. She was the star of SNL when she was on, and one of my favorite X-File episodes of all time (and I’ve seen them all) was the one she starred in where the weatherman was secretly in love with her and he inadvertantly caused horrific weather conditions when he got emotional. Now THAT was an episode that could make you cry... with joy. Great episode.
By the way, this article by Victoria is the first time I ever saw or heard of the name Jude Aspertow.
It's a shame, as he has natural talent.
She was probably making fun of the movie “Raiders of the Lost Ark” when she wrote “I love you” on her eyebrows, from a similar scene in that movie.
Hmmmmm
Better by far than some other options so common to many in such spheres.
1956 ? What, did you throw in the towel after the remake of DeMille’s “The Ten Commandments” ?
“did you throw in the towel after the remake of DeMille’s “The Ten Commandments” ?”
Nothing to do with it since I never saw it.
Was that movie overrated or what ? I was expecting brilliant black comedy and it largely sucked (surprisingly, Tom Cruise was about the best part).
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