The Parents Television Council says theater owners better not show Bully if they know what's good for them

“The MPAA's job is not to make subjective judgments about the merit of a film or the importance of the film's message,” the Parents Television Council said, as its own job besides complaining incessantly about television now also includes dictating what the jobs of motion picture ratings boards are, apparently. That is, of course, in addition to its other side job of predicting the future, as it once again looked into its crystal-ball-that-it-calls-a-globe-because-you-shouldn’t-say-“ball” and gravely intoned, “If a distribution company can simply decide to operate outside of the ratings system in a case like Bully, nothing would prevent future filmmakers from doing precisely the same thing, with potentially much more problematic material.” Indeed, allowing the Weinstein Company to get away with poisoning the minds of innocent children with their toxic footage of actual children could open the door to other filmmakers making their own unilateral decisions about what is and isn’t right, and no one should be able to do that but the Parents Television Council.