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To: chickpundit

I don’t care much about banning movies, but that reminds me of a movie trend that I dislike. Why did the amount of profanity increase, in movies, within the past 30 years? I don’t want to see a movie, if I know that it was rated “R” because of profanity.


14 posted on 07/21/2009 11:22:33 AM PDT by PhilCollins
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To: PhilCollins

Actually, the most scandalous thing is that this movie was paid for by a grant from the Danish taxpayers.


20 posted on 07/21/2009 11:25:49 AM PDT by dangus (I am JimThompson)
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To: PhilCollins

I don’t see a lot of movies, so I may be wrong about this — but I feel that the profanity trend may have diminished. Movies like Iron Man or The Dark Knight had virtually no profanity. On the other hand, I recently re-watched some movies from the 1980’s (Ferris Bueller, etc.) and I was really surprised at the gratuitous language. I think the urge back then was to appear “cool” by having a foul mouth. Nowadays that is such old hat, that there is no perceived benefit to swearing, so it gets dropped (somewhat).


23 posted on 07/21/2009 11:28:15 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (I don't believe anything anyone says about anything anymore.)
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To: PhilCollins
The reason is that they add enough profanity to get the R rating. Those in their late teens can't watch a wimpy PG movie...
25 posted on 07/21/2009 11:30:55 AM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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