No, no. Clearly you're either a jock or a nerd and the former will always organize to prey on the latter.

Far as I'm concerned MPAA ratings exist because what I would suspect to be most of the parents in this country want it to exist. As a single thirty something dude who can see whatever he wants they really don't affect me and all I can really do is shrug.. This ain't my battle.

Hey it wasn't just Colin Firth saying "Fuck", it was the fucking King of England!

I'll say what I want about the Boondock Saints…

With that name alone you'd think he could get a job endorsing Christmas tree lots on TV or something.

Yeah but it sounds like the power of this documentary comes from the frank depiction of the harshness and cruelty the bullies are capable of and bleeping the profanity could very well make those scenes a lot less effective.

Or they could have called it something like "Naked Lunch", that would'a brung 'em in.

The "major auteur" part can and probably will happen, but it will be an alternative way to distribute  films that aren't $100 million blockbusters.  Movie theaters as a place to go see the latest Pixar or Batman movie will still be around in 2022 and I still don't see how that will change anything re. the MPAA.

So? Ratings don't mean much on the TV that's broadcast into our houses already. Pay channels don't check kids' IDs before showing an R rated movie, and broadcast and basic cable edit to FCC guidelines and/or their own self-imposed ideas of what's decent.

I'm not going to defend the MPAA at all, obviously this is a ridiculous and backwards decision. But, I'm having trouble mustering up a lot of outrage. I doubt it would actually be in many theaters no matter what the rating… documentaries don't tend to play at the AMC at the mall. Blockbuster stores are a non-issue. If…

Schools probably do have rules like that, though I would think an unrated documentary would be less of a problem than a scripted movie.

You think? I could imagine someone saying the exact same thing in 2001 and nothing's really changed.

Deserve's got nothing to do with it.

There's also a Shannon Wheeler only book of rejected New Yorker cartoons, so t

Lovable character!? That dude became Darth Vader! Oh, how I hate that Darkth Vader…

But it's not tarnished, not really.. TAL was never held up to the standard of a news program like, say, 60 Minutes. It's not a news show and the correspondents are fiction or humor writers, comedians, etc as often as they are journalists. They can weather being wrong or misled on rare occasion (though obviously if…

The hosts excoriate the fabulists on the air because they want attention. Duh.

Got to give him credit for the Xeric Grant he started too.

Yeah, she's okay, but I can see where some would find her annoying with all the D-List stuff and how all-over-low-end-cable she is. But hey, we all like Joan Rivers now, so maybe if Griffin sticks it out for another thirty years she'll be beloved too.

Snoopy also gets continually bested by the red baron and the cat next door. But yes, Charlie Brown would be a much better choice.