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Philadelphia Pulls Down Hitman Movie Poster Because It Has A Gun On It

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Considering Philadelphia is filled with violence and some of the worst kind of professional wrestling fans, it amuses me to think they're so upset over a poster that has a gun on it. Under the guise of bemoaning the shooting of cop Chuck Cassidy, this hilarious report from the Philadelphia Daily News celebrates the removal of Hitman movie posters from its city.

"... Ads glorifying gun violence to sell movies can be particularly sickening. So we're glad to report that some in City Hall are taking it personally and saying, "Enough is enough," claims the story's writer, doing his/her best to sound like a 1950's housewife. "Billboards and SEPTA bus ads for the movie "Hitman" went up a few weeks ago. They show a man pointing a gun, with a nearly naked woman draped over him."

I love the reactionary way this piece is written. Oh NO, not GUNS and NEARLY NAKED WOMEN. The woman is in a dress, by the way -- maybe she needs to wear a yashmak for these sexually repressed writers? Kotaku got a shot of the poster itself, which is visible above. I've seen worse.

While I fully appreciate that a cop got shot recently, being overly sensitive and crying every time you see a gun isn't going to help matters. I seem to recall that the very cops complaining about a picture of a gun carry real ones with themselves all the time. Maybe if the poster said "shooting Philly cops with guns is brilliant, everyone do it," they'd have cause for bitching. At any rate, do read that Philly news story -- as a celebration of censorship and an example of blatant over-reaction, you won't find a more sadly funny article this morning.

What do you guys think? Is Philadelphia crazy, or are they right in saying that things like this can promote violence?

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Originally Posted by Seil

What do you guys think? Is Philadelphia crazy, or are they right in saying that things like this can promote violence?

I think it does a better job at promoting the movie. Do you think pulling down posters will stop people from going to see it in theaters? If anything, more people will see it because they're curious as to what was so bad that City Hall had to censor it.

In short, it kind of comes down to picking your battles, and this one was a dumb one for Philadelphia to pick.

Philadelphia is one of the US's more violent cities. they know there's not a goddamn thing they can do to stop it, so they're doing this to make it look like they're doing more than they are.

Do you think they know that the MOVIE has guns in it?

Call in the Nero Squad! Burn down the Theathers!!

*sigh* I'm more upset about the second shooting near my work this month. Yes, I work in Philadelphia. At least this time it was cops shooting (and killing) a suspect instead of suspects shooting a cop. (I'm not talking about the Chuck Cassidy shooting; there were actually 3 incidences of cops getting shot here in a...week, I believe?)

I don't really see how taking down movie posters with guns is going to help anyone.

It's going to help the relatives of victims emotionally, by making them feel like Something Has Been Done without the people in charge actually having to do anything, and appease the people clamoring about how Action Must Be Taken.

In all actual fact, it's a brilliant delay tactic while they think of a REAL plan.

If you ever want to look like an anti-(insert thing here) jackass, just start vandalizing things in protest.

It'll be just like all them revolutionary movies like V for Ven-something!

Jack Thompson would be proud.

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Originally Posted by Newb

In all actual fact, it's a brilliant delay tactic while they think of a REAL plan.

Actually it's a brilliant delay tactic to buy them time to look for their next delay tactic. Something does need to be done about the violence in Philadelphia, but action is hard and might be wrong. And as everybody knows wrong people don't get re-elected so it's better to just do nothing.

On a side note, Washington D.C. used to be the most violent city in the nation. Did D.C.'s crime rate go down or did Philly's go up?

This reminds me of when they edited the Titan A.E. poster because Cale was wielding a laser pistol (at least they were able to change it to something related to the plot, i.e. he's showing the glowy map thing). Even though they wanted to tout the movie as not being just for kids, they edited that out because it was considered too violent.

What's really funny is they didn't pull the poster down because it's entitled HITMAN, and is, I would assume, about a hitman. No, no. Showing a poster with a gun on it is the real crime here.