more censorship
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- fullerc0
The first movie had a severed foot on it and it passed the MPAA board.
I don't like censorship but the poster is creepy!
- anzelina0
scarabin, you've got a point there.
all they have to do is turn on the boob tube and they'll see tons more violence.
- scarabin0
kids play games all day wherein they practice killing each other. then they watch cartoons where characters kill each other. then they play video games where they kill each other in violent and inventive ways. i really doubt any kid is going to run into a corner rocking back and forth over the poster- they were even careful not to show any blood, which is more than one can say about video games or just about any movie...
- pascii0
as if censorship is the way to prevent children from such things. ha ha ha.... pfft
- anzelina0
censorship sucks but if you're going to put a movie poster in an area that people of all ages are going to be you have to think about ALL ages, not just the R rated audience the movie is for.
kOna
(Aug 24 05, 07:02)
_______________i agree.
i'm not sure that the new poster is any better though [as far as not scaring kids].let's make the fingers BIGGER so that it's more obviously disgusting and the little kiddies will pee their pants!
- Meeklo0
I agree, poster is ugly, the 2 fingers is a cheap solution, I don't mind it in the theaters It probably won't get my eye anyways.
I say leave the poster alone, and let it be shown, who cares!
- scarabin0
i pretty much hate what they did with it now. by zooming in and cropping it off you lost both the design concept AND the killer layout it had
sad
- ethios0
as for the poster reminding someone of WTC....hmmmm
- scarabin0
btw, i think the poster is a fantastic solution
beautiful
- scarabin0
i would understand if it was a studio worried about offending their public or something, (i deal with that all the time) but it's the mpaa. which means that it's just a bunch of prudes trying to keep america in the fifties.
- todelete__20
dude. it's two cut off bloody fingers.
that poster will be in theaters nationwide. it's pretty bad.
next up two severed heads.
censorship sucks but if you're going to put a movie poster in an area that people of all ages are going to be you have to think about ALL ages, not just the R rated audience the movie is for.
- radar0
I say leave it - shit the finger nails are more disturbing then the severed fingers.
- Bluejam0
the poster looks like d.carson overdose + the image reminds me of the world trade center...
...as for censorship, it's pretty weak to be censorsed. there's worse out there...maybe start with all those pill popping ads with small print bibles attached.
+ whoever designed it probably knew that it would be blocked/censored and therefore played the 'bad news is better than no news' caper which works every time...
- ethios0
oh right, they just cropped it? anyway i thought saw was a terrible movie so im not bothered
- del_razor0
what you see on
is not the poster they were talking about..
this is the original
http://www.impawards.com/2005/sa…
there's a diff..
the second version is what they did to clean it up..
- mrdobolina0
whether the poster is good design or not is not the point, it is the censorship that is the topic.
- ethios0
there we are, who says they are severed anyway?
- ethios0
wheres an example of this poster?
- gfro0
When it's backlit and you can look at it close up. A+
- gfro0
Have you even seen the poster close up?