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Mikezilla:
--- Quote ---You don't see butt rock either
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What the hell is that?!?! :o
shmokes:
This is the third definition on Urban Dictionary, but it is the best. The top two refer to the likes of Nickelback and Creed and I don't think that's correct. At any rate, the following definition is how I was using the word:
Term, often used disparagingly, that refers to a type of rock music popular during the 1980s and early 1990s typified by band members (predominantly male) who wore makeup and tight leather or spandex pants, and used gratuitous amounts of hairspray in their overzealous 'dos. Responsible for the "power ballad" and music that promotes depravity and glorifies cheap, meaningless sex.
Bootay:
--- Quote from: shmokes on March 29, 2012, 02:37:22 pm ---
--- Quote from: pinballjim on March 28, 2012, 12:34:26 pm ---Get used to it, all the money is in PG-13 and most the money is international. Action movies are really easy to translate and no swearing means no religious sensibilities are being offended. Notice the complete lack of casual nudity in movies lately? C'mon, every 80s cop movie had a pointless strip club scene. It's gotten so bad that actresses are wearing long sleeves in most block busters.
:P
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Swearing poses no problems internationally. It's not like the word ---fudgesicle--- or ass translate literally. They have to be interpreted, and they can easily be interpreted with something as offensive as ---fudgesicle---, damn or darn according to the demands of whatever market the movie is being sold in. As for nudity, how many markets are more puritanical than ours? Latin American media is hypersexual. Western Europe regularly shows nudity on broadcast television.
Moreover, I'm not even sure such a taming of Hollywood is taking place domestically. Look at the direction TV is moving, Sopranos, Deadwood, Dexter, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, True Blood, Weeds, The Wire. There's no shortage of bad language and sex and nudity to go along with the escalating levels of violence and gore on display in most of these shows.
Granted, you don't see nearly as many of the Porky's and National Lampoons and Bachelor Parties, but that strikes me as nothing more than normal changes in taste rather than a shift toward puritanism. You don't see butt rock either, but it's not because we think it's evil. We just like other stuff for the moment. And, unfortunately, butt rock will probably make a comeback before too long. Who knows . . . maybe crappy 80s movies will make a comeback too.
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The shows mentioned are on cable which is different. And the movies you mentioned have been replaced with movies like Hot Tub Time Machine, Superbad, and 40 Year Old Virgin which are still movies about people trying to get laid while telling dick and fart jokes. And God I hope "Butt Rock" doesn't make a comeback. ;D
Bootay:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on March 29, 2012, 02:30:58 pm ---
--- Quote from: Bootay on March 29, 2012, 12:11:36 pm ---Then the crime is pretty bad too. Detroit and Flint are usually neck in neck for the crime capitol of the world each year.
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Hey now, St. Louis took the crown while I was living there. Great city to get robbed at gun point in broad daylight and it always happened within a 1 mile radius of the light rail stops. Hrm. My wife worked at Washington University, their "premier institution" and had to have an escort to and from her car if it was dark.
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Sounds a lot like Detroit. LOL
shmokes:
--- Quote from: Bootay on March 29, 2012, 06:02:47 pm ---
The shows mentioned are on cable which is different.
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Different than what, though? Different than broadcast, sure, because cable and satelite aren't subject to the strict FCC rules for broadcast. But it's still Hollywood. It still represents the direction Hollywood has been moving with TV.
And even when it comes to broadcast TV, I think you'd be hard pressed to support the premise that the U.S. has become more, rather than less, restrictive in the last 20 years regarding the content that is or can be shown on broadcast TV.
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