These MPAA narcs have to be stopped. I wonder if the industry knows the money they're losing from customers (like me) just sitting on their wallets instead of paying for whatever G rated crap Disney will put out.
As an aside in this article from the Calgary Herald he mentions funding is an issue as well:
“It’s not like I’ve never made one. I want to make another one. The
issue is not that they don’t like the script. The issue is that it costs
$4 or $5-million which used to be a moderately priced independent movie
and today is an unbelievably expensive one. What the studios are
looking for today is what I was when I was 20, making a film in the
field with a cellphone camera. I had an 8-mm camera but it was the same
thing. It’s the best time ever for kids to make movies because the
studios are looking for it. They weren’t when I was doing it. They
wouldn’t have gotten near me.”
Personally, if that's what it takes to get one done, I'd be game for buying a low budget John Waters movie. Forgo the studio system/MPAA all together and sell it direct on iTunes, Amazon etc himself and it could be even dirtier than Pink Flamingos.