Name: Motion Picture Association of America
Age: 97
Occupation: the folks to rate our movies
Last Seen: Washington DC
Bee-otched For: not knowing what priorities are
-Age: 97
Occupation: the folks to rate our movies
Last Seen: Washington DC
Bee-otched For: not knowing what priorities are
This weekend, audiences are expected to embrace a new Joker.
The beloved Batman villain has been played by many over the years: Cesar Romero, Jack Nicholson, Heath Ledger and now, Joaquin Phoenix. So far, the movie has gotten good reviews, especially for Phoenix's performance and storyline, which shadows Joker's road to being an arch enemy of the Caped Crusader.
In the film, Phoenix plays Arthur Fleck, a failed stand-up comic who battles mental issues. After his comedy career ends, he lands himself into a world of crime.
However, some are angry over the release of the film, especially those in Aurora, CO, where a man who was obsessed with The Joker shot up a movie theater, killing 12. The murderer, James Holmes had mental issues and had trouble socializing with people.
Of course, The Joker and Batman are properties of Warner Bros., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the American Telephone and Telegraph company, which spent over $100 billion on purchasing Warners and its associated companies, including DC Comics. Obviously, they're banking on the film - which had a budget of $60 million - to break even this weekend.
It's no secret that movies with lots of action, guns and explosions equate to a lot of money at the box office. After all, the Avengers movie from earlier this year made a paltry $2.8 billion at the box office for Warner and DC's main rival, Disney and Marvel.
"Avengers: Endgame" has been the year's highest-grossing film, with "The Lion King" at 2 and "Toy Story 4" at 3 with "Captain Marvel" at 4. The #5 film "Spider-Man: Far From Home" was the highest-grossing non-Disney-released film (though Marvel owns the character) while Jordan Peele's "Us" was the highest-grossing non-Disney film outright and the highest-grossing R-rated film.
I, like many of you don't mind seeing a movie with action or even a good horror movie like the "It" movies. I might even go see "Joker" soon since I do like Batman. However, I've long-noticed something missing from a lot of movies it seems: nudity.
Sadly, the major Hollywood studios are squeamish about showing skin simply because of the MPAA. Years ago, I saw a great documentary about the organization called "This Film is Not Yet Rated" and how the MPAA treats movies overall. The sad consensus is that if a movie contains even a split second of pubic hair, it gets an NC-17. But when it's loaded with the bloodiest, goriest violence known to mankind, it will still get the pirate rating of R (or, ARRRRRRR!).
Very true, there's a movie out now called "Hustlers" about strippers out now and it's rated R. It contains mostly female topless nudity, though reportedly, there's a scene with a penis in it. Unlike most movies about naked women - i.e. "Showgirls" and "Striptease"- this movie actually got great reviews and has done quite well at the box office, making $100 million so far.
The reality is that we live in a society where naked females are a bad thing. After all, the government raised indecency fines for broadcasters after the Janet Jackson nip-slip, but they don't do a goddamned thing when there's a mass shooting. Here in Grand Rapids, strip clubs became outlawed in 2006, but the crime rate has dramatically risen in recent years.
Look, I started reading Playboy when I was 13. Not long afterward, I picked up my first issue of the much-more-X-rated Club and I watched my first porn movie when I was I think 15. I've never raped a woman or did anything violent towards one. I've treated them always with respect, but maybe that's why I'm still single. Women tend to like drunks and wifebeaters. And by the time they want a guy like me, they've already had a kid or two or three with said loser and now, their private parts smell like a cow pasture thanks to constant childbirth.
The sad reality is that I think there's a reason why people go out and cause massive shooting massacres. They are loners and they feel defeated. They've done Tinder, Bumble and other dating sites and nothin' doin'. They realize that it's easier to go to the local gun store, buy an AR-15 and blast people's brains out than to get any woman to like them. Or maybe, they live too far from any local strip club, or maybe, they went to one and none of the dancers want to come to their table to convince them to go back for a lap dance.
It's sad but true. Sex, it seems is being demoted to internet porn sites and internet porn sites only. Yet, good 'ol blast-em-up, shoot-em-up violence is alive and well. Of course in this age of political correctness, women don't want to be cute and sexy, but rather overpowering people who don't need a man in their life. Of course, maybe that's also why less and less women are getting pregnant and the fact that Toys R Us went out of business.
My point is, is that the vagina is a good thing. Yet, because our media is controlled by Republican assholes and the MPAA leans right, they'll give you the thought that if you see any female nudity, you'll rape a young girl and leave her dead body at the town dump. Hell, AT&T are huge Republican donors. The sad truth is that looking at naked girls - I think - reduces stress in men. Even better is if that girl wants to fuck.
I do wonder if the gun lobby and the NRA has some control over the MPAA. If they do, it explains why we can't have nice things. If I ran the MPAA, I'd be more liberal-thinking. Yes, film producers can still make their little shooter pics and they'd still get an R. But if a film has TONS of nudity, it would still get an R. Realistic sex scenes, though, would get an NC-17.
We shouldn't just free the nipples, but we should free the slit, too.
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