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Originally Posted by Anyong Bluth
Neutering the franchise by boxing it into a PG-13 rating was dumb.
Honestly, the R rating being set at 17 is dumb too. I think 15 is a better age restriction- even though that's completely arbitrary also.
Face facts, in an Internet world, major motion pictures are tame by comparison to everything else easily available to kids. You only have maybe 2-3 films that have gratuitous sex or violence, and a couple more that actually touch on adult topics that I can see wanting to put some advisory notice about the film so people aren't going in with their kids and blindsided with an uncomfortably sensitive scene.
It reminds me of another Arnold film that when it was released became a news story about whether it should have been rated NC-17, Total Recall.
No joke, I hardly think that film calls for it.
On the other hand, take the movie August, Osage County.
It's not violent and there's no graphic nudity. But, if you are at all familiar with the plot and topics of discussion, it's definitely not a film that you want to take the family to go see, or even really have a young teenager going to if you're their parent. However, from most of the trailers for the movie, it's not apparent the mature discussion that goes on throughout the movie.
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Whats funny is, I thought Fury Road was less violent that this film and it was rated R. Its language was definitely tamer than this film.
The MPAA is dumb or its bought out by the big studios who want to keep the more marketable PG-13 rating.
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