June 29, 2004

Not Everyone Can See Fahrenheit

If Defamer says that Jack Valenti said it then it must be true; although I couldn't find the quote in the Hollywood Reporter article:
"Clearly, telling 'everyone' to see a film with an 'R' rating is an unabashed call to criminality," said the enraged Valenti. "If we were to allow this endorsement of age-blind anarchy, the nation's renegade seventeen-year-olds would abandon their marijuana-selling posts by the mall Pac-Man machines and turn their local cinematheques into sodomy-filled, psychotropic sock-hops. We cannot allow the children to download the movie into their brains!"
Defamer: MPAA: Not "Everyone" Can See Fahrenheit
So not only has F911 lost a ratings appeal but now it can't say "Everyone should see this film" because it lost a ratings appeal.

Unless all the theaters adopt the R-card system, then everyone who has cool parents can see R movies.


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