First the walkie talkies, now this...

[Wussycat]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061121/tv_nm/spielberg_dc

Spielberg wants to get rid of TV violence. Apparently, like a lot of parents, he and his wife are too busy to monitor what their kids are watching. :mad:

[Nin-Nin69]

WTF?! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/Nin-Nin69/emot-psyduck.gif

Look Spielberg, you're a film maker who makes movies about Dinosaurs who eat people, Sharks who eat people, Aliens who kill people, The Holocaust, World War II battles, Black September, and Indiana Jones. You help provide a majority of what is violent on the airways and in theaters. You even get away with airing some of your R rated movies un-cut on broadcast television. SO WHY DO YOU HAVE ANY SAY IN THIS MATTER?! :mad:

You'd think a man who built an entire vault of movies and TV shows could learn how to use the V-Chip in his HDTV at home and leave everyone else out of this. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/Nin-Nin69/angry.gif

[Sparticus]

Uhhh... was he watching CSI on TiVo or something 'cause those air fairly late for the younger kiddies. And the violence on CSI is, I dunno, kinda clinical.

If he's so worried, maybe he should like, start producing cartoon shows again... :evil:

[ManicWebb]

Whoa whoa whoa whoa. Is this the same Spielberg we're talking about, here? Steven Spielberg? The man who recently directed a movie in which a little girl witnessed a bunch of dead bodies floating down a river? The man who once made a movie about shark attacks? The man behind a movie where a creepy witchdoctor ritualistically ripped the hearts out of men's chests? The man who killed Rufio?!

Also...

What exactly is he complaining about? That TV shows not made for children aren't appropriate for children? Where was this concern several years ago, by the way? His youngest children are 10 years old, sure, but his oldest is an adult. Where was his concern during the first few seasons of ER?

[Michael24]

Uhhh... was he watching CSI on TiVo or something 'cause those air fairly late for the younger kiddies.

In our area, CSI airs at 8PM.

[Rolling Cloud]

This is BULL****!!!! The dude who made: Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, and other edgy stuff is saying that THAT's violent! That's BULL!

[ManicWebb]

Television's kettle needs to get a restraining order against Steven Spielberg's pot.

[Frank Castle]

Oh who cares. It's just another celeb who thinks they can change the world just based on the fact that they think they're right and everyone else is wrong. I say let him say what he wants so we can move on to the next idiot.

[Nin-Nin69]

Oh who cares. It's just another celeb who thinks they can change the world just based on the fact that they think they're right and everyone else is wrong. I say let him say what he wants so we can move on to the next idiot.
I wouldn't either, but this is no ordinary celebrity. This is one who's got enough money to shove down almost every other celebrity's throats. 3/4th of the time when Spielberg says stupid crap like this he enforces it and gets a whole bunch of people to go through with what he wants. I don't think it's a great idea to deprive more people of their regular TV viewing pleasure because you've gotta think about the kids. Screw the kids!

The kids of this upcomming generation are already not acting like kids due to stupid parents. Stupid parents have safe guarded everything fun under the sun we enjoyed growing up and parents want someone else to do their job for them. Now we've got a ton of 10 year olds who think they're ICP and Snoop Dogg because their parents wern't there to discipline them and set them straight. Everyone forbids a responsible parent to discipline their kids so they don't act out of line in this day and age. Instead why not sign up for a reality TV show to somehow make this all better? Better yet call your local congressman and give them an earful so they can make the statement of one individual public and punish the rest of the country. Public Playgrounds, After School Activites, Video Games, Comic Books, Music, TV, take them all away so that 50 households living in an upscale neighborhood across America can somehow find peace for the children.

Look I'm glad we have shows like CSI, Law and Order, Heroes, Lost, The Office, and House to keep a majority of America entertained. Some of them may not be the best thing ever, but they do bring in the cash from their target auidences and keep Americans happy during their harsh lives. We don't need people like Spielberg who already have too much authority to punish the very people that made them millionaires. The V-Chip was invented for a reason. It's put into every electronic device under the sun for the past 13 years and nobody is using them. If it's anyone people like Spielberg should be safe guarding it should be stupid parents. Then again he must be a stupid parent for comming public with this and destroying E.T. forever.

[Nightwing]

If this guy was a normal man, he'd just be a guy with an opinion, so saying what he believes and thinking he's right wouldn't be a huge thing, because we all do that in our own minds. But THIS guy, yeah, as posted above there could be more trouble to it.


I wouldn't either, but this is no ordinary celebrity. This is one who's got enough money to shove down almost every other celebrity's throats. 3/4th of the time when Spielberg says stupid crap like this he enforces it and gets a whole bunch of people to go through with what he wants. I don't think it's a great idea to deprive more people of their regular TV viewing pleasure because you've gotta think about the kids. Screw the kids!

The kids of this upcomming generation are already not acting like kids due to stupid parents. Stupid parents have safe guarded everything fun under the sun we enjoyed growing up and parents want someone else to do their job for them. Now we've got a ton of 10 year olds who think they're ICP and Snoop Dogg because their parents wern't there to discipline them and set them straight. Everyone forbids a responsible parent to discipline their kids so they don't act out of line in this day and age. Instead why not sign up for a reality TV show to somehow make this all better? Better yet call your local congressman and give them an earful so they can make the statement of one individual public and punish the rest of the country. Public Playgrounds, After School Activites, Video Games, Comic Books, Music, TV, take them all away so that 50 households living in an upscale neighborhood across America can somehow find peace for the children.

Look I'm glad we have shows like CSI, Law and Order, Heroes, Lost, The Office, and House to keep a majority of America entertained. Some of them may not be the best thing ever, but they do bring in the cash from their target auidences and keep Americans happy during their harsh lives. We don't need people like Spielberg who already have too much authority to punish the very people that made them millionaires. The V-Chip was invented for a reason. It's put into every electronic device under the sun for the past 13 years and nobody is using them. If it's anyone people like Spielberg should be safe guarding it should be stupid parents. Then again he must be a stupid parent for comming public with this and destroying E.T. forever.

As a man with an opinion, I vote that this user's post be digitally replaced with a walkie-talkie. It'll make things nicer. :D

Actually I'd just like to quote it so the stupid parents read it if they haven't already. It just sucks, though, because stupid people don't like being called on the fact that they're stupid. So in response they just yell louder. Ya know, like on South Park. South Park brilliantly and symbolically potrays the stupidity of the parents this post is talking about. "RABBLE! RABBLE RABBLE!"

[Sparticus]

In our area, CSI airs at 8PM.

Wow. The earliest any CSI airs here is 9.

[Michael24]

Yeah, our CBS affiliate airs their primetime programming an hour earlier than other areas. I keep reading how Studio 60 faces competition from CSI: Miami, but here Miami comes on an hour before Studio 60, at 9PM.

[The Penguin]

I think many of you need to actually read the article. Agree or disagree with his thoughts on the matter, there is a brief mention of Spielberg noting the difference between films and TV.

I expect I'll be closing this thread by tomorrow, I encourage you to prove me wrong.

[The Weed Of Cri]

Stevie, baby, last time you meddled in TV, we had Taken inflicted on us. Stick to what you do best and let market forces handle the industry.

And don't go dissing Heroes, or I'll smack you.

[Wounded_Dragon]

His point is rather absurd.


Spielberg said that the TV landscape was much more "homogenized" 20 years ago, even seven or eight years ago. One of his shows, "ER," wouldn't have been on the air 20 years ago because of its graphic depictions.

So because television takes into account the demands of different consumers it's bad? Because that's why "homogenized" television went away.

Spielberg's take on this matter is pointless in the days of cable and satellite. He acts like the networks are the only option, therefore they must be safe, even if they take heavy losses.

[Hanshotfirst113]

I think many of you need to actually read the article. Agree or disagree with his thoughts on the matter, there is a brief mention of Spielberg noting the difference between films and TV.

I expect I'll be closing this thread by tomorrow, I encourage you to prove me wrong.

Off topic, but why was the "quoting The Lord of the Rings" thread closed?

There's an intelligent debate here somewhere, but It'll be a hard tighrope to walk.

[The Penguin]

Off topic, but why was the "quoting The Lord of the Rings" thread closed?Yes it is. To answer your question, while I didn't close it, the last post in that thread was made almost four years ago. Please look at the dates when you're surfing around the archives when you're, and I'm assuming here, really friggin' bored,

[Nin-Nin69]

I think many of you need to actually read the article. Agree or disagree with his thoughts on the matter, there is a brief mention of Spielberg noting the difference between films and TV.
I did read the article and noticed how much of a huge hypocrite this guy is.

It's not ok for shows like CSI and Heroes to be on broadcast TV at their scheduled times. He likes these shows, but he'd rather punish other people by pushing these shows to even later viewing hours so his kids are safe in his house full of R rated movie paraphernalia. So of course he's going to get people he knows behind the scenes to put pressure on the networks to put them on TV even later.

On the other hand with his movies and TV shows he's made that feed those similar aspects is ok because he made them. Of course this is not ok. He's gotten away with airing R rated material on broadcast TV by pushing the "Historical" button with people. So if something is somehow related to history and is too graphic and complex for children to understand it's ok to put on inplace of Heroes? If he wanted to he can make a snuff movie about P.O.W's being torchured in NAM and throw it on FOX at 8 PM because FOX agrees it's about our history.

I don't see the logic behind this argument about what's safe for children here. Spielberg can air something not safe for children because he's Spielberg, but other people can't do it since they don't have the celebrity power and money that Spielberg has. So of course they and millions of viewers every week have to suffer because one man can't take care of his kids. You'd think a Director would learn something from their movies, but Spielberg a living example of someone who doesn't. So are George Lucas, Woody Allen, and Uwe Boll.

I'm sick and tired of irresponsible parents trying to ruin the very things people take for granite. Speilberg is fighting on the wrong side of this battle and he should full well know this since he is a parent and has helped make some really screwed up stuff on film. Learn to use the V-chip and get your kids their own TV, Speilberg. Talk to your kids every now and then about the crazy stuff that daddy makes which can break their fragile little minds. Hire Tom Hanks to come by and do your job for you if necessary. Do something as a responsible parent.

[Rolling Cloud]

You know, I was considering Spielberg as a director for the Eva Live-action movie, but not after this crap.

[Dudley]

Heroes come on at 9 o'clock. Why should they soften violene on primetime for kids? Do kids watch primetime? Shouldn't they be in bed?