I don't think it would be that hard for studios to release both an R and PG-13 version of a movie to theaters at the same time. Simply have the R ones start after 9pm, and PG-13 start before. Or on weekends show both in different rooms (since many of the larger theaters have same movie running on multiple screens anyway).

Personally I don't pay attention to the ratings when deciding to see a movie or not, but I can see it being important for parents taking their kids to see something. For example I didn't NOT see Expendables 3 because it was PG-13, I chose not too because it looked exactly like the first 2, and didn't want to waste money on it. Maybe I'll watch it on Netflix eventually.

I also thought the remakes of both Total Recall and Robocop were decent in their own way, both were PG-13 where the originals were R, and I don't think it took away from the movie.

Of course movies like Scarface have to be R, because that's the nature of the story and character. Look for the TV version of Scarface, and the voice-overs they did to achieve it- so funny ("This city's like a chicken, waiting to be plucked").

Poltergeist should not have been PG. Thinking of that scene with the tree during the thunderstorm still gives me goosebumps.

was I the only one distracted by her eyebrows? that was a pretty bad plucking/waxing/trimming job.

Pretty cool tech anyway.

I didn't hear any deep societal issues being addressed and the depth of the commentary was consistently shallow.

In fact, these are the same mainstream, shallow attempts at 'profound thought' that we get from Hollywood and Madison Avenue. The type of mass appeal positivity that viral advertisers try to capture because it so easily plucks the emotions of the everyday, busy, 9-5 commuter.

And here it's being delivered by exactly the type of person that will be ignored, out of hand, by the same busy people who will go home and endlessly upvote and share these same thoughts. As long as they come in the form of a youtube video with dramatic background music. (ahem) Why is our acceptance of the message conditional on the social acceptability of the medium by which it's delivered? Do we fear being ostracized to the community of mad men if we don't hate his message?

I feel like I'm being mocked for my readiness to expose the vapid sentimentality that's replaced meaningful emotions in my life.

Maybe I missed the point. The music was a fitting addition though.

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Look, while I strongly disagree with the sentiment of the comment - if we banned everyone who called someone in a video a "freak" we'd be in a very lonely place.

If thine eye offends thee pluck it out.

Uhhhh... no. Men in advertising and media (video games being a classic example) are predominately portrayed as leaders, strong and fearless, who get the job done. Are those features overamplifed? Absolutely. But why are men portrayed that way? Because its a male fantasy to be those things.

Now let's take a look at how women are predominately portrayed in media--as docile, disposable sex objects ripe for the plucking. Notice, that is ALSO a male fantasy.

And that is the crux of the problem--the depiction of both genders in almost every form of the media has been controlled overwhelmingly by men, although that is now thankfully changing, albeit slowly.

Now, you can (and should) absolutely argue that the lack of diversity in the depiction of BOTH genders in media has detrimental effects on us all.

But to claim that men are as badly or more poorly portrayed in media than women?

No. Just... no.

This happens to me when I pluck a nose hair.

I grew up on a farm, and like many/most such kids, went through the experience of having "pet" chickens, pigs, and even a cow or two that ended up on our plates. I think that the key is to explain verbally that such animals are being raised to be food, and then using your best judgement about when they are ready to see something small get slaughtered and butchered.

For me, it was when I was about 6. We had an old rooster (we mostly had chickens for eggs, this fella was a 1-off), and I was a few feet away when my dad held it down and hacked off its head with a hatchet. Got to watch it run around headless, etc. Then I had to help (a little) in the plucking and processing. If you don't regularly do those things, you don't know the little tricks and they take FOREVER. We put way more hours and dollars of toil and effort into plucking, skinning, and preparing that old chicken than it would have cost to buy 10 whole rotisseried chickens from KFC or something. And he was too old to really provide good meat. BUT - I learned something and appreciated the food more, which was the point.

Later in life I was involved with the raising of pigs and cows for meat. I helped feed them every day, and then would help get them into a trailer and deliver them to the meat locker when it was time for them to be slaughtered and butchered. I didn't witness that in person, but I was old enough to fill in the gaps between putting that animal in the trailer and then eating a steak or pork chops a few days later. I think that if my parents had wanted me to have the experience of actually seeing the slaughter, the locker would have easily obliged. Not sure if the same would be true today.


OK, I've been rambling but I'll throw one more thing out there. Now I'm living in Thailand, where a lot of food is purchased in small farmer's market kinds of places, and some is slaughtered and prepared right in front of your very eyes. I love eating fresh Tilapia fish here (the "farm"-raised and frozen fish back in the US always tasted like algae to me, but the fish here don't have that taste at all) and they are alive in tanks when you order one at a market in Thailand. Within 45 seconds, they will pull out a fish of your selection, smack it on the head with a blunt instrument to kill it, rasp off the scales, gut it, put some slices into the sides for even cooking, and hand it to you in a bag to be cooked at home. Sometimes they flop around in the bag a bit (not alive, just muscles unwinding/relaxing) like a headless chicken. I think that will be a similar growing experience for my daughter that she'd be able to witness at a much earlier age. Then maybe when she's 5-6 like I was we'll watch a chicken get the axe.

There's an extended version online somewhere that shows the bird plucking one of the guys eyes out.

Worked at Raging Waters for a Summer. Saved several people on simple rides where they easily would've died. It's crazy, watching these videos were a good tool though.

I remember they told us that big black muscular men were susceptible to drowning despite their muscle mass. I thought it was sort of racist, until I had to save a couple of guys who were literally 6 foot 5 and drowning in a 4 foot deep pool. They couldn't get their legs under them and they panic'd, and then walked away after I plucked them (dragged them) out very embarrassed.

Still got paid minimum wage for saving people, and didn't even get a free lunch.

Actually it's pretty easy to disarm someone within 3 feet of you -- the closer they are the better. (Bruce Lee popularized the idea but it's a concept that's been around for a long time.) We did it the other way though so as to break the trigger finger and keep the gun to the outside.
No need for a water pistol -- I would do this experiment.
I would get in front of a student, hands at my side. I WOULD TELL him: "I'm going to smack you in the forehead with my open hand. All you have to do is stop me. Ready?"
Within 3 feet you will always tag them EVEN WHEN THEY KNOW IT'S COMING. The human brain cannot perceive motion and react to it fast enough. Go ahead and try it for yourself...
The Hollywood cliche where one guy has a gun to the other guy's forehead makes me laugh. Dude could easily pluck that gun from him.
Now if the gunman is any further than 3 feet from you... then you ARE in trouble.

Sure it exist

However, 50-90% of female bitchy-face is because
YOU PLUCK YOUR EYEBROWS.
It makes your face go into perma-angry-brow mode...

Please for the sake of me and all men with taste and actual eyesight to recognize a face with destroyed eyebrows:
STOP!

-/I had to log on solely to say this.

Nah. He just plucks them out one by one without flinching.

That would drain too much energy.
He plucks the hairs one by one.
Thunder is the sound of the hairs popping out.

In other news: I bet you could make one heck of a rope with superbeard hair.

Hahahaha, No. No more than plucking out all your hair by it's roots generation after generation will eventually yield permanently bald children.

Not exactly shocking. Pluck/wax that shit.