Family Movie Act

[ViRaL1]

I agree about the majority, the same thing applies to wide screen and full screen, the majority seems to like wide screen, I will search the world for a full screen version before I buy widescreen.

What's the advantage?

[Nilfennasion]

There isn't one. It's just that there are some people who honestly believe they aren't getting the whole picture with widescreen, regardless of how hard it is to make sense of frames that have been cropped from 2.35:1 or wider.

[ViRaL1]

Could you imagine reading books where the text took up the entire page?

[phuocle]

Replace the words "proposed exception to copyright protection" in the quote below from the DGA with "DMCA" and you have what most people feel about DMCA. The DGA/MPAA can go **** themselves; it's about time they had something they don't like stuck to them. Turn about is fair play.

"The proposed exception to copyright protection could have far-reaching implications that cannot fully be comprehended today."

[phuocle]

It's an artistic thing. If I were to make a film based upon the novel I am working on now, I would be making it for a very specific audience. If others want to see what the film is about, fine. But I don't want to be burdened with a reputation derived from someone else's version of the film. Just like my written words, when I put something in there, it is for a reason.

Keep on dreaming. Unless you self-publish (books or movies), you're subjected to all kinds of edits/revisions/censorship that are not of your own choosing. You're talking about an ideal that doesn't exist.

The legislation here has nothing to do with promoting an acceptable, censored version of anything... you still have a choice.

[Nilfennasion]

Regardless of what you might think, most revisions and alterations to a writer's material are actually of their own choosing. Writers rarely revise their work from scratch any less than ten times before it even looks like getting into print, and that has nothing to do with censorship or even commercial considerations. The only commercial consideration in publishing is the strength and length of the material. Myself, I am currently engaged in removing 52,000 words from my manuscript. Not because the fundies might object to them, or because they compromise the commercial viability of the novel. It's because they are redundant, add nothing to the story, and fatten the book to the extent that most publishers wouldn't consider it from a first-time author.

All self-imposed decisions. But they're far from fantasy. Even authors like Stephen King have to make them, in fact. It's called the creative process. Think about it: do you think Metallica record the first version of a song that pops into their heads? Oh, wait...

And as I keep saying, just because it is presented as optional now does not mean it will be presented that way forever.

[joshcali]

Thank God for this technology!

heathenistic free-thinkers have been spreading non-godfearing, pornographic themed movies for years. This is the first step in fixing the damage that the art world has done to our society since the righteous family values of the 1950's.

With the advent of artificial intelligence we should soon have the technology to take any subversive, non-family supporting movies (even like those horrible lilo-stitch, and Iron Giant, single parent monstrosities), and modify them to be fully family supporting.

And what's wrong with that!?

[You_Are_Alive]

Here's an update to the Family Movie Act. Basically the House Judiciary Subcommittee has voted in favor to keep the measure moving forward. Here's the link to a short read.

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/ap/20040721/109044354001.html

[chaseru]

And as I keep saying, just because it is presented as optional now does not mean it will be presented that way forever.

Am I allowed to close my eyes during a scary part of a movie? Can I press pause and get a snack? Can I skip pass portions of a movie that I don't like? Can I purchase a DVD player that will mute the F-word when I want it to?

If Clearplay's technology is so evil, DVD players should not be sold with a remote control. Because, god forbid, someone might want to skip over a scene in a movie or press pause to take a piss, which would violate the director's artistic control over his or her movie. Clearplay is no more than an automated remote control that the user has full control over. I have a Clearplay DVD player and when you put in a DVD the menu asks you whether you want the DVD to be filtered or not. Alternatively, you can go into "setup" and tell the player to not filter anything and the player acts like a normal player. The user also can tell the player to filter only certain things. If you like sex but not violence, the player can filter it that way.

I don't buy into this conspiracy theory that says if you allow people to use tools to control how they choose to watch a movie you are in someway contributing to the takeover of the world by conservative fundamentalists.

[ViRaL1]

There's a big difference between a censoring DVD player and YOU saying that you want to edit, repackage and resell MY movie. My objection to Clearplay is the same as it is to some 'family oriented' radio stations that bleep out the expletives in rap music. If it really needs bleeping out, maybe you shouldn't be playing it. I'm not sure what age I was when I knew the 7 dirty words, but I'm pretty sure most children by the time you'd actually have them sitting in on an R rated movie know what the phrases 'KISS MY _____' and 'SUCK MY ____' and no amount of white noise or black bars is going to convince them that there's nothing being said. I'd hate to have to be the one to answer when the kids say 'what did he say there? the sound went off.' But that's just me.