Posted on 03/09/2010 1:14:00 PM PST by Borges
The Hayes Commission didn’t end the production of movies with nudity or “violations”. The big studios got out of that game for a couple of decades but the smaller studios churned out “adults only” morality films which permitted them to show a lot of sinning (and nakedness) as long as the guilty got it in the end.
Yeah Last Temptation got industry support and grossed like 12 bucks (OK 8 million). Religious movies that make money are a pretty rare thing.
“1950s-style censorship”
Not that there’s anything wrong with that...
Last Temptation of Christ got made on a shoe string. An earlier attempt at production actually fell apart in the early 1980s when financing fell through. Priest was a British film.
While not "family friendly" per se, Hollywood recently released a nail-biting, action-packed war film that was undoubtedly pro-American, pro-U.S. military and where the good guys were courageous U.S. soldiers and the bad guys were barbaric Muslim jihadis. America thanked Hollywood by staying home and The Hurt Locker, released to critical acclaim, earned an embarrassingly paltry $12 million at the box office, qualifying it as a commercial flop.
I support politicians’ influence on film making with the same enthusiasm as I support actors’ influence on politics.
Filmss about the current conflict have not done well at all regardless of politics. People are just burned out by the 24 hour news channel coverage.
There's dirty word inflation nowadays and kid TV is full of rougher language and scatological humor. Well today's Disney is probably more subversive than hardcore pornography. That studio/channel pushes propaganda on children constantly. I don't blame the state for putting in some restrictions in soliciting media on-location production. Otherwise they will wind up helping push garbage. But perhaps there will not be many productions that qualify.
The purpose of the tax code is not social engineering.
The purpose of the tax code is to raise revenue for the government, period.
If this is such a worthy goal, why don’t they just pass a law requiring family friendly films. Oh yea, because it would be UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why should the government use the tax code to acheive something that is UNCONSTITUTIONAL?
The government is NOT the solution to every problem.
Entirely too many of Disney's productions are loaded with homosexual propaganda.
"Touchstone Pictures" and ABC television are prime offenders.
Americans have been trained to expect anti-american, anti-military from war movies. I didn’t see much advertising for Hurt Locker telling them otherwise.
More idiocy from Flori-duh. Then again, maybe these "feel good" pieces of legislation will distract them from taxing and taking our rights away.
I don’t know, I didn’t get drunk for the first time until I was 8, but my Grandpa used to put a little in my baby bottle to keep me quiet and when I was a toddler, I’d sneak sips of his beer. I still drink the same brand 50 years later. Although, I do drink Busch Light now, I have to watch my girlish figure, you know ; )
Good point. Miami and Fort Lauderdale are second only to the San Pornando Valley in terms of adult film production, and it can be argued that they match Cali in terms of websites produced. Of course, the SoFla porn mafia could then just move their business to where the talent lies: Brazil and Colombia.
it all sort of depends on what your definition of “family” is.....witness the ABC “Family” Channel
That's the thing, though. Huge segments of Americans have expressed anger at the leftist drivel that Hollywood releases. So Hollywood heeds their call and releases an exciting film that is unabashedly pro-American and patriotic. This film bombs. (And The Hurt Locker was a great film!) Meanwhile, Avatar makes money hand over fist and then some. What message does this send Hollywood? It tells them that this segment of America won't put their money where their mouths are.
FWIW, I know there is a post somewhere on this forum with my name attached to it where I expressed my belief that if Hollywood released a war film where Americans were the good guys and the Muslims were the bad guys, people would line up around the block to see it. Sadly, I was wrong because this is exactly the type of film that The Hurt Locker was. It's like people are saying, "Hollywood! Knock it off!" and when they do knock it off, sitting on our wallets anyways.
Mickey Rooney is a walking petri dish, and it is amazing that he is still with us.
Guys, you can’t legislate morality. Give it up.
As I said part of the problem was there was no advertising for it. And you need a certain threshold of viewers before word of mouth works.
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