Comment Ticket Booth Tyranny (Reply) (Score 1) 459
It appears to me that Mr. Katz is missing several points here. He seems to have taken a stance that we have some voice in the going's on in film-makerland and that we are surrogate parents. He couldn't be more wrong.
"Hit them in their pocketbooks," says Katz. We cannot "Hit them in their pocketbooks." If a movie, or type of movie fails to make money (at the box office) then those types of film will cease to be in production. If a film company invests $50 Million in a motion picture and that film fails to earn back (at least) it's investment, then they will have learned their lesson...what point have you made? Do you think that a holdings company gives a rat's ass how many people have actually seen the film? No. They are interested in the final dollar intake. Point? Bootleg all you want. Scam your way in the door until your head spins. It doesn't matter; This (and any) genre of film exists because they are big money earners. Take away the money and you take away the film.
"Find a smart 13-year-old who wants to see something off-limits and take him to a movie..." Jon? Isn't it enough that our ever-loving government has determined parent's to be too irresponsible -too stupid- to raise their own children? The ratings system exists for a reason. Why would you even consider further usurping the ability of a parent to raise her or his child as they deem fit? If the parent of a twelve or a thirteen year-old kid doesn't want them exposed to cultural gems like, "Shut Your Fucking Face Uncle Fucker," is it your place to determine that they are mature and aware enough to handle it? Are you going to sit with that adolescent and properly explain the satire of the scenerio? Is it your right to potentially force an unprepared parent into a situation where they will have to deal with it? I'm not saying that you can protect kids or sheild them from anything... eventually, they will be exposed to it. But, I find it hard to believe that you would want to be the one who does the exposing. You might as well run a taxi service for them so that you can be the one who helped them get their first bag of tea.
I cannot answer for the militant censoring movement in theatres. As an adult (!) I have little to be concerned with... Perhaps that is the point, though. 'As an adult,' I have the right and the ability to do and involve myself with every aspect of any culture that I decide, 'As an adult,' to be a part of. This is not an issue of censorship or individual rights. "Ticket Booth Tyranny," is a step in the wrong direction. If you want change, try to put the decision back into the hands of those who are responsible for the results of those decisions...the parents and the children that those parents are raising.
knot@illiterate.net
"Hit them in their pocketbooks," says Katz. We cannot "Hit them in their pocketbooks." If a movie, or type of movie fails to make money (at the box office) then those types of film will cease to be in production. If a film company invests $50 Million in a motion picture and that film fails to earn back (at least) it's investment, then they will have learned their lesson...what point have you made? Do you think that a holdings company gives a rat's ass how many people have actually seen the film? No. They are interested in the final dollar intake. Point? Bootleg all you want. Scam your way in the door until your head spins. It doesn't matter; This (and any) genre of film exists because they are big money earners. Take away the money and you take away the film.
"Find a smart 13-year-old who wants to see something off-limits and take him to a movie..." Jon? Isn't it enough that our ever-loving government has determined parent's to be too irresponsible -too stupid- to raise their own children? The ratings system exists for a reason. Why would you even consider further usurping the ability of a parent to raise her or his child as they deem fit? If the parent of a twelve or a thirteen year-old kid doesn't want them exposed to cultural gems like, "Shut Your Fucking Face Uncle Fucker," is it your place to determine that they are mature and aware enough to handle it? Are you going to sit with that adolescent and properly explain the satire of the scenerio? Is it your right to potentially force an unprepared parent into a situation where they will have to deal with it? I'm not saying that you can protect kids or sheild them from anything... eventually, they will be exposed to it. But, I find it hard to believe that you would want to be the one who does the exposing. You might as well run a taxi service for them so that you can be the one who helped them get their first bag of tea.
I cannot answer for the militant censoring movement in theatres. As an adult (!) I have little to be concerned with... Perhaps that is the point, though. 'As an adult,' I have the right and the ability to do and involve myself with every aspect of any culture that I decide, 'As an adult,' to be a part of. This is not an issue of censorship or individual rights. "Ticket Booth Tyranny," is a step in the wrong direction. If you want change, try to put the decision back into the hands of those who are responsible for the results of those decisions...the parents and the children that those parents are raising.
knot@illiterate.net
