Moral Majority of One and the MPAA

Several weeks ago I took my 10 year old daughter to see Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. Don't get me started but that film felt about ten hours long, and its convoluted story annoyed the hell out of me. Yes, I enjoyed the first one. I think Gore Verbinski is a very good, very slick (in a good way) director. And who doesn't love Johnny Depp? But Dead Man's Chest was product placement-consumption gone awry-everything that makes Hollywood smell like the inside of a an obese armpit. Ahhhh, I am veering WAY off the road. Rewind back to the trailers.

The theatre ran the trailer for

The Descent

It scared my ten year old.

Hell it gave me the heeby jeebies

A week went by and I kept thinking how that trailer should not have played with a kid's movie. I called a few friends and asked them if they ever noticed an R Rated trailer in a kid film. They said they had not. I gave it more thought and decided that it wasn't right. I called the MPAA and told them when I saw it, where I saw it. I told them I like movies. I want movies to make money. I work in movies. Two weeks later they called me and said the trailer was deemed objectionable and was pulled.

So - here I am, a moral majority of One experiencing instant gratification in the world of Political Action. It reminded me of the time I worked on a non union film and I reported myself to the union. That motivation to get off the film didn't work. The Union thanked me and told me not to worry about it. You win some.