Turner Broadcasting

[ekedolphin]

It strikes me as ironic that the same company that kicked World Championship Wrestling off of TNT and TBS because "it didn't fit with the high-class product we're trying to assemble here", and a company that still to this day, edits out curse words in movies that are as mild as "hell"...

...shows what basically amounts to horror content every single night.  I just changed the channel away from TNT (what my sister is sleeping to, and I'm listening to in the background) because I was getting tired of hearing, and seeing, a horrifically brutal rape scene.  On MONDAY.  At 4 in the afternoon, when KIDS ARE HOME.  Between all the CSI content, it's a wonder I'm able to sleep at night.  (My mother, sister and I are currently sharing a hotel room, and the former two need something to listen to while they're sleeping.)

[Ollie]

They also show Sex and the City, a bunch of catty middle-aged women laughing about how stupid men are and paring life down into simply fashion and sex. A comedy that isn't funny, and certainly contains questionable content.

And in a sidebar, one thing that ABSOLUTELY KILLS me about entertainment: the fact that people try and argue with me that I don't like/find funny/etc. a particular thing is because I "don't get it" for a reason other than intelligence. For example, I don't get Sex and the City because I'm a man. I don't get Tyler Perry's Madea horse-hockey because I'm white. I don't get Harold and Kumar because I'm not a stoner. I don't get Cars because I'm an adult. Jesus, it really gets at me that there's a luxury placed on things in entertainment that appeal to only a certain demographic, and fuck everyone else.

Can't a movie just be made good enough that it can appeal across the boards? This is why Dark Knight is successful: truly good films appeal to everyone. I think Princess Bride doesn't limit itself to being a sickening romance: it branches out and has things in it that appeal to guys, too, and don't feel like a sidebar. I've always found Dave Chappelle and In Living Color and I'm Gonna Get You Sucka funny because it's not just "we be black" and that sort of thing; these are all clever and even moderately thought-provoking. I think Naked Lunch and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and A Scanner Darkly and Waking Life are really, really good, and I don't even have to be stoned to think so. All the other Pixar movies and Darkwing Duck don't pigeonhole themselves into being movies for kids only, and that is why they are awesome.

Perhaps that ran a little long-winded, but that's how I feel. And sorry for derailing the topic.

[Buckeroo]

Except that Harold and Kumar and Cars are actually funny.

[Ollie]

Except that Harold and Kumar and Cars are actually funny.

Yeah, those were probably the weakest analogies I mentioned.