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[quote]The "unusual, hilarious and endearingly weird" [B][URL="http://www.moviefone.com/movie/rango/35373/main"]'Rango'[/URL][/B] hit theaters last weekend (check out our own [URL="http://blog.moviefone.com/2011/03/04/rango-review/"]Eric D. Snider's review[/URL] of the movie), and the animated PG western is causing a stir among anti-smoking advocates who say that the number of characters who light up are unacceptable. "A lot of kids are going to start smoking because of this movie," said Stanton Glantz director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California–San Francisco.
Breathe California's project "Thumbs Up! Thumbs Down!" has been keeping a tally of instances where characters in 'Rango' smoke, and Kori Titus, CEO of the nonprofit, says the numbers are up to 60. According to Titus, the only other animated film to match 'Rango' was [URL="http://www.moviefone.com/movie/101-dalmatians/4910/main"]'101 Dalmatians,'[/URL] whose cruel character, Cruella De Vil, was a total chain-smoker (also 60 times over).
Glantz's group and other smoke-free organizations are renewing efforts with the MPAA to slap an R-rating on any film that shows smoking. In late February, Smoke Free Movies (another one of Glantz's projects) ran ads in Variety and The Hollywood Reporter that panned studio execs for approving a PG-rating. "If we had known it's as bad as it is, this ad would have been even tougher," Glantz said.
Critics and audiences are praising 'Rango' for being a grown-up cartoon, making references to spaghetti westerns (lots of smoking in those films ... ) and other adult-friendly movies -- which really isn't anything that animated flicks like 'Shrek' haven't done. Disguising mature humor and situations in kids' films isn't the same as taking a puff, but as Virginia Lam -- a spokeswoman for Paramount -- says, "The images of smoking in the film ... are portrayed by supporting characters and are not intended to be celebrated or emulated."
Should the MPAA have upped the rating on this one, because most audiences are viewing 'Rango' as a kid's movie?[/quote]
[quote]the only other animated film to match 'Rango' was [URL="http://www.moviefone.com/movie/101-dalmatians/4910/main"]'101 Dalmatians,'[/URL] whose cruel character, Cruella De Vil, was a total chain-smoker (also 60 times over)[/quote]
Well if 101 Dalmations can do it why can't Rango. This is dumb.
Alot of kids will not start smoking because of this film, because it's your peers that cause you to smoke, not a dumb fucking 3d movie.
Who cares if the characters in the movie smoke?
People kill each other in movies all the time, and no one seems to care about it.
When I was little I watched a movie where someone smoked a cigarette
I now smoke six packs a day
It IS dumb.
Seriously, if you light up because an animated lizard lights up, you deserve lung cancer in the first place :I
When I see a cartoon character smoke or an animated character or even a real life actor smoke, the first thing running through my mind isn't "Oh man I want to smoke".
[quote]A lot of kids are going to start smoking because of this movie[/quote]
That's not how it works. If a kid watches a movie featuring a serial murderer, do they become serial murderers themselves? No.
[QUOTE=JLea;28553549]Alot of kids will not start smoking because of this film, because it's your peers that cause you to smoke, not a dumb fucking 3d movie.[/QUOTE]
Pretty much this.
[QUOTE=-Chief-;28553575]Who cares if the characters in the movie smoke?
People kill each other in movies all the time, and no one seems to care about it.[/QUOTE]
This cannot be more true.
Yes and a lot of people who play counter-strike murder people, we know
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To be honest, smoking does look pretty damn cool when a badass person does it. I still don't smoke though.
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Just because it's animated doesn't mean it needs to be a kids movie.
You can't buy publicity like this.
I love how soccer moms are the most outspoken and thus get the most attention. People look at rango and say oh it's animated so it's fully a childrens movie. Rango was able to cater to both the adult and children audiences, but I'm pretty sure neither audience got the urge to go light up because they watched it.
Fuck off, it's a western.
If the animals in the movie smoke, I should smoke to!
YESSS! My 6-year-old nephew went to see this movie & now he lights up all the time!
I want to see this, but none of my friends wants to.
cigarettes killed my father and raped my mother.
I hate the stupid sterotype of "anything kids see in a movie makes them want to do it in real life"
Not all kids are socially akward downies with IQ in the single digits and with a willpower as strong as a hunk of wet cardboard.
Also notice how in movies people do heroic acts and you don't see kids jumping into burning buildings to save someone.
Kids today smoke for attention or group pressure.
In other news critics have been saying for weeks that this movie is oriented towards adults anyways.
Smoke Free Movies sounds like a really fucking retarded project.
People smoke. Movies depict people. Deal with it.
I nearly laughed my ass off when I read that article. Was expecting some soccer mom to be bitching about the language used; not smoking. Of all things!
Hey, hey, guys. I watched so much Disney when I was little, and all those villains who lit up all the time totally inspired to be a chain smoker.
/not really, the smoke gives me hives.
I dunno about you guys but while watching all the smoking in Rango, I really wanted my girlfriend to give me a blowjob.
Smoking in films just does that to me.
[quote=retards]Glantz's group and other smoke-free organizations are renewing efforts with the MPAA to slap an R-rating on any film that shows smoking[/quote]
an R rating? isnt that just slightly overdoing it?
Soccer moms
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Having seen this, I laughed out loud at a lot of this article.
However, the point they SHOULD have raised is that the language can be a bit much if you really are expecting a kids' movie. Lots of "damns" and "hells" which obviously don't bother anyone over the age of like 8, but it's worth mentioning. Don't really think it deserves higher than a PG though.
[QUOTE=legolover122;28554437]an R rating? isnt that just slightly overdoing it?[/QUOTE]
Well it makes sense don't it? If there's a lot of violence in films, they give [I]that[/I] an R rating, and because smoking kills, that's violent in it's own way. I don't want my kids seeing no killer weapons. Y'know Charles Manson smoked cigarettes. I don't want my kids to be growing up killing everyone.
While I can kind of understand their goals (I myself refuse to smoke, and see it as stupid and foolish), it's kind of stupid to pretend that nobody ever smokes.
Frankly seeing it in movies made me want to smoke less. It seemed like in every kids movie that had smoking, it was always the villain who smoked.
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