Someone Needs to Save Private Ryan

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Conservative religious and family groups said Friday that they plan to file complaints with the FCC charging that ABC violated the agency's indecency regulations when it aired Saving Private Ryan Thursday night. Fearing such action and the possibility that they might be fined, some 66 ABC affiliates refused to carry the broadcast, which nevertheless produced the largest Thursday-night audience that the network has been able to attract this season. Among the groups complaining about the Ryan screening was the Rev. Donald Wildmon's American Family Association, which cited the film's "excessively profane language." It added, "ABC crossed the line by airing at least 20 'f' words and 12 's' words during primetime viewing hours!" The FCC acknowledged over the weekend that it had received numerous complaints about the telecast.


People need to just shutup. I am sick of conservative religous and family groups trying to control everything. If you dont like whats on TV, switch the Channel or turn off the tv. Dont try to control others just because u dont like it. Oh yeah it was a movie shown as a tribute for veterans day. War is hell people should know about it, not the sanatized crap you see on tv nowadays.
 
first.. i didn't even know it was on tv uncut.... second i agree... nobody forces you to watch tv... and the movie has a rating for a reason... don't agree.. don't watch it.
 
That is what the MPAA is for, it gives movies ratings so people can decide for themselves whwther to watch it.

Of course the AFA and other semi-violent and radical anti-everything groups are just looking for a fight so they can do gods work and get publicity.

It makes me sick how they use and abuse their own children.
 
OMFG soldiers who fought and died for the USA in WWII used swears! Thank god Christian groups are there to protect us from these potty mouths who gave up so much for the cause of freedom.
 
They show the Kerry shit before the election and don't care, but showing a great movie on a holiday is bad.

Assholes.
 
I watch BBC and they say shit all the time.
And occasionally they say "fuck" uncensored.

But then you flip to USA or TNT and they censor the word "butt".
 
[quote name='bignick']I think over the air channels, CBS, FOX, ABC etc should be censored, but cable TV should be fair game.[/quote]

Yeah, censor things for the poor! They can't think for themselves anyway.
 
This has reached a level I NEVER thought would happen. I am truly sickened and disgusted that these groups would seek to complain about a WAR movie. Note the key word here WAR implying it's not a normal situation and the same rules to language don't apply but apparently these groups are too DENSE to understand that or they just want attention. Me, I'm voting the second. I think they're doing this just because they got the idea after some stations yanked it and made their reasons known for it so they figured "What the hell.".
Nick even you must realize their complaining about this to be absurd.
 
Ok, people lets think about this

Right now we are at war and in the middle of a major offence. For a corporation that supports the war/administration doing anything to change public opinion to a negative perspective is the opposite of what they want.

Saving Private Ryan (SPR) is generaly considered to be one of the most accurate depictions of war captured on film. Showing this uncensored to the public could easliy change a few opinions of the people as to what's going on. Now if it were a positive war movie (Think John Wayne style - Good/Evil - right/wrong is clear cut, few casualties lots of patriotic imagery of our GI's easily defeating evil/the enemy) were to be shown despite containing hundreds of f-bombs and the like, well we would hear few complaints. In fact those who complianed would be deamed unpatriotic. Now any movie with an amount of realistic violence like SPR would of course be considered offensive. It all boils down to the corporation and it's sponsores.

A more libereal/antiwar corporation wouldn't bat an eye at SPR but would probably not be showing any of the John Wayne style movies.

The Janet Jackson Suprbowl incedident isn't the cause of all of the censorship, it's just an example of the line drawn by corporate sponsorship. If the superbowl were sponsered by a bunch of large corporations that a) contributed $ to the current administration (this isn't a slam at Bush, this would apply to ANY president) and b) were OK with nudity on TV none of what happened would have happened.

Corporate censorship has been going on for, well, ever. It's just a matter of having an immdiate press source available to the public -CNN/FOXMSNBC 24 hour broadcasts as well as user driven public forums, such as what we are using here at CAG - that has made us more aware.

What happened with SPR's broadcast was wrong, but more profit that political

peteloaf
 
[quote name='peteloaf']Ok, people lets think about this

Right now we are at war and in the middle of a major offence. For a corporation that supports the war/administration doing anything to change public opinion to a negative perspective is the opposite of what they want.

Saving Private Ryan (SPR) is generaly considered to be one of the most accurate depictions of war captured on film. Showing this uncensored to the public could easliy change a few opinions of the people as to what's going on. Now if it were a positive war movie (Think John Wayne style - Good/Evil - right/wrong is clear cut, few casualties lots of patriotic imagery of our GI's easily defeating evil/the enemy) were to be shown despite containing hundreds of f-bombs and the like, well we would hear few complaints. In fact those who complianed would be deamed unpatriotic. Now any movie with an amount of realistic violence like SPR would of course be considered offensive. It all boils down to the corporation and it's sponsores.

A more libereal/antiwar corporation wouldn't bat an eye at SPR but would probably not be showing any of the John Wayne style movies.

The Janet Jackson Suprbowl incedident isn't the cause of all of the censorship, it's just an example of the line drawn by corporate sponsorship. If the superbowl were sponsered by a bunch of large corporations that a) contributed $ to the current administration (this isn't a slam at Bush, this would apply to ANY president) and b) were OK with nudity on TV none of what happened would have happened.

Corporate censorship has been going on for, well, ever. It's just a matter of having an immdiate press source available to the public -CNN/FOXMSNBC 24 hour broadcasts as well as user driven public forums, such as what we are using here at CAG - that has made us more aware.

What happened with SPR's broadcast was wrong, but more profit that political

peteloaf[/quote]

good point. Like Kobe Bryant and his sponsorships.
 
[quote name='Quackzilla']I watch BBC and they say shit all the time.
And occasionally they say "shaq-fu" uncensored.

But then you flip to USA or TNT and they censor the word "butt".[/quote]

Yahoo news said fuck too so I don't see what the big deal is there.
 
[quote name='camoor'][quote name='sblymnlcrymnl']Who cares, it's a shitty movie anyway.[/quote]

Says the porno freak...[/quote]

Hey now, what does that have to do with anything? :lol:
 
[quote name='sblymnlcrymnl'][quote name='camoor'][quote name='sblymnlcrymnl']Who cares, it's a shitty movie anyway.[/quote]

Says the porno freak...[/quote]

Hey now, what does that have to do with anything? :lol:[/quote]

typical porno plot:

Random Dude: Who ordered the pizza with extra sausage
Slutty Chick #3: Oh me, oh no my bra fell off...
:shock:
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