How jacked up is this?

[ourbluenation]

These posters are ok with the MPAA...



But this one is no bueno...



Alex Gibney’s new critically-acclaimed documentary Taxi to the Dark Side follows the path of Afghan taxi driver Dilawar, who was innocent of any terrorist ties but still “tortured to death by interrogators in the U.S. prison at Bagram Air Base.” It also examines the Bush administration’s torture practices at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib.

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has rejected Taxi’s poster as being “not suitable for all audiences.” The poster for the film simply shows two soldiers walking away from the camera, holding a hooded detainee between them. Variety notes that the military has also tried to censor the photo on the poster...

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According to ThinkFilm, which produced the documentary, the MPAA objected to the “image of the hood.” Last year, the MPAA also censored the poster for the documentary The Road to Guantanamo, because it showed a detainee “hanging by his handcuffed wrists, with a burlap sack over his head and a blindfold tied around the hood.”

As Gibney notes, Taxi is “not a horror film.” It is “a documentary and that image is a documentary image.” ThinkFilm plans to appeal the MPAA’s ruling.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/19/mpaa-taxi-poster/

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Very.

[Asgaya Dihi]

2. They've been at that for ages

There was a short documentary about the MPAA I saw a while back, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, linked below. Nobody but them seems to understand whatever standards they use. They make it up as they go and they aren't really accountable to anyone, certainly not to us.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-559517494445537267&hl=en

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

3. Somebody is in

somebody's pocket.

[razors edge]

4. Gotta get access to the

tanks and planes for the gung-ho killem-ups.

[A HERETIC I AM]

5. Luckily, Jack Valenti is dead...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Valenti
Perhaps in time, they will get some saner voices on that ratings board.

[Quantess]

6. That's screwed up.