The MPAA-Appropriate Porno Poster
Kevin Smith 'caves'
This movie poster, for Kevin Smith's October release Zack and Miri Make a Porno, was deemed inappropriate by the MPAA, which doesn't just hate BitTorrent users but also regulates all movie advertising in exchange for slapping letters like "PG" and "R" on movies to keep kids safe. Because the poster, like those fake Puma ads, insinuated oral sex, they were not cleared for use by Hollywood's regulatory body. (This, after the MPAA agreed to downgrade the movie's rating from NC-17 to R.) So Kevin Smith went back to the drawing board, and came up with this safer, family-friendly version:
All is well in the world again.
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i wanna see Seth naked woohoo!
That new poster is awesome.
That is just too awesome for words. Why spend time and money on a cool poster if it's just going to get shot down? Yep. I like a nice backhanded slam to the MPAA.
It's great spin that he's some hero for doing this instead of telling the MPAA to go F themselves.
This just continues the conspiracy that the MPAA want people to get away from sex (and therefore maybe love…) but make sure that violence, gore and brutality is in our faces all the time. Some posters are nothing but broken limbs and blood, yet a sex comedy poster that cleverly and indirectly references oral sex cannot pass.
Ive seen more nudity and explecit pictures on billboards and magazines.