Vodstok |
04-19-2004 05:21 AM |
Here is a funny fact:
The Video Game industry has come under fire because the government called their rating system "ineffective". However, the games industry pointed out that their system is better than the one that the film industry uses, and the only reason it has "failed" so far is the retailer's failure to enforce it.
I think marking anything with blood as "mature" is more responsible than hollywood trying to make everyone make pg-13 movies to increase sales and "protect" fragile minds. The Ring was pg-13, and i hate to think of the emotional scars that it probably caused in some kids who went to see it because of the rating, when their parents would never let them see, say, the Matrix because it is R Rated, and the cartoon violence may turn them into a mass-murderer.
I suppose that is a bad example. maybe it would be better if kids were afraid of TV.
I guess my point is that i agree, just because it is Jesus being flayed alive, doesnt make it any more valid. Plus, no offence to Mel Gibson or any other Catholic, but the movie is the Catholic idea of how things happened. The Catholic church has, on occasion, bent things a little to sell their cause. Not that it dint happen that way. in the end, a very nice guy was killed horribly for trying to make everyone get along. Damn Romans.
Oh yeah, and on the subject of the thread, Gloom Chapter 1 is up on my site :D
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