BBFC decisions you agree/disagree with...

[DTSBOY]

Originally Posted by Aclea

Back in 1980 the film did actually catch some flack from public and press over the S&M overtones, especially with Ornella Muti: if there had been a 12 or a 12A at the time it would have got it, but IIRC they said that while the film was undeniably 'kinky,' it wasn't overt enough to merit a AA (no-one under 14).

Wowsers, I honestly did not know that. It was definitely in someone's thoughts and ideas then.

Ornella Muti wearing a hessian sack would've been enough never mind that red catsuit thingy.

[Aclea]

Originally Posted by Drooch

Wokism is top-down imposition by a small, vicious pack of radicals who threaten normal liberal minded people with cancellation if they fail to comply, there's nothing organic about it and it doesn't reflect 'the times'.

Amusingly that was the exact conspiracy theory pushed by Mary Whitehouse when she tried to have all news coverage of the Soweto school strikes and subsequent uprising banned because vicious radicals were only covering it to incite 'impressionable' black Britons to riot, her war on the BBC for corrupting the nation's values or during her many criminal prosecutions for anything in the arts relating to religion or homosexuality (which she regarded as a curable illness caused by mentally disturbed couples indulging in

[Show spoiler]anal sex

during pregnancy). Your melodramatic 'war on woke' rhetoric sounds just like her.

[Drooch]

Originally Posted by Agent Kay

It wasn't an order, that implies some dominion over you and no thanks.
I was saying don't as it makes people look very very silly.
Also, small? Think you will find the world at large is more progressive than your soon to be banned again arse.

I don't care how it 'looks', it's the right thing to do, and if it compels wokists to bark commands and try to shut me down then all the better.

Notice how gleeful you are at the possibility of me being 'banned again'. You authoritarian wokists love that stuff.

[Drooch]

Originally Posted by Aclea

Amusingly that was the exact conspiracy theory pushed by Mary Whitehouse when she tried to have all news coverage of the Soweto school strikes and subsequent uprising banned because vicious radicals were only covering it to incite 'impressionable' black Britons to riot, her war on the BBC for corrupting the nation's values or during her many criminal prosecutions for anything in the arts relating to religion or homosexuality (which she regarded as a curable illness caused by mentally disturbed couples indulging in

[Show spoiler]anal sex

during pregnancy). Your melodramatic 'war on woke' rhetoric sounds just like her.

Total false equivalence. Mary Whitehouse was simply an earlier iteration of a modern day wokist - a ban-happy, censorious authoritarian.

[Aclea]

Originally Posted by Drooch

I don't care how it 'looks', it's the right thing to do, and if it compels wokists to bark commands and try to shut me down then all the better.

Notice how gleeful you are at the possibility of me being 'banned again'. You authoritarian wokists love that stuff.

Anything you say, Mary.

[Killer Meteor]

Originally Posted by Drooch

Total false equivalence. Mary Whitehouse was simply an earlier iteration of a modern day wokist - a ban-happy, censorious authoritarian.

The difference is that Mary Whitehouse had power and influence in high places, and a large organization behind her.

[Peachfuzz]

Originally Posted by DTSBOY

Woke shite again.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-57733015

27 sad, with nowt' better to do losers, complain out of a total of 93 about Flash Gordon.

"discriminatory stereotypes" .... if the example the BBC cite (their assumption) not the bbfc, then the world is indeed, going down the pan.

somebody give me any other possible reasons coz' I'm none the wiser.

Damn them Woke Snowflakes (let's see how many people that triggers ).

[Drooch]

Originally Posted by Killer Meteor

The difference is that Mary Whitehouse had power and influence in high places, and a large organization behind her.

Wokists have infiltrated all levels of education, corporate HR departments and governmental positions, and are routinely cancelling people. Nice try but fail.

[Drooch]

Originally Posted by Aclea

Anything you say, Mary.

Clearly you missed the post where I compared Mary Whitehouse and her censorious, ban-happy ways to modern wokists. Pay attention.

[Aclea]

Originally Posted by Drooch

Wokists have infiltrated all levels of education, corporate HR departments and governmental positions, and are routinely cancelling people. Nice try but fail.

Just what Mary said in the 70s when waging her war on the woke. She'd be so proud to see you carrying on her crusade.

[Agent Kay]

Originally Posted by Drooch

I don't care how it 'looks', it's the right thing to do, and if it compels wokists to bark commands and try to shut me down then all the better.

Notice how gleeful you are at the possibility of me being 'banned again'. You authoritarian wokists love that stuff.

Why do you sound like loony tunes doing Russian Propaganda?

[Agent Kay]

Originally Posted by Peachfuzz

Damn them Woke Snowflakes (let's see how many people that triggers ).

I bet more complaints were the other side whining about the text warning before the movie

[Aclea]

Originally Posted by Agent Kay

Why do you sound like loony tunes doing Russian Propaganda?

Be wewwy, wewwy qwuiet. He's hunting wokeists.

[Agent Kay]

Originally Posted by Drooch

Clearly you missed the post where I compared Mary Whitehouse and her censorious, ban-happy ways to modern wokists. Pay attention.

And now you wish to censor other people?

[Killer Meteor]

Anti-woke is currently the agenda of the Tory government...

[Aclea]

Any manufactured non-existent manufactured controversy to distract from all their ****ups and profiteering will do. It works. Take this latest 'outrage.'

Is the film cut? No.

Is the film banned? No.

Can children still see it? Yes. It's just a 12A, not an R18 you can only buy in a sex shop.

What terrible crime against free speech has been committed? The worst it comes down to is some parents might explain to their children that while he's named after a vase Ming isn't Chinese (which, to be fair, is pretty blindingly obvious since Max just looks like a bald guy from Sweden who styles his eyebrows and likes really high collars). I think cinema will survive. Most people probably won't even notice.

And yet we get another couple of pages of bile and self-aggrandizing rhetoric from Mary about how it's some kind of radical conspiracy...

[Killer Meteor]

A conspiracy eh? Do you think maybe they're involved in the Kennedy assassination?

[Aclea]

Originally Posted by Killer Meteor

A conspiracy eh? Do you think maybe they're involved in the Kennedy assassination?

It's no accident that when James Ferman was still a TV director, he directed a 1963 episode of Ghost Squad called The Magic Bullet...

[chip75]

Originally Posted by Killer Meteor

A conspiracy eh? Do you think maybe they're involved in the Kennedy assassination?

Jamie Kennedy? I think Son of the Mask tried to do that ...

[CompleteCount]

Originally Posted by chip75

Jamie Kennedy? I think Son of the Mask tried to do that ...

That certainly was a Jamie Kennedy Experiment which succeeded.