Anti-smoking advocates are calling the animated PG movie Rango a public health hazard for its numerous depictions of smoking.
2011 was a great year for the film industry. Box office flops were large in number, but even so a lot of instant classics were released throughout last year. I wonder though, out of all the hundreds of movies that came out in 2011, which ones were the absolute best of the best? Let’s examine this according to each distinct film season.
LRA writes: Our efforts to avert disaster by avoiding this past weeks horrible offerings were only partially successful when our back up films turned out to be no better with only a couple exceptions. Other than Brian, who played a bit of catch up this week by explaining why both Hanna and Rango were two of last years best films, James and I found ourselves on the complete opposite side of the spectrum with our film choices which include the new fantasy/adventure Journey 2: The Mysterious Island and the comedy(?) Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie. We also find some time to cover some recent television shows we have been watching as well as our thoughts on the 84th Academy Awards show. Featured music this week is from the album "Journey's Greatest Hits" and the "Rango" motion picture soundtrack.
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Mondo have done it again, with a set of three new posters to celebrate the Academy Awards season. Taking two of our favourite films of 2011, Mondo has released a poster for Gore Verbinski’s animated film Rango, and Martin Scorsese’s love letter to cinema, Hugo.
Overly sensitive. None of the characters are "humans" or "real" and last time I checked good parenting trumped a 2 hour movie.
Sorry for getting a bit political, but I hate how people have turned to blame individual movies for these sort of issues when they happen so infrequently and when used tend to support the genre and not some cigarette brand like they did in the old days of film.
Ohhhh....get over yourselves. I think these groups hurt themselves more when they cause public out cries like this than anything. I mean doing disruptful things, bashing on something thats loved, and doing things to purposely get attention is stupid. It makes more people hate your group than like it.
Plus you could take another route. Ask the company if you can do anti smoking things with them. Put a DVD extra in there which is a short of Rango not smoking. Put a commercial before the movie. Anything with common sense has a better motive.