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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Corsair on May 29, 2004, 08:34:23 pm
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The New York Times puts it this way:
"The Day After Tomorrow" is rated Pg-13. Millions of people die, but nobody swears, copulates, undresses or takes drugs.
:lol:
So I guess it's okay then?
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Hell no.
If there's no nudity and/or swearing, then it most certainly is not 'okay'.
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I'm ****ing well naked. OK?
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:wtf:
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:shaking:
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What's not okay is that all you buggers seem to think that stuff is required for a movie to be good.
The tone of the movie is cold, the characters spend almost the entire film trying to survive sub-zero temperatures. They don't have time to copulate, swearing does no good, and they'd freeze to death if they undressed.
Personally, I thought it was refreshing to see a movie with teen cast members that didn't end up in the sack together.
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well that makes the movie not worth watching then
;) j/k
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Originally posted by Liberator
What's not okay is that all you buggers seem to think that stuff is required for a movie to be good.
The tone of the movie is cold, the characters spend almost the entire film trying to survive sub-zero temperatures. They don't have time to copulate, swearing does no good, and they'd freeze to death if they undressed.
Personally, I thought it was refreshing to see a movie with teen cast members that didn't end up in the sack together.
Ermm you're missing the point of the thread:
The fact that it is ironic that a movie with millions of people dying has a rating lower than a movie with a few teenagers boinking their brains out.
All you've done in your post is proven how ****ed up some people in this country are:
Killing good. Sex... baaadddd!
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Ace has such a good point. Why is everyone afraid of sexuality but they don't flinch at a scene where thousands of fictional characters are killed. Need to re-arrange your priorities!
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hmmm... makes you think
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They want to keep the cinemas clean.
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What does movie content have to do with cinema cleaniness (I know ours got trashed for Eps I & II)?
Beside what ARE you doing when you watch a movie (and DG please don't answer, this was for lightspeed, we know enough about you already) :lol:
kidding
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I don't recall actually seeing all that many dead people. Some Ice-Corpses, some getting swept up in the Tsunami, a couple of Tornado victims, but no massive fields of dead or much blood at all. I mean you know whole populations are dead just by the scale of events, but there are very few violent deaths onscreen.
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Originally posted by Lightspeed
They want to keep the cinemas clean.
Thing is that we don't NEED to necessarily show gory fields of dead people and nor do we need to see steamy sex scenes all the time...its just that the fields of dead people are just fine while the other isn't.
The europeans think we're all nuts because of this imbalance.
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The thing is, field of gory death don't usually disrupt the flow of the story and the steamy sex is usually misplaced and breaks the plot flow. Not to mention that most theatres I've been in don't seem to enforce the age restriction on anything except NC-17 stuff. I don't mind fields of death around older children and pre-adolescents, they get that anyway in video games. But the steamy sex scenes can, and usually do, give them the wrong impression of how sex is supposed to be between two people.
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in this day and age, its like trying to stop a tidal wave (hehe) with a piece of paper. The more you discourage it, the more it will happen. Stop telling the kids how to live their life, what they can wear, what words they can't say, what they can watch, and they will probably make the right decision by themselves. I remember a quote from a movie about the decades long fight to legalize marijuana, and it struck me as such a great quote...
"You can't legislate private morality"
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I guess Independence Day should've been rated XXX then...
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Originally posted by Liberator
I don't mind fields of death around older children and pre-adolescents, they get that anyway in video games. But the steamy sex scenes can, and usually do, give them the wrong impression of how sex is supposed to be between two people.
They get the wrong impression from internet pr0n sites. What's your point?
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im naked too cuz im gonna go take a shower :)
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you know, all the best movies have no sex at all.
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Not true, Donnie Darko features a bit of kissing and Amelie features about 16 sex scenes (alright so 15 of them are back to back).
They're both brilliant :)
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Originally posted by Carl
you know, all the best movies have no sex at all.
How about Schindler's List? One of the best movies ever IMHO and there was one scene where Schindler and one of his many girlfriends were getting it on and you could see about half of their bodies...
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oh yeah, concentration camp sex, so hot. just the thing I'm looking for. cause in the end, there's nothing like a Nazi death camp full of people awaiting their imminent demise to get my mojo going..
:wtf: :lol:
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Trainspotting has like 10 whole minutes of soft-core porn with titties floppin' about and everything.
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I think that movies with violence get accepted 'cause after all, if you want to see blood and slaughter all you'll have to do is switch on the news channel :blah:
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Or get a knife and a bus ticket.
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Originally posted by an0n
Trainspotting has like 10 whole minutes of soft-core porn with titties floppin' about and everything.
when? I only rember like a few flashes here and there, but admitedly its been a while since I last saw it.
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A disaster movie without swearing? What the ****? :wtf:
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Originally posted by an0n
Trainspotting has like 10 whole minutes of soft-core porn with titties floppin' about and everything.
LOLOL!
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Diamond Geezer's Big Day After Tomorrow Review!
Story and whatnot was more pointless than I expected
SFX were, quite simply, mother****ing awesome. I'm there, gazing open-mouthed at the screen saying 'holy ****' to myself.
Go see
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Originally posted by Rictor
oh yeah, concentration camp sex, so hot. just the thing I'm looking for. cause in the end, there's nothing like a Nazi death camp full of people awaiting their imminent demise to get my mojo going..
:wtf: :lol:
You have absolutely no idea what I was talking about, do you?
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Originally posted by Ace
Ermm you're missing the point of the thread:
The fact that it is ironic that a movie with millions of people dying has a rating lower than a movie with a few teenagers boinking their brains out.
All you've done in your post is proven how ****ed up some people in this country are:
Killing good. Sex... baaadddd!
They are not brutally killed by someone. They die tragicly form floods, cold and other things they themselves caused.
On the other hand you have films with obscene sex, drugs and sensless violence that everyone can watch.
The Amercian movie formula (lot's of crap, hot chicks, sex, violence and drugs) is sweeping across the world, brainwashing people untill they become indifferent zombies.
RICTOR - "they will probably make the right decision by themselves"... Yeah, right. One in a million.
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Dude, what the hell is wrong with a little violent drug sex? :wtf:
And tities...
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
Dude, what the hell is wrong with a little violent drug sex? :wtf:
And tities...
See, for a fine, moral and upstanding young man like myself, there is absolutely nothing wrong with any of those things. In fact, extreme combinations of all of those things have led me to have some of the funnest times I (vaguely) remember.
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Originally posted by TrashMan
The Amercian movie formula (lot's of crap, hot chicks, sex, violence and drugs) is sweeping across the world, brainwashing people untill they become indifferent zombies.
Ah, too true. But luckily, we have stalwart defenders of real cinema, to safe-guard us from this scourge, like...Jarmusch or....Godard..
:lol: :lol:
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Quick question... What would everyone do if "The Day After Tommorrow" happened?
I think I am stuck in ice... :(
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Originally posted by ubermetroid
Quick question... What would everyone do if "The Day After Tommorrow" happened?
swears, copulates, undresses AND takes drugs
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Well, the day before, I would masturbate like there was no tommarrow, and probably go to sleep afterwards (if I were to die from a massive flood, I'd think in my sleep would be the way to go). Then, after waking up, I'd quickly realise the irony of my activities the previous day.
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Originally posted by Rictor
when? I only rember like a few flashes here and there, but admitedly its been a while since I last saw it.
Y'know after the club scene? When he picks up that pretty frickin hot brunette? Well, it's about 30-40 seconds after that. They're on her bed, she's on top, naked, and she's bouncing about and moaning and ****. Then the next morning he sees her in her school uniform and finds out she's only 15/16.
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ohh yeah. I always figured he freaked out cause she was a catholic schoolgirl, and I just supposed that they have some sort of law in scotland to protect the purity of upstanding young catholics. In retrospect, this explaination makes a lot more sense.
I remember this artsy fartsy movie from the mid 90s about how the world is going to end, and what people are doing in their last hours. It had that mix of strange/boring that is the hallmark of all arty movies which I don't enjoy. A cookie to the person who can remeber the name of the film.
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Is it that one where they're in the bunker-type building with the big TV/Window, counting down till the end?
If I knew the world was going to end, I'd probably just sit and watch DVDs.
The TV would be all news. The net would be jammed or crashed by "Well, even if they can trace it, I'll be dead tomorrow" hacking and cracking. The radio would be minute-by-minute updates. The streets would be rioting. The clubs-n-pubs would be full of drunken revellers who would resort to rape and murder just for the hell of it. And everything worth stealing would probably be in use or destroyed by rioting.
So, assuming the power was on, I'd watch DVDs.
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I could lie about my altruistic deeds in such an event, but IMHO it's more likely I would just succumb to the demon inside me.
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I emerged from the theater into an unusually cool end-of-May evening (~20), and both my brother and I were kinda unnerved by the coldish air. :lol:
Definitely a big-screen movie - not sure it's worth seeing on DVD, but in the theater - heck, yeah!