Ironicly, this afternoon I watched the USA freedom of speech themed movie "the People vs. Larry Flynt" on the USA channel. Now, the ironic thing is that it was HEAVILY censored. Middle fingers had the little black bars over them to where it just looked like they had a black fingers and such. I hate movie censorship (those damn puritan ideals still haunt our society), but none the less this was a good movie. The movie reminded me a lot of the book "Reefer Madness" by Eric Schlosser, because (despite the title) the largest part of the book was about the history of obsenity laws in the US and how Rubin Streuman (sp?) and Larry Flynt were two of the main champions of freedom of speech. Strueman was possibly more intersting than Flynt, and although not as famous, was an even earlier and more powerfull porn king.
I will give the movie 4/5 stars.
Since this is the first formal movie review on my blog, I will now give my rating system:
5/5 stars - You must see this
4/5 stars - You probably should see this
3/5 stars - Close call, it could go either way
2/5 stars - You probably don't want to see this
1/5 stars - Don't even waste your time on this crap
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