Saving Private Ryan

[Everose]

You gotta be kidding me??? Hate?? Change the channel!! What's so hard to understand about that? We're not talking about Clockwork Orange here, no one will be forced to sit and watch Saving Private Ryan, they're adults, they can make a choice.

No thanks, no changing the channel for me. I voted for Kerry, but I will never buy into your hate agenda. Yours or anyone elses for that matter.

[ruthie]

What is the hate agenda? You might be right, you might be wrong. LOL

[scroff]

No thanks, no changing the channel for me. I voted for Kerry, but I will never buy into your hate agenda. Yours or anyone elses for that matter.

No changing the channel??? Well, hell, if people can't even work a remote I guess they do need the FCC to tell them what to watch. I'm sorry for those people.

[ruthie]

Again, it is Veterans Day. Has everyone forgotten the Veterans? Are we not supposed to honor them? Should we wait til we are out of Iraq to show these types of movies? That isn't realistic. Should we just cancel Veterans Day til the war is over? This is being shown tonight BECAUSE it's Veterans Day.

[hobbes]

I am not angry at Ruthie and Scroff, just disappointed.

There is no mandate that a certain movie needs to be aired on Veterans day and there is no censorship on that movie. It is available at any movie rental store.

A network may have decided that based on the current events that such a movie would have received poor viewings and cost them money, so they changed the programming. Just like airing a hardcore porn movie would have done them no favors.

This not censorship, but business.

The reasons they cited were politcal not reality, it is actually quite simple.

You can change the channel if you wish, but if the airing network is afraid that the show it airs will offend viewers and cause low ratings, the show will not be aired.

It is like the documentary on Ronald Reagan that was made. The test audience found it offensive and the entire movie was thrown away. That is the nature of business. Certain climates allow some things that another may not.

I am sure this movie will see air time again, it is the context of the war that has changed programming. Anyone who believes the excuse about the FCC is a simpleton.

[hobbes]

And scroffsey, you want "faith in the American viewer".

1) Faith is a religious word, it means belief without proof. So you must be referring to our Christian viewers.

2) The same viewers that voted for Bush.


So you think the American viewer is up to snuff on the appropriate movie selection, but you lambast the same for his choice in President.

Man, you are so lost.

[ruthie]

And scroffsey, you want "faith in the American viewer".

1) Faith is a religious word, it means belief without proof. So you must be referring to our Christian viewers.

2) The same viewers that voted for Bush.


So you think the American viewer is up to snuff on the appropriate movie selection, but you lambast the same for his choice in President.

Man, you are so lost.

do you believe a viewer lacks the ability to change the channel?

[hobbes]

Again, it is Veterans Day. Has everyone forgotten the Veterans? Are we not supposed to honor them? Should we wait til we are out of Iraq to show these types of movies? That isn't realistic. Should we just cancel Veterans Day til the war is over? This is being shown tonight BECAUSE it's Veterans Day.

There are "feel good movies" as well. Somedays reality needs to be swept to the back corner for a little pick-me-up. Families know everyday, the stress of having a child overseas.

Are you really not getting this?

[scroff]

I am not angry at Ruthie and Scroff, just disappointed.

There is no mandate that a certain movie needs to be aired on Veterans day and there is no censorship on that movie. It is available at any movie rental store.

A network may have decided that based on the current events that such a movie would have received poor viewings and cost them money, so they changed the programming. Just like airing a hardcore porn movie would have done them no favors.

This not censorship, but business.

The reasons they cited were politcal not reality, it is actually quite simple.

You can change the channel if you wish, but if the airing network is afraid that the show it airs will offend viewers and cause low ratings, the show will not be aired.

It is like the documentary on Ronald Reagan that was made. The test audience found it offensive and the entire movie was thrown away. That is the nature of business. Certain climates allow some things that another may not.

I am sure this movie will see air time again, it is the context of the war that has changed programming. Anyone who believes the excuse about the FCC is a simpleton.

I happen to agree with you about the reasons for not airing the movie being political, but I don't agree that business had anything to do with it.

The Reagan movie wasn't shelved because any "test audience" found it offensive, it was shelved because there was intense backlash from the Republican National Committee and others.

[hippychick]

With all big buisness its all about money...The thing that burns me up the most is pulling the movie cause they feel they'll lose ratings, then saying its because it might offend the audiances.
This is America, so called land of the free, if we want to watch the movie then we should and not have Big Brother tell us we can't. Sure we can rent it, but its the principal behind it!