Standards for Restrict Content: R vs NC-17 vs other

You mean those movies that come on showtime and cinamax (skinamax) in the wee hours of the night and have really bad scripts, really bad acting, and when the sex happens (and it happens a lot) It looks so fake and the people are so far apart the guy looks more like his is humping her knees than her lady parts?

Sony? I thought film producers weren't allowed to have theaters in the USA, which is why it was neat to go to a Warner Brothers theater in the UK. Magic Johnson? The basketball player has a movie theater chain? AMC? That American Movie Classics movie channel has theaters? I don't recognize any of those chains. I feel . . so uninformed. And . . . a moron. Most, I now see, of the theaters near me are in fact American Movie Classic theaters. Wow, so, I see I never pay attention.

Cinema Arts Theatre
AMC Loews Shirlington 7

Ok, both are Art house theaters, but the first one doesn't have a chain name in the title, and the other doesn't mention the art thingie. Okay.

Ticket prices, here, though are $8.75 in the evening.

In the two cities I have lived in the "artsy" theaters only kept their doors open by begging the city council for large payments every year, in addition to being in city owned buildings at no or greatly reduced rent.

I love snowcaps. The last theater near me that still had snowcaps available was bought out by someone that doesn't stock snowcaps. I'm very sad.

For some reason, popcorn at home just doesn't quite do it. Maybe if I had one of those movie theatre poppers, I actually saw one for about 500 bucks once. The rest of that post though, I will agree with.

No, I've actually looked into that Most of those on cinamax (and gave it that "skinamax" nickname) used to be "adult thrillers" rated R (and starring Shannon Tweed . . I think). Though they also slip in pornos and actually sometimes children's movies. I think the people that do the schedules are not always paying attention.

Slow down, Hon. Yes, Sony is allowed to own theatres now, they merged with Loews. AMC=American Multi Cinemas, and yes, Virginia, Magic Johnson has a chain of Theatres. I think Cineplex Odeon is still around, or the may have merged, I'm not sure. There are also a few United Artist theatres around as well.

Are those the theatres that show John Wayne movies all the time?

Nope, if they did that, there would be no need for welfare. They seem big on Micheal Moore movies and stuff narrated by Al Gore.

As a liberal I would like to go on record for saying both Micheal Moore and AL Gore are kooks.

Oh. Idiot Comedies and Bad Science Fiction, I get it.......

On the Bad Science Fiction front -

What I want to know is what AL Gore has to do with Slave Girls and Giant Birds.

Well he IS married to Tipper. As far as Slave Girls go..I can't answer that.

All that time around Bill . .. and not actually having the same level or presence or the status of actually being President . . .

Giant Birds - good for the environment
slave girls - good for the environment - need workers as the tech base reverts back to a much lower level, one "much healthier for the environment"

Just in contrast, here in Boston more and more mainline movie screens are dark; the one chain that's been opening new cinemas is Landmark, the "artsy" one. (To the larger point though, it's Boston: here every business feeds at the public trough, one way or another.)