This might be a generational thing. I could see it taking a few years for theaters to switch their gears from “The rating after PG is R, let the teens in” to “The rating after PG is PG-13, the rating after PG-13 is R, don’t let the teens in.”

...except the part where lots of movie theaters are less likely to show the film.

I was stopped by my parents- they had to view all R-rated material before me until I was about 15, which meant it was a laborious process to see an R-rated film (although they probably would have approved this, I wouldn’t have pushed super hard because I only pushed hard against blockbuster-type movies). I was a…

Especially given that people nowadays are so afraid to step into potentially inconvenient situations.

By stepping in and addressing the flight staff that way, he could have been removed from the flight as well. Him stepping in shows it wasn’t her overreacting, or some minor thing being blown out of proportion. It was…

This is how you handle a PR crisis.

I haven’t flown American for almost 20 years. Why? Because a freaking stewardess didn’t let me have a second mini chocolate they were passing around. And i was all the way in the back, so it wasn’t that she didn’t know if she had enough for everybody. I took one more flight to use my miles and that’s it. Losing a good…

Eh, you could almost maim my kids and he’s not notice, especially if he had food in his hand. I’m gonna be pretty pissed about it, though.

Um...basically all corporations that lobby for more deregulation and more protection against customers suing them—often at the expense of basic human decency? Pretty obvious.

Implicitly the US government allowed them to say that when it deregulated airlines.

They are, it’s true.

More than just that though, rating effect distribution and advertising, not just who can by a ticket.

I’ve been carded at the movie theatre in the past year. I’m in my thirties.

Nowadays at movie theaters they actually card young-looking people at R-rated movies.

Drama club geeks often come late to Stonerville but once we get there we make ourselves at home.

I don’t buy this. This kinda seems like a drama club geek trying to show how cool she is by talking about how much weed she smokes...

He’s a born-again, which should say it all. He also has been pretty open being a gun nut.

I am 99% certain he is some kind of Christy/Republican something or other who just wants people to stop being divisive by, you know, demanding rights and protections and shit.

I kinda disagree with that sentiment.

But also: see every damn mark Walberg movie.

“The voice of the average, blue-collar American isn’t necessarily represented in Hollywood.”