Dear MPAA: Please update ratings system

[novelist_wannabe]

OK, so I took my kids to see Happy Feet yesterday, and yeah, I shoulda known this going in, but I was really irritated with the agenda-pushingsymbolism. I'd like to have agendas pushed on me at times of my choosing, rather than being ambushed with them. Some people go to movies to be entertained and escape for a little while, not to be brow-beaten. So, a suggestion: Add SB to the rating of any picture that steps up on a soap box. That is all. [/rant]

 

[alleyallen]

Not to pick nits, but to which agendas were you referring?

 

[PeteyPirate]

Not to pick nits, but to which agendas were you referring?

The radical gay penguin lobby.

 

[Bob Cook]

The Tap-Dancing Penguin Association of Antarctica, which formerly employed Jack Abramoff.

 

[spnited]

Gay penguins have rights, too

 

[Cadet]

But what about polygamist penguins?

 

[spnited]

I think polygamy is legal in Antarctica

 

[alleyallen]

Funny stuff....

But I'm serious. What kind of agenda was being touted? I'm taking my son to see it and would like to know.

 

[Pastor]

Funny stuff....

But I'm serious. What kind of agenda was being touted? I'm taking my son to see it and would like to know.

I don't have any plans on seeing this movie, but the question of what agenda is being pushed is really intriguing.

 

[ifilus]

At roughly 3:30 p.m. EDT today (November 20, 2006), News Corp., Fox's parent company, announced that it was canceling not only the publication of O.J. Simpson's book, If I Did It, but the corresponding Fox television special scheduled to air at the end of the month.

Half an hour later, during Fox's alleged "business news" program, Your World w/Neil Cavuto, Cavuto was silent on News Corp.'s move but he did have time for a segment bashing the new movie Happy Feet. He said he thought it was "like an animated Inconvenient Truth." He wondered if Hollywood was trying to "sneak one by us," and he claimed the movie has a "hidden agenda" that is "pretty far left."


http://www.newshounds.us/2006/11/20/cavuto_doesnt_report_that_news_corp_canceled_the_oj_deal_but_he_does_report_that_the_movie_happy_feet_has_a_far_left_hidden_agenda.php

 

[dixiehack]

At roughly 3:30 p.m. EDT today (November 20, 2006), News Corp., Fox's parent company, announced that it was canceling not only the publication of O.J. Simpson's book, If I Did It, but the corresponding Fox television special scheduled to air at the end of the month.

Half an hour later, during Fox's alleged "business news" program, Your World w/Neil Cavuto, Cavuto was silent on News Corp.'s move but he did have time for a segment bashing the new movie Happy Feet. He said he thought it was "like an animated Inconvenient Truth." He wondered if Hollywood was trying to "sneak one by us," and he claimed the movie has a "hidden agenda" that is "pretty far left."


http://www.newshounds.us/2006/11/20/cavuto_doesnt_report_that_news_corp_canceled_the_oj_deal_but_he_does_report_that_the_movie_happy_feet_has_a_far_left_hidden_agenda.php

 

[Pastor]

Oh, so people are crying about the information that global warming is scary. Got it.

 

[novelist_wannabe]

Well, this didn't address global warming, per se. Just a general 'man is hurting the environment' theme, and they mixed in a healthy dose of the celebrate diversity themes, too. Don't get me wrong; I have no problem with either of those initiatives. I just didn't like the fact that the makers of this movie shoved them down my throat without warning. Again, shame on me for not reading up on the movie before I went to it. It was like I plunked down the money for the tickets and as soon as the lights went down it was like, "OK folks, class is in session."

 

[busuncle]

I can see that. I hate preachy movies, regardless of how I feel about the issue(s) being preached.

 

[Pastor]

If you don't have a problem with the message why are you complaining about it being in a movie?

 

[ifilus]

OUTING: novelist_wannabe is Glenn Beck!

 

[novelist_wannabe]

Well, I'd like to know before I pay to go in there that there's going to be a message. I just thought this would be the amusing stylings of a dancing penguin. It's the subterfuge I didn't like. Just give me a little advance notice for my browbeatings, thank you.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Can we all agree not to use the phrase "crammed down my/our throats" for at least a year?
I'd like us all to agree that Neil Cavuto is a dunce, too, but I'm flexible on that one.

 

[imjustagirl2]

Stop cramming your ideals down my throat!

 

[HoopsMcCann]

Can we all agree not to use the phrase "crammed down my/our throats" for at least a year?
I'd like us all to agree that Neil Cavuto is a dunce, too, but I'm flexible on that one.

can we add 'kool-aid' to that list as well?