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2017-08-05 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Moviegoers Getting Fed Up With All The F****** Cursing

[HOTAIR] A new Harris Poll has revealed that Americans are growing pretty g***** tired of all this f****** cursing, at least those paying a nice chunk of change to be entertained in a movie theater.
Yeah. I hate that f*****g s**t.
Scriptwriters typically intend bad words to emphasize a character’s emotional intensity, as do lazy speakers in private conversations. But those words have really become so common they strike many as mere verbal crutches for bad actors and a sign of their weak f****** vocabularies.
It p****s me off in movies, and it p****s me off when I hear it in public. It's nothing but s****y behavior.
The most offensive swear words, the Hollywood Reporter reports, are taking the name of Jesus Christ in vain. A third of respondents said they’d completely avoid a movie if they knew that was in there. A close second was g****** with f*** right behind.
That's because those dumb s**********s weren't raised right.
It’s no f****** surprise that Republicans are more repulsed by swearing than are Democrats; 45% of them dislike the f-word in movies against only 25% of D***. More women (37%) are bothered by that than men (26%).
Being more conservative generally, Publicans tend to have better manners than Sinners. It's just another reason for Pharisees and Sadducees to dislike them.
Younger people seem less bothered by cinematic cursing than seniors. In fact, more than half of those over 72 would skip a film with f*** and g****** in it. I said, MORE THAN HALF OF THOSE OVER 72 WOULD SKIP A MOVIE WITH F*** OR G****** IN IT.
I guess if you've grown up hearing Mom and Dad or Step-parent casually saying f**k and s**t you're used to it so you don't give a d**n when you hear it outside the home.
Evangelicals appear the most sensitive to movie cursing. Seventy-four percent would not pay to see a movie using f*** while 90% would avoid a film using Jesus Christ in vain. Evangelicals were also bothered by s***, d**n, h***, p*** and c**p.
One of my personal least favorites is c**p, which is a synonym for s**t.
The poll was commissioned by filmmaker Spencer Folmar, director of “Generational Sins.” Folmar said the data helped him better understand the audience, adding, “We may create an alternate version for those who want to enjoy the story without all the language that comes naturally to our characters.”
I watched a John Wayne movie -- McClintock -- last night. Nary a "d**n" to be heard. Lumpenintellectuals would have come down with the vapors when Maureen O'Hara got spanked.
That could create one version of “Generational Sins” with a PG-13 rating and another rated NFW (No F****** Way).

Since the inauguration, leading Democratic politicians have gone all in for strong language to show the intensity of their feelings. Congratulations on choosing yet another way to drive away former Democratic voters, guys -- this is how you get more Trump.

Posted by Fred 2017-08-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Valid point.

Hiku

I cannot point to anything.

Please forgive my tresspass
upon you
for my Vulgarity,

Always Cursing, I Am.

Maybe I have Tourettes Syndrome.

Maybe I am actually

a broken record.

Posted by newc 2017-08-05 01:16|| 2017-08-05 01:16|| Front Page Top

#2 People still go to movies?

Posted by Skidmark 2017-08-05 07:30|| 2017-08-05 07:30|| Front Page Top

#3 When everyone is Lenny Bruce the product no longer has value.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-08-05 07:31|| 2017-08-05 07:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Hollyweird thinks it's intellectually chic to curse and show live sex shows on the silver screen? Hollywood has become a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-08-05 09:01|| 2017-08-05 09:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Hollywood has no ideas and so just turn out cap. I don't mind cursing, as I do it a lot myself, but when they just use it to replace dialog and acting it is very boring and kills the movie.

Posted by DarthVader 2017-08-05 10:08|| 2017-08-05 10:08|| Front Page Top

#6 We need some more imports?

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-08-05 10:33|| 2017-08-05 10:33|| Front Page Top

#7 Check out the old movies on TV sometime. Recently I watched Them!, Dial M for Murder and Some Like it Hot. Can't remember a single curse word in any of them. But they were highly entertaining.

I think it was on TCM. No advertisements either. Some of the cable movie channels show good movies but interrupt them every ten minutes with five minutes of advertising. Who do they think is watching all those advertisements? I can't.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-08-05 12:10|| 2017-08-05 12:10|| Front Page Top

#8 Congratulations on choosing yet another way to drive away former Democratic voters, guys -- this is how you get more Trump.

Shhhhhh!!!! Don't tell them!

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-08-05 12:14|| 2017-08-05 12:14|| Front Page Top

#9 Yes. After at least 40 years of overuse, "f---" and "s---" are about as shocking as "the" and "and." But considerably more tiresome.

And, yes, I didn't spell them out because I was raised in the 1940-50s.

Posted by Tom 2017-08-05 16:09|| 2017-08-05 16:09|| Front Page Top

#10 I have fracking SciFi gorram Tourrette's, nerf herder!

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2017-08-05 20:58|| 2017-08-05 20:58|| Front Page Top

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