Paramount, which owns the film, forced movie theatres to pull it or face legal action.

Though you have to pay to view it, as you'd expect. And it's US only. Anyone watched it yet?

I find it strange that people now care about censorship in film yet the MPAA has been doing this for years.

Last edited by AquaMorph (December 28, 2014 (09:17pm))

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Aqua Morph, the MPAA doesn't actually censor films.  It rates them only.  A director who doesn't like the rating it receives may change the content personally  to try for another rating, but the MPAA rates movies only and does not change/censor the content.

Max, I could not agree with your above post in its entirety more!  Your entire point is right on the mark.  I've remained unchanged.  As much as I've been curious about this story, I'm no more interested in watching the movie as I was the day I began this thread.  I actually began this because I know BiM people are heavy movie goers and I didn't want to see any of my forum friends get hurt or worse.  At this point in the long, winding drama this story became, I'm just glad that whoever the terrorists are, their censorship attempt ultimately did not succeed.

If a theater chain won't show a movie, it's not censorship as much as the free market.  Again, the MPAA doesn't tell people to change their films, or blacklist artists.  But I do understand the point from AquaMorph.  It's just me putting too fine a point on things.  I gotta learn not to be so literal!  It's one of my faults.  Now, Hollywood does a good job blacklisting their own independently without the MPAA's help.  But that's really something for another forum and getting waaay off topic.

I like how the BiM community self-rates its films.  I also think that we should, as a network of people here with common interests, read each others' film pages for their releases, and if we feel someone else's film is misrated, we ought to suggest to the director why they think a rating should be different.  I actually tend to overrate my films just to be on the safe side.  I rated one episode of my series "mild sexual content for mentioning a naked Barbie doll and naked Lego (in the "yellow").  Just don't want any parents with young kids to be unpleasantly surprised.

Last edited by HoldingOurOwn (December 28, 2014 (07:59pm))

The MPAA is made up of representatives from major film studios (Disney, Sony, etc...) so when you say:

...you're describing the MPAA. It's a Hollywood organization using Hollywood money to promote Hollywood films and values. They have financial ties to major theater chains and they use those ties to keep the MPAA rating system in effect. They dictate the standards for ratings, which, because of the monetary ties to the distribution system, ultimately affect where and to what audiences the films are shown. That the whole thing is a result of the free market doesn't keep this from being a form of censorship.

For posterity my use of the word blacklist in:

was in reference to the film, not the artist, and confusion in that regard is my fault for not being more precise.