Is the "F" word o.k. on network TV now?

conversation only ^ | 11/12/01 | self

[gg188]

I am watching "Private Ryan," on ABC, I think. Dumb me---I didn't think that "sh*t" was used in prime time. Or "g.d." But the F word!!???!!.................nothing follows.

[Hank Rearden]

That's interesting. I have exactly the opposite reaction to movies on TV - I *never*, ever, watch them. I hate the edits, trims, overdubs, censoring and commercials. We used to have a family tradition when I was a kid of watching The Wizard of Oz when it came on TV, usually once a year. That was it, my movie on TV, complete with a big mug of hot chocolate loaded with as many of those little marshmallows as would fit. And some whipped cream.

[PjhCPA]

What was with all of this FUBAR crap?

Hey, sorry. I wasn't alive during WWII or Korea or old enough to serve in Vietnam....blame it on Tom Hanks and Steven Speilberg.

[Texaggie79]

Well I don't watch any movies on TV. Except for the ones they show full and unedited. Can you imagine haveing to watch Pulp Fiction in TV format? ECH

[Hank Rearden]

Man, that's weird. You're psychotic psychic. I just pulled out my Pulp Fiction DVD and watched it last night! First time in a couple of years since I've seen it last.

Weird.

I still wish Fabienne's nightshirt had gotten caught on a nail or something and shredded.

[Texaggie79]

LMAO I know. They tease us with her, then all we get to see is Bruce's naked @$$.

[ReaganGirl]

Read "Band of Brothers" if you have not yet. It is a true and accurate representation of the men who fought for the US in World War II. This Spielberg scheiss is revisionist in the manner in which your grandfather's generation is represented. Spielberg and company want you to think young men were always bellycrawling guttersnipes who spewed nothing but filthy obscenities morning, noon, and night. This is false; Spielberg promotes lies and deceptions in every one of his films.

Ok...now you're just wrong!

Hubby and I got HBO for the sole purpose of watching "Band of Brothers" because we had both read the book. There was very little profanity in the movie either even though it was on HBO. There was only one nude scene in 10s weeks and it was also in the book.

Perhaps you're not aware of this but it was Spielberg and Hanks that made the movie...so you're way off base with this screed.

[Goetz_von_Berlichingen]

"There probably WERE many soldiers who went through WWI and even WWII without saying these words."

If you go even further back, to the WBTS (for example), the soldiers seem downright genteel. And this at a time when the horror and danger of war were exponentially greater than in modern times.

U.S.Grant, a general from a time when generals were routinely exposed to fire in the front lines, was once at a gathering where an officer was about to start a risque joke, prefaced with, "Since there are no ladies present . . ." General Grant cut him short: "But there are gentlemen present."

[skr]

Considering that "the f word" is implicit in its meaning, I would never ever connect the precious word, freedom, with that phrase.

You're right,of course, that I have the freedom not to watch programs with the f word in it. I've heard that old argument time and again. Have even used it myself, but I have come to realize that it is a pretty flippant answer that removes responsibility from those who control the programming for the coarsening of Society. Now Hollywood has determined that it doesn't have to bother to edit out yet another profanity. The writers no longer have to rely on knowing how to use dialogue in such a way as to get the point across to people of all ages in its audience. The point is that allowing it in one program, whatever its redeeming qualities are, frees up all the other programs to pepper their scripts with yet more obscenitites. The network airwaves belong to all of us, adults and children, and it seems only some of us remember that.

Yes, I have the freedom to not watch shows or movies that contain foul language, but I also have the right to complain about profanities and obscenities taking up even more air-time.