So Here's The Sin City 2 Poster That Was Too Hot For The MPAA

[The Rogue Wolf]

Never mind the MPAA's reasoning; I'm upset that that gown isn't more clear. [small]ba dum tsh[/small]

The jist is that people were up in arms over a picture promoting Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson's movie featuring him holding a gun "promotes gun violence." At the time, Curtis spoke of the double standard saying that he gets singled out for holding a gun, but Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie got no such treatment for their gun wielding in the poster for "Mr & Mrs Smith."

To be fair, Mr. Jackson is a lot more intimidating than Mr. Pitt. Brad could hold a loaded alligator in my face and I'd want to pinch his cheeks. (Brad Pitt's cheeks, not the alligator's. Unless the alligator was cute.)

 

[weirdee]

It's the MPAA's job to provide very specific reasoning for rejection of content. It's a bit rude to imply that their specificity was due to excessive ogling.

Yeah, and I'm sure when the ESRB reviewed Scribblenauts, that part where they explain how a steak can be attached to a baby to attract lions, it was something they happened upon by accident.

http://www.esrb.org/ratings/synopsis.jsp?Certificate=26980

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

Nice 1984 reference there!

Personally I don't think it is in poor taste, but then again I wouldn't want to be walking past it with my kids at the cinema. It's a tough one.

Uhmmm...
Where is the problem? No, really I am honest . I see nothing scary, too violent or too spicy in the poster

My wife has raised them to be pretty prudish and while I'm liberal I'm the minority in my family. I don't want to get into the specifics of my family life but let's just say they've been pretty sheltered.

 

[Pinky's Brain]

The jist is that people were up in arms over a picture promoting Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson's movie featuring him holding a gun "promotes gun violence." At the time, Curtis spoke of the double standard saying that he gets singled out for holding a gun, but Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie got no such treatment for their gun wielding in the poster for "Mr & Mrs Smith."

Double standards abound.

It's only a double standard if you try to boil standards down to some mathematical rule ... not too many kids are going to try to become high class assassins or spies in emulation of those posters.

Gangster rappers talking about standards, all you can do is laugh ... and cry when you realize how many records they sell.

 

[MrHide-Patten]

Breaking news; Old farts cant handle breasts! Story at eleven. In other news blowing people into smithereens and shoving sharp objects into vulnerable body parts is still A-okay.

 

[WhiteTigerShiro]

I must say I have noticed that too... though it just seem extremely strange.
Are there studies on the subject?.

I don't know if any studies have really been done on the matter, it's just something you notice after a while. A TV show or movie can have insane amounts of violence and most parents won't care, but if there's so-much as a cleavage shot and suddenly they'll go into a fit of rage about how they're corrupting our youth with that rubbish. Heck, just look at the Hot Coffee debacle. A video game that lets you beat random passers-by to death, and the thing that got worldwide recognition is when someone released a hack that unlocked a mini-game that poorly depicted sex; and let me re-emphasize poorly, we're talking clothes still on poor. Yes, the GTA series gets plenty of flack of its violence, but it never got much more than a mention during the usual "murder simulator" bashing; it was only when this sex mini-game was revealed as being on the disc (never mind that you had to download a third-party hack to unlock it) that suddenly there was a massive outrage.

It's just a thing with the US. We'll over-look a LOT of violence before you start to hear much outrage, but movies and TV (especially TV) always have to skirt around anything sexual, or else there will be hell to pay. It' why we have shows like Will and Grace where the characters are supposed to be overtly sexual, but it'll dance around saying any of the "naughty" words or even the subject OF sex despite the fact that it's supposed to be something that they'd be able to discuss on a fairly casual level.

 

[Hairless Mammoth]

It's too bad I'm not on the MPAA board. I would of passed it with flying colors. Also, thanks, RossaLincoln, for the new desktop background.

What's really wrong with the MPAA is they rate films made by their 6 funding studios far less strictly than independent and foreign films. [sarcasm] It totally isn't an attempt to smother the competition for movie patrons' ticket money.[/sarcasm] They also OKed (probably without their knowledge, but made no attempts to pull posters in circulation) a poster of a 17 year old Emma Watson with "digital enhancements". They also seem fine with girls in bikinis front and center showing more boobage(totally a technical term) than the lovely Eva Green's subtle curves in this poster.

Women have breasts. If you geriatric, childless[footnote]Look it up, most members don't have kids, are male and are at least in their upper 50s. This Film is Not yet Rated is a good look at how fucked up the American film rating system really is. Parents should be bitching about how PG-13 films are being barely trimmed of their "R" offenses(sometimes just a word swap), instead of "M" video games, which usually aren't edited to become "T".[/footnote], old farts and hermits are gonna take this much time to realize this, maybe a better group that isn't paid by Hollywood's big shots should be rating movies.

 

[shirkbot]

So is the board/panel stacked with guys just unfrozen from the 50's? Or people who still think its the 50's?

Not unfrozen, but definitely from with an ideology informed by the era. For more information (see: Hyperbole) check out this Cracked <a=http://www.cracked.com/article_21151_6-bizarre-realities-how-movies-get-their-ratings_p2.html>article. Long story short, the board is staffed predominantly by old, white men and funded by the major studios.

OT:

"for nudity - curve of under breast[...]"

Guys, I hate to break this to you, but breasts have curves. They're not magic semi-circles just glued on to the female torso. Flesh and phrsics and whatnot.

 

[MCerberus]

Imagine for a moment the MPAA and ESRB swapped for a month. What kind of weirdness would happen?

Also

 

[Remus]

Man, RossaLincoln, tell us how you really feel.

What I'd like to know is: is this film really going to be worth watching? Besides for Eva Green?

OK, here goes: Eva Green is really, really, really, really, really, really hot.

Her eyes are too big though. She looks like the living embodiment of "Sarcastic anime cartoon". It kinda works for some movies, but when I can see the musculature tugging at the side of her eyeball when she's in a scene, just....ewwww.

 

[Makabriel]

Hmmm.. may have to spring for digital super duper deluxe 3D for this one..

 

[sweetylnumb]

As a female on the internet who appreciates boobies and pecks alike and doesn't mind seeing the T&A hanging over the internet like toilet spray.

Can we just have ONE post involving boobies that doesn't involve the male writer going "mm look at them boobies, bet there was lots of masturbation over this " because seriously. Gross.


I get it, you probably don't see many boobies and thus have to browse the internet for nice big photo-shopped ones but can't you keep your erection gifs and your "omg so hot!" comments to your damn selves.

Christ. Grow the fuck up.

Rant over, move along.

 

[FPLOON]

So... I'm guessing this movie would immediately get a "Eva Green out of 10", then?

OT: http://img.pandawhale.com/post-31074-J-Jonah-Jameson-laughing-gif-S-NWLY.gif

Oh MPAA... You always know when to crack me up! Now, real talk, are you hiring anybody in their 20s and/or 30s? Or better yet, since we's always "thinking of the children" these days, why not hire some mothers/fathers with kids that are basically in their "teens" just so that whenever stuff like this gets "rejected" for reasoning like that, at least you can say that it was a majority and/or "diverse" voting?

*sighs* Seriously, guys... The more "adult" I become, the more I can take the MPAA seriously...

 

[Briantb]

As a female on the internet who appreciates boobies and pecks alike and doesn't mind seeing the T&A hanging over the internet like toilet spray.

Can we just have ONE post involving boobies that doesn't involve the male writer going "mm look at them boobies, bet there was lots of masturbation over this " because seriously. Gross.


I get it, you probably don't see many boobies and thus have to browse the internet for nice big photo-shopped ones but can't you keep your erection gifs and your "omg so hot!" comments to your damn selves.

Christ. Grow the fuck up.

Rant over, move along.

Yeah It would be nice.

 

[Briantb]

So is the board/panel stacked with guys just unfrozen from the 50's? Or people who still think its the 50's?

I've seen far far worse on the supermarket magazine racks in plain view. And in the vast majority of british tabloids (The Sport, The Star, The Scum ect.)

Pretty much all the boards that are responsible for rating things in the States and most public officials are old guys and the occasional women from the 50/60's there not frozen just old.

 

[lacktheknack]

Inconsistency? Where? The MPAA didn't want a movie poster with a very obvious breast in it on public theater walls.

Why this rant? Why this article? Why this anything?

 

[wwmcfar]

The Motion Picture Association of America

A bunch of unelected cunts who have taken it upon themselves to be the moral arbiters of the movie industry and do so in absolute secrecy and with absolutely no oversight.
Their word is law, cannot be challenged and is often the difference between financial success or failure for artists.
They are a violation of the constitution and an affront to democracy and freedom of expression.

 

[Casual Shinji]

I guess this is one of those times I feel like I'm in bizarro world, since I pretty much agree with the MPAA over this. I have no problem with titillation, but nylon covered boobs I find have no place on a public movie poster.

I'm not really seeing what's so gosh darn outrageous about them not allowing an overly sexual poster in public places.

 

[nevarran]

"curve of under breast and dark nipple"? Bam, that's a kid's life in ruin, right there...