The bonfire of the vanities will commence at 9pm (8 Central)
You may have heard that there's a new film about the life of sexual researcher Alfred Kinsey (called, aptly enough, Kinsey). Now, it seems that the film will have sexual content and so an American TV station is refusing to carry adverts for it - not because the adverts themselves contain sexual content (they don't) but because of the subject matter of the film they're advertising.
And once we've won the battle to stop any media showing anything that's even remotely sexual, I'm sure we'll be back to the Golden Age where nothing bad ever happened to anyone.
And once we've won the battle to stop any media showing anything that's even remotely sexual, I'm sure we'll be back to the Golden Age where nothing bad ever happened to anyone.
Nick got away with this at 12:43 AM
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Do I even need to post that I am rolling my eyes right now?
-- Itchy.
'Twas ever thus. Fifteen years ago, the Motion Picture Association of America scrapped the X rating (the US's only explicitly adults-only film classification) because it had become more or less synonymous with porn, despite plenty of perfectly respectable films like Midnight Cowboy (a Best Picture Oscar winner), A Clockwork Orange, Last Tango in Paris and The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover getting saddled with it. As a result, most mainstream media outlets refused to carry advertising
So they replaced it with the more neutral (i.e. doesn't rhyme with "sex" or indeed anything much at all) NC-17, hoping that all the relevant parties would come to their senses and realise that just because a film is aimed at adults only doesn't necessarily mean that it's wall-to-wall filth.
But as far as I can see it's made no difference at all - NC-17 films are still stigmatised by mainstream cinema chains and the media in a way that's totally unimaginable with 18-certificate films in Britain. And when you consider that frontal male nudity is often enough to get a film slapped with an NC-17...
Why NC-17? There should be a rating called C&P: Crap & Propaganda. This movie is a waste of time, space, and money. The Liberals (via the gay Director) are attempting to crumble our national fabric. Shame on them. I wish they'd get back in the closet since they cannot do anything productive on the outside.
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