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There are a lot of movies I'm excited for . . .but the Pineapple Express wins because it is the closest to release.

I thought of another one I am really looking forward to - Pride and Glory. Ed Norton + Collin Farrell = win.

De Niro saying Righteous Kill is bad means nothing. Jackie Chan said that The Forbidden Kingdom was bad but it turned out fine.

Harry Potter!! Woooo, the IMAX teaser got me pumped.

J.I. wrote:

I guess this would be a good place to post it but Zack and Miri Make a Porno is officially NC-17.

http://www.cinemablend.com/new.php?id=9587

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! i cant see it now hopefully they cut it down to an R.

What the hell are the ratings up in the US like, in Australia, this is how it looks:

[G] - General (Fun for the Whole Family) Ages 1+
[PG] - Parental Guidance Ages 8+ accompanied by parent is recommended
[M] - Mature 15+ Recommended for persons aged 15+ but not strictly over 15, if they can handle it in other words, watch it.
[MA] - Mature Audience Must be 15+ Cant get into the Cinema/Rent a DVD unless you are over 15
[R] - Restricted - Must be over 18

Seems a bit different from the US

Kevin Smith should show that he has balls and keep the NC-17. Ang Lee did with Lust, Caution and got some thank yous from the film fans.

And Ron, ratings are very inconsistent in the US. This is a country where Rambo can get a R rating for its non-stop graphic violence but a film like Lust, Caution gets a NC-17 for three strong sex scenes that take up just ten minutes of the film's two hour and thirty-seven minute run time. It might as well be the Republican Party running the MPAA.

More bad examples:
-Whale Rider's PG-13 for an drug reference that really isn't a drug reference while RV gets a PG for its constant gross-out humor.
-I Capture The Castle's R rating for a brief shot of female nudity (luckily the restrictions for female nudity are getting looser).
-Orgazmo and Happiness's NC-17 ratings for sexual content while American Pie escaped with a R rating.
-Son Of Rambow's PG-13 rating (sure they say fuck once but the rating should have been appealed).
-Fahrenheit 9/11 getting a R rating for a far-away shot of an actual beheading (footage that appeared on the news) and four uses the word motherfucker. Meanwhile, Gunner Palace gets a PG-13 for 42 uses of fuck and its variants and more violence than Fahrenheit 9/11. The change was apparently so the film could be used as an Army recruitment tool.
-John Waters losing an appeal to make A Dirty Shame a R rating despite the film basically being a live-action cartoon. Same thing with Sony losing an appeal (and editing a few seconds of blood) pf Kung Fu Hustle to make that a PG-13. Meanwhile, Beowulf and Angelina Jolie's full-frontal nude scene got a PG-13 (possibly due to the editing of blood from Robert Zemeckis's NC-17/unrated director's cut).

Buscemi wrote:

-I Capture The Castle's R rating for a brief shot of female nudity (luckily the restrictions for female nudity are getting looser).

sure. ratings are getting looser in a lot of categories. In 'Across the Universe' (PG13) they had a few drug references and a shot of a topless girl in bed

This Film Is Not Yet Rated, the documentary about the MPAA and all of it's stuffy Puritan like ways got an NC-17 from them and all they did was show scenes from other movies!

That's actually pretty funny Jacko, *lol*

I love that movie Jack-O. Really showed how idiotic the ratings board is about movies and how corrupt. Big name movies from huge production houses get away with a lot more than indie films.

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