Comments on: Questions Answered about the MPAA Rating Board http://www.lloydkaufman.com/roids/2003/09/30/mpaa/ President & Co-Founder, Troma Entertainment | American film Director, Producer, and Documentarian Tue, 7 Oct 2008 07:22:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Chris Grundel http://www.lloydkaufman.com/roids/2003/09/30/mpaa/#comment-1780 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:05:38 +0000 http://www.lloydkaufman.com/roids/2003/09/30/mpaa/#comment-1780 The Mpaa ratings board is just another example of growing American facism, the brain child of rich conglomerates, and a puritanical American Taliban that seeks to control the american peoples minds, bodies and also souls. Good, thought provoking, and creative movies produced outside of the studio system are squashed with R or even the dreaded NC-17 while mindless, violent crap is allowed through. Hell, sometimes even the studio movies are squashed. Remember the uproar over Eyes Wide Shut? A lot of hoopla over some lame ass sex scenes if you ask me. The Mpaa ratings board is just another example of growing American facism, the brain child of rich conglomerates, and a puritanical American Taliban that seeks to control the american peoples minds, bodies and also souls. Good, thought provoking, and creative movies produced outside of the studio system are squashed with R or even the dreaded NC-17 while mindless, violent crap is allowed through. Hell, sometimes even the studio movies are squashed. Remember the uproar over Eyes Wide Shut? A lot of hoopla over some lame ass sex scenes if you ask me.

]]> by: Chris Buchhop http://www.lloydkaufman.com/roids/2003/09/30/mpaa/#comment-500 Sun, 29 Apr 2007 03:37:45 +0000 http://www.lloydkaufman.com/roids/2003/09/30/mpaa/#comment-500 Dear Lloyd, I have just finished reading your commentary on the MPAA Rating Board and I would just like to say bravo!! I also think it is a failed system in need of major reform. As it stands right now, the MPAA{whom I like to call "THE MOVIE NAZIES"}, is controlled by an even greater evil, the greedy, money and power hungry multi-media conglomerates who use the system to monopolize the film industry and infringe on the smaller, independant companies 1st amendment rights to freedom of speech and artistic creativity. Thank you Lloyd for telling it like it is fighting the good fight for truely independant and artisticly creative films. Faithfully Submiited, Christopher S. Buchhop Dear Lloyd,
I have just finished reading your commentary on the MPAA Rating Board and I would just like to say bravo!!
I also think it is a failed system in need of major reform. As it stands right now, the MPAA{whom I like to call “THE
MOVIE NAZIES”}, is controlled by an even greater evil, the greedy, money and power hungry multi-media
conglomerates who use the system to monopolize the film industry and infringe on the smaller, independant
companies 1st amendment rights to freedom of speech and artistic creativity. Thank you Lloyd for telling it like it is
fighting the good fight for truely independant and artisticly creative films.

Faithfully Submiited,
Christopher S. Buchhop

]]> by: Nathaniel http://www.lloydkaufman.com/roids/2003/09/30/mpaa/#comment-440 Mon, 23 Apr 2007 02:52:31 +0000 http://www.lloydkaufman.com/roids/2003/09/30/mpaa/#comment-440 Lloyd, I agree with everything you say. The MPAA is a puritanical system that is inneed of some major reforms. The MPAA seems to think violence is okay,but if you see three seconds of Maria Bello's pubic hair (in The Cooler) then the ratings board forces that to be cut out because the believe it's harmful. I would much rather see a tender sex scene than see someone being eviscerated by a chainsaw. Lloyd, I agree with everything you say. The MPAA is a puritanical system that is inneed of some major reforms. The MPAA seems to think violence is okay,but if you see three seconds of Maria Bello’s pubic hair (in The Cooler) then the ratings board forces that to be cut out because the believe it’s harmful. I would much rather see a tender sex scene than see someone being eviscerated by a chainsaw.

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