As if sitting through FBI and other copyright warnings—which you can’t skip—wasn’t enough, we might soon be subjected to anti-smoking warnings on our DVDs, if a group of state attorneys general have their way.
Does anyone nowdays really not know that smoking is bad for you? And do we really need to sit through another fucking warning before being allowed to watch the movies that we pay money for? Fuck these people. It’s not like there’s any shortage of anti-smoking messages in American culture nowdays. Kids are bombarded with them on TV, at school, by parents. Is adding these messages to DVDs really going to do anything except annoy the fuck out of viewers?
Let me get on the record as saying that i’m not a smoker. I think it’s a gross and disgusting habit, and, if asked, i would discourage anyone from taking it up. But that still doesn’t mean that i want to ban it, and nor do i think that we need to be harangued by an anti-smoking tirade every time we turn on the DVD player.
This sucks. If they want to put anti-smoking ads on TV, as long as they can pay the advertising costs I don’t care. But putting it on media that I buy is just plain wrong. This is like putting an audio warning that you can’t skip on the front of a CD that warns you against drinking Drano. Everyone knows it’s bad for you, and you’re just pissing people off.
Hallelujah. I’m a non-smoker but goddamn, this is going to do nothing but piss off a lot of people. I have enough of a blood pressure spike when I can’t fast forward through the FBI pirating warnings or worse yet, the “coming attractions” promos for other DVDs. Bastards.
Anyone have a list of which states are involved? If Madigan signed up for this I’m going to write a pissed-off letter.
Good lord. I do not want to meet the person so easily swayed that seeing a message before “Seed Of Chucky” makes them change their even a small part of their life.
I am stunned - stunned - to read that California is not one of the 32 states that have signed onto this idiocy. I was pretty sure we’d be spearheading something like this, but blessedly, we don’t seem to be involved at all. How refreshing.
IIRC, the Shrek 2 DVD had “coming attractions” that couldn’t be skipped. I’ve got to super-fast-forward through Shark Tale, Madagascar, etc. every time I pop that into the DVD player.
I’m not a smoker either but it’s shit like this which is why I have very little sympathy for the anti-smoking organizations and such.
What’s really creepy is that Arthur C. CLarke once wrote a book called “Ghost from the Grand banks”. It turned that in the future, smoking was so looked down upon that they were going back and editing the smoking out of old movies. There’s one scene where they were discussing how difficult it would be to edit all the smoking out of Casablanca.
It seems like children’s videos are the worst about this. I guess the assumption is that the parents don’t really care what the kids are watching, so long as its not adult content, and the kids are too young to complain.
While watching this movie, should you choose to eat popcorn, make damn sure it’s got that fake butter that’s good for you, and not too much salt, because Jeebus, you know what that does to you?!?
Also, sit up straight, when you watch movies at home, you usually end up all sprawled out on the floor or something and let me tell you mister, that’s going to come back and haunt you when you’re my age.
Oh my god is that beer you’re drinking? You and your dad, drinking beer all the damn time. Well one more of you down with liver problems is no skin off my back, it’s your health, go ahead you kill yourself.
Just watch your movie, I’m going to go for a brisk walk and maybe have a nice cup of green tea at the bookstore.
