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MPAA Gives Film About Ratings an NC-17 Rating
jtcm writes "An original documentary by Kirby Dick, called "This Film is Not Yet Rated" has been assigned an NC-17 rating by the MPAA. The film explores the MPAA's own film rating system and "its profound effect on American culture." The NC-17 rating was given due to "some graphic sexual content" and will likely limit the movie's distribution, as many theater chains will not show NC-17 movies. Among the filmmakers speaking openly in the movie are two of my personal favorites, Kevin Smith and Matt Stone. For those who are eager to view this exposé, fear not. The Independent Film Channel (IFC) will present the film uncensored and uninterrupted."
Porn on a non-pay-per-view channel! WooHoo!!
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So when do we get the film about the film about ratings getting an NC-17 rating?
Now that the film is rated 17+ all America's 13 year-olds are going to download it and watch it behind their parents back...
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"This Film is Not Yet Rated" and has been assigned an NC-17 rating by the MPAA.
Brain...stuck...in...paradox. Must...make joke about Soviet Russian movies rating YOU...to abort...
thanks for the almost 1 year heads up!
No way!
Are you sure they just don't want to interfere with the artistic vision of the filmmaker?
I mean (heh, heh) the MPAA really cares (snicker) about the artists!
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Sorry. I couldn't keep a straight face.
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If they won't show NC-17 movies because of worries, then the terrorists have already won.
Yeah, the Xbox, generation-X, X-men, X-games, are all marketing disasters.
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These fucking sickos want to expose young impressionable children to Kevin Smith. I was like 20 when i first saw chasing amy and i still have nightmares. Dont get me started on that bullshit filled 'religious' movie dogma. Specifically made so the biggest idiots on the planet would think that it is "sooo deep man" And really dont get me started on "so and so strike back" -- the movie where Kevin Smith spends millions of dollars and millions of hours of peoples time to complain about why nobody likes his other movies.
... worked 24/7 to feed the hype machine, then he made 2 movies at the same time starring both of them in order to cash in on the hype ... and then when the whole world ran away from his movies in revulsion ... he pretended to be an innocent victim of the media.
Oh yeah and there is the bennifer debacle, where Kevin Smith created the most overhyped actors in the history of civilization
Kevin Smith did one good thing he made clerks. It wasnt a brilliant movie but it was a pretty honest one, and it was about teenagers who were pretty much invisible to popular culture otherwise. So I give him props for that.
But after that he became the worst most disgusting self promoting asshole. He would put anything on screen if he thought it would get people to talk about him (lesbians, catholicism, mark hammil, more lesbians) and would use any way to get his fat ass on TV (this mostly included humiliating himself on jay leno). The only amuzing thing about him is whatching everything blow up in his face. And also reading his forum, the one he specificaly made for his groupies where he actually complains that the forum members do not kiss his ass enough.
I mean this guy is so much into self promotion that the only person worse than him in that regard is Steve Jobs. But at least Jobs has the good sence not to leave his movie company to the proffessionals, and not insert himself into each movie.
On the other hand, it increases the chances that I watch it!
Also, america is full of conservative groups that believe every other movie to be directed by satan in order to corrupt our youth.
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Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
Keep your eyes to the sky.
Go ahead an make a movie where somebody shits on somebody else's face then ass-fucks them with a gardening trowel while nibbling their jugular vein open..."
I wasn't going to bother seeing this film. After reading your description of it, I'm now very interested. Where is it playing, pray tell...
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Maybe the laws in the UK are engraved in stone. Hard to repeal that way, though.
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