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That's it. Evidently everyone in America thinks that everyone else in America is an idiot who cannot think or make judgments for themselves. They want to issue a R rating to movies that have people smoking. OK, movies that "appear to glamorize smoking".

I think most people in America the world know at this point that smoking is bad for you. Seeing someone smoking in a movie is not going to make them decide to take it up. And face it, movies set in certain eras need to have people smoking for verisimilitude, even the good guys!

And don't even get me started about how sex gets an R rating easier than violence. Um, wouldn't you rather your child see something sexual than something violent?

Gakked from bastardsnow Take this list and post it into your own LJ, and bold the movies you've seen. Add five more movies to the end of the list. Count how many movies you have seen. If you've seen more than 70 movies, you are a "movie whore". Post the score of how many movies you've seen in the subject line. Use a LJ-cut since you've got at least one LJ-friend who doesn't really want to see an ungodly number of movies snaking its way down the computer monitor. (optional, extra credit) Question your friend's taste in movies. ( Read more... )