Oh MPAA, what will we do with you?

[kellinator]

I was stuck in traffic last week and I glanced over at the MARTA bus next to me and noticed it had a big ad on the side for Captivity, the torture-porn bomb that's already out of theaters, I think. I wondered idly if that few people are looking to advertise on MARTA, and then, because I had nothing else to do at the red light, I read the MPAA's reasoning for the R rating:

Rated R for strong violence, torture, pervasive terror, grizzly images, language and some sexual material. 

I read through that. Something was wrong. I read through it again.

Grizzly images. 

I swear. That's how it was spelled.

And I thought, well, I guess they can't ever do a Berenstein Bears movie, it'll get an NC-17 for sure...

Comments

[mizdandylynn.livejournal.com]

*laughs loudly and spews water*

[sertrel.livejournal.com]

It passed through the spell checker, it must be right!

How many people must have looked at that ad before it went public? And to think that every single one of them missed that error.

And yet, given the state of education, I'm bearly surprised.

[raistlinbrown.livejournal.com]

And yet, given the state of education, I'm bearly surprised.

You win the cleverness contest. :- )

"Mild creature violence and extreme synonym abuse"

[beachsomewhere.livejournal.com]

Grizzly images

That is the awesomest wrongness ever. My favorite warning used to be "creature violence." I think we have a new winner. Grizzly images! Followed immediately by not just torture - but PERVASIVE torture!

I can't wait until the MPAA rates my LJ.

[spiritchaser1.livejournal.com]

LOL!!

[raistlinbrown.livejournal.com]

That is outstanding. Thanks for sharing that.

[malinaldarose.livejournal.com]

No, no, it makes perfect sense. One of the torturers is a bear.

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

No no, the Berenstains are brown bears. Surely they'll only get a PG-13.

...

Oh, wait. Honey abuse. R for sure.

[madshrubbery.livejournal.com]

Did Papa have a corncob pipe? (I cannot recall for the life of me.) If so, soon that'd be an R.

[jerel.livejournal.com]

I used to watch Gentle Ben--perhaps this explains my mental problems?

Grizzly images indeed. ::laughs hysterically::

[shes-precious.livejournal.com]

I thought of Gentle Ben the minute I read that above. LOL.

Oh wow...

[kmn-rdr-caoimhe.livejournal.com]

Someone needs to make a YTMND just for that. XD