Clearly, these aren't the same parents who take their toddlers to R-rated horror movies every time I go to the theater . . .
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Clearly, these aren't the same parents who take their toddlers to R-rated horror movies every time I go to the theater . . .
Clearly, these aren't the same parents who take their toddlers to R-rated horror movies every time I go to the theater . . .
Good Gawds, between that and the little kids tittering and the male GIs cringing at Doc M's blue wang when I went to see "Watchmen" at a post theater...wow...
Clearly, these aren't the same parents who take their toddlers to R-rated horror movies every time I go to the theater . . .
I find myself watching movies after nine a lot-since I became a Daddy. Some movies need the swearing-and some could benefit from better writing. It's all about context, IMO.
Censored movies are a crime, though. I saw a censored Breakfast Club-I wanted to cry.
Clearly, these aren't the same parents who take their toddlers to R-rated horror movies every time I go to the theater . . .
I find myself watching movies after nine a lot-since I became a Daddy. Some movies need the swearing-and some could benefit from better writing. It's all about context, IMO.
Censored movies are a crime, though. I saw a censored Breakfast Club-I wanted to cry.
Are you serious
That's a great movie from my youth.
RobertScorpio
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Clearly, these aren't the same parents who take their toddlers to R-rated horror movies every time I go to the theater . . .
I find myself watching movies after nine a lot-since I became a Daddy. Some movies need the swearing-and some could benefit from better writing. It's all about context, IMO.
Censored movies are a crime, though. I saw a censored Breakfast Club-I wanted to cry.
But at least the classic line about Barry Manilow's wardrobed was saved!!!
Rob
I find America's double standard funny when it comes to entertainment. Senseless violence is okay, as long as no one dares to utter a 'fuck'. Just goes to show the South Park movie is still relevant today, nothing seems to have changed since 1999.
Bringing PG movies into this kind of changes what was being discussed though. Of course, it's more logical to complain about content in such movies as opposed to R-rated ones.
Neither hold a candle to the mightly nipple for setting people off.
The violence on TV though has really gone through the roof. Smallville had a disembodied torso gushing blood the other day at 8PM.
Thinking about it, it wasn't that long ago since shows like The X Files were really pushing the limits of what TV could get away with by showing the occasional severed limb or Scully doing an autopsy. Now, the various CSI shows put the most grotesque eviscerations front and centre, usually in slo-mo, during prime time and nobody bats an eye. But god forbid anyone shows some sideboob or says a naughty word!
I once had an email from someone who was grossly offended - frothingly so - by the fact that my novels had swearing in them, to the point that she said she was going to cross out every rude word before giving the book to a charity shop. (I replied by saying that the charity shop would probably get more money for the book, and thereby good causes, if she didn't vandalise it.) But the fact that the book also featured numerous violent deaths, from people getting shot in the face at point-blank range to being thrown into a helicopter's rotor blades, didn't seem to bother her one bit...
I loved that line!
I really love Live Free or Die Hard, but damn, that fucking movie needed some fucking f-bombs dropped. Die Hard 1-3 ... serious R movies. LFODH ... PG-fucking-13? WTF?
As for professionals swearing, I hang around cops all the time and if someone doesn't swear like a pirate every few minutes, things just don't feel right.
As for professionals swearing, I hang around cops all the time and if someone doesn't swear like a pirate every few minutes, things just don't feel right.
I saw another version that was funnier.
"DO YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS LARRY? THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FIND A STRANGER IN THE GRASS!!!"
I remember Aliens 3 overdoing it with f-bombs in the theater. 
Lots of times it works, often times it's a script crutch, other times it's obviously out of place and clearly just to up the rating. I remember thinking the "damn" in Transformers The Movie was random and out of place.
Lots of times it works, often times it's a script crutch, other times it's obviously out of place and clearly just to up the rating. I remember thinking the "damn" in Transformers The Movie was random and out of place.
Swearing is much appreciated for appropriately dire, life and death situations where more extreme language is almost required. For instance action or horror flicks and shows. I also don't mind it used to make a character more "hardcore" as you'd expect certain characters in professions like criminals, soldiers, or mercenaries to have a large vocabulary of options. Otherwise I'd prefer to have it kept to a minimum.
As for one example: Black Lagoon. The show would just not be the same without the pirates, mercenaries, terrorists, mafia goons, and other such underworld scum cussing like sailors. I'm glad they left all that in and that when it aired it was on a premium channel so they didn't have to edit it.
As for one example: Black Lagoon. The show would just not be the same without the pirates, mercenaries, terrorists, mafia goons, and other such underworld scum cussing like sailors. I'm glad they left all that in and that when it aired it was on a premium channel so they didn't have to edit it.
"I even called him.... a lot worse.""You know, I remember when I was a young executive at this company. I used to call the old man funny names. Ironbutt... boner... once I even called him... AIRHEAD."
I own that movie and have never heard that uttered. At what point in the movie does that take place?
I remember Aliens 3 overdoing it with f-bombs in the theater.
The audience I saw it with just just found that hilarious - especially after the governor gets dragged up into the ceiling.
Die Hard 4.0... It's weird, because you need to have yippe-ki-ay motherfucker in it, as in the DVD, but the PG-13's version of some earlier lines is actually funnier- To wit:
Theatrical Cut: I'm gonna go, get my daughter back, kill everybody else
DVD: I'm gonna go, get my daughter back, kill those motherfuckers.
It's something about the expression on Bruce's face and the delivery of the line - his tone of voice - that makes "everybody else" far superior, cos it does somewhat imply a lack of concern for any innocents, or at least a knowing assumption that in a movie like this, everybody there will be bad guys.
Thing is, swearwords are a tool and a weapon - nothing wrong with them when used properly, but overuse deprives them of their power. But censoring them - especially by meaningless phrases (why can't they think of something that fits the scene) is always wrong, and beeps are always wrong*
*- there are two exceptions to this rule, though both were intended for the beeps to be heard rather than the words: The Goodies punk episode, and the Father Ted Eurovision episode. Neither of which would be anything like as hysterical if the beeps weren't there.
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