How dumb do you have to be to think you can get away with showing any part of a R-rated movies, especially 300, to a bunch of sixth-graders?

Still, the screams of outrage are always entertaining.

Damn, now I need to see the extended version because I sure as hell missed that shit.

aahahahaha

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“My daughter came home from school yesterday distraught, saying her teacher showed her an R-rated movie. I was shocked,” said parent Tina McCurley. “I found out it was the ‘300.’ It was the first time I’d heard of the movie, so I went online (to www.ChristianAnswers.net) to read the reviews. They described it as a pornographic slaughter movie with prolonged scenes of female nudity, sex acts, lesbian and homosexual content.”

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Because surely ChristianAnswers.net is a completely unbiased website, which would respect art and filmaking................................surely.

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From the Book of Armaments, Vorago did read;
How could anyone have not at least have even HEARD about 300?

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Apparently for some people, sound doesn't travel well through sand. Especially when one's head is plunged into it.

I actually read the whole review referred to; yeah, he trashed the movie, but the reviewer did actually agree to a few things.... naked Persians not withstands; though he did blast Leonidas as being "anti-religion."

I figured Dilios shouting "This day we rescue a world from mysticism and tyranny..." would be a pretty big clue.

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“Most sixth-graders are 12 years old,” Schoen said. “This is not something that age group is not reasonably exposed to on today’s television.”

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This statement makes me laugh. Most 12 year olds know as much or more about sex than I do.

As for the R-rated movie in schools, I understand the views of the families. Without special permissions, these movies should not be shown because of physical, mental, and verbal content. There is a reason, most of the time, that a movie is rated R. And the fact that R-rated items are controlled at movie theaters and rental outlets is a strong indication that they should be equally cautious of their use in schools.

That said, the five minute clip they were talking about is, in my opinion, a well done and fairly dramatic commentary of how boys were treated and turned to warriors back in that day.

As for the lesbian content... Where was this? I dont recall any lesbian content. There were two sex scenes, where one was really just implied. I could be wrong on this.

As for the kids who 'couldnt sleep that night' because of the shadow of the wolf on the wall... I call bullshit. Kids these days arent normally shaken by implied violence with no real value. Some might be, but most... eh.
I should think the idea of throwing babies from a cliff when they cried too much would be more psychologically upsetting than an overly monstrous wolf meeting its end.

Oh, and just out one more thing.

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They described it as a pornographic slaughter movie with prolonged scenes of female nudity, sex acts, lesbian and homosexual content.”

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Technically, this statement can be applied to the bible and most other religious works, but possibly without the words 'pornographic' and 'movie'. Not trying to diss religion, because many of the lessons in the bible are in regards to sex and sexual proclivities and conduct, and that is why these things are included in the writing, but the fact that it is in there is what I am getting at.

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Azakias was listening to Cher while typing:
As for the lesbian content... Where was this? I dont recall any lesbian content. There were two sex scenes, where one was really just implied. I could be wrong on this.

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When the hunchback or what ever his name defected and was in the tent, there are more than a few ladies going at it. I think two ladies are 69'ing ontop of a table.

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Maradon! stopped beating up furries long enough to write:
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I figured Dilios shouting "This day we rescue a world from mysticism and tyranny..." would be a pretty big clue.

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See that line I interpreted as them breaking the idea that Xerxes was a god, since like you know the Persians were portrayed to be the ones living under the mysticism and tyranny, and that Greece didn't dig this idea.

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Dave had this to say about the Spice Girls:
When the hunchback or what ever his name defected and was in the tent, there are more than a few ladies going at it. I think two ladies are 69'ing ontop of a table.

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Oh yeah, forgot about that.

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Peter wrote this stupid crap:
See that line I interpreted as them breaking the idea that Xerxes was a god, since like you know the Persians were portrayed to be the ones living under the mysticism and tyranny, and that Greece didn't dig this idea.

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Yeah..thats why you had all that buildup, only to have Xerxes get winged. It was enough to prove he wasn't a god. Wasn't so much anti-religion as it was anti false god.

It wasn't an overt theme of the entire movie, but every religion that made an appearance was in a very bad light.

There are some neat shots in the middle of the video of the circle of corpses around the Spartiates Hoplitai.

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“My daughter could not sleep last night, and I’ve heard many others couldn’t either,” she said, allowing she sees nothing wrong with the movie’s first five minutes. “We don’t know how much he showed to them. The students were not sitting there looking at their watches. I don’t care if it was one minute. ‘R’ movies have no place in our schools.”

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It's awesome when people defeat their own arguments as they make them.

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‘R’ movies have no place in our schools

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Excuse me, 'Schindler's List' begs to differ.

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Maradon! impressed everyone with:
And then there was the Ephors, the legitimate faith of sparta, who were portrayed as horribly corrupt and out and out wrong. Leonidas pleads with them to trust in reason rather than trusting in the gods.

It wasn't an overt theme of the entire movie, but every religion that made an appearance was in a very bad light.

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I saw it more along the lines of.. Taking care of ones self, and ones own. It centered the Spartans around each other, being as how they couldn't rely on anybody else. Not so much a slant against religion, as it was to focus more on the 300 against the world.

Besides.. it's a movie.
Based on a comic book.

Taking care of oneself on your own is a standard of most non-theists, much like Benjamin Franklin's comment of "God helps those who help themselves" Another moral of 300, listening to religion will destroy society. It was only the turning from religion that King Leonidas and his Guard were able to act as a symbol and get the rest of Greece off of their collective asses.

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Elvish Crack Piper's fortune cookie read:
Why the hell would it matter if its a movie based on a comic as its a fairly accurate, minus flashy special effects, of what happened.

Taking care of oneself on your own is a standard of most non-theists, much like Benjamin Franklin's comment of "God helps those who help themselves" Another moral of 300, listening to religion will destroy society. It was only the turning from religion that King Leonidas and his Guard were able to act as a symbol and get the rest of Greece off of their collective asses.

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My point was that it is entertainment. Not a lesson in how to live your life.

Do you speak ancient greek?
Were you there?
Then you can't really judge accuracy.

Besides, they changed phalanx to make it look cool. What makes you think they didn't take other creative license?

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Bent over the coffee table, Elvish Crack Piper squealed:
Why the hell would it matter if its a movie based on a comic as its a fairly accurate, minus flashy special effects, of what happened.

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Wait, what? You should read more history, especially about how Sparta really was.

But not more.

Far as the movie went.. it seemed to work out pretty well.

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Nobody really understood why Bloodsage wrote:
Wait, what? You should read more history, especially about how Sparta really was.

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You mean the massive slaves bit contrasting the "yaes freedom" aspect?

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This one time, at Kaiote camp:
It's a movie, dude... if ya didn't like it.. ya don't gotta discuss it.

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Wait wait wait, people who didn't like something ignoring it on the internet?

Elvish Crack Piper fucked around with this message on 08-26-2007 at 05:51 PM.