bernettacou: For His Next Trick, Harvey Weinstein Has Bully Trending ? and Misunderstood ? on Twitter

Monday, March 5, 2012

For His Next Trick, Harvey Weinstein Has Bully Trending ? and Misunderstood ? on Twitter

Their five-time Oscar winner The Artist may have just experienced its most lucrative weekend at the box office to date, but newly installed Legionnaire of Honor Harvey Weinstein and his Weinstein Co. minions remain firmly focused today on the Great Bully Ratings Non-troversy of 2012. How do we know? To Twitter, where #BullyMovie is this morning's highest-ranking (promoted, ahem) trending topic.

Here's the official shout-out from the Bully gang, carrying over last week's "human rights" crusade to get the Weinstein release's R-rating reduced to a PG-13.

Wildfire petition to tell the @MPAA to give @bullymovie a PG-13 breaks 180,000 RT to keep the fire!bit.ly/AbQWZ1 #bullymovie

— Bully Movie(@bullymovie) March 2, 2012

So how's the response? Mostly positive, naturally, with a few contrarian opinions and hilarious misunderstandings thrown in for good measure:

#BullyMovie needs to be PG13. #MiddleFingerUp to the bullies at the MPAA who rated this important film R.

— Extrovert (@RamiTime) March 5, 2012

I'm curious about #BullyMovie. Does it only look at the victims?Because the bullies themselves are almost always victims of bullies as well.

— Scott S Kramer (@scottskramer) March 5, 2012

If @WeinsteinFilms cannot change the R rating to #BullyMovie then no one can. Seriously, they made "The Artist" won best picture.

— Natalia Cariaga (@natajunk) March 5, 2012