I beg your pardon but he said all fluff which I interpreted as meaning that any need to use said nudity/violence/harsh language in film is intended to draw an audience in with salacious/scandalous material. Yes, it can be used as "fluff" but there are many examples where it is simple part and...
The theory (that I have seen so far) is a mere economic consideration from the studios that we see as the guiding force behind the dearth of R rated films, not (on my part anyway) a denouncement of all PG-13 films or an approval of all R rated films. I still don't see who said that a...
Then you missed the director's whole point of showing those graphic sequences in SPR, to attempt to portray the brutality of war as closely to the truth as you can without softening it for those who simply don't know, those who indeed grew up watching homogenized depictions of what was a...
Damn, I'm sorry for joining in so late to what is obviously old news but...I thought I was up on LOTR but I never knew that they never filmed the scouring of the shire! I honestly thought it was going to be in the EE, I thought that was why Lee was so upset....dammit!(slaps forehead):b So...
??? Intense perhaps but "graphic"? I suppose you are referring to the Night on Bald Mountain sequence with the nude demons flying about....maybe, but that always struck me as a truly artistic expression rather than titillating...if indeed that is the sequence you are referring to.
And yet again tastes and opinions in film differ from person to person as I thought HOSAF was a damn fine film with an ending that had me thinking about the film long after it was over...not so with much of the cookie cutter PG & PG-13 pap that is passed off on the public 80% of the time. R...
.....yet R rated films such as The Matrix Trilogy, The Passion etc. make millions....however if you look at the numbers, R rated films do not make as much money in comparison so the studios will go where the best profit is available...a PG-13 rated Alien/Predator movie? Ugg. Here's Box...