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oh my god it's windy and sunny: Today the MPAA rejected the Weinstein Company’s request to get their...

convincingindie:

Today the MPAA rejected the Weinstein Company’s request to get their film Bully - which, in an attempt to educate kids and adults alike, documents the real problem of bullying - lowered from an R to a PG-13 rating…because of strong language. This, of course, means that a good number of children who might benefit from seeing a film like this will not get to see the film in most educational and (god forbid) constructive contexts. As if any of you need another reminder that the MPAA is a morally bankrupt institution, let’s take a look at a few of the 2011 films that were given a PG-13 rating:

- Transformers: Dark of the Moon

- Twilight’s Breaking Dawn (Pt 1)

- Sucker Punch

- Cowboys & Aliens

- Shark Night 3D

So, just to reiterate: there is no problem with allowing kids under 17 to see a vampire eat a fetus out of a womb. But allowing kids to hear kids use language that kids already hear other kids use on a daily basis in a film that punctuates the problems with the language kids use to refer to other kids on a daily basis? Off limits.

Ugh. Fuck off.

  1. agentdoubleosoul said: Edward didn’t eat the fetus out of Bella! It was just a violent childbirth scene (childbirth is bloody after all). Uh, I mean, yeah, that Twilight movie was probably pretty violent for kids, but, uh, I didn’t see it.
  2. zincalloy said: This is the price we pay for coexisting with people whose religious icon is a man nailed to a cross.
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  4. davebloom said: Basing this on reviews rather than firsthand knowledge, but my understanding is that Sucker Punch is even more problematic than Twilight. Subtextually rape-y all over.
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