Tuesday, January 15, 2019

preservation of ratings

(originally published May 1, 2011.)

(originally seen on) blackmagickopera:

"Do you think that your 16 year old daughter hasn't masturbated already? Like, do you really think there's anything in that scene that this chick hasn't already tried when the lights go out at night, or in the bathroom, or in the tub, or with the shower head or something like that? I'm telling you, man, I'm not teaching this broad anything new. If I were to create a rating system, I wouldn’t even put murder right at the top of the chief offenses. I would put rape right at the top, and assault against women. Because it's so insanely overused and insulting how much it's overused in movies as a plot device, a woman in peril. That, to me, is offensive, yet that shit skates."
~Kevin Smith (director) on the ridiculousness of movies about sex receiving NC-17 ratings while extremely violent movies get by with R ratings (via phillip-gallagher


-I will never pay to see another Kevin Smith movie ever again but goddamn do I love this.

(originally seen on) morbidfashion:

He’s absolutely right about the ridiculousness of it–that, and the fact that in that dividing line between sex and death, death always wins out as the lesser moral crime, somehow–but why never pay to see a Kevin Smith movie again?

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