LBPound

Since it seems like some kind of firm, rarely unbending MPAA rule that the F-word can only be used once in a PG-13 film, regardless of the context, what do you think are films that make good use of their one chance?

I kind of thought about this following "Malibu's Most Wanted", which chose to bleep out all the f-bombs in the outtakes so as to assure a PG-13. (Even though using the F-word when you mess up a take is neither in hate or the frank sexual usage.)

It takes balls to have what is essentially a PG or PG-13 film like "Planes, Trains & Automobiles" use it enough within the span of a minute to garner the hilariously inappropriate R rating. I don't think you'll see too many films do something like that, today since just about every movie is PG-13 these days, or shot with the R-rating as an intention all along, with very few exceptions.

Here are ones I thought of:

GOOD USAGE:
Billy Madison ("You gotta go out there and find that f**kin' dog!" )
The Waterboy ("You can do it! Cut his f***in' head off!")

WASTE:
Anger Management (the scene with Heather Graham, they just kinda threw away)

Anyway, come up with some good (or wasteful) examples, or I'll just have to delete this thread and pretend it never existed.

dvdmaniac19

in "catch me if you can" tom hanks character gets frustrated with his collegues and tells a joke:

Hanks: "knock Knock"
Collegues: "Who's there?"
Hanks: "**** You!"

Zodiac_Speaking

ditto Catch me if you can.

But i thought Sum of all Fears had a good example: when the President used it-middle to end of movie. I thought the actor used it appropriately and in context due to the severity of the situation.

Why can MPAA have PG-13 films used the F-word, but cut away on R-rated films.

P.S.
They're nuts!

JoeyOhhhh

Spaceballs: Out of order? F**k! Even in the future nothing works!

As for Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, Steve Martin uses it quite a number of times in that one minute

matome

I think PT&A got it's R-rating for that little tirade!

Numanoid

The first one I remember was in Sixteen Candles.

"I can't believe they f***ing forgot my birthday!"

dom56

Adventures in Babysitting

"Don't f**k with the babysitter."

Giles

The funniest, but unfortunately deleted for the DVD was Sigourney Weaver's line in "Galaxy Quest" where she looks at the giant fan and states "well.. f*** that"

DonnachaOne

I seem to remember it being overdubbed with "well... screw that" on the DVD and in the theater to secure a PG.

Is it a giant fan? I thought it was the "chompers".

LBPound

Yeah, it's the chompers. And sooo obviously overdubbed to "screw that!" Maybe if she said well "Ratf*** that" they could have gotten away with a PG.

Adventures in Babysitting makes great use - how did I forget that one!

inVectiVe

Billy Bob Thornton in Armageddon: "This is one order you shouldn't follow and you f***ing know it!"

Wasn't a single F-bomb also dropped in Beetlejuice [sp?]?

PixyJunket

Beat me to it.

iggystar

My favorite!

Pants

Minority Report saves it untill the end when Anderton is really pissed off

Like Trains, Planes & Automobiles, Waiting for Guffman could have been rated PG it's so tame, but gets the "R" for one scene where a guy immitates DeNiro from Raging Bull and lets fly with f'bombs and cock sucking and all this stuff. Pretty balls if you ask me.

Borst

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves when Costner and Freeman get catapaulted over the wall and Christian Slater says "F*** me they made it"

JoeyOhhhh

Beetlejuice: Nice f**kin' model!

davejt1

Good one. The movie itself wasn't too bad, but I do remember cracking up over that line - it was rather unexpected since I thought the film would be one of those teen / light-hearted / Nickelodeon-type flicks.

Mondo Kane

Didn't he call them "F**kin' losers" too?

Rypro 525

I think like Antione Fisher got away with 3 f bombs but the king is all the presidents men which had like 10.

JoeyOhhhh

It has been awhile since I seen it. I don't think he does. Think he calls them a bunch of losers.

I could be wrong though

greatjedi

I'll have to add another vote for Tom Hanks' "Go F**** yourself" knock knock joke. When my wife and I saw that movie in the theater, and that line came up, my wife about fell out of her chair she laughed so hard. She's usually really offended by language, but that one was just too great.

Robert

Hanks replies with "Go F*** Yourself!"

Not just "F*** You!"

lesterlong

I think the one in The Sum Of All Fears was used horribly. If the President really talked that way he would of used it more often. Anytime there's a f-word in a PG13 movie it usually cheapens the film. Except when used comedically like in Catch Me If You Can or Sandler movies. I'm not buying into Minority Report, Fears, or Armageddon.

jeffkjoe

I can think of the best use of the S word:


JAWS:

"Slow it ahead....I can slow it ahead, why don't you come and chum some of this *****?"



And with this, an uncomfortable laugh from the audience turns into a scream when the shark finally makes its appearance out of the water....

Nyghtfall

Actually, the line was, "F*** me, they cleared it!"

And, I agree, it is the single best use of the f-word in the history of film.

It was bad enough that Costner wasn't using an accent (for that matter, no one was, except two key actors, of course), and Freeman's casting was completely counter to the period, but Slater's line was not only perfect in keeping with something he'd say at that point, it was the ultimate comedic moment in an otherwise dreadful movie.