Smoking In Movies To Affect Ratings

Smoking In Movies To Affect Ratings

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The Motion Picture Assn. of America announced Thursday that smoking in a film will be a factor in future movie ratings, though its pronouncement raises many questions.

"In the past, illegal teen smoking has been a factor in the rating of films, alongside other parental concerns such as sex, violence and adult language," the MPAA said in a statement. "Now, all smoking will be considered, and depictions that glamorize smoking or movies that feature pervasive smoking outside of a historic or other mitigating context may receive a higher rating."

Org regularly includes a description of the reasons a film received a certain rating; that description could now add something like "includes pervasive smoking."

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So now, will we have to go back and give all Bogey movies an R rating?

I think this is going just a little bit overboard.

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This is absurd. I'm a non-smoker even.

Whats next, are they gonna rate movies based on the kinds of cars being driven in them or the color of somoene's clothes?

So if you were to do a period film noir piece and had actors and actresses smoking while delivering rapid fire lines then MPAA could give you a NC-17.

Wow, poor Jay and Silent Bob. But what about Pearl Harbor, Titanic, The Informant. Let's not forget that Lord of the Rings had Gandalf who smoked a pipe.

Funny how movies once strived for an R rating and would throw in gratuitous language to achieve the R. Now they will hit just for having actors light up. Well first thing they need to do is go back and give ratings to all the unrated films from the past. Disney's original Nutty Professor and Shaggy Dog comes to mind for all that pipe smoking. While they are at it better ban all those cartoons that warned about smoking by having the characters turn a little green because those character were *shock* smoking.

Re-rate The Breakfast Club to NC-17 too because they were smoking....pot

Originally posted by jsobecky


So now, will we have to go back and give all Bogey movies an R rating?

I think this is going just a little bit overboard.

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JSOBecky, record this date in history in your journal: We actually agree on something!! WOO-HOO!!

This is ridiculous. Now they're going to tell us that our kids can't watch movies with smoking in them? Yipes, I'm so sick of all the over-legislating that has been going on for so long.

I am a BIG fan of old movies, such as Humphrey Bogart and William Powell in the Thin Man series. If I had children, I would want them to be exposed to some of the old classics, the acting was terrific, there's nothing sexual or violent in them and the good guys always won.

Here in Tennessee, where every man and his dog is a smoker, that just won't go over too well, I think.

Instead of playing armchair poloticians.

We the people....

Let's make our thoughts known, We have a right to govern our own lives "to an extent." very sad truth...

So who knows how to contact their local congressman, now is the time? Inch by inch our right to the pursuit of happiness, has been eroded away as we compromise our individual sovreignity in sacrifice for our "protection".

Watch the movie V for Vendetta to see how speculatively far we could go, and fall back into something like, The Nazi Third Reich.



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This is just plain stupid. Soon it will be if there's an arab in a movie it will be 18+ because it's a ``terrorist`` and it scares little children. It's that kind of BS. Political ``correctness`` will turn this country into a dictatorship where everything is censored, thanks to american fundies featured in Jesus Camp. It's not all them and not because of them, but they have a big part in this.

Hell is paved with good intentions... It's like we need more security... so we need to destroy the constitution because it's an old document and the founding fathers wouldn't be able to foresee the ugly world we live into... that kind of BS the fascists in Washington use. This is just disgusting to use the good intentions of people and use them to enslave them... DISGUSTING.

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Personally, I think smoking is repulsive.
Why Hollywood has to take a beautiful woman or a handsome man and shove a cigarette in their mouth is beyond me. Is this supposed to make them cool? Oh yeah, I'm impressed. Is this supposed to make them sexy? Please, what better way to turn someone off. Smoking is dirty, self-destructive, foul and ugly. Ever french kiss a smoker (*barfs*). My hope is that one day it is made illegal. Smoking tobacco serves no purpose other than to soothe the smokers own addiction (and further it).

It's good that they do this. Cigarette companies pay movies to feature cigarettes in the films. What many don't realize is that they even pay to be in children's movies. How many Pg-13 movies have you seen, where there wasn't someone smoking?

At least now, movie producers will think twice about featuring smoking in kids movies.

Guess I am one of the few is is OK with this. First off, its just a rating. Big deal. Its not like they are banning smoking in the movies. I would say putting people smoking in movies and making them out to be cool IS a bad thing to be showing kids. I consider it worse then "curse" words.

Curse words never gave anyone cancer or made something look cool when it can kill you.

Going to have to call you out DJ, usually in films great lengths are taken to not show a particular brand. Quintin Tarentino uses "Red Apples" and Kevin Smith uses "Nails" in thier films.

Many companies pay big money for product placemnet while others do not want to be tied in to a film. For the most part Tobacco Companies avoid product placement like the plague. In fact I believe that the last product placement I remember was Winston in Superman 2 in the battle on the street with General Zod

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