First my appologies - I was trying to make a reply in a thread and suddenly there was an error and it was gone. So I shall have to start a new one. Coolhandluke said:
i have this thing with nudity. why is it that the female body garners an R rating on a film but violence, torture and the like can get a PG rating. its as if we are being subconsciously told that the female body is disgusting. that it has to be covered. what kinda puritanical, backwater, 18th century kinda thinking is that? i personally like the female body. i like it a lot.
If any of you kids out there have Netflix, I highly recommend: This Film is Not Yet Rated. Brilliant stuff looking at the mystery of how films are rated. Hillariously done and alarming at the same time. The amount of mystery behind the MPAA rating board is just retarded. I don't want to give too much away for those who haven't seen it....but has anyone else gotten a chance to look at it? Basically it's a fancy way for shutting down discussions about important movies/issues. Modifying a directors vision - all under the guise of protecting the innocent, but really just pandering to the big studios. It's censorship - without the overt censoring. Just good old fashioned strong-arm tactics. It's one to make you get all riled up for sure at the huge discrepencies between ratings of movies. Basically it's some small little mystery group thinks of as "offensive" which usually ends up being anything homosexual in nature, anything featuring women's sexuality in a positive way for women -- but Violence seems to be just fine. I guess we live in a society where healthy expressions of love are far more dangerous than acts of extreme aggression?