Dude you gotta see Wolf of Wall Street - it's one of the funniest movies ever made. It wasn't billed that way, and a lot of people misunderstood it to be some kind of satire - but it's flat out hilarious.
Just saw Babylon - still not sure if I loved it or hated it - maybe both - but how in the hell it didn't get an NC-17 is beyond me. No boners - but absolutely everything else you can think of, like straight out of an early John Waters' movie.
Wasn't there a a scandal with Color of Night, that they really "did it" - and Jane wasn't into it, something like that.
Good stuff Jared. I don't get why some people love the blood, guts and gore of horror movies, but to each their own. I'll take a movie with gratuitous fleeting nudity over violence any day.
I watched late night movies on black and white at my friend's house in grade school. One with a head detached from the body controlling limbs on the wall really freaked me out. Starting at age 8 when we moved down the road from a hippie commune where my best friend lived I saw so much print porn and nudity that I was immune for life. I remember stopping by a house and a cop of Screw magazine was on the table and I was just a kid. We had moved there from a very conservative Midwestern city so initially it was a shock. I know people today who still freak out at the very idea of little Junior seeing nudity. The same people think legalizing medical marijuana might make it more available to Junior. Junior already has access to everything. I don't know if exposing little boys to porn would have the same effect and immunize them against it when the hormones kick in.
In college I went to Alien with a friend on a hot day. I had no idea what it was and that one haunted me for decades. I laughed through Cat People because the violence was cartoonish and never felt real to me. My mom took us to Jaques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris when I was about 7 and my sister 9. She was traumatized by the scene where the guy is visiting his own funeral. I loved it and was not traumatized at all. In high school my sister and I went to the local college and saw Dirty Harry for free. She thought it was awful and I loved it. People all react differently.
Good read. Part of the reason ratings have little meaning anymore is because the audiences have changed. I also don’t enjoy watching graphic violence. When I was young (12 ish) I saw Hitchcock’s Psycho, and the shower scene had a profound impact on me - my imagination filled in all the details that were just suggested by the film. I watched the movie with one of my kids recently and he was bored to death (bad pun) with the movie - his imagination never stood a chance against the color close-up of crimson blood gushing from the stab wounds that would be portrayed in a modern movie (or video game, etc).
Dude you gotta see Wolf of Wall Street - it's one of the funniest movies ever made. It wasn't billed that way, and a lot of people misunderstood it to be some kind of satire - but it's flat out hilarious.
Just saw Babylon - still not sure if I loved it or hated it - maybe both - but how in the hell it didn't get an NC-17 is beyond me. No boners - but absolutely everything else you can think of, like straight out of an early John Waters' movie.
Wasn't there a a scandal with Color of Night, that they really "did it" - and Jane wasn't into it, something like that.
Blazing Saddles. Wonder what it would be rated now.
Good stuff Jared. I don't get why some people love the blood, guts and gore of horror movies, but to each their own. I'll take a movie with gratuitous fleeting nudity over violence any day.
I watched late night movies on black and white at my friend's house in grade school. One with a head detached from the body controlling limbs on the wall really freaked me out. Starting at age 8 when we moved down the road from a hippie commune where my best friend lived I saw so much print porn and nudity that I was immune for life. I remember stopping by a house and a cop of Screw magazine was on the table and I was just a kid. We had moved there from a very conservative Midwestern city so initially it was a shock. I know people today who still freak out at the very idea of little Junior seeing nudity. The same people think legalizing medical marijuana might make it more available to Junior. Junior already has access to everything. I don't know if exposing little boys to porn would have the same effect and immunize them against it when the hormones kick in.
In college I went to Alien with a friend on a hot day. I had no idea what it was and that one haunted me for decades. I laughed through Cat People because the violence was cartoonish and never felt real to me. My mom took us to Jaques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris when I was about 7 and my sister 9. She was traumatized by the scene where the guy is visiting his own funeral. I loved it and was not traumatized at all. In high school my sister and I went to the local college and saw Dirty Harry for free. She thought it was awful and I loved it. People all react differently.
Good read. Part of the reason ratings have little meaning anymore is because the audiences have changed. I also don’t enjoy watching graphic violence. When I was young (12 ish) I saw Hitchcock’s Psycho, and the shower scene had a profound impact on me - my imagination filled in all the details that were just suggested by the film. I watched the movie with one of my kids recently and he was bored to death (bad pun) with the movie - his imagination never stood a chance against the color close-up of crimson blood gushing from the stab wounds that would be portrayed in a modern movie (or video game, etc).