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Censorship's Gone Wild!
ScanCase | 12:42 PM on 10.16.2008 4 comments




Kevin Smith has his moments but I've never been an avid fan of his outside of Clerks and his stance against the MPAA and censorship in America. "Zack and Miri make a Porno" is Smith's latest outing and a film I am looking forward to, mostly because the concept itself seems really interesting. In the film Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks are best friends who decide to make a porno when they are running out of cash. The rest of the film is filled with great character actors and comedians that will fill the film with a strong supporting cast.

The problem though is the ridiculous censorship of this film. First up is the poster fiasco that the MPAA had taken down in the US. The poster depicts Seth Rogen and Elizebeth Banks on the poster and at the bottom of the poster you can see the top of the opposing characters head. Each character is fully clothed and nothing can be deducted from the poster unless you know exactly what's going on.



Well in response Smith submitted a poster that passively aggressively protested the decision by having the new poster have nothing but stick figures.



However just today it was announced by CNN that around fifteen newspapers, several tv stations, and several cable channels are refusing to run adds for the film simply because the word "porno" is in the title of the film. Also there have been complaints about posters in Philadelphia at bus stops and now those posters are being taken down.

I am sick and tired of these uber conservative, uneducated, cum drinkers complaining about shit that doesn't matter because they believe that the word porno will ruin their pitiful, sad minds. The movie is fucking rated R, its not NC-17 and it sure as hell isn't unrated and being shown on Skinamax at about one in the morning. These idiots really think that what they believe is exactly what everyone else should believe and have to rain down their shit stained superiority complexes onto the majority of people that don't give a shit. Things like this just make me sad.

"The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen." ~Tommy Smothers



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BlindsideDork's Destructoid Blog
Yeah, I looked into this a little while ago. And what's worse, there is a congress/senate/whatever hearing in November about letting the F bomb on regular television.

How does that work?
king3vbo's Destructoid Blog
So fucking stupid... people need to grow up
MrSadistic's Destructoid Blog
Back in the day, people weren't allowed to say the word "pants" on screen. Maybe in a decade or two, we will all look back and laugh.
NihonTiger90's Destructoid Blog
I love the second poster, to be honest. It's light years better, both at grabbing the public's attention and being funny, than the first one.


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