![]() "Bad Company," "The Scorpion King" and "Half Past Dead" all were marketed to teens, meaning Hollywood thinks violence is an appropriate form of entertainment for kids.īe warned: "Eight-Legged Freaks" contains David Arquette. Ads for "City by the Sea" cautioned of "some violence." What's the difference between "some" violence and simply "violence?" Ads for "Eight-Legged Freaks" cautioned of "sci-fi violence," which apparently is fine because people get slaughtered, but before that they talk about science! Ads for "Bad Company," "The Scorpion King" and the current "Half Past Dead" warned of "action violence." Is "action" violence somehow a good kind of violence? Hollywood certainly wants us to think so. Worst, of course, are disclaimers on Hollywood's big point of hypocrisy - glorification of violence. ![]() ![]() Disclaimers for "Signs" warned of "frightening moments." The frightening moment came when you realized you had forked over $8 to watch Mel Gibson spend two hours shining a flashlight into corn rows hollering, "Who's out there?" The warning for "Lilo and Stitch" said "mild action." Like your last date! "Runteldat" warned of "pervasive language." They talk all the time in that movie? "The Bourne Identity" warned of "some language." Which language - Croatian? Xhosa? Ads for "Blue Crush" warned of "teen partying." Oh, so it's a horror movie! Deeds" warned of "some rear nudity." We're seeing Adam Sandler's butt instead of J-Lo's? What cruel fate! Let's hope at least that Sandler had a butt double. But what is "mild" sensuality anyway? Couldn't it be a woman sipping tea?Īs for skin, ads for the Jennifer Lopez movie "Enough" noted "some sensuality," which apparently means, "prepare to be disappointed." "Enough" was supposed to be a serious flick, but nevertheless J-Lo was on screen for two hours and never disrobed your only reward was "some sensuality." Meanwhile disclaimers for the Adam Sandler farce "Mr. Ads for "The Importance of Being Earnest" warned of "mild sensuality." Every high-school drama society in world history has performed that play, which is hardly known for being risqué. What about sex disclaimers? Ads for the movie "Resident Evil" warned of "brief sexuality." We'll all been on that date! Posters for "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" cautioned of "brief sensuality." Maybe that's the best you can expect when Ashley Judd plays the babe. Some moviegoers, or more likely some studio executives, consider this notion disturbing. Apparently at this point Hollywood feels it must issue warnings when a movie has a subject. Warning boxes for "About a Boy" and the current "Standing in the Shadows of Motown" cautioned of "thematic elements." As best as TMQ can determine, this means the movie is about a subject, rather than just being random sight gags, breasts and explosions. Recent boxes for "Goldmember," "Serving Sara" and the Dana Carvey vehicle "Master of Disguise" warned of "crude humor." The disclosure should have cautioned, "bad humor." TMQ has examined hundreds of movie disclaimers, and not seen one warning of "sophisticated humor." Ratings to caution parents about which movies are appropriate for kids (answer: hardly any) are one thing. Ads for the new movie "Harry Potter and the Global Marketing Campaign of Doom" contain a little box warning of "some creature violence." Is that violence by a creature or against a creature? TMQ always wonders, when ads say "doctor-tested," whether they mean tested by doctors or tested on doctors.
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