Do we really need the MPAA? I mean seriously....

sure, i am not a parent and i know that the MPAA is supposed to help parents decide for their children and manage their movie-watching behavior without having to go and watch 25 movies first. Maybe if i was a parent and my kids were asking me if they could go to a movie and i had to decide what i thought was appropriate for them at their age, i might think about it differently.


I just think it is a bit ridiculous to have this system in general. i mean, a group of people deciding what the public should and should not see? hmm interesting implications...need to be careful with that one.

the MPAA can say that all they are trying to do is inform parents all they want, but this system makes it impossible to create a movie and sell it without submitting yourself, your creativity, and your artistic liberty to the scrutiny of a group of analysts. i think this imperfect system which we rely on so heavily is partially to blame for the confusion and uproar over the fourth Harry Potter movie and its rating. Do I think the MPAA got it right? yes. that movie was definitely not G or PG according to what I think the MPAA is basing their decisions on (but honestly who knows what they are basing it on? doesnt seem too consistent). But parents were upset, but didnt know who to be upset at. was it the studio and the director who had made the movie more "adult" when the books and movies were supposed to be targeted to children (although i would have said the average age in the theatre i went to was 18-20). or should they be upset at the MPAA for confusing them and making their lives harder. Maybe the MPAA was being too harsh on the movie just because Harry is growing up and they want to make the movie sound more appealing to an older crowd. How many 18 year olds are going to want to watch a PG movie? PG-13, maybe. So i think there is a lot more going on here, a lot of power politics in Hollywood that all has the MPAA at the center of it.

finally someone has come out with a film that challenges the rating system itself. a production, which internally ridicules the very system and means for that production. Kinda like Wordplay by Jason Mraz. (if you dont know what i am talking about, you need to start listening to those lyrics, which you sing along with, coming from Z104 on your car radio)

the MPAA is to film as FEMA is to our personal freedom and safety.

there, I said it.


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"This, by the way, is a good place to pause and explain to readers who will write in wondering why the United States will tolerate an Israeli nuclear force but not an Iranian one. The answer is simple. Israel will probably not blow up New York. That's why the United States doesn't mind Israel having nukes and does mind Iran having them. Is that fair? This is power politics, not sharing time in preschool. End of digression."

-George Friedman


it is like we are on an elementary school playground at recess. little bobby is taunting little joey about his shoes in order to make his friends laugh so that he will be the cool kid. He knows there is a good chance joey wont stand for this is and might punch him in the face, but bobby is smart and is standing right next to the teacher so as soon as that blow falls, joey gets in big trouble and bobby is the hero among his friends. taking one for the team. unity in martyrdom.

hey, it was one of the things that united the early Christians in Rome as they were being persecuted....seems like Iran read the Western history books after all.


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to those who have been faithful followers of the website over the years, this is no surprise, you might even have this memorized (frickin sweet). to others, this was posted in light of recent events and to give a glimpse in the all that the goverment has hidden from you over the years:


The Pirate Dance
SCENE 1:

The scene opens up with some soft annoying music to get the audience super pissed. The camera will show a bunch of pirates eating chicken buttholes. Fortunately, a ninja sees everything and realizes what a bunch of bull crap it is. So this one ninja walks up to them and is like, “Yo what’s your problem?” The camera zooms directly on a pirate’s mouth, which states “Get out of here now.” and buttholes fall all over the silverware. Then the camera cuts to the ninja’s mouth which says “No,” but nothing gross happens. The audience then sees ninja pull out a huge guitar which is really medium sized and wails. But the pirates don’t explode, they start to dance.........hard, harder than the hardest blackest boner alive. And when they dance, the pirates look like a bunch of crabby and stupid moms. Everybody in the entire world craps their pants laughing at the pure stupidity of the pirates. But the ninja has A.D.D. and starts losing energy/power and the pirates start stopping dancing. (There will be some suspense filled violins and guitars playing so that the audience gets scared and/or pumped-scared.) In several motions, the pirates come toward the ninja. BUT, out of nowhere this bad ass lake appears and a huge hippo busts out of it hard. Water sprays everywhere, including the pirates’ shirts (which causes their boobs to barely appear through their shirts). Most pirates are like “This can’t be happening!” The hippo says “Guess what, it is.” and slaps five with ninja pretty hard. And the ninja says “let’s rock brother.” They both pull out expensive guitars and start wailing on them really really hard. Since the ninja can’t concentrate, the hippo thoughtfully guides his hand, because they are blood brothers till the end of time and space. Then the pirates all morph into this tiny diaper and the hippo and ninja morph into a super poop-filled baby that takes the biggest frigg’n dump in the pirate/diaper. The pirates’ scream turns into a crap-gargle (this will make audience laugh gregariously). The ninja's A.D.D. heals and the two buddies/brothers smoke cigarettes and get ice-cream and pop, which they enjoy a lot.


The End

-I don’t know how anybody can tolerate pirates after reading this stuff.

(referenced from the Real Ultimate Power Webpage, of course)

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Northerners say that Northern VA is the South. Southerners say that Northern VA is in the North. Virginians say it is "NOVA" and is just part of the DC metro area as well as a disgusting travesty. People from Northern VA say it is its own state, a separate entity.

No matter if you love or hate Robert E. Lee, regularly eat fried chicken or thin crust pizza, say "ya'll" or "you guys" or "yunzes," capitalize your Sweet Tea (or even know what that is), think the Mason-Dixon Line actually means anything anymore, prefer Bud Light over Heineken....there is one issue that will always divide our nation along ambiguous geographical lines: what do you call the bubbly carbonated liquid that comes in aluminium cans?

here is some interesting data regarding it:

http://www.popvssoda.com/countystats/total-county.html

virginia, especially Northern VA, is such a strange place. No real concensus. That is why it is tough to take a really strong stance on such a subject like someone from Pittsburgh or Ohio would....since i would love to argue about something that people hold so dear to themselves.

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