FTFA

For example, for nearly 30 years, when Hollywood was run according to the Motion Picture Code of Decency, enforced by the Roman Catholic Church and the Protestant Film Office, the movie industry saw an unprecedented economic boom. That fiscal prosperity only began to wane when Christian churches pulled away from Hollywood in the 1960s and movies reached increasingly new levels of immorality featuring more and more graphic sex, violence, and obscene language.

What sells is CONTROVERSY over sex, violence and obscenity. If "moralists" would shut up and not make a big deal out of such things, the work would have to stand up on it's own merit and probably wouldn't do as well. Also, 2009 was the most profitable year for movies ever, grossing over $10 Billion, which sort of plays with the theory that they were more profitable when churches were backing them (as well as the one that says "piracy" is cutting into their profits).

SnakeLee: What sells is CONTROVERSY over sex, violence and obscenity.

This is the big thing. It isn't the sex, violence and obsecenity that sell, but the fact that people made a controversy over the sex, violence and obscenity. If the religious right would just shut the fark up and stop biatching at every little "offensive" thing they see, the offensive things would stop appearing so much. Of course, the religious right just needs to shut the fark up period.

Also, nearly two decades of research by Movieguide, a non-profit family guide to movies and entertainment supported by Christian donors and general subscriptions, shows that family friendly movies with no graphic sex, violence, and obscene language earn more than two to six times as much money at the box office, on average, as movies with such graphic content.

LOL. How amazing that this group of people responded that way.

/Next up: water is wet!

patrick767: I for one refuse to go to a film unless it has a plethora of sex, violence, and obscenity!

/not exactly
//but the family films they trumpet bore me
///"Family film" means "kiddie movie" almost every time

Jefe, what is a plethora?

Barbigazi: Jefe, what is a plethora?

Fancy talk for a bunch

EvilEgg: Barbigazi: Jefe, what is a plethora?

Fancy talk for a bunch

Well, he told me I have a plethora. And I just would like to know if he knows what a plethora is. I would not like to think that a person would tell someone he has a plethora, and then find out that that person has *no idea* what it means to have a plethora.

Being a social conservative religious square must be so exhausting in this day and age. Shielding themselves and their children from reality has got to be a 24/7/365 job. For their sake, I certainly hope the payoff is good in the end.

Barbigazi: Well, he told me I have a plethora. And I just would like to know if he knows what a plethora is. I would not like to think that a person would tell someone he has a plethora, and then find out that that person has *no idea* what it means to have a plethora.

Forgive him, El Barbigazi. He does not have your superior intellect and education.

FTFA:
For example, for nearly 30 years, when Hollywood was run according to the Motion Picture Code of Decency, enforced by the Roman Catholic Church and the Protestant Film Office, the movie industry saw an unprecedented economic boom. That fiscal prosperity only began to wane when Christian churches pulled away from Hollywood in the TVs became ubiquitous in U.S. households in the 1960s

FTFY

/Ironically, a movie that had little of the three.

Since the writers have ran out of ideas, they have no choice but using sex and violence to sell movies.

Just look at Micheal Bay.

The only time I go to the movies is with my kids. I get precious little time with my wife - I'm not going to waste it in a movie theater.

However, I do spend money on adult-oriented entertainment. Not Adult Entertainment, but the other kind. Between cable, netflix, xbox, etc, I spend far more on stuff that I don't let my kids see than I do on the theater.

So yeah subby's right.

SnakeLee:
What sells is CONTROVERSY over sex, violence and obscenity. If "moralists" would shut up and not make a big deal out of such things, the work would have to stand up on it's own merit and probably wouldn't do as well. Also, 2009 was the most profitable year for movies ever, grossing over $10 Billion, which sort of plays with the theory that they were more profitable when churches were backing them (as well as the one that says "piracy" is cutting into their profits).


1. Gross != Profit. Gross is what you take in before you subtract out your costs. Profit is gross minus costs.

2. Look at the chart with that article:



Note how the gross tracks with the increase in ticket price, with the number of tickets sold effecting the final number.

In essence, in inflation adjusted dollars, it looks fairly flat.

oldebayer: Barbigazi: patrick767: I for one refuse to go to a film unless it has a plethora of sex, violence, and obscenity!

/not exactly
//but the family films they trumpet bore me
///"Family film" means "kiddie movie" almost every time

Jefe, what is a plethora?

A plethora is sexy, violent and obscene all at once. They are banned in Boston.

But you can get them in Rhode Island!

Also, nearly two decades of research by Movieguide, a non-profit family guide to movies and entertainment supported by Christian donors and general subscriptions, shows that family friendly movies with no graphic sex, violence, and obscene language earn more than two to six times as much money at the box office, on average, as movies with such graphic content.

Ignoring the obvious bias that Movieguide has - perhaps the reason that "family friendly" movies make two to six times as much money is because there are less of them and they are of generally higher quality?

This is no surprise to Movieguide®, which reported a 2006 poll by The Los Angeles Times and Bloomberg that most teenagers are offended by depictions of foul language and sex in movies and television.

Ok now he is just outright lying.

This must be true.

Nobody ever goes to see "Oedipus Rex," "Macbeth," or "Madame Butterfly" anymore. Sex, violence and obscenity are just so passe.