Debate, and discuss, just dont Bore me.

Apparently the pendulum of idiocy has now swung in the complete opposite direction, with the MPAA decided that religion is not for young children.  They have slapped a PG rating on a football film because - it talks of faith and god and god forbid! Jesus!

But of course talking about Johnny's 2 daddies or 2 mommies is fine for children as young as 5 or 6.  Yet Hollywood, which just recently rated Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" as the most controversial movie of all time, has decided that religious themes, and more specifically Christianity, is too traumatic for little Johnny to see.

And Hollywood wonders why it is tanking at the box office?  Maybe it is because we want E-N-T-E-R-T-A-I-N-M-E-N-T, and not indoctrination.  Theater goers want to escape from the real world, not have it pounded into their heads at every movie setting (we have CNN and Fox News for the latter).  Newspapers are losing readers by the boat loads.  News shows have diving ratings.  And Hollywood has a shrinking bottom line.  All for the same reason.

They forgot that the customer is king, and decided to crown themselves and give the customer, not what the customer wants, but what the purveyors want to give them.  So we just toss them aside and go find our wants in other ways.

I am sure the dinosaurs did not realize they were dying out, until the last hungry meat eater could find no food.


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on Jun 13, 2006

I'm reminded of a story about the release of "Star Wars" (probably apocryphal, but you never know). The story alleges that Lucas added in a single swear word to get a PG rating instead of a G rating because, outside of animated flicks, G rated movies generally don't do very well. The PG rating probably increased this movie's marketability greatly, and the controversy doesn't hurt.

This is true.  But then some movies are geared for G, so that all can see.  Without reservation.

on Jun 13, 2006

Then the point of your blog would be moot as well, since all PG means is "Parental Guidance is Suggested". If you are try to say that religion isn't a circumstance where parental guidance is important, well, I think you're arguing facetiously just to be arguing against the people in question.

No Baker, In every act, parental guidance is suggested.  Just not in the movies.  You have taken a point to the extreme and there it fails.  For you would then condemn Bambi (Mother dies), Aladin (stereotyping), Pocahontas, Snow White, etc.  All G rated movies to some degree require parental guidance.  But we do not need some judgemental clown outfit deciding what is and is not.  You take the PG in its purest, albeit never used form. This is not about Parental Guidance for it can be easily argued that all actions of a child require it.  This is about being judgemental because the film espouses a religion, something YOU dont seem to have a problem with if it is not Christian.  And until now, neither did the MPAA.

Your excuses for them are weak.  And you twist and turn until you can turn the argument to your point.  Yet you cannot provide comparable examples from the past ratings.  What has happened is that the MPAA has turned the rating system into a sham, that can no longer be trusted.  For it is not an accurate description of the content, but of their political agenda.

on Jun 13, 2006

And here all this time I thought it was because of the incestuous kiss Luke stole from his unknown sister at the time, Princess Laya.

Someone is not a SW fan.  It is Leia!

on Jun 13, 2006
Think of it this way.

I used to have hellish arguments with fellow church members about promoting prayer and bible study in schools. They loved the idea because they lived in a small community where everyone went to the same kind of church and believed the same kind of thing.

When I asked them how they'd feel if next week a Hindu teacher were hired and started offering Hindu religious study for their kids they felt less enthused. That's all I am saying here. It is easy for us to say that a 'PG' rating is kind of insulting because we feel the beliefs in question are relatively harmless. If they were beliefs we find threatening, though, we'd definately want parental guidence to be suggested.

As a movie for parents to watch with their kids and discuss, sure, this is great, but that is exactly what the PG rating is supposed to promote. If Jewish or Muslim or Atheistic kids go to this and find themselves troubled with how it conflicts with their beliefs, it would be better for a parent to be able to guide them through it.

We can't assume that ALL kids will receive the "miracles" in this movie as happy events. To some they'd be blasphemous. No one should be protected from religion, but out of respect we ought to get a heads-up in advance when people are going to be trying to sway our kids.
on Jun 13, 2006

When I asked them how they'd feel if next week a Hindu teacher were hired and started offering Hindu religious study for their kids they felt less enthused. That's all I am saying here. It is easy for us to say that a 'PG' rating is kind of insulting because we feel the beliefs in question are relatively harmless. If they were beliefs we find threatening, though, we'd definately want parental guidence to be suggested.

Schools are mandatory.  Movies are not.  The PG says nothing about the religious content and gives the mistaken impression that the movie has some dirty words (all a PG can have).  Your analogy does not hold water.  How many Bollywood films that promote Hinduism are thus labeled a step higher due to it?

I can save you google time. 0

on Jun 13, 2006
Personally, I really don't see how simply having a religios theme or content whether it's Christian, Muslim, Hindu, or Giant Green and Yellow Space Frog worship can rate a movie a PG rating. Seems a bit 'out there' to me.

But then most liberalism as it's applied today seems 'out there' to me.
on Jun 13, 2006

Personally, I really don't see how simply having a religios theme or content whether it's Christian, Muslim, Hindu, or Giant Green and Yellow Space Frog worship can rate a movie a PG rating. Seems a bit 'out there' to me.

My point succintly!  Thank you.

on Jun 14, 2006
Someone is not a SW fan. It is Leia!


No, Dr, This doesn't prove she's not a SW fan, it proves she's a PORNO fan (LOL!)
on Jun 14, 2006

No, Dr, This doesn't prove she's not a SW fan, it proves she's a PORNO fan (!)

The hooker on the corner? "lays 10 cents"?

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