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2/14/08
Godzilla Is Not Invited To The Beijing Olympics
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I don't know about you, but every so often I like seeing a horror movie. Or even better, a Godzilla movie. Nothing beats watching a rubber dinosaur crush downtown Tokyo while Japanese people point up and scream in horribly dubbed English.

If you're an athlete, and also like these same kind of movies, you're going to be in trouble when you get to Beijing for the Olympics.

China has added horror films, and Godzilla movies, to its list of banned video and audio content in an intensified crackdown ahead of the Beijing Olympics. Producers have around three weeks to look through their tapes for "horror" and report it to authorities, the General Administration of Press and Publications said.

Offending content included "wronged spirits and violent ghosts, monsters, demons, and other inhuman portrayals, strange and supernatural storytelling for the sole purpose of seeking terror and horror"

This brings up an interesting question though. What about when Godzilla fought Mechagodzilla? Godzilla actually saved Tokyo in the process. Personally, I think he should get bonus points for that. I say we celebrate heroic monsters, rather than ban them.

Anyway, the new guidelines aim to "control and cleanse the negative effect these items have on society, and to prevent horror, violent, cruel publications from entering the market through official channels and to protect adolescents' psychological health."

Excellent work China, get rid of the fake horror, but keep the real horror going - by which I mean human rights violations.
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Go on and get Godzilla. Go step on Bambi somewhere else.

 

Wait a second. No one will be able to see, or notice the human rights abuses. Everyone's eyes and lungs will be burning from the pollution.

 
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And if everyone in China abides by these laws, the government will let them out of their cell blocks and give them a couple hours off of forced labor making poisoned dog food and lead paint children's toys for Wal-Mart to actually watch the Olympics on state-controlled Chinese TV.  Does this new law bar a certain MLB Japanese player who is nicknamed "Godzilla"?  Will the Blue Oyster Cult summer tour be cancelled because BOC won't be allowed to play "Godzilla"?  Complete idiocy.  Reminds me of the time that the Turkish government refused a shipment of turbine engines because they read on the shipping manifest that the turbines were capable of a 1000 revolutions per minute.  Seems they did not want any "revolutions" in Turkey... or machines capable of making them.
 
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Now that Steve Spielberg is mad at China, maybe he'll produce a new monster flick in which Godzilla stomps Beijing for a change!
 
 
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