Name some films that went through absolute hell to get a lower rating
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moviesleuth2 — 17 years ago(December 10, 2008 10:54 PM)
American Pie
Grindhouse
The War Zone
Saw
Eyes Wide Shut
Clerks
The Cooler
Scream
Boys Don't Cry
American Psycho
Anyone notice that these are mostly independant films, while major studio productions such as Sin City and Saving Private Ryan were more or less immune to the MPAA? -
Andy-1981 — 17 years ago(December 11, 2008 01:06 AM)
Eyes Wide Shut
The Cooler
Actually, the trouble suffered by those two films was minimal compared to the others.
.nyone notice that these are mostly independant films, while major studio productions such as Sin City and Saving Private Ryan were more or less immune to the MPAA?
That was mentioned in the documentary. -
Zalman666 — 16 years ago(September 22, 2009 11:02 PM)
Does anyone know how much editing Rob Zombie had to do before getting R-ratings for his two "Halloween" films? I'd be interested to know for those films contained more graphic violence, nudity, and sexual dialogue than any I had seen in recent years.
Here's one for you: Fast Times at Ridgemont High. I don't know how many times the film had to be edited, but because director Amy Heckerling photographed Robert Romanus's penis during a sex scene, the MPAA was already to give the film an X-rating on the grounds that the penis was "too aggressive". -
YoSafBridge — 16 years ago(November 02, 2009 04:11 PM)
Every film by Peter Jackson prior too "The Lord of the Rings'
Heavenly Creatures - rated R for scenes that many films would receive a PG-13 for. Oops, my badthe romance is between 2 young girls. Clearly R material.
DeadAlive/Braindead - Uncut version is Jacksons preferred version and is quite a bit longer than the 87 minute "R" rated one.
Meet the Feebles - Not ratedthe MPAA and puppet sex DON'T mesh and Jackson was smart enough to figure this out for himself.
But mostly, "The Frighteners" - rated R forno one really knows. Jackson tried cutting it multiple times to achieve the PG-13 until finally it was too short to be a feature film and STILL the MPAA wouldn't give him the rating (and wouldn't tell him the problems with the film)finally he just gave up, put the movie back the way he wanted it and added several scenes of bloodbaths and exploding heads to feel that he actually EARNED the R rating. Even with these added scenes the movie is still barely R rated.
Also, Sam Raimi was screwed by the MPAA for his Evil Dead series. Far less sex and violence than most studio films, but darn his luck he was an independent filmmaker. The Evil Dead 2 was forced to make their blood any colour other than red to achieve the R ratingwhich is actually rather humorous to see.
Sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love. -
ndsopranorocker — 12 years ago(August 29, 2013 09:53 AM)
Heavenly Creatures - rated R for scenes that many films would receive a PG-13 for. Oops, my badthe romance is between 2 young girls. Clearly R material.
With or without it being about two girls, I still would have given it an R. The film opens with the two girls crying and soaked in blood. Further sequences include Juliet spraying blood everywhere because of TB, and people coughing blood into buckets at a TB house.
The ending scene where they murder Paul's mother is bloody, brutal, and absolutely graphic. They're beating her to death, literally, with a brick, and it's cross cut with shots of the two girl screaming as they're separated permanently.
I don't know about you, but I would give it an R on the violence alone. -
Meven_Stoffat — 15 years ago(July 05, 2010 10:09 PM)
Sam Raimi tried to get Army of Darkness to be released as a PG-13, however the MPAA rated it R anyways mainly as an act of revenge towards Raimi for not submitting the first two Evil Dead movies.
Lol sometimes they rate a clearly PG-13 movie R because they want it to be R. OK so you can't show a (very over the top and meant to be comical) Fountain of Blood in Army of Darkness but can show a very graphic shot of a man getting half his face burnt off in The Dark Knight?
Anyways:
The Excorcism of Emily Rose (Director had to do plenty of cutting to get the movie a PG-13)
The Village (Was rated R because of A SINGLE SOUND EFFECT. Seriously?!?!?!?!)
L.I.E. (Apparently the whole thing about Howie being attracted to an older man creeped the MPAA out so they slapped it with an NC-17 rating, and Cuesta had to fight with the MPAA)
Zack and Miri Make a Porno. Was submitted 3 times but was appealed on the 3rd time.
"You'll be singing for glory before you know what is right."- Iron Maiden, El Dorado -
chips-19 — 15 years ago(December 10, 2010 08:00 PM)
Ive got one to top all of you!
Fido: A clean (but very funny) family Horror-Comedey from canada. The film has the word "Hell" used once and has some cartooonish violence (no worse thanTom and Jerry or the Ren and Stimpy show.) WhenWhen it got submitted to the MPAA, it recieved "PG-13" but was never told what was wrong withthe film. So the Director re- submitted it, hoping to get it the PG it deserved. And guess what, IT GOT AN R RATING!!! Why did the MPAA give it this, you ask? Because it showed a child using a gun. Thats it, he was just shooting Cut-Outs for target practice! It was submitted a third time, and was still , ut with the new statement "For Zombie Violence and Gore." Finally, they gave up and the film went Direct to DVD. Now, notice, and independent film show a kid firing a gun and some zombies getting "killed," Yet in DISNEY"S "Prince Caspian" you can see kids killing beasts left and right, and you can also see a charachter's head getting impaled by a door (mind you, in a serious tone, not comedic, like fido) all in a PG movie. If the MPAA thinks that is logical, than
I guess anything is possible with the MPAA
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