Violence is ok but not sex

[Crazy Dave]

"Zack and Miri Make a Porno" banned in Utah but not "Saw V"

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/zackandmiri_blog.html

Kind of reminds me of the "Grand Theft Auto" sex scene hack. Here you got a video game with guns, drugs, shooting and running people over and parents buy it for their kids birthdays but when it was discovered that there was a sex scene in the game that you could hack into it was all the outrage then.

[akwapez]

1. Apparently 'porno' is a bad word

The trailers I have seen on TV so far list the title as just "Zack and Miri". But if the movie was called "Zack & Miri Rip Out your Pancreas and Shove it in Your Eye Socket", I'm sure it would be fine.

[marmar]

2. That's Amurka.....

.... My friend from Sweden always points out that Americans freak out when they see someone passionately kissing in public, but think it's perfectly normal to have a Glock in their jacket pocket.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

9. "Is that a Glock in your pants?....or are you just happy to see me?"

:rofl:

[MindPilot]

11. Yet no one batted an eye at "The Spy Who Shagged Me"

go figger...

[Le Taz Hot]

3. Yeah, I've never been able to figure out

that part of our culture. Blood & guts = good. Passion = bad.

[TalkingDog]

4. In NC they are leaving out "make a porno" before 9pm

After 9 they make a porno, before that...they are just broke room mates who inexplicably do things that don't seem to suggest a coherent plot..... much like a porno.

I used to be in mgmt in movie theaters. And you would see parents dragging little, tiny kids into disgustingly violent movies I couldn't even watch.

But let a teenager see "Stand By Me"? with dirty words and a dead body...oh...no, rated X, or brief male frontal nudity in "Room with a View" sorry, rated X. Maybe the shrunken cold water willie triggered their inadequacy fears.

Or let them watch any movie where two people in a relationship made love? NO, No, No.....

It's like they can somehow comprehend violence, but not sexuality.

For a world where it's the other way around.......

[JVS]

5. Stand by Me was rated R

[TalkingDog]

7. when it first came out it was unrated....the public's equivalent of an X

after much protest, it was given an R.

[kick-ass-bob]

8. I was wondering about that.

I saw an ad yesterday and wondered if they changed the name. :eyes:

[surrealAmerican]

6. This has never really made any sense.

From a child's point of view, the violence is much more disturbing than the sex, and, from a parent's point of view, much harder to explain to your kids.

[MindPilot]

10. "This Film Is Not Yet Rated"

It is a great documentary about how the whole ratings system works. (or doesn't depending on your viewpoint)