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[adaptingkaiju]

I AM MIGHT I AM POWER I AM EVERYTHING

YOU STAND BEFORE TAKEHAYA SUSANO'O

THE END HAS COME!

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I thought it would be interesting talking to someone from the British Board of Film Classification to find out what they stand for, and what exactly they do, so I asked Sarah Peacock, Compliance Manager at the BBFC about the organisation. 1) When was the BBFC founded, and why? What was the exact catalyst? Who were the original founders? The origins of the BBFC lay in Health and Safety concerns:…

[skullboifilms]

(Recorded on October 10th)

1ST REVIEW

TRON ARES REVIEW

Runtime: 1hr 59mins (119 minutes)

BBFC rating: 12A | MPAA rating: PG-13

Definitely liked the 2nd-3rd half more that the 1st half, but I didn't like how the things that made the first 2 good (the grid and kevin Flynn) only get like 5 minutes of screentime but the visuals and soundtrack by nine inch nails were great and its one of the more decent roles from jared lego

Just didn't feel like a tron film 🤷‍♂️

63%

[celestialmazer]

Finally caught the new Superman in the cinema before it's off/the cinema closes and thought this was a cute touch at the beginning.

Turns out the BBFC run competitions like this quite often and it was created by a 14 year old called Elsie 💗(Who then met the main cast and director when she won the comp 🫠 I'd have lost my shit across the board 😂)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62d3ykg4ego

Superman film age classification card designed by Eastbourne girl

The Eastbourne girl's winning design will display before UK screenings of the new Superman film.

https://www.supermanhomepage.com/official-superman-movie-bbfc-black-card-design-competition/

[wickedmovieuk]

The BBFC Create the Card Competition is OFFICIALLY OPEN! ✨🫧

We’re calling on young artists aged 4 to 11 to design the official BBFC Black Card for WICKED: FOR GOOD, with the winning artwork shown ahead of every cinema screening of the film in the UK! 💚🩷

The Competition is open until 12 October. And remember, pink goes good with green! So, if you would like to include the iconic Oz duo, please show both Glinda and Elphaba. For more info and to enter, visit bbfc.co.uk

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Twin beds in American magazine advertisements from the 1920s

Twin beds for married couples are a familiar sight from midcentury movies, but have become so uncommon that they frequently strike the contemporary viewer as artificial, perhaps a fiction invented by the Hays code.

I, at least, was astonished to discover that they are widespread, even ubiquitous, in the American magazines of the 1920s - chiefly from advertisements like the ones above, but frequently referenced in the articles and popular fiction of the period as well.

Delving through marriage guidance and medical advice books, furniture catalogues and novels, Lancaster University professor Hilary Hinds found that twin beds were initially adopted in the late 19th century as a health precaution. In her new book, A Cultural History of Twin Beds, Hinds details how doctors warned of the dire consequences of bed-sharing. In 1861, doctor, minister and health campaigner William Whitty Hall’s book Sleep: Or the Hygiene of the Night, advised that each sleeper “should have a single bed in a large, clean, light room, so as to pass all the hours of sleep in a pure fresh air, and that those who fail in this, will in the end fail in health and strength of limb and brain, and will die while yet their days are not all told”. Rolled over: why did married couples stop sleeping in twin beds? by Alison Flood, Fri 16 Aug 2019 | Books | The Guardian

In the Victorian era, "medical" "science" pushed the idea that sharing beds was unhealthy, and the twin bed was still seen as the fashionable, modern choice for the middle classes right through the 1930s.

(Twin beds declined in popularity throughout the 1930s and were old-fashioned by the 40s, contrary to what movies and television might lead you to believe - though this was driven not by the Hollywood Hays code, but by the British Board of Film Classification.)

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Since my Transformers One post got more likes/reblogs than I expected, I get the impression that odd Transformers rating board situations are interesting to people. So here's another one I had in mind, though it involves the UK board instead of the German one.

Beast Wars, season 1 episode 15, The Spark, is the episode that introduced Airazor. But, it's also the first piece of Transformers media that the United Kingdom's age rating board, the BBFC, didn't think was acceptable at a PG rating. The episode was cut for its release there, as the website notes here:

I actually had to go back and re-watch the episode since I didn't remember this. It occurred during Cheetor's fight with Blackarachnia. If you're wondering why this headbutt was too much, back in the day, they would generally remove what was thought to be "imitable" combat moves, sometimes even from 15-rated films (The Matrix required headbutts to be removed from a 15-rated film, for instance). There's not an exact time where this ceased to be an issue, but in general, it's possible that it may get an uncut PG today.

To this day, the only animated piece of Transformers media to be released with a BBFC 12 rating is episode 3 of Transformers War for Cybertron Kingdom. The live-action films also earned 12s, though Bumblebee had a PG-rated edited version.

Sadly, I don't think the episode ever got an uncut release in the UK. At least the rest of the world seems unaffected by this censorship.