Hollywood leaders are trying to set what we can watch

Originally Posted by Sharon

What's so bad about it? There's nothing wrong with having a device to automatically fast-forward/skip scenes you don't want to see (for whatever reason). It sounds to me like they are trying to take back the responsiblilty of family viewing.

From the article:

What does that mean? Responsibilty falls on the Family... No one is trying to take it back! Good Mommies and Daddies don't rent bad movies.

End of story...

[vraiblonde]

Originally Posted by Kain99

If The movie is inappropriate don't pick it up idiot! Why should we cater to you?

Hello? You're NOT "catering to" anyone - if anything, people like ME are catering to people like YOU. Your skeez version would still be available for you to jerk off over. But there would be another toned down version that I could watch with my kids and not have to skip over every other scene or have to hear emeffer every other sentence.

Why do you object so strenuously to people having a choice in their entertainment? You've got this weird Clockwork Orange thing going on.

[vraiblonde]

Originally Posted by Tonio

And 2A, I would advise you to not use a phrase like "Hollywood elitists." I don't think you meant it as code, but plenty of people use phrases like that to invoke ugly myths about supposed Jewish cabals in entertainment and academia. Even "Hollywood Versus America" author Michael Medved has objected to that kind of code talk. Just my 2 cents.

Oh, look - the thought police have landed.

Tonio, do me a favor and keep your paranoid fantasies about "code speech" to yourself, okay? Otherwise the people in nice white suits will come scoop you up in their butterfly net.

Originally Posted by vraiblonde

Hello? You're NOT "catering to" anyone - if anything, people like ME are catering to people like YOU. Your skeez version would still be available for you to jerk off over. But there would be another toned down version that I could watch with my kids and not have to skip over every other scene or have to hear emeffer every other sentence.

Why do you object so strenuously to people having a choice in their entertainment? You've got this weird Clockwork Orange thing going on.

First I must say, I am stunned as I discussed clock work orange with a friend this morning..."Do you have my house bugged?"

I Do not object to people having a choice.... I object to the illusions they are desperately trying to create! Look Son, Mommy and Daddy rented the good version of "Monster" Come on..... It's ignorance extrodinaire!

[kwillia]

I would like to have/use such a device in my home. There are alot of good movies that I can't share with my kids because of adult language or inappropriate scenes. When we do get a chance to sit down and watch movies together, I like watching TNT, FAM or other stations that dub out the bad words and snip the inappropriate scenes.

[vraiblonde]

Originally Posted by Kain99

Good Mommies and Daddies don't rent bad movies.

What part of "choice" is upsetting you so much? You, Kain99, will still be able to rent full-version movies, complete with profanity, nudity, subjugation of women, racial slurs - the whole nine yards. But I, vraiblonde, will have a choice to rent an edited version that removes that crap. The same movie - two different versions.

How is that "censorship"?

[Sparx]

Originally Posted by vraiblonde

Hello? You're NOT "catering to" anyone - if anything, people like ME are catering to people like YOU. Your skeez version would still be available for you to jerk off over. But there would be another toned down version that I could watch with my kids and not have to skip over every other scene or have to hear emeffer every other sentence.

Why do you object so strenuously to people having a choice in their entertainment? You've got this weird Clockwork Orange thing going on.

Because it's just going to run up the cost of movie making for everyone. Including those of you who can't read a rating post on a movie box.

Originally Posted by vraiblonde

What part of "choice" is upsetting you so much? You, Kain99, will still be able to rent full-version movies, complete with profanity, nudity, subjugation of women, racial slurs - the whole nine yards. But I, vraiblonde, will have a choice to rent an edited version that removes that crap. The same movie - two different versions.

How is that "censorship"?

What? Do ya think this comes Free? I think it is utter nonesense that these idiots want family happy verisons of Lethal Weapon! My God! What do they see... 5 minutes? It's just sheer stupidity and yes it drives me to wanna scream!

Rent Good Happy Family Movies and STFU! Talk about wanting your cake and eating it too...... Fatties!

[vraiblonde]

Originally Posted by Kain99

Look Son, Mommy and Daddy rented the good version of "Monster" Come on..... It's ignorance extrodinaire!

How is that ignorance?

If anything, this is a case of Hollywood trying to shove its depravity down our throats, not people like me trying to censor them. Why would directors have a problem releasing toned down versions of their movies? You'd think they'd have thought of it int he first place to broaden their audience and make more buckage.

[Tonio]

Originally Posted by vraiblonde

Oh, look - the thought police have landed.

Tonio, do me a favor and keep your paranoid fantasies about "code speech" to yourself, okay? Otherwise the people in nice white suits will come scoop you up in their butterfly net.

Just go stick your head in a toilet and gargle, OK? Your single brain cell must get lonely inside your empty head. I'm not an expert in prejudice, but I know what I'm talking about when it comes to code, having been exposed to a lot of it growing up.