Recently released films
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jackStupidest title and tagline
The Unborn. "It wants to be born"
Content warning so stupid its actually physically painful:
The runner up was "Contains one use of strong language and moderate sex references", which was originally going to win the "stupidest content warning" category, on account of making me laugh out loud. That was a British content warning. Then I read an American content warning.
"Rated R for frenetic strong bloody violence throughout, crude and graphic sexual content, nudity and pervasive language.
OK, so being specific in warnings could be a helpful concept, but it just sounds, you know, really stupid. I actually assumed the second was a pardoy, and that IMDB had become completely open content, and went off to find a citation (MPAA).
Apparently those are ACTUAL categories. "Frenetic strong bloody violence throughout, crude and graphic sexual content, nudity and pervasive language" excluding bloody violence, sounds like my love live. The point being, to me, pervasive language sounds like a good thing. Have these people ever, you know, read a book? Or seen a play? Or listened to the radio? Those are nothing BUT language. I can understand that people under the age of 18 might conceivably want to avoid a film where the language is not carefully confined to small self-contained segmants, but I don't see any point in legally requiring them to!
Premise so stupid it's actually physically painful:
Crank: High Voltage.
"The first ‘Crank’ movie, saw Jason Statham poisoned then forced to keep his adrenalin up to stay alive, This time, Chev is in a spot of bother with a Chinese gangster, who has removed his heart and has replaced with a mechanical one that needs to be jolted with an electric charge to stay pumping."
Crank: High Voltage also received honourable mention in the "stupidest title" category. Come to think of it, I think that was the film the "content warning so stupid it's physically painful" came from too. Not that that means it has to be a bad film.
The Unborn. "It wants to be born"
Content warning so stupid its actually physically painful:
The runner up was "Contains one use of strong language and moderate sex references", which was originally going to win the "stupidest content warning" category, on account of making me laugh out loud. That was a British content warning. Then I read an American content warning.
"Rated R for frenetic strong bloody violence throughout, crude and graphic sexual content, nudity and pervasive language.
OK, so being specific in warnings could be a helpful concept, but it just sounds, you know, really stupid. I actually assumed the second was a pardoy, and that IMDB had become completely open content, and went off to find a citation (MPAA).
Apparently those are ACTUAL categories. "Frenetic strong bloody violence throughout, crude and graphic sexual content, nudity and pervasive language" excluding bloody violence, sounds like my love live. The point being, to me, pervasive language sounds like a good thing. Have these people ever, you know, read a book? Or seen a play? Or listened to the radio? Those are nothing BUT language. I can understand that people under the age of 18 might conceivably want to avoid a film where the language is not carefully confined to small self-contained segmants, but I don't see any point in legally requiring them to!
Premise so stupid it's actually physically painful:
Crank: High Voltage.
"The first ‘Crank’ movie, saw Jason Statham poisoned then forced to keep his adrenalin up to stay alive, This time, Chev is in a spot of bother with a Chinese gangster, who has removed his heart and has replaced with a mechanical one that needs to be jolted with an electric charge to stay pumping."
Crank: High Voltage also received honourable mention in the "stupidest title" category. Come to think of it, I think that was the film the "content warning so stupid it's physically painful" came from too. Not that that means it has to be a bad film.
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Date: 2009-04-09 09:27 am (UTC)I'm sure you could add Nic Cage, pretend it was an encrypted map to some treasure and, lots of explosions and sweating later, have a hit on your hands only slightly more likely than National Treasure. (Hollywood movie producers probably scan LJ every day for just this kind of idea. I want credit, damn you!)