Petition Alert - Appeal of "R" rating for "Gunner Palace" documentary

[housewolf]

MPAA ALERT: Gunner Palace Appealing "R" Rating -- Sign Petition

With all of the recruiting our military services do among our country's youth -- it is outrageous that the Motion Picture Association of America would try and bar youth from seeing Gunner Palace. This documentary is about as honest and unbiased a documentary on the realities of a soldier's life in Baghdad as I could imagine.

I just signed this electronic petition to MPAA President Dan Glickman that reads:
We the undersigned demand that the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) immediately change the voluntary movie rating assigned to the upcoming Iraq War documentary film "Gunner Palace" from "R" (Restricted) to "PG-13".

The appeal will be decided Thursday this week -- so whether you supported this war or not, this collage of soldier's stories -- in their own, unedited words -- deserves to be seen broadly in America.

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/000333.html



More on the film
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/000332.html



and more
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/000329.html

[lenidog]

1. This is a first

I usually sign any petition that I see here after reading it. Can't do that this time because I haven't seen the film and can't judge if it deserved the R rating or not. Sorry

[housewolf]

2. Fair enough.... thanks for checking it out n/t

[lenidog]

3. No problems

I am always willing to sign one. Just doesn't feel right to sign it if I don't know what the film is like.

[pocket]

4. the filmmaker talked a bunch of trash about Michael Moore

and accused him of stealing parts of his film to use in f/911.

I'm automatically suspicious of him.