Many happy returns!

[Kem]

!!!!!! You must see this movie, it is fantastic.

http://video.go.com/amelie/

 

[spawn]

Its SAYS R rated, but it doesnt sound like an R rated film from the story synopsis you know

 

[Spiff]

That's the American R rating, which is pretty much the same as our MA. It's *very* easy to get an R rating in the US.

 

[Southy]

Happy B'day moonie

 

[spawn]

Originally posted by Spiff
That's the American R rating, which is pretty much the same as our MA. It's *very* easy to get an R rating in the US.

Oh, well, you learn something new everyday

 

[Southy]

They are weaker over there than here when it comes to censorship

 

[Southy]

by that i mean that they bend REAL quik and censor even the weakest program

 

[Spiff]

Yep. Clerks, for example, got an NC-17 which is fatal for movies - it's the same as our R rating, meaning noone under 18 can see it, and most cinemas won't even show the films, and most newspapers won't advertise for them, and the only reason it got that rating was because of the rather colourful language!

And it's not uncommon for movies to have a couple of naughty words to get a harsher rating so that people will be more willing to see it, because it's much cooler to see an R (American) rated movie than a PG. Oh, and the PG-13 rating was brought in specifically because of "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" - no kiddies under 13 without parental supervision.

 

[dreamwatch]

Originally posted by Kem


20 is old

Certificate 18 in the UK doesn't mean the death of a movie here - infact it's pretty cool. Americans are so puritanical.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Late happy birthdays Kem.

Yeah, American's are VERY tight with censorship in television/movies. Apparently they censor the word 'damn' from prime time viewing...

 

[Southy]

Yeah the yanks are one of the most crime-ridden places on Earth, and yet they are so fast to censorship stuff, do we need more proof that censorship doesn't work past a certain level?

 

[Blitzkrieg]

True, but they don't censor everything in the right places (refer to my rant on Eminem in the other thread...).

 

[Spiff]

Let's not start that again

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Agreed.

 

[phlogiston]

Hey Spiff, Blitzy called you a dummy.

Hey Blitzy, Spiff called you a doo-doo head.


*heeheeheehee*

 

[Blitzkrieg]

*bites tounge*