Looking back on our censorship attempts

After talking with Matt and discussing what we have gone through I am going to make a few posts that I think we should discuss. One is Matt had suggested we look at the idea of creating rating boards that are "like" minded in order to prevent certain discrepancies. This is based in the fact that when it came to our discussion on the censorship of the rape scene, primarily on the statement of becoming a man after raping/having sex we had two different ideas behind the censorship of the line. One comes from trying to shape society with censorship while the other seems to be based on purely the obscenity of the statement. Do we think that it is more beneficial for a group to get ALL "like" minded individuals to prevent such occurrences, or that it is worth having such conflicts in a group?

Last house on the left(2009) - Violence

Starters, I think the first scene should be entirely cut, it doesn't really move the story along, is violent, and we don't even see all the main characters in it. I think we should take out the scenes of pot smoking, they don't really add anything to the story, and we don't want to show drugs as being ok. Cursing after the crash and blood on his face is ok, I think we should cut the blood splattering on the window however. The beating after the crash is a bit too much, and when the kill mary's friend, We should only show reaction scenes in this beating. The rape scene lasts too long, and is too graphic, we should cut the lines where he tells his son thats how you become a man, as well as ones that imply its a good thing and that he is bad for doing so. we cant cut the rape scene, because I think the scene with her parents is needed to show how one should react. Mary getting shoti think should be soon, as well as the medical procedure. people should know what happens when someone gets shot. the hand in the disposal, and hammer to head should be cut as well as the fire poker scene. cut the scene with the microwave at the end as well.

Last house on the Left (2009) - Language

I think I found myself missing a few of the languages parts just because I wasn't focusing very well. If you have some I don't say please feel free to add them. There is cursing in the opening scene, that I think could be cut out, he says shit in the stitches scene, but I think the context is worthy of a shit and a 13yr old could handle this. there is some cursing in the final chase scenes as well, and I don't think it needs to be there.