Originally posted by scacchipazzo
Naturally there's exceptions to every rule. You hit it on the head when stating you do not want kids learning about sex from the entertainment industry. Hollywood gets nothing right. They distort history when the actual story would be more compelling, inject their political agenda into everything they produce, distort reality to a degree far outpacing t ...[text shortened]... ke. They cannot have it both ways! Either what you watch could influence you or it can't.
I think your over-reacting big time. Films do come with labels telling you the age group films are meant for and it's up to the parents to monitor what their children watch, also sure 12 year olds can find something far worse in a few seconds on the internet. Hollywood is their to make money and the last time I checked they were doing a great job of it.
Your completely wrong about history, they distort history in order to make films more entertaining, and it works. They distort reality enough to make the story their telling more entertaining, that's all. What sort of messages are you waffleing about? All they care about is making money which is fair enough, that's all their suppossed to care about.
You can't blame Hollywood for the fact that sex is everywhere, it's the media you should be blameing or you could just accept reality and that's that sex sells. They still make movies for older audiences, it's just the ones aimed at younger people make more money.
So tell me, where's the gratuitous nudity, full of drugs, alcohol abuse etc in Avatar? Sounds like you need to watch more films. Sex is a very important part of most peoples life so theirfor it makes logical sence that it comes into so many films. Now of course I think if a film has sex scenes in it then it should come with a 17/18 cert, now once it's only adults watching can you tell me what's wrong with having sex scenes in a film? Why should sex scenes be left to the imagination? It's not Hollywoods fault if children watch a film that's meant for an adult. I think you need to get a grip and move with the times!
So you think hollywood wants to impose its will on the public? I never heard such a load of s**** in all my life! Why would Hollywood care wheter or not people smoke? your point makes no sense. In case you hadn't noticed peoples opinion on smoking has changed a lot over the years with nothing to do with Hollywood.
Films don't have a big influence on our behaviour, I watched Kill Bill yesterday, does that mean I'm thinking of getting a sword and going on a murderous rampage? No because I have enough cop on to tell the diffreence between reality and entertainment. It sounds to me like you'd like to force more censorship on people, do you not think people are capable of making their own decisions about what they think is appropriate to watch? If you don't like what Hollywood produces then nobody is forcing you to watch what they produce!