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Re: the Splice thing.
There are warnings on movies. They're the MPAA warnings, and they're useless.
The warnings for Splice are "disturbing elements including strong sexuality, nudity, sci-fi violence and language." If you have been reading any of fannish OH NOs being posted around - here is my favorite - you are probably aware that this leaves out a huge category of what I will delicately call incestuous tentacle rape.
Yeah, this is a problem right here. I like movies with sex. I'm fairly okay with sci-fi violence. I'm never going to want to see a movie with sexual violence, pretty much ever. It's just not my movie-going thing. The MPAA warnings are often useless - they'll let you know if brief nudity is against your religion, but all the various gradations of violence rely on inspecific adjectives like "strong" or "sci-fi" - but this right here really begs the question of WHY WHY WHY they would lump TENTACLE RAPE in with strong sexuality. I don't mind that this movie has a right to exist - if you can find funding and aren't actually physically hurting anyone, I basically believe you have the right to make what movies you want - but yeah, the fact that we have warnings that apparently think we should infer sexual violence from there being sex and there being violence makes me throw up in my mouth a little? IDEK.
I do suppose the MPAA is supposed to exist as a THINK OF THE CHILDREN! agency, not a protect-the-audience-from-unexpected-eye-assault agency. I guess I will say here that if I was a parent, and I'm not, I would be EXTRA UPSET that "sci-fi violence" or "sexuality" now encompasses the tentacle rape, but I think I have a right to know what kind of movie I'm getting myself into as a childless adult, you know?
I don't particularly care about Splice, mind - I don't do horror that often - but this thing with the MPAA has pissed me off for years, so posting.
The warnings for Splice are "disturbing elements including strong sexuality, nudity, sci-fi violence and language." If you have been reading any of fannish OH NOs being posted around - here is my favorite - you are probably aware that this leaves out a huge category of what I will delicately call incestuous tentacle rape.
Yeah, this is a problem right here. I like movies with sex. I'm fairly okay with sci-fi violence. I'm never going to want to see a movie with sexual violence, pretty much ever. It's just not my movie-going thing. The MPAA warnings are often useless - they'll let you know if brief nudity is against your religion, but all the various gradations of violence rely on inspecific adjectives like "strong" or "sci-fi" - but this right here really begs the question of WHY WHY WHY they would lump TENTACLE RAPE in with strong sexuality. I don't mind that this movie has a right to exist - if you can find funding and aren't actually physically hurting anyone, I basically believe you have the right to make what movies you want - but yeah, the fact that we have warnings that apparently think we should infer sexual violence from there being sex and there being violence makes me throw up in my mouth a little? IDEK.
I do suppose the MPAA is supposed to exist as a THINK OF THE CHILDREN! agency, not a protect-the-audience-from-unexpected-eye-assault agency. I guess I will say here that if I was a parent, and I'm not, I would be EXTRA UPSET that "sci-fi violence" or "sexuality" now encompasses the tentacle rape, but I think I have a right to know what kind of movie I'm getting myself into as a childless adult, you know?
I don't particularly care about Splice, mind - I don't do horror that often - but this thing with the MPAA has pissed me off for years, so posting.