After waiting 6 months for Blockbuster Online to carry this film, I gave up and rented it from Netflix. Needless to say, after seeing it, I now know why Blockbuster isn't carrying it and understand why they will never carry it. It's because this film criticizes them for not carrying NC-17 films, an action which supports a gender biased, sexual orientation biased, racially biased, violence promoting, mercenary, puritanical, duplicitous and just plain idiotic system- the MPAA ratings.
Although I'm a tremendous cinephile, It's been a long time since I've been in a movie theater, preferring instead to watch everything on DVD. After seeing this film and witnessing the self serving manner in which the MPAA acts (under the guise of 'serving' the public), I'm glad that they get a substantially smaller cut from my $.75 DVD rentals than they do from $10 movie tickets. If I could watch films and not give them a single penny, I would. The studios have been tremendously powerful since they were formed- the manner in which they wield the MPAA ratings as a weapon to silence opposition and independent thought is one of many ways in which this absolute power is abused.
The public isn't served, the film makers aren't served, the only people making out like bandits in this equation are the studios. The independent film maker has no chance in this scenario. This small group of studio execs (and, every day, getting smaller) makes the decision as to what we can and cannot watch and can effectively silence anyone that has a different perspective or who can't afford to pay tribute- just one more example of the wealthier getting ever wealthier and shrinking in numbers while the poor keep getting poorer and growing.
It's not democratic, it's not just, it's not American and it's not right.
Although I'm a tremendous cinephile, It's been a long time since I've been in a movie theater, preferring instead to watch everything on DVD. After seeing this film and witnessing the self serving manner in which the MPAA acts (under the guise of 'serving' the public), I'm glad that they get a substantially smaller cut from my $.75 DVD rentals than they do from $10 movie tickets. If I could watch films and not give them a single penny, I would. The studios have been tremendously powerful since they were formed- the manner in which they wield the MPAA ratings as a weapon to silence opposition and independent thought is one of many ways in which this absolute power is abused.
The public isn't served, the film makers aren't served, the only people making out like bandits in this equation are the studios. The independent film maker has no chance in this scenario. This small group of studio execs (and, every day, getting smaller) makes the decision as to what we can and cannot watch and can effectively silence anyone that has a different perspective or who can't afford to pay tribute- just one more example of the wealthier getting ever wealthier and shrinking in numbers while the poor keep getting poorer and growing.
It's not democratic, it's not just, it's not American and it's not right.