Manhunt 2.

The King's Speech
(2011) The MPAA stamped an
R
rating because of the F-bomb used during therapy session scenes. The profanity was actually theraputic tools that were integral to the plot.
Lionel Logue
: You dont stammer when you swear.
Bertie
: Oh, bugger off!
Logue
: Is that the best you can do?
Bertie
: Well bloody bugger to you, you beastly bastard.
Logue
: Oh, a public-school prig could do better than that.
Bertie
: S!!t. beep s!!t, sh!t, s!!t, s!!t, s!!t, s!!t, s!!t, s!!t, s!!t, s!!t, s!!t, s!!t!
Logue
: Yes!
Bertie
: S!!t!
Logue
: Defecation flows trippingly from the tongue!
Bertie
: Because Im angry!
Logue
: Do you know the word?
Bertie
: F f fornication?
Logue
: Oh, Bertie.
Bertie
: F__k. F__k! F__k, f__k, f__k and f__k! F__k, f__k and bugger! Bugger, bugger, buggerty buggerty buggerty, f__k, f__k, arse!
Logue
: Yes.
Bertie
: Balls, balls
Logue
: You see, not a hesitation!
Bertie
: f__kity, s!!t, s!!t, f__k and willy. Willy, beep and f__k and tits.
That actually looks and reads quite funny
And not far off the scene that was re-edited for the MPAA to garner PG-13 approval, with the F-word whispered softly, and stated only once (a PG-13 restriction!) With the rest of the new scene, we hear s!!t, s!!t, s!!t and willy! despite Bertie lips mouthing the cathartic, beautiful F-bomb!
F__k you, MPAA!

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It took Warner Brothers a year and a half to get an R rating (without cuts) for the Wild Bunch re-release. That must be a record.

May be common; should still be out-of-bounds.
By the way, I love the uncut version of "My Bloody Valentine".

Fortunately, My Bloody Valentine has been released on DVD uncut. Removing every single death scene makes a slasher unwatchable, as was the case with Intruder (Night Crew) when it was first released.
Since horror films (particularly slashers) are rarely scary, we watch them to see people killed in gruesome and creative ways. If you take that away, there's nothing left.
It's common for titles released before the current system was implemented to be given a rating at a later date.
"I'm - I'm hurt real bad. I think I'm dying"
"Continue dying"

The original "My Bloody Valentine" (1980). Every death scene was cut to about a TV-cop-show-of-the-time level just to manage an R rating, as opposed to the X it would have gotten in those days.
By the way what's up with the R rating I've seen on the DVD of "Psycho"? That movie came out eight years before the rating system, so you'd think it would be outside the MPAA's jurisdiction.

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Andy:
Obviously you didn't watch Live Free or Die Hard. The cuts were extremely minor. It doesn't belong on any list of titles that were butchered. Only a few bloody squibs in place of dry ones and a few F bombs does not constitute major censorship. Besides, the film is one of the worst pieces of crap I've ever seen, so in this case, who cares?
F13 Part 5 is also a super turkey and the worst in the series by leaps and bounds.
I'm not saying it's OK to cut films that suck. I'm saying nobody is crying over those particular titles.
By the way, I actually WATCHED both versions of Die Hard 4 and made a real comparison instead of taking somebody's word about it like you did.
"I'm - I'm hurt real bad. I think I'm dying"
"Continue dying"

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fido was a great movie.i didnt know it went through those troubles. it's really disconcerting to have these people tellin g me whats appropriate or not for my children to watch.
I PIE

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
Im 13 and I can hate movies. Deal with it!
I am the self declared Destroyer of Jokes!

the hammer with adam carolla had only two f-bombs, neither out of context and got a R
I PIE

Midnight Cowboy was the only X-rated film to receive an Oscar. The rating was lowered to R after.

A single sound effect? Get the beep out of here! Ru serious?

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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

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.

Sam Raimi wasn't forced to change the color of the blood in Evil Dead 2. He did it on his own thinking that if the blood wasn't red it wouldn't be rated X like the first one.

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.

excellent post All I can say is DAMN!

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".

Clerks and Scarface had a very difficult time getting an uncut R.