Smoking to affect movie ratings...

More idiocy.

40 people in the film NOT smoking, but they think 1 person smoking will make kids start.

Like they got all bent out of shape worrying about kids starting because Leonardo did in Titanic...but no one seemed worried that their daughters would start posing nude for sketch artists.
 
Weird. I'm all for smoking everywhere. (and I have been smoke free for over 6 months now - and damn if I still don't want a cigarette every single day).

Even though I don't want to breathe smoke, there is something totalitarian about a state that forbids it. Isn't there?
 
im for the rules that promote the right to be healthy and not have to inhale the smoke if you are a non smoker, but i also promote the right to smoke and think this is bogus.
 
This one is ridiculous. Wasn't the MPAA supposed to be turning over a new leaf? Is this how they kick that off? I have a better idea. Let's make stupidity an instant R rating. Idiots are a lot more dangerous than smoking.
 
I've had it with the MPAA. I've had to put up with their BS all my life up until I got legal ID so I can go to movies without having to pay off a homeless guy or sneak in...and now they do something as stupid as this? It's ridiculous.
 
D-Boz... Many years ago, I went to see the Blues Brothers (Rated R) at the theatre when it opened. It was one month before my 17th birthday, but the Nazi ticket seller/taker (don't mean to get all political...) denied my entrance after studying my drivers license for a good 20 seconds. I remember a sly grin forming at the corners of her mouth as she told me I couldn't get in.
 
Hope you guys have seen the movie "This Film Is Not Yet Rated" - it's about the good people at the MPAA.
 
Terry..then you know how I feel..its the worst feeling..


TMNT - I heard about that movie..but I cant find it anywhere in blockbuster. I wanted to see that when it came into select theaters but never had the time.
 
I hate strict ticket sellers. Around my house you can't even get a parent to say "I allow it." They have to watch it with you.

An issue that is a problem in movies is overglorification of J-walking. Ever since the infamous J-walking scene in Forrest Gump all of my friends have been J-walking every chance they get.
 
If only this would help keep smoking out of student films - So many jaded, chain-smoking protagonists...
 
The MPAA sucks, and I definitely don't agree with what they want to do. For me though, I'd be against it just because they proposed it.

However, I will say this: After [semi] retiring I have been coaching high school football and cannot believe the number of young people who are smoking. Smoking among high school age kids is definitely on the rise in CA.

If I see a movie that promotes smoking, especially making/asking actors who obviously don't smoke, I will strongly recommend AGAINST that movie.

Promoting smoking is like promoting the use of land mines. If a Producer/Director caves to the social and economic pressure to promote smoking how much integrity is there in his/her message. Unless the movie is about smoking.

I don't care if there's smoking in a film, there's smoking in life, but some films are obviously promoting smoking for either political or monetary reasons. If they would simply replace the smoking scene with sex scenes I'd be OK with that...
 
ChuckS said:
I don't care if there's smoking in a film, there's smoking in life, but some films are obviously promoting smoking for either political or monetary reasons. If they would simply replace the smoking scene with sex scenes I'd be OK with that...
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Next thing you know..no sex scenes in films and if there are..it gets slapped with NC-17 rating...I bet it'll happen. Some ultra super duper conservative is gonna propose that idea and watch, it'll get passed.
 
This is totally insane, as many have suggested. I'm not a smoker, but I don't buy that watching people smoke will make anybody start. And if it does, then they are so weak minded than they deserve what they get...

By the way, why is it that when the MPAA does something like this everyone agrees with me about them being evil... but when I complain about the MPAA keeping me from legally backing up the DVD I legitimately bought, everyone tells me how great they are for "protecting the rights of the copyright holders"? Despite, of course, the fact that their DRM does nothing to stop people from distributing unauthorized copies, and simply serves to hurt those who play by the rules...

Seems to me the MPAA is simply evil all across the board...
 
How about we just go back and change all classic films? We could digitally insert a carrot in Humphrey Bogarts mouth, and while we're at it how about we change the shotguns in ET to flashlights? Oh wait... :Drogar-Smoke(DBG):

So I don't have a problem with smoking in films intended for adults. Kids shouldn't be sitting there watching them. I do have a problem with parents passing the buck on good parenting to the movie industry. I haven't used smoking in films, but I guess if I can't do it anymore I better use them while I can. :evil:
 
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