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R-Rating Sought in Some Smoking Films
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| March 9, 2004
| ANTHONY BREZNICAN
Posted on 03/09/2004 2:21:37 PM PST by In_25_words_or_less
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To: RonHolzwarth
I thought any sexual activity portrayed on the screen gave a film an R or X rating,,, or did I miss something? Maybe if the act itself is portrayed on screen. I'm talking about the mere reference to it.
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posted on
03/09/2004 5:00:41 PM PST
by
autopsy
To: Carry_Okie
Look who's here....
To: Prodigal Son
So, we should rate all movies depicting actors eating should be rated R. Let's just make all movies rated R. Except some of the cartoons.
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posted on
03/09/2004 5:29:49 PM PST
by
Seth1
(Stop plate tectonics!!!)
To: calcowgirl
Seeing as Drummond Pike is so busy, maybe I can snooker him into funding me? :-p
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posted on
03/09/2004 5:40:46 PM PST
by
Carry_Okie
(The environment is too complex and too important to be managed by central planning.)
To: Prodigal Son
Let me through you a curve ball. What if I say that I want every motion picture that depicts a black person to be rated R? My question to you would be why? And if you answered because of their % of the whole population, I'd tell you that you were crazy, because most of the people in the movies are beautiful people, and I am pretty sure they represent an even smaller % of the whole population.
As for smoking, when I grew up, smoking was for adults. A lot of adults will smoke in front of kids, but I didn't like to. I didn't like encouraging kids, through my example, to do something that I think is bad to do. I was smoking for many years just because I couldn't stop.
So to me, smoking is a beat scene, man. And if someone wants to say depictions are rated R, ok. Just let folks know if that's the reason it's r. THey have ratings on direct tv that tell you the specific causes for the rating, so you know if it's nudity, or violence, or language, or all of the above. So add smoking. What's the big deal? How about pot smoking? Should that not get an R?
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posted on
03/09/2004 5:41:59 PM PST
by
Seth1
(Stop plate tectonics!!!)
To: autopsy
Then the same standard should apply to homosexuality. I totally agree.
I would assume the premise is that youth is impressionable, therefore should not be exposed to smoking, violence, offensive language, sexual content, etc. Yet every time I turn on the TV I am exposed to things like the "Madonna-Brittany kiss", Queer-eye for the straight guy, etc. etc. Somehow the leftists think that is acceptable. My solution: I just don't turn on the TV anymore.
To: swarthyguy
I'm sending money to PETA and some of the most liberal groups I can find. Whatever. But I wouldn't advertise it on FR.
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posted on
03/09/2004 7:21:20 PM PST
by
cinFLA
To: swarthyguy
Having fun? Or is there a point apart from your glee. Some other poster replied to me that he would rather go to France. Are you against him being informed?
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posted on
03/09/2004 7:24:24 PM PST
by
cinFLA
To: swarthyguy
Oh that was you! Are you still going to France?
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posted on
03/09/2004 7:27:00 PM PST
by
cinFLA
To: Seth1
How about depictions of people voting for a democrat? That is demonstrably much more dangerous than smoking could ever be.
Depicting a democrat on screen should earn it an X.
Liberalism kills.
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posted on
03/10/2004 3:39:58 AM PST
by
Prodigal Son
(Liberal ideas are deadlier than second hand smoke.)
To: In_25_words_or_less
"No one is saying there should never be any smoking in the movies," Glantz, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, said Tuesday at a press conference at Hollywood High School. "What we're simply asking for is that smoking be treated by Hollywood as seriously as it treats offensive language." I'd be fascinated to hear "San Francisco" Glantz's views on gay marriage & the health effects of the gay lifestyle, wouldn't you? ;-)
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posted on
03/10/2004 5:33:30 AM PST
by
an amused spectator
(Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to be lied to by Democrats)
To: an amused spectator
I'd be fascinated to hear "San Francisco" Glantz's views on gay marriage & the health effects of the gay lifestyle, wouldn't you? ;-) Only if there is money in it for him.......Glantz once told a group of anti-smoker activists that being an anti-smoker activists lets people like him keep paying his mortgage.
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posted on
03/10/2004 5:50:56 AM PST
by
Gabz
(The tobacco industry doesn't pay cigarette taxes - smokers do!)
To: In_25_words_or_less
I marvel at how the libs can always play both sides of any issue. Movies have no influence on impressionable young minds when it comes to sexual permissivness in movies, yet when it's their pet issue, then what's on that screen has a major impact.
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posted on
03/10/2004 6:01:35 AM PST
by
FrdmLvr
To: FrdmLvr
The selectivity is amazing isn't it?
Besides conservatism/Republicanism, smoking is the only of Mencken's hobgoblins they have left with which to menace the populace.
To: an amused spectator
I'd be fascinated to hear "San Francisco" Glantz's views on gay marriage & the health effects of the gay lifestyle, wouldn't you? ;-) Yes. I'd like to hear the explanation as to how they are "totally different issues."
To: *puff_list; Gabz; CSM; SheLion; Conspiracy Guy
Puff
Did you guys see this one?
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posted on
03/10/2004 10:07:55 AM PST
by
Just another Joe
(FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
To: Just another Joe
What type of public outcry would there be if anyone dared attack the alcohol industry like they have the tobacco industry? But then who would sponsor boxing, Nascar, Hydroplane races, etc? I am so sick of this crusade. I don't know of many movies where someone isn't drinking. Have yet to see an entire family wiped out on the highway by a driver due to smoking, but there have been two fatal accidents in two days in my city due to drinking & driving.
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posted on
03/10/2004 10:20:20 AM PST
by
magnumsgirl
(Welcome to America...........now speak English)
To: In_25_words_or_less
What a hoot.
CG
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posted on
03/10/2004 10:23:48 AM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Of course I'm armed. Isn't everyone?)
To: In_25_words_or_less
"No one is saying there should never be any smoking in the movies,"
Well, not yet anyway. We must make sure to stick to our incremental plan, ninny glantz added!
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posted on
03/10/2004 10:27:30 AM PST
by
CSM
(Theft is immoral, taxation is government endorsed theft!)
To: FrdmLvr
You want consistency, try a loaf of bread.
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