The Parents Television Council says theater owners better not show Bully if they know what's good for them
Yesterday the Weinstein Company and the MPAA decided to go their separate ways over Bully, and allow theater owners to make up their own minds whether it’s worth making an exception to their usual unrated film policy in order to get Bully in front of the young audiences it could help the most. But today another organization has stepped forward to stand in the way, push the film down, and make everyone obey its personal demands or else. In a statement dripping in irony, were that a thing it could recognize, the Parents Television Council has issued a typically blinkered, hyperbolic call on theater owners to refuse to screen Bully, which it sees as a movie that, “regardless of intentions, sets a precedent that threatens to derail the entire ratings system”—the ratings system being that thin line separating the family-friendly stability of gruesome murder and the lawless chaos of naughty words.