Lloyd Kaufman's opinions:
1. The MPAA is controlled by the giant media conglomerates. There
is a double standard regarding how movies are rated which hurts the
independent movies economic chances.Eg: Disney's Scary Movie gets an
R rating with a penis going through someone's head and with male ejaculant
spewing gobs on a female,but Troma is forced to cut out a shot of me
dressed in a suit and tie eating a Taco in Terror Firmer....
2. The MPAA ratings do not work...due to the double standard...parents
get mislead and therefore,following the MPAA ratings, disastrously bring
ten year old kiddies to truly violent movies with PG-13 or R ratings..Parents
should start a class action lawsuit against the MPAA for deliberately
misleading them and causing their kids to be traumatized...
| 3. It is irrelevant...Troma is economically
blacklisted no matter what we present to the cartel that controls
the world of art and commerce. Troma could release a G-rated StarWars
or Gone With the Wind and the main stream movie critics and the
Blockbusters(owned by cartel member Viacom) would still economically
blacklist us..Just ask GE/NBC's Gene Shallit or DISNEY/ABC's Joel
Siegal; their policy is not to review any Troma movie no matter
what it is...Ebert (also owned by Disney) does the same..but our
fans love us for taking risks and providing movies with some substance.
So Troma continues into its 29th year!!!!!! |
A reenactment of the MPAA Rating Board picking
apart a film of an independent company
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4. Eliminate the MPAA rating system as it currently stands...it
is useless,misleading,economically abusive of smaller companies (we
have to pay to have our movies rated) and is one of the main reasons
many indies are bankrupt...HBO seems to agree with me that the rating
of MPAA are corrupt and misleading. HBO, for example supplies their
own info and they are part of one of the devil worshiping conglomerates
who control the MPAA...Kill it....Malcom McClaren said you must destroy
in order to create...He was right on!