Nicola McCully. If you’re wondering who she (or he) is and in what ways she’s been a bellend, she is the acting Chief Censor. The Chief Censor is the most powerful position in the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC), who are in charge of censorship and classification of books, movies, and video games released in New Zealand.
Now to why she deserves the Bellend of the Month award: the OFLC gave Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps an M rating. I don’t mind that they used the occasional F-word in that movie, but there were three scenes in which one of the characters was smoking. If I were the Chief Censor, I would’ve insisted on a restricted rating for any movie that has even one scene in which one or more characters is seen smoking. Children can get into an M-rated movie (case in point: I saw The Mask of Zorro back in 1998 as part of my birthday present and I was only turning ten that year) and if kids see people smoking in a movie, they’ll think it’s cool just because that character does it. Smoking is a bad habit and there are lots of nutters out there who could save themselves thousands of dollars each year by not smoking. The entire OFLC should be cleaned out with a Karcher so that such a horrible mistake doesn’t happen again.
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