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Sit through a no smoking warning?

Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 12:17 pm
by valerie
Not just in theaters any more... pretty soon on your

DVD's, too!



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4448364.stm



:-5

Sit through a no smoking warning?

Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 2:29 pm
by cherandbuster
Very interesting.

Just another thing for me to fast forward until the movie begins :rolleyes:

Sit through a no smoking warning?

Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 2:31 pm
by guppy
cherandbuster;440605 wrote: Very interesting.

Just another thing for me to fast forward until the movie begins :rolleyes:


i was thinking the same thing.:driving:

Sit through a no smoking warning?

Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 3:28 pm
by Bill Sikes
guppy;440606 wrote: [quote=cherandbuster]

Just another thing for me to fast forward until the movie begin
i was thinking the same thing.driving:


Ahbut they'll put something in to disable your FFW!

Sit through a no smoking warning?

Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 10:28 pm
by RedGlitter
Last year the MPAA rejected a proposal that would see films which feature smoking carry an adult rating. "Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it," said Jack Valenti, the organisation's president at the time.



:thinking:



I loathe smoking more than anyone I know but this is pushing it. What next? STD warnings if the actors don't whip out a condom? Obesity and diabetic blurbs for when the fat person eats a Twinkie?