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No they don't. I'm assuming we are talking about stills from the movie.

The film is 1 hour 36 minutes long =96 minutes.

At 24 frames a second that gives you (24x60x60) 86,400 images to take out of context.

If we are talking about publicity materials I can assure you that film makers often have very little, if ANY, control over that.
How could the stills being taken out of context be relevant if they show sexualised 12 year olds in an entertainment setting? It's not like the images were sexed up (excuse the pun).

Granted, I am not a parent.
 
How could the stills being taken out of context be relevant if they show sexualised 12 year olds in an entertainment setting? It's not like the images were sexed up (excuse the pun).

Because context is ALL important! Cinema is a visual medium. You can't explore a subject without portraying it. If you follow the path of not showing anything on screen that even edges towards pandering to illegality - as far as I can tell from the synopses I have read, nothing illegal taking place in this film; no character does anything that is against the law in any way* - then you are going to have to trash 98% of Western culture of the last 500 odd years.





*Morally dubious maybe, but isn't that what fiction is for?
 
I would just say there can't be anything actually illegal in the movie, as I would assume it would not have passed the censor (even the French one, which surely is more liberal than most) and got a release if that was the case. I've yet to see, for instance, an actual snuff film get to the box office. Also, I'm not a parent either so couldn't comment on how I would feel were I, and had to look at those pictures in the context of my own children, but again, and surely this is the important point, I could just not watch it or look at the pictures. It's not like they're being sent to you in a spam email or whatever is it? You have to go looking for them to be outraged/offended/disgusted by them.

So again, the point I'm making, with this or any other "questionable" movie is, why should any one group decide what should and shouldn't be shown on the screen? I guess governments and censors have that job, but why should private individuals get to decide that? I also understand you're not saying that's ok, AV, and just have your own moral objection to the movie. But that wasn't what I was asking. I didn't say "do you think this movie is bad?" I said "do you think it's ok for people to decide a movie should be banned/removed because they, a minority (200,000 is a minority surely, against millions of Netflix subscribers) say so?"
 
I watched The Translators, a french movie where nine translators are hired to translate the third volume in a best selling series, with strict rules to protect anything leaking. When it does, it becomes a whodunit with plenty of (almost too many) twists and turns. Pretty decent overall.

Not interested in Cuties but what is interesting is that on Rotten Tomatoes it has an 89% rating from 36 "critics" and a 3% audience score rating from 1,047 people - I think that tells us something!
 
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Ashfall (2019)

Combined disaster / covert South Korean Ops in North Korea movie. Some well done action sequences, some light comedy relief and a plot hole or three. I enjoyed it.
 
John Boorman's slightly bonkers reworking of Malory's Mort D'Arthur, Excalibur (which if we're still totalling illegality/morality points here features scenes of adultery, rape, murder, incest, matricide, fratricide, regicide and some seriously weird acting). I loved it.
 
Not seen it before, JM? I thought you had...

On the list to rewatch at some point.... but Nicol Williamson as Merlin! :)
 
Endscene (almost) in Excalibur, as the Lady of the Lake takes back the sword and the rising sun glints on its blade before it slides back down beneath the water... superb! Also love the way Arthur pulls himself along the lance he's been speared with by Mordred to get to him in order to kill him. Now that's hardcore!
 
Wasn't she living with Liam Neeson at this point?
 
AND Helen Mirren's ****!
There's never a short supply of invigorating screen moments where Helen gets her kit off. Obviously I wont put the link here, but surf around to find her modeling session from Ken Russell's "Savage Messiah". The scene is all over the intertubes and will assuredly satisfy many of your HM needs...
 
Decided to watch Darkest Hour. Was pretty impressed. I liked how they did a warts-n-all thing on Churchill, showed the rivalry and opposition he had to face, and didn't sugar coat the Calais sacrifice. I liked that he wasn' presented as a saviour of the nation in the beginning, and that it was (apparently) the opinion of the ordinary folk who convinced him not to sue for peace/surrender. Of course it may not have been that way, but I thought it was handled well. Gary Oldman superb of course; I was also glad to see Samuel West, whose role in the series Mr. Selfridge I very much enjoyed. A good movie overall. I wouldn't say a classic but I'm glad I watched it. Directing was very clever too, all that sort of things happening outside as in another world, almost slow-motion.
 
There's never a short supply of invigorating screen moments where Helen gets her kit off. Obviously I wont put the link here, but surf around to find her modeling session from Ken Russell's "Savage Messiah". The scene is all over the intertubes and will assuredly satisfy many of your HM needs...

Age of Consent... Caligula...
 
Double feature tonight

and since Halloween is the end of the month one of my other pure fun baseball movies with a good helping of fantasy.I will be humming the tunes all day.
Hamilton may be what people want from a musical and it is a good film of today but I could not hum a single tune from it after I saw it.

 
Double feature tonight

and since Halloween is the end of the month one of my other pure fun baseball movies with a good helping of fantasy.I will be humming the tunes all day.
Hamilton may be what people want from a musical and it is a good film of today but I could not hum a single tune from it after I saw it.


What's this got to do with Hellen Mirren's norks? ;)
 
I'm planning on watching The Wolf of Snow Hollow tonight. The final film of the late Robert Forster.

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Got dragged into re-watching Disney's The Black Hole.

It looks terrific, has a great John Barry soundtrack and is still surprisingly dark, but some definite minuses (the script generally but especially the ending, the dodgy science throughout, ESP...) Nevertheless, I find myself more tolerant of it these days.... which is a surprise.
 
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