Demi Lovato & Ellen Try To Get Bull Changed To PG-13
The momentum of getting the MPAA to change their rating for the new movie Bully from R to PG-13. I'm not sure why the MPAA has been so adamant in keeping it an R. This movie is important to see and I think schools want to be able to show it too which they will not be able to do if it stays at an R. Over the last week, almost million signatures have been delivered to the MPAA on petitions trying to get the movie's rating changed and both Demi Lovato and Ellen have made it a priority too. I will skip the part about how Demi being a bully to one of her employees and hitting her finally got her into rehab and focus instead on the good this movie can do if it's seen by kids and adults everywhere.
I am giving Demi a pass, I think her heart is in a good place to help she owned up to what she did and isn't being a hypocrite.
ReplyDeleteThat would be like Chris Brown giving a concert for a battered women's shelter.
A parent can still bring their child in to a rated R movie, though, right? Seems like a good jumping-off point to discuss bullying in general.
ReplyDelete@timebob, I know nothing about this movie but that's what I thought when I read the post.
ReplyDeleteThe MPAA is run by a bunch of elderly, extreme right-wing, white guys. They're just a bastardization of the Hayes Commission.
ReplyDeleteThat's not completely true - read about the CEO of MPAA
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mpaa.org/about/ceo
Former Democratic nomination for President. He also wrote the Family Leave medical act and did some other nifty stuff as a congressman.
I wonder what is keeping it R rated and why can't they edit it to fit the PG-13 rating. IT makes me think that some of the topics are what is giving it the rating. You can fix language post production.
ReplyDeleteDon't believe it, Princess. Chris Dodd is a corrupt lifetime politician, spent more than 30 years living large off graft as a Senator. Google "Chris Dodd Countrywide Financial." Dodd swore when he left office that he would not turn tricks as a lobbyist, and surprise surprise! Now he heads the MPAA, the movie industry's lobbying group. Dodd was also pushing that freedom-crushing bit of Internet control legislation, the SOPA act. He's a bad, bad man.
ReplyDeleteSeems like this movie could have enough star power behind it they could release it as unrated. THe MPAA is a voluntary system. If a film is released as unrated, it just hase a much harder time getting promotion. So all those people who signed the petition, a lot of them are probably celebrities, so release the movie without MPAA approval, and the stars can mention it in every single interview. Then the movie can still be shown in schools, which I am assuming is the main audience anyway.
ReplyDeleteAm I the only one who wants to know more about this hitting the employee thing?
ReplyDeleteMaybe they say "fuck" more than once. I think from "this movie is unrated," that can be the difference between PG-13 and R.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny that the MPAA thinks this movie needs an R rating, when it's a documentary showing what our kids who are well below age 17 are subjected to everyday. My kids are 14 and 18 and I'm very much against them seeing rated R movies. However, I will take my 14 year old daughter to see this movie with or without the R rating. I think it's important for her to see, especially since she's only 5 months away from entering high school.
ReplyDeleteFrom what I understand, there are 4 swear words and some violence. NOTHING that should keep it from getting a PG 13 rating!
ReplyDeleteEnty, you missed a true HEADLINE moment there pal. You should have written:
ReplyDelete"Demi & Ellen Bully the MPAA to Change Bully from R to PG13"
You guys have to love the hypocrisy of this. It's like some Metafiction irony or something.
It may well be ironic, but then again I'm not sitting around crying in my ginger ale for the poor, poor, picked-on MPAA--perhaps a taste of their own medicine wouldn't be a bad thing, or does that just make me a cynical bitch? I have a problem w/a bunch of old, right-wing white men who think extreme violence is neato-peachy-keen, but mention sex and/or nudity, and they start fanning themselves and groping around for the smelling salts like a southern belle with the vapours. And God forbid if you actually try to show female sexuality in anything but the most stereotypical fashion...wouldn't want to make all the menfolk nervous at the thought of those sneaky damn women wanting orgasms & stuff like that, would we?
ReplyDelete(This isn't an attack on you, Himmmm--just my not-so-humble $.02 worth on the MPAA. If they're actually being bullied, then that's wrong, but it's not as if they haven't pulled the same sort of thing themselves, so I'm just going to file this one under the "karma's a bitch, baby" header.)
Believe me Robin - I am no apologist for the MPAA. Think of it this way: An employee of Ford Motor Co. can still despise Ford executives yes? Or maybe a better case would be the way any of us feel about our sham government in DC (incl. Congress, Senate, White House, etc.). Just because one might be "of the system" does not make him "the system". In fact, I advocate violent overthrow of the MPAA, but that's just me being childish :-)
ReplyDeleteIt's nothing to do with "old white men" - when there's as many young, colorful, females who are horrible extortionists that work for MPAA, and SAG, and DGA, etc. It's about their actions - not their ancestry ;-)
Which is why I and several of my cohorts worked our asses off to stop the SOPA crap. Maybe that makes me a hypocrite, but I was raised by indies and prefer to take my studio paychecks to support indies and new media opportunities. I don't loathe MPAA because of the ratings scheme. I loathe them for their supression of freedom under the charade of anti-piracy. I assure you, I'm NOT alone in Hollyweird either.