Smoking = R rating?

[Cleon]

This is really, really stupid.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/11/film.hollywood.smoking.ap/index.html

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- If Nicolas Cage lights a cigarette in a movie, Hollywood's ratings board should respond as if he used a profanity, according to authors of a new study that criticizes glamorous images of smoking in movies rated for children under 17.

Nearly 80 percent of movies rated PG-13 feature some form of tobacco use, while 50 percent of G and PG rated films depict smoking, said Stanton Glantz, co-author of the study, which examined 775 U.S. movies over the past five years.

 

[Luke T.]

Yup.

 

[Tony]

This is really, really stupid.

Really, really, really, really, really, really stupid.

 

[Ed]

Clearly someone has too much time on their hands.

 

[toddjh]

Lord of the Rings would be NC-17, for crying out loud.

Jeremy

 

[Abdul Alhazred]

This is really, really stupid.

I suppose all the old Marx Brothers movies will have to be R-rated (cigar), not to mention Godzilla (pipe).

 

[Silicon]

Lemme check on something for a moment, brb....





Yep. 2004 is divisible evenly by 4. So we can expect attacks on Hollywood morality to get some major play.

 

[corplinx]

Mind control to major tom