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| Thread ID: 134651 | 2013-07-25 00:03:00 | Maniac banned in NZ | 1101 (13337) | PC World Chat |
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| 1349720 | 2013-07-25 00:03:00 | www.stuff.co.nz www.imdb.com So the general public have been banned from seeing this film, except at film festivals etc Have the censors never heard of the internet. Its VERY easy to find & download. Banning it will encourage people to download & view it, people who otherwise wouldnt bother watching it (its only 6 stars on imdb) Lots of free publicity, people will be queing up to see it at the film festival now, others will just download or watch online. Banning films no longer works at all, Mr censor. Time to get with the modern era of interwebs, this isnt 1960, its 2013 . Perhaps an enforced R18 rating would have a better effect than a ban ?? |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1349721 | 2013-07-25 00:24:00 | Nobody can enforce ratings either though. Like you say, the Internet fixes that. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1349722 | 2013-07-25 01:09:00 | Correct Agent, but banning it outright just means *everyone* who wants to see it will do so via alternate methods, whereas if it were allowed to release here, with an R18 rating, and our ratings were properly enforced by theatres / dvd rentals / resellers etc, then a significant portion of people would see it through appropriately-controlled channels. All the banning does is encourage the same piracy they're always whining about lol. | inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1349723 | 2013-07-25 02:11:00 | Banning just makes even more people want to see it, incl me. | 1101 (13337) | ||
| 1349724 | 2013-07-25 03:06:00 | while it may make it more attractive for some overall less people would have watched it. | Nomad (952) | ||
| 1349725 | 2013-07-25 03:39:00 | while it may make it more attractive for some overall less people would have watched it. I disagree. This statement *may* be true, but it will not necessarily be true. It isn't exactly a mainstream audience movie, so it't not like they'll miss out on the thousands of people who were planning to take their kids to see it in the holidays. A reasonable percentage of the people who would specifically be interested in this movie, combined with the reasonable number of people who will now see it just because it's banned, may well amount to more than those who would have seen it under a general release. To blanket say that less will see it now, though, is a very bold assumption. The opposite has occurred in the past. |
inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1349726 | 2013-07-25 03:48:00 | Frank is a schizophrenic serial killer who spends his nights stalking and killing women, scalping them and bringing the scalps and their clothing back home to decorate his steadily growing supply of mannequins. Once a mannequin has been decorated to his satisfaction, Frank sleeps with it for several nights, using them to carry on one-sided conversations with his deceased mother, an abusive prostitute who subjected him to years of physical abuse ... .... Frank takes Rita home and ties her to the bed, ..... then mutilates her body and disposes of it. Well banned, not banned, not my kind of entertainment. I quite like horror but real horror, as in dread, fear, a sense of the something not right atmosphere, not slaughter movies and gore. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1349727 | 2013-07-25 04:32:00 | +1 pctek Ken |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1349728 | 2013-07-25 04:59:00 | Sounds a bit like Silence of the Lambs | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1349729 | 2013-07-25 05:04:00 | while it may make it more attractive for some overall less people would have watched it. Id disagree. I'd never have heard of it & wouldnt have had much interest in it(6 star review) if it hadnt been banned. Its not exactly a new movie. |
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