Oh C'mon, you guys are Australians for god's sake! You live on a landmass that is actively trying to kill you. DVD covers should be small stuff compared to that.
CloggedDonkey said:
should they make book stores put the bible amongst the playboys all because it mentions bobs, drugs, sex, and violence.
There was one series of films I'd have been glad were covered up when I was a kid. Then again, I was easily freaked out...
This is censorship gone just too far though. What possible good can a law like that serve when the cover of Fight CLub is censored whilst the cover of Saw isn't? (Incidently, how did that get a 15 rating?!)
Sounds like he's got a bet on to see how far he can go before people get really pissed off...
This is quite frankly a pathetic way to try and get censorship through the back door.
While I can understand a need or rather a desire to remove certain film boxes from the view of children this is just impractical. There should be rules and guidelines about the content of film covers and display thereof. I wouldn't want my kids to see some of the excessively suggestive images on some film boxes but these measures go too far.
Golly gee, I grew up looking at R rated movie covers. It's amazing I'm not scarred. *roll eyes*
The Australian government must think their constituents are extremely stupid and gullible.
[sub]I guess they did vote in these losers, so maybe...but probably not.[/sub]
Here is my question: is this new system really meant to cover up what we in America call R-rated movie covers... or is it meant to cover up what we in america call NC-17?
If the former, here are few more movies that are too obscene for australia:
if the latter, all you are really missing out on is:
OK, first of all, ratings aren't consistent across countries. (for one thing, most European countries don't rate sex very highly.), so even if two ratings categories would be 'equivalent', they still might not get applied to the same films.
But, as to the Australian ratings system, it goes like this:
(there's a children's rating as well, but you don't really see it on anything aimed at over 3's.)
G - General Audience; Unrestricted.
PG - Perental Guidance; Unrestricted (but perental guidance recommended for under 15s)
M - Mature - Recommended for over 15's. (but still unrestricted)
MA - Mature Audience only. - Restricted to over 15's (unless accompanied by an Adult/ person over 15)
R - Restricted - Restricted to over 18's. (No exceptions.)
X - Pornography. (Only widely available in the ACT, and has a few extra sales restrictions, otherwise, similar to R in being restricted to over 18's)
But that's HARD! Parents would rather have politicians help them hide the world from their children. That way they can send their brats out into the real world at 18 without having to talk to them about all those pesky things like sex, violence, hatred, political discourse and whatnot.
The_root_of_all_evil said:
With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word `intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be. You always dread the unfamiliar.
"Do you ever read any of the books you burn?"
He laughed. "That's against the law!"
"Oh. Of course."
Oh god the government is so right, yesterday I saw this R rated DVD cover and then I murdered my family. If only I lived in Australia this terrible outburst could've been prevented.
This is why I like morality. All sorts of stupid crap happens that makes sense only to the people who do it but we still act like it has any real purpose in the world.
Darn thing is far too subjective to be treated so objectively.
I was being sarcastic about morality by the way, it is stupid, as is this Atkinson fellow and anyone else who thinks they are saving the world by limiting or banning nearly anything short of literal physical altercations with other human beings.
We should be banning war, murder, rape, and various other things that are fairly unmonitored world wide (or at least unpoliced largely). Not stopping some kid from watching Fight Club. Shit shouldn't even be banning that, should be trying to understand it, figure out why it happens, and cure the issue so it needs no regulation.
My baby sitter showed me quite a bit of her when I was little, I'm no worse for ware, in fact it got me thinking and that's always a good thing. Helps expand the brain and build character.
Now that he's hit movies, something tells me more people are going to be wanting Atkinsons blood (figuratively speaking). Most non-gamer Australians probably didn't care with his stance on video games. But now that they've hit movies, yeah. Those people who want to 'protect the children' seem to have the mindset that children are super fragile and made of glass with minds lacking the equivalent of a content filter to the point you'd think they'd just lock the children in a padded cell to keep them safe from the dangers of the real world.
Just to stop you looking so ignorant/uneducated in the future....
No murderers, rapists or other serious criminals were transported to the US or Australia, they were executed in the UK.
Even minor crimes like stealing more than 5 shillings, killing an animal or cutting down a tree (and over 220 others) were punished with death (NOT transportation).
Over 60,000 'convicts' were transported to the US and ~160,000 to Australia (after the US revolution stopped the UK transporting convicts to the US).
At the time transportations stopped (1863) Australia had 0 slaves and the US had ~4 million.
BTW ?aborigines? is now considered racist terminology, ?Indigenous Australian? is the PC term.
Callate said:
If there's violence in your culture, movies aren't the first place I'd look for solutions.
It wasn't Atkinson who introduced this one, however, but Family First Member of Parliament Dennis Hood, who claimed his goal was to have the offending videos "quarantined, so children could walk into the store without being exposed (to R-rated titles.")
For those unaware, Family First is an ultra conservative Christian party that about 90% of the population despises. I'm guessing now that since they are the one's who introduced it, they'll be going the way of the (Australian) Democrats next election.
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