Comments on: Study Shows Less Swearing Equals Bigger Boxoffice

By: nbakid2000

nbakid2000 — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:01:45 +0000

We used to use screenit.com back in the day when I was a kid because my parents were so protective of what I saw in films.

It actually is a VERY good website for those concerned with offensive content in movies.

By: Kristina

Kristina — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:48:50 +0000

@Kate

Screenit.com is the website that counts every swear word, use of drugs or alcohol, sexual content, violence, impressionable behavior, and characters as role models. I shit you not, there is a category called “characters as role models”.

By: Kate

Kate — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:59:12 +0000

I’m curious how parents know how much swearing is in a movie to begin with…word of mouth? Are there websites out there that tell parents exactly how many of each kind of swear word are in each movie? That wouldn’t surprise me too much actually…

By: omar

omar — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:21:37 +0000

When did Indiana Jones become of kids movie? These kids nowadays didn’t grow with the 80’s stuff we did, movies now are soft and weak PG garbage, all the companies want is to make alot of money(who wouldn’t?), and alienate adults, that’s why I don’t waste my money seeing them. Haji

By: Kristina

Kristina — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:19:23 +0000

This post lends credence to my theory that Indy 4 will NOT be the biggest movie of the year. Yeah, Indy’s popular, but parents don’t want to take little kids to a violent movie. PIxar’s Wall-E is safe and appealing for a much broader audience than Indy 4. Bet my butt Wall-E wins the year.

By: Orren Jensen

Orren Jensen — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:42:45 +0000

When talk about swearing in movies you have to look at the MPAA and how they look at it. They may allow words like shit and damn into PG movies because they are common and affect the audience less (Not as vulgar of curse words). But if there is F-bombs left and right it turns the audience off because of its vulgarity. Just look at the defection of the F-word or should I say lack of one. It has a different defection depending on what part of speech it is use in. Most of the time it is used as a reference to sex; mother F-er, go F yourself, ect. Since it can mean so many things and most often or not referee to sex it turns people off when they here it in a movie. Therefore yes “strong language” will make box office number go down because who like to here fuck every five minutes.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:34:41 +0000

I sometimes feel too much profanity in a film can make the film less interesting, like Rob Zombie films who seems to have cornered the market on F-Bombs (like Devil’s Rejects which has, what, 400 swear words or something?). On the other hand, I really despise these kinds of marketing tools that studio and producers will squish more and more life out of a film to reel in better profits. So, while I agree, and it is obviously true, I think its best that the studios don’t know that its true.

By: nbakid2000

nbakid2000 — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:01:29 +0000

You know, the best movies I’ve recently seen are rated “R” and both had virtually no profanity in them at all –

The Royal Tennenbaums
No Country for Old Men

This just proves that you don’t need excessive profanity in a movie to make it good. In fact (and trust me, I’m not a prude) too much profanity brings a film down (Gone Baby Gone).

By: sleeve

sleeve — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:51:15 +0000

Well son of a bitch! That’s really no surprise. There are still concerned parents out there (contrary to popular belief) who don’t want their kids to hear swearing.

By: achmed

achmed — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:17:09 +0000

No wonder POTC made so much at the box office.