Anti-smoking group wants MMPA to give WOLVERINE R rating.

[miraclefan]

This is just getting STUPID! http://blog.newsarama.com/2009/05/29/anti-smoking-pressure-group-takes-aim-at-wolverine/ Really? Smoking? I don't even think smoking should even be accounted in what rating a movie gets! Besides, taking away WOLVIE'S smoking is in my opinion the same as getting him ''FIXED''! Just what in the world is with all this PC ?

 

[nx1701g]

The anti smoking lobbyists have been working on the MPAA for years. Actually they came close last year to convincing them to actually make films with smoking depicted an automatic R rating (it would be retroactive as well going back through films), but it was aborted in the eleventh hour because there would be classic films that would've become R rated films.

If you look at the The Land of the Lost trailer it says that the film is rated PG-13 for tobacco usage.

 

[miraclefan]

If you look at the The Land of the Lost trailer it says that the film is rated PG-13 for tobacco usage.

Are you kiding me?

 

[Trent Roman]

If one is going to partially base a rating system on whether a film contains sequences of drug (ab)use, then it seems to me there should be fair play for drugs like tobacco and alcohol, rather than being exempted because of their legality. I'm, personally, against a mandatory enforced rating system, but if we're going to be stuck with one at least it shouldn't be hypocritical.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Broccoli]

^ By that logic, then Star Trek should have been rated "R" since Uhura ordered a Budweiser Classic.

Same with Star Trek II-VIIsince alcohol use was featured in it.

 

[nx1701g]

^ Plus Star Trek 6 - Martia was smoking.

Think about the classic films that are rated G that would be affected too.

 

[DBR]

^ By that logic, then Star Trek should have been rated "R" since Uhura ordered a Budweiser Classic.

Same with Star Trek II-VIIsince alcohol use was featured in it.

And by the same logic, 101 Dalmations would be rated R? It is an utterly retarded notion, and I had hoped we'd heard the last of it already.

 

[clint g]

I dont know about anyone else, but I usually see on average 4-5 smokers a day just walking down the street, and thats in smoker un-friendly NYC.

Perhaps we should make the world R rated and ban all children from living in it

 

[CommodoreKong]

If movies with smoking are automatically rated R then how are kids supposed to learn that smoking is cool?

 

[Odin]

I think they have good intentions behind this but it's a little extreme. Maybe parents should just explain to their kids why smoking is so unhealthy, instead of making it criteria for "rated R".

 

[Trent Roman]

I'm perfectly happy with all the above. The more arbitrarily restrictive these ratings become, the sooner people will get fed up with them and toss them out altogether. I heartily encourage every mother-hen, busybody organization out there to render the ratings as narrowly preachy as they can to further the inevitable rebellion.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[nx1701g]

Are they even really enforced anyway? Back when Starship Troopers came out I was allowed in to see it without any trouble and I wasn't even a teen yet - I was with my brother and his friends and they were teens though (but not 17). I don't really think these are strongly enforced.

 

[zakkrusz]

*Laughs for five straight minutes*

Oh wait this is a serious request? I'm anti-smoking myself (well more like anti-stupidity) but even I find it ridiculous.

 

[Aragorn]

In Utah, NCIS is rated M because of all the coffee Gibbs drinks.

 

[ElScoob]

I have only one thing to say:

Oh for fucksakes.

--g

 

[Trent Roman]

Are they even really enforced anyway? (...). I don't really think these are strongly enforced.

Varies from location to location. A lot of cineplexes won't give a shit--after all, they want more butts in the seat, and these kinds of rulings force them to turn away willing customers. But then, there are other cineplexes that make a show of carding people to make sure they're 'of age' on the R-rated stuff, often after of the aformentioned Helen Lovejoy parents groups go on a tizzy after some kids do something dumb and media gets the easy blame.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[wamdue]

^ By that logic, then Star Trek should have been rated "R" since Uhura ordered a Budweiser Classic.

that or they should have cut it, didnt like that part of the movie anyways.

that does raise a good question, which would be better, the money from unnamed alcoholic beverage company for the product placement, or the money earnt from the movie being avabile to a wider auidence, due to not having an "R"

money will win at the end of the day.

 

[barnaclelapse]

I might be a little biased, but speaking as a writer and smoker, anti-smoking groups can blow me at a thousand miles per hour.

 

[Broccoli]

If movies with smoking are automatically rated R then how are kids supposed to learn that smoking is cool?

Win.

 

[Brikar99]

If movies with smoking are automatically rated R then how are kids supposed to learn that smoking is cool?

By sneaking into R-rated movies like all the cool kids do. Duh.