the MPAA is awful

Poland on ‘the Hot Blog’ didn’t go into a lot of details yesterday when he posted this memo from Matt Stone of South Park to the MPAA ratings board about the South Park movie, so luckily it’s pretty self explanatory: the fossils at the MPAA are a bunch of joyless pricks who would crumble to dust if you poked them. (if this is hard to read, click it for a slightly bigger version)

(Okay, this will be rambling and boring, so just skip it, but please understand that the MPAA has no official power, as they’re quick to remind you, they’re simply an advisory board, and yet all they do is censor movies by telling filmmakers what they can and cannot do. If the filmmaker doesn’t comply, the board will give them a harsher rating. ‘South Park’ was originally given an X rating because of the language, which meant no theater chain would have shown it, a move that basically killed the movie. That’s what this memo is about. And none of this would be so bad if the MPAA had a list of rules that explained what you can and cannot do. But they just make shit up as they go. ‘South Park’ is a perfect example. The original name of ‘South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut’ was ‘South Park: All Hell Breaks Loose’, but the MPAA told them they couldn’t use the word “hell” in the title. Because “hell” is offensive. Even though the MPAA had already approved “hell” dozens of times before and since, for ‘Jason Goes to Hell’, ‘From Hell’, 8 different movies in the ‘Hellraiser’ series, just to name a few. But it wasn’t okay for ‘South Park’ because they didn’t like ‘South Park’. And I’m sure this has been pointed out to you since MPAA, but ‘Bigger, Longer and Uncut’ is a circumcision joke. Well done. You wouldn’t allow “hell”, so Matt and Trey put a dick joke on full display that you were too ancient and senile to catch. Bravo. Thank god you’re here to protect the children.)

Source = the Hot Blog