You know, I don’t have much particular affection for Kevin Smith or his work–I think his best years were behind him after Mallrats, and I have to wonder if I didn’t like Mallrats because I was roughly the protagonists’ age when it emerged, thus giving me a note of resonance with it. That and my best friend at the time was totally a Brodie whilst I was the T.S. of the outfit, except I NEVER managed to score a Brandi. I’m sorry to all my exes, but truly, NONE of you were a match for mid-nineties Claire Forlani. It just doesn’t happen.
But even I’m annoyed that Kevin Smith’s once again getting slammed by title censorship. First, no network would air advertising for Zack and Miri Make A Porno because it had the word “porno” in it, and as we all know, hearing the word “porno” on network television causes nuns and small children’s heads alike to burst into flame.
And now, what do I find, but his upcoming A Couple of Dicks has been changed…to A Couple of Cops.
…sigh…
Seriously, does no one understand basic irony? That “dick” is Depression-era slang for “detective”? Or are we all so concerned about “naughty language” that we’re going ban-happy? I don’t know, but whatever it is, I don’t much like it.
Sorry, Kevin.
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Oh man…now I’ve heard just about everything a person could hear in one lifetime. See, I was out hunting up newsy bits to pass on to you–you know how I do–and what do I find?
They’ve already half cast the FOURTH installment of Shrek.
Dubbed Shrek Forever After, it will feature one of the best parts of both The Office and Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Craig Robinson, in a heretofore unseen role known as “Cookie”. Whether that’s a reference to a chef, as in one of Jim Varney’s last roles in the Disney movie Atlantis, or a reference to a baked good in the style of Shrek character The Gingerbread Man, it’s not yet known either way.
The rest of the cast, at last report, is pretty much the same, meaning that Mike Myers et al are about to get their hands on a whole lot of fat loot for sitting around reading a script into a microphone. Again.
I’ll be honest, the third one really wasn’t that great. It didn’t have the same unique qualities that made the first two Shreks so very interesting. Could the fourth one pull it out of its downward spiral? We’ll have to wait a good long while as they’re still casting.
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The final poster for Kevin Smith’s film, which is ultra-funny.
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Averting commercial suicide, director Kevin Smith has won an appeal to get an R rating for his comedy Zack and Miri Make a Porno. The movie was originally given a NC-17 rating, effectively prohibiting anyone under 17 from seeing the movie.
A MPAA spokesperson said the rating was revised after the group’s appeals board viewed the movie.
The film, set to open this October, has longtime platonic friends Zack and Miri solve their cash flow problems by creating an adult film together. The story picks up from there.
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The NC-17 rating is considered a death sentence for movies as most movie theaters don’t show these movies and most distributors don’t even consider supporting one. It seems that director Kevin Smith is having a couple of issues with the rating of his upcoming comedy Zack and Miri Make a Porno which was recently issued with a NC-17 rating from MPAA.
Seth Rogen, who stars in the film, has a few choice words for the MPAA: "They are really ****ing around with us…A guy ****ing a donkey, they ain’t got no problem with, but a man and a woman having sex they seem to have real issues with, for some weird reason. It’s insane. It’s completely insane."
He also talks about the harsh treatment movies get when it comes to sex than violence. "They [fight against] sex stuff. Isn’t that weird?” he asked. “It’s really crazy to me that ‘Hostel’ is fine, with people gouging their eyes out and sh– like that, but you can’t show two people having sex — that’s too much."
The film currently has a release date of October 31.
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