They take what could be a really good movie and screw it sideways to make the rating of PG-13. Why make a movie like Season of the Witch and make it PG-13? http://season-of-the-witch-movie-trailer.blogspot.com/
That is why I hate Hollywood. Really, it is but one of a few reasons though.
I know this is a stupid rant, but I’m a big fan of Middle Age and Historical type films. I’ve been looking forward to this movie for over a year.
They put Nicolas Cage in it, what do you expect.
Why do they keep putting him in movies? It wasn’t bad enough that he ruined ‘Ghost Rider’, now they feel the need to ruin other genres as well? I agree, Hollwood blows…
i don’t understand… why does the movie have to suck because it’s pg13? violence wise, you can do just about anything in PG-13 that you can do with R, you just cant have gnarly brutal gore.
you can even have boobs, and “non explicit” full frontal nudity in pg-13. personally, i think its retarded, since i don’t watch movies with nudity out of principle. LOT of good movies i’ll never get to see.
ETA- nick cage is a horrible fag… THAT’S what’s gonna ruin this movie.
Could you imagine in the 70’s making The Exorcist a PG-13 movie? (I know they didn’t have the same rating system back then). I’m just saying that there is certain things that an R rating brings, better horror and more vivid story telling.
Out of curiosity, may I ask why?
That’s some funny shit right there. I like how you felt the need to go back and add that.
Hollywood has been completely out of good ideas for 30 years or more, and they get away with it because they can still make good money off of a completely shitty film.
I generally agree with the Nicholas Cage assessment, that said he was fucking awesome in Lord of War. He was so good it almost canceled out every crappy ass movie he’s ever done.
i think there have actually been three good nicholas cage movies… Lord of War, Weatherman (:eek:), and Tempo di uccidere. aside from those, he just ruins what could have otherwise been great movies.
ETA- looking over his filmography, i amend. Raising Arizona was great too. the rest, all shit.
Had a better actor been casted it would have been an even better movie.
Nicholas Cage has a very teetertotter-esque career… He’ll do AWESOME in a movie… and then his next three will make you want to never see him again… But you give him one more chance, and does pretty darn awesome again. Repeat.
I’d rather watch my grandma get mauled by a pack of rabid Chihuahuas then watch a Nick Cage film. I’d say that’s what screwed it sideways.
One of my all time favorite comedies and the only Cage movie I’ve ever really liked.
I liked Cage’s charecter Castor Troy from the Movie Face Off…He does have a talent for playing the Mentally Unstable naturally.
I noticed he didn’t answer this question, but I’ll take a shot at it: 99.999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of the time, they put tits in a movie because it attracts certain mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging men. And some women as well.
It adds nothing to those movies. Not a single thing, except to check a marketing “block”.
I happen to love women’s breasts, and about everything about their bodies, but I detest having my male instincts manipulated by a crappy hollywood moviemaker.
This is 100% spot on. Most of the time, nudity in a (mainstream) film brings nothing to the film and is purely there to attract certain types of customers or to manipulate “male instincts”. (My wife does a good enough job at that and I don’t need to seek out proxy thrills)
I prefer foreign or indie films myself.
i missed that question.
indeed. it started many moons ago with my wife not wanting me to, but has since evolved into my own agenda. in being irritated at all the great movies i couldn’t watch, i put some thought into the whole topic, for the first time in my life… and came to about the same conclusions as 120- that there has never been a sex/nudity scene in a non-pornographic film that was essential, or even added any degree of value to the story. i’ve read GREAT books which only made casual passing comment regarding two characters having sex- sometimes even when there was NO romance between characters- then, to watch the movie and have sit through a 5 minute music montage of other people fucking. the book was way better anyway! the sex was just added to draw in a few extra stats at the box office.
this is also why there’s a surprising amount of female nudity in “chick flicks.” to manipulate men into watching terrible movies.
so in righteous indignation, i refuse to give my hard-earned dollars, nor time, to a film that tries to manipulate me with softcore porn. if i wanted porn, i’d just type “hot teens fucking” in the search bar above this window, and i’d have more, way better, porn that i could ever want.