The Board of Film Censors gave a dumb ass excuse for giving a NC16 for a film that was "Only suited for mature audience who can tell fact from fiction"
Other writers bashed [edit]the movie/book[/edit], as it was cool to do so.
Life! upped the competition by posting two 1-sided reviews today.
I quote,
" Now that is insidious, because the gullible, impressionable or plain ignorant may not be able to discern between belief and that which beggars belief. And we know how exciting sensationalist claims can be."
" That's why I think Howard erred when he refused to state clearly, say before the credits rolled, that his film was fiction..."
Such excuses and attacks are insulting as it labels us as immature, gullible and stupid. Oh wow, really? I wonder what this bestselling book is doing in the Fiction section? And I didn't know that a film based on a book of fiction is likely to be a work of fiction as well!
Why?
First we see the bashing of "The Gospel of Judas", now this. I wonder if they realise how stupid they sound and I have never realised so many bigots exist. Perhaps from the same article, I could find some clues?
I quote,
" Will I watch it again?"
" No, because I don't want to wince again at Brown and Howard's nyah-nyah potshots at my faith. Otherwise, it would be like walking past a construction site again after being heckled by twitchy labourers there."
" Brown's fiction may be stranger than truth."
" But instead of making fiction deadlier than truth, Howard's film has just deadened Brown's dodgy derring-dos even more."
Ahh...
-1H1U
Friday, May 19, 2006
Shields up!
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Hey, why get so worked up over the NC16 rating? Not as if you're under that age...
ReplyDeleteReligion differs from Science in that there is no standard, "correct" answer (my opinion, anyway). If the viewers know they are watching a film about religion or religious beliefs, then they should also accept what other people's views on the religion is. Ever watch the Discovery Channel's "Apocalypse" documentary? That might turn the world upside down for some believers who believe the scriptures foretold the future, where it could be just as apt to interpret it as describing the present or the past.
These books should have a R21 rating on them, and Discovery Channel should be banned, if we follow this NC16 logic on the film in question.
No, not the ratings. But the dumb one sided articles that Life! allowed to run.
ReplyDeleteBtw, "it" refers to the movie/book.
ReplyDeleteI have edited the post.
Well... it's a local entertainment publication, not a worldwide technical journal, so... I wouldn't take it too seriously. Not that I read them, anyway... or watch local television channels... or listen to radio broadcasts...
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