Posted on 07/09/2009 2:16:31 PM PDT by zerosix
Movieguide® has sent a letter asking local government officials throughout the U.S. to consider stopping the screening of the controversial movie "Brüno" starring comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, Movieguide® Publisher Dr. Ted Baehr announced today.
In the letter, Movieguide® asks officials to get an injunction against screening the movie on Friday until officials can look at the movie and determine whether it should be banned because it does not fit the "community standards" in their area, as defined by U.S. Supreme Court rulings on obscenity and pornography.
"This movie has been cut to get an R rating," Dr. Baehr said, "but it still contains much pornographic, offensive content."
Among the "pornographic" content in the movie, according to Movieguide® and Dr. Baehr, are "extremely graphic" sex scenes, including depicted intercourse, depicted homosexual sodomy, a depicted orgy, and depicted oral sex (including anal licking); explicit shots, including extensive close-ups, of full male and female nudity; and, "obscene" language about sex acts.
"The movie also contains scenes mocking Jews, African Americans and Christian evangelicals," Dr. Baehr said.
He noted that a 2000 Federal Trade Commission study showed that nearly half of all movie theaters in the U.S. actually sell tickets to children and underage teenagers trying to get into an R-rated movie by themselves, without an adult.
"Supreme Court rulings on obscenity allow local, state and federal governments to ban such movies like ‘Brüno,' or at least restrict them to 17 and over regardless of adult accompaniment," Dr. Baehr added.
"Government has a duty to protect the community, especially vulnerable children and underage teenagers, from this kind of pornographic material," he concluded.
Dr. Baehr is chairman of the Christian Film & Television Commission® (CFTVC) ministry which publishes Movieguide®, CFTVC's family guide to movies and entertainment. CFTVC and Movieguide® are an international non-profit ministry dedicated to "redeeming the values of the entertainment industry by influencing industry executives and by informing and equipping the public about the influence of the entertainment media."
Already posted: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2288668/posts
Sacha Baron Cohen has a fiance. He isn’t gay, he’s an IRL troll, and a bloody funny one as well...
Many thanks. Sorry for the re-post as I just this minute received from Movieguide.
Whether it is "bloody funny," I'm sure that it would be up to an individual to comment on the level of what one deems as "funny."
It’s for adults. If you don’t want to give it publicity, don’t talk about it. This is the US not Iran.
I won’t see it, but adults should be allowed to see it.
IRL?
Only those people that pay the money to go see it.
That's all the action you need to take.
I don’t really like the guy as a person and I don’t think he’s particularly funny. I did see the one clip in a commericial for it where he’s on Oprah? I believe and he’s adopted a black kid (poking fun at the trend in white celebutards adopting black african children) and saying he has chosen a traditional african name for the kid - “OJ”.
That gave me a smile. I mean, after all, he was innocent, right?
I know Ron Paul get’s punk’d in the movie. I doubt Alan Keyes is in it.
If i was Jewish (and I guess I am somewhat) I would be ashamed.
Funny how Hollywood NEVER makes fun a muslims. You know, the same mulsims that stone homosexuals to death...
I can’t stand the guy. How many sex jokes (gay or otherwise) can you make before its boring? 3? 4? He’s no Don Rickles, IMHO.
Memo to Dr. Ted
Re: “Brüno”
Don’t buy a ticket and forbid your minor children from attending.
Big Hollywood had a review of the movie and the guy who reviewed seems to say that Cohen is going after the elitists and their sacred cows - gays and blacks - with this movie.
“In real life.”
I think this is a publicity stunt to sell a bad movie.
Yes, it is already posted but it is OK with me if you post it every fifteen minutes until Sacha dies of drug-resistant HIV (hopefully soon).
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