OT: Movies and Money and Morality

Jay Gladwell wrote on 4/13/2005, 7:36 AM

Recently, I read an interesting editorial by Douglas Spotted Eagle--very thought provoking.

Then just a few moments ago, I was sent the following in an e-mail:

A five-year study of the Top 250 Movies at the Box Office shows that movies rated G and PG earn two to three times as much money as R-rated movies.

Here is a link to Movieguide if you'd like to know more about them.

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RichMacDonald wrote on 4/13/2005, 12:54 PM

>It seems to me that the trend toward more sex and profanity has actually reversed.

Considering the issues that came out of the last US elections, I think we can expect to see a reversal of pandering in our movies and TV shows. Of course I don't expect New York and LA to actually understand that new market (:-)) but they're smart enough to go where the money is, and if 50.0001% of our nation wants their experience sanitized them someone is going to try and provide it for them. LOL.

I was just reading Time magazine's review of the 6 hr TV series "Revelations", and the article concluded: "In the end, TV's gospel is according to Nielsen."

p@mast3rs wrote on 4/13/2005, 12:56 PM

DaveT2,

I agree. I would much rather watch a good story than all that extra garbage that seems to be nothing more than a fre pass from having to offer a well though, creative product. Language skills have seriously deteriorated in modern day. Its much easier to put a few F words in a script rather than write something that is meaningful or thought provoking. Looking at the current state of education in our counry, it really should come as no surprise with ebonics, street language (i.e. crunk, hizzo, etc...).

It seems that movies no longer challenge viewer's intellects or include them in the story but rather pander to the viewer with crude and meaningless dialogue thus contibuting to the bitterness of modern day society. One only has to look at a specific poster here on the forum to see the chilling effect that the bitterness has had.

busterkeaton wrote on 4/13/2005, 1:09 PM

Uh, are they teaching crunk and hizzo in your local schools? That would be a problem.

p@mast3rs wrote on 4/13/2005, 1:17 PM

LOL, Nope not here. But I remember reading a story not long ago how California was trying to pass a bill that would mandate ebonics in their teachings. I have seen some schools in the states that do offer these courses which would explain why english scores are considerably down from a decade ago.

Jay Gladwell wrote on 4/13/2005, 1:20 PM

Do you know where you can find a copy of that actual study?

Buster, I've looked for the study, but I can't find it, not yet. So I should have said to take it with a grain of salt.

I don't consider a PG movie to automatically moral or an R-rated movie to be automatically immoral.

Nor do I. One that comes to mind is Michael Man's The Last of the Mohicans. I cannot for the life of me figure out why that movie got a "R" rating.

... Gibson's "The Passion" is, of course, not a literal translation of the Bible...

Understood! It was just an example that came to mind as I was typing.