BRITISH AD COUNCIL FULL OF PUSSIES
09.03.08Posters for Wanted have been banned in the U.K. because some hippies complained that they glamorize gun violence.
One poster featured a gun-toting Jolie lying across the bonnet of a car and a bullet curving towards the audience. It carried the strapline [Wha?]: “This is your destiny. Join us.”
Another showed McAvoy with a gun in each hand, pointing towards the viewer. The accompanying slogan implied that his life had changed for the better since he became a killer.
Bonnet = something that gay babies wear. Hood = something that protects the clitoris. Winner: USA.
In its adjudication, the industry watchdog ruled: “We acknowledged most viewers would understand the posters reflected the content of an action film. However, we considered that because the ads featured a glamorous actress, action poses, several images of or related to guns and aspirational text, they could be seen to glamorise the use of guns and violence. We concluded [they] could be seen to condone violence by glorifying or glamorising the use of guns. [Telegraph]
Guess what: a gun is an explosion that you can hold in your hand. You aim it at stuff, and then that stuff explodes. What could be more awesome than that? It’s self-glamorizing. Look, I’m a bleeding-heart liberal by many measures, but if you’re gonna be one of those moms who won’t let her son play with toy guns or G.I. Joes, you might as well give him a dildo instead.


Too many heads.
It’s up to you CB/affleck, time for some good old fasioned hippie hunting.
When did the PC pansy parade make it across the pond and fuck up the land of drunken bar fights over soccer matches?
A penis is also an explosion that you can hold in your hand.
/has penis envy
When a dildo goes off in your hand, everybody wins.
Know what else glorifies violence? The continuing existence of Ryan Seacrest.
Chino and I will just have to amuse ourselves lobbing m80s at you a-holes.
I myself once dabbled in bleeding heart liberalism. Not in ‘Nam of course.
But what if that dildo ends up ass to ass?
But a boot is the trunk of a auto, so a piss boot would be a trunk of piss.
+1 fucking limeys.
Take a bath, hippies!!
Im an a hole, Michelle? whatever!
We are all assuming that the British wanted wanted. I think the ad council did everyone a favor favor.
This is where finger guns come in handy.
Chino, Why you gotta talk like a whore, sweetie?
There was a minor clause in the ad council’s ban citing the glorification of dentistry.
uh oh, Moms are in the house
Eibmoz, Michelle, you are not allowed over at our house any more. Now I know what the rubber thingy is for.
*arm emerges from front lawn; chodin climbs up and out*
Man, that was a BIG VAGINA!
Given the Brits’ standard police-issue weaponry, you’d best be quick to deny the effectiveness of anything more technologically advanced than a stick.
The ad council would be cool with it if the poster was boiled first.
“In cinemas everywhere 25.06.08″
I’m sorry, but I just can’t fuck with countries who time travel.
17 PEOPLE… thats all it takes. Complain about stuff. At some point people will ban it. It just takes you and a buddy.
Why would anyone want to put up a poster for a movie that came and went two months ago?
The U.K. is going to shit their pants once the new ‘Fast and Furious’ movie glorifies driving on the wrong side of the road.
You guys wanna’ protest our movie? Alright fine, but I’m giving up on movies with fuckers who have shitty teeth, in them.
“Bonnet = something that gay babies wear. Hood = something that protects the clitoris. Winner: USA.”
Now, if we’re talking about “squicking”, then the U.K. wins that one.
There’s too much of Morgan Freeman’s body on that poster.
The U.K. Wizard/President/Prime Time Guy released this official comment: “We could not condone a film in which no one eats and toast with beans, cheerio”.
Fine, this is fair, but the next time a Jane Austin movie comes out I’m protesting the glorification of men prancing around like a batch of light in the loafer nancy boys.
This doesn’t glamorize killing. It glamorizes getting shot. What’s the problem?
Do they honestly think a poster of McAvoy holding a curved baton would be any less objectionable? It would probably have realistic veins.
*chodin looks into his front shirt pocket*
Yup, I’m all out of jokes for movies that already came and went (like your fat sister’s motivation to lose weight).
I bet they’d change their tune if this were an advertisement for Valtrex.
That poster glorifies the fuck out of “trying to read”.
It’s weird how the Brits put a ‘r’ and an ‘e’ in “ass”, but I can understand, because when I put it in the ass, people usually go to the ER.
i just hope americans dont start protesting my beloved keira knightley’s movies asking for more photoshopped tits
Huh What? I passed out. Eibz, you’re not an A-hole. Unless ‘A’ stands for awesome..wait, I’m going back to sleep.
If British citizens are really that impressionable, I can’t wait to see the thousands of British girls with one-liners written on their faces after The Spirit ads hit over there.
New Up!
6 weeks ago I was just like you….. and I STILL haven’t seen “Wanted”.
Bex, if they can photoshop some tits onto her forehead or something, I definitely wouldn’t protest that.