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naitram

Alien would never be Rated-R if it came out now, but it's cooler that it is anyway.

Rypro 525

well it still got an R when it was re released in theaters in 2005?? The chest burster scene prob got it

JTH182

I was a little surprised when watching The Social Network last night that an obvious "Fuck" by one of the Winklevii was dubbed over into a "Frick."

Would that really have put the movie over the edge to an R??

sb5

Yep. According to one of the commentaries, they also had to change the note a girl passed to Mark from "Fuck You" to "U Dick" because they were threatened with a "'fuck' is in the movie more than once!" R-rating by the MPAA.

Solid Snake

yeah...the chestburster scene is the moment where I can easily see it keeping that R. John Hurt really sells that scene well, love his work.

JTH182

Ugh, how stupid... like 13 year olds don't hear/say that everyday. What is wrong with this society?

Matthew Chmiel

Yeah and with all those thirteen year olds wanting to see a serious drama like The Social Network, the MPAA better protect them if their parents won't!

clckworang

It had Justin Timberlake in it, so you know they wanted to see it!

JTH182

Well I can understand the want/need for a PG13 rating since they figure the younger crowd would be the demographic ($$$) for a movie about a website, but it's still ridiculous.

bluetoast

What also sucks is that they censored the F word in the Social Network commentaries and documentaries.

clckworang

Now that's just silly.

majorjoe23

Sure, if they were 13 years old between 1998 and 2006.

iggystar

That is really silly since commentaries, etc. are usually listed as unrated material on dvds.

Matthew Chmiel

Have you ever listened to the Jersey Girl commentaries? If you really want to listen to the limit of vulgarity one can push on a PG-13 DVD, those would be the commentaries to listen to.

It's funny because I know that my Whatever It Takes DVD that Sony released years and years ago has deleted scenes that were removed specifically to get the film a PG-13. Christ, even The Fast and the Furious had an entire featurette on how they had to edit the film from an R to a PG-13 and you see the offending footage in question.

Ugh. Pussies.

paradicelost

Not trying to be anti-Spielberg here but isn't just being Spielberg a reason why it didn't get anything but an R. I mean I'll admit I've haven't looked into it but after seeing the doc about the MPAA, I always wondered if a big director like Spielberg has ever had to go back and edit any of his pictures to get an R or PG13 rating.

SterlingBen

Someone is forgetting about the Anchorman commentary.

Matthew Chmiel

Doesn't the PG-13 version have a different commentary than the Unrated version?

Shannon Nutt

Jumanji was so freaky and scary (monkeys throwing knives, killer insects, spiders), it should have gotten an R...it didn't even get a PG-13!

Some of those Austin Powers sequels were raunchy enough for an R as well.

JTH182

Some of them? There were only 2

Rypro 525

I watched Dancer in the Dark last night, why was it R again? I think i've seen worse violence on regular TV.

foofighters7

Just went to see 'Don't Be Afraid of the Dark' last night and my wife and I both laughed at the idea that it was R.

I read from others about the rating being off but it was WAY off! I've seen worse things in a PG film, and there was no sex or language either. Confusing.

Jay G.

The AV Club had an article about MPAA rating screw-ups, written last December, before the NC-17 rating for Blue Valentine was overturned on appeal:
http://www.avclub.com/articles/this-...us-mpaa,48587/

This previous thread on the MPAA rating system goes into a number of films with ratings people disagree with:
http://forum.dvdtalk.com/movie-talk/...ng-system.html