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Contains Nudity, Violence and Smoking

This is really getting out of hand.

Posted by me on March 9, 2004 06:27 PM | Permalink

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It's for the children.

Posted by: Britton | March 9, 2004 06:29 PM

Didn't I see on Drudge that obesity will soon be the #1 killer of Americans?

Why not slap an R rating on people eating too much or depicting obesity?

Posted by: Laurence Simon | March 9, 2004 06:30 PM

2017: The 75th anniversary re-release of Casablanca is rated R for frequent smoking.

Posted by: Bill McCabe | March 9, 2004 07:00 PM

OMG,what's next,editing out the campfire scene in" Blazing Saddles"?

Posted by: mbruce | March 9, 2004 07:13 PM

Hersheys -- the new Heroin: film at 11.

Posted by: Claire | March 9, 2004 08:30 PM

Won't somebody PLEASE think of the CHILDREN?!?!?!?!

Posted by: Joe Green | March 9, 2004 08:33 PM

Violence?? Can't have that!

Posted by: Allah | March 9, 2004 08:37 PM

Argh! Just makes me dig in my heels even harder and make a vow to NEVER stop smoking, even if I ever thought that I would want to!

Posted by: david | March 9, 2004 08:51 PM

Where have all, the Marlboros gone? Long time paass--ssing..

Posted by: Dave in Texas | March 9, 2004 09:10 PM

The worms smoking?? Don't people know that worms EAT tobacco, and thus it must be good for them - So MIB 2 was a health promotion!

Posted by: SezaGeoff | March 9, 2004 09:19 PM

Glantz is NOT a doctor, he's an engineering professor with an axe to grind. His primary job is anti-smoking activist. Google the guy, he's a joke and a lying sack of sh*t.

Posted by: Toren | March 9, 2004 10:54 PM

I suggested to my husband after hearing this today that instead of rating shows w/smoking "R," why not rate any show w/any actor who smokes in his/her private life "R"?

Treat the source, not the peripheral stuff. They could even wear a scarlet "S" or "C" in public.

Friends would have been on after 9 pm.

Posted by: Sandy P. | March 9, 2004 11:14 PM

Allah:

Come now. We all know that it's perfectly acceptable to show violence, no matter how extreme, as long as it's happening to Jesus.

Posted by: Eric Deamer | March 9, 2004 11:38 PM

just another reason to only watch porn...

Posted by: mikey | March 10, 2004 12:12 AM

What happened to "permissive" Hollywood?

Posted by: Andrew Ian Dodge | March 10, 2004 08:36 AM

Even Godwin doesn't mind the phrase "Health Nazi."

Or he shouldn't.

Posted by: McGehee | March 10, 2004 08:59 AM

I've always been an advocate of (God, I dunno what to call 'em) "genre" ratings. Instead of 4-5 meaningless categories, have it rated according to:

Violence, Sexual Situations, etc

The old HBO guide was much more informative than the current system at the movies. I could then make a decision for my son based on:

"Violence, Strong Language, Nudity" (No)
vs.
"Smoking, Brief Nudity" (probably ok)

I usually end up watching the movie before I let him see it. Which works for now, but is going to suck when he hits his teen years and wants to watch "teen angst" movies.

Posted by: Doccus | March 10, 2004 10:45 AM

Allowing the government to do social engineering experiments through the manipulation of art is simply wrong. Cigarette smoking is very bad for you, but so is eating a steady diet of double cheeseburgers. Whether to include those sorts of scenes in a film should be entirely the choice of those making the film. We need a more intelligent, less restrictive rating system that doesn't keep teenagers out of movies they could actually benefit from seeing - not some new way to lock kids out of anything that dares to show real-life situations.

Posted by: MikeR | March 10, 2004 02:28 PM