Today in MPAA Hypocrisy: Good vs. Bad Oral Sex, Kids With
Weapons  mpaa_poster_ban.jpgI get just as tired of writing this
crap up as you probably do reading about it, but for some reason
it feels like the beginning of the end of Hollywood in a way:
The MPAA ratings board is under assault again for determining
the oral-sex sequence featured in Blue Valentine is worthy of at
least some of the film's NC-17, while letting the same act -- by
two women -- slide in the R-rated Black Swan. Oh, and then
there's the kid with the knife.  Manufactured controversies
aside, I just seem to have a better day when the ratings board
doesn't behave as though every moviegoer in America is stupid --
as though we wouldn't notice the cunnilingal (?) similarities
between Black Swan and Blue Valentine, or that the Weinsteins or
the creatives behind the latter film wouldn't invoke them ahead
of this week's ratings-board appeal, which seems to be going
pretty much nowhere:  In Black Swan, Mila Kunis' character
performs oral sex on Nata