whatta buncha maroons

Did they complain about a trilogy of Wolverine smoking a cigar?

Dear God. Like kids are gonna wanna be like the VILLAIN in a superhero movie. I hate people that flip their sh!t over stuff like this. Get a life. This is almost as bad as Iran getting pissed off about the Persians in 300 or the Russian PO’ed about Indy.

The fact that the heroes don’t do the smoking is how Jeff Smith convinced Scholastic to keep the cigars in BONE (If I remember correctly).

Uncool villian smoking shouldn’t be a prob. Super-cool slick viillian smoking = more of a problem.

Well, at least they liked the movie.

Tobacco beats a gun anyday, word

I’m glad the AMA has such time to attack a fictional character in a movie about smoking a cigar. Yes, with all the health problems facing Americans like heart disease, bad diet, obesity, diabetes, bad tomatoes, preventable cancer, inproper safe sex, and so on. They still have time to point out something total pointless to most people. Cause when I go to the movies and I see an actor smoking on the screen it really bothers me. I’m just like, “man I wish he wasn’t smoking. What about all the second hand smoke the actors around him have to breathe in? Doesn’t he realize how stinky that is? Doesn’t he care about his health and impressionable moronic kids? Why? Ohhh God why?” And then my entire movie experience is ruined all because some guy on the screen is smoking.

Don’t even get me started when I see someone taking a drink of alcohol. I mean Tony Stark was blatantly supporting Alcoholism. Think of the children, because they don’t have minds of their own. And out of sight/ out of mind always work. Right?? I mean if we don’t expose them to the bad things in the world than they will never attempt them. Right?? We should also have the news stop reporting on things like crime and violence. I like this cause, I like this Flag, Sign me up to another pointless whine feast.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

This is all a conspiracy created by DC to tarnish the new Hulk movie.

Seriously, I for one feel that there are much larger issues in the world of “reality” that we should be working to change, than wasting time and energy complaining about what “fictional” characters are doing on the movie screen.

“I smoke cause Fred Flinston told me it was cool.”

I like how they refer to this movie as a sequel, and cite how Ross didn’t smoke in the first film… when this is in fact a reboot, according to everyone who’s seen the movie. Why aren’t they complaining that Spider-Man has organic webs in his 3 most recent movies, but had webshooters in the 70′s live-action and cartoon shows? It would be just as relevant.

Good for the AMA Alliance, it’s a totally ridiculous character trait in this day and age anyways. Might as well have him wear a monocle too.

I mean, how dare they address a social and health issue like this when we have AIDS or Nuclear Weapons or high gas prices, I mean really.

Uh, Erech, you do realize that some people actually do still smoke? Cigars, even.

”Good for the AMA Alliance, it’s a totally ridiculous character trait in this day and age anyways. Might as well have him wear a monocle too. ”

Right, because people don’t smoke cigars these days*sarcasm*

Besides Cigars are legal and if someone likes to smoke then that’s their business.

and yes i belive their are more important stuff then worrying on what a fcitional character is doing.

“and yes i belive their are more important stuff then worrying on what a fcitional character is doing.”

Important stuff like what, posting about it on a blog?

It’s absolutely within their purview to make the statement they did, with (imo) good reason, and it’s not as if anything is essentially going to come of it past this anyways.

Plus, cigar chomping villains are cliched AND stupid, if for that reason alone I’m on their side. Also how dare you.

What’s next? Can’t show a character drinking and having sex?

“The world spins mad.” -The Question

woah woah woah. I wear a monocule

God, I hope General Thunderbolt Ross isn’t any tomatoes in this movie! Tobacco and tomatoes …. that’s a double threat!

I don’t see the problem with smoking in movies. But they should complain about “second-hand smoke” in movies. Thats the real killer. If a fictional character whats to kill himself thats fine, but that fictional character is out of line when he/she/it pushes that smoke on someone else!!!!!!! I SAY DOWN WITH SECOND HAND SMOKE IN THE MOVIES!!!! DOWN I SAY!!!!

Man, this movie really looks lousy. Count me out.

You ever watch those “truth” anti smoking commercials and think to your self “Gee I’m not a smoker but I would love to blow a big gray cloud of second hand smoke in to that pretentious yuppie spawns face?”

Yes, unless you’re an idiot living in your mother basement hidden from all media you know smoking is bad for you, and if seeing a character in a comic book, T.V show, or movie smoking makes you want to light up maybe there is a deeper issue and possibly you need to be thinned from the heard if that is the case let me know first one is on me.

I too have had family die of cancer I know the pane watching some one you love suffer in such a way can cause. But the Idea that removing all images associated with tobacco is going to fix the problem is stupid.

And the true fact of the matter is most people who file complaints like this or protest are just sitting around looking for excuses to get up on there soap box and feel heroic and important, like I’m doing now.

Also I make no apologize for spelling and grammar.

after reading that i really need to relax. i know what!! i’ll smoke some tobaccy!!

Write:
Melissa.walthers@ama-assn.org
if you are annoyed & appalled by this.
Her e-mail is in the Press Release.

Their first mistake is being uninformed about the movie & calling it a sequel is ignorant.

I sincerely doubt any kids will be positively influenced by anything General Ross does in the movie. It’s the responsibility of the Parents to not let an underage kid see this movie without proper explanation anyways. The movie is PG-13 afterall.

I would think a well intended organization could find better ways to fight the spread of smoking then to attack this movie which will be better rememebered for the action & emotion of the heroic characters, especially a strong female character in Liv Tyler to the conflicted Ed Norton, rather than the forgettable smoking scenes. I think they went a bit overboard in their attempts to curtail something as bad as smoking.

My impressions after reading both this article and the press release was the AMA Alliance is trying to draw attention to their cause at the expense of the reputation of the film. For that reason alone, that is disappointing. For the movie to be scrutinized for that is a cheap shot to further their cause. Their organization looks petty & low class in my eyes.

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