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Let's watch the excellent NSFW documentary, This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Be My Head:
I'd say it's the studios' fault just as much as the MPAA for not advertising NC-17 films (18A here in Canada) and the movie theatres for not showing them.
Great documentary though, loved all of the interviews and the P.I. part especially.
Jackie Blue:
What I found most surprising is that the MPAA raters are paid laughably low salaries and are apparently just some random twats they yanked off the street and stuck in a chair.
The two ex-MPAA guys that were interviewed seemed really cool though.
Also I had no clue Boys Don't Cry was so controversial, and I think it's weird that he didn't at least have a short little segment about Henry and June (the first NC-17 movie ever, which contains, in retrospect, very tame lesbian sex and that's about it).
jimbunny:
Like the documentary said, the same companies control both production and exhibition, among a lot of other things. And even if a company like Time Warner doesn't directly own your chain of theaters, they also have such a hand in the distribution of their films (that is, a sizable portion of the films that people want to watch) that they in effect have a lot of power over your company anyway. I think it's pretty clear that there's not much hope of change from the outside in when there's this degree of monopolization in the industry.
OK SPOILER I GUESS:
one of my favorite parts was seeing all the amazing names on that appeals board, THEN remembering back to the decision to overturn the rating on the war documentary. makes me really want to go and see that one now.
öde:
Good documentary, although the bias was a little annoying at points.
WriterofAllWrongs:
On 6/10. This is a pretty good documentary, but I really can't get into the investigation part of the film. It's just painfully boring and a bit self-congratulating, you know, the whole "Shit, we're awesome. We're getting to the bottom of this" attitude. But the better part of this film is really good so far.
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