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5 f-bombs and it's pg-13??

posted 17 years ago by nbalive_fanatic
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first of all, i just want to say i really like the movie and dug the whole low-budget 80's cheesiness of everything and thought it was very entertaining, but i was shocked to hear 5 f*$#s or its variations in it. i know that pg-13 was still in it's infancy when this was released, but geez. after the first one near the beginning i was ok that's about it, but they just kept coming lol.

[–] DADrake 17 years ago

Go back and watch All the President's Men.

That movie had the F bomb well over a dozen times and it was rated PG.

Go figure...

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[–] XtroTerrestial 11 years ago

To the OP,

The MPAA was a little less prudish back then. I remember when BULLY got released in 2012, the MPAA was making a big fuss because the F-Bomb got dropped more than once, and rated it R.

The MPAA has gotten all strange over the years. If the F-bomb is dropped once (depending on the context), it's a PG-13. If more than once, it's an R. But a C-bomb is and automatic R.

But the MPAA has no problems with violence, as long as it's not graphic.

I said this once in 2012 and I will say it again:

Three words for the MPAA: TIME TO RETIRE!

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[–] 11 years ago

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[–] Tjanssen411 9 years ago

pg-13 was still in it's infancy

Right there...

so much of the MPAA's ratings system comes down to personal bias of the Members at any given time and negotiations with the director/Production Company

The South Park Guys (and a few others) have gone on the record as stating that they would submit extra profane content to distract from the stuff they wanted in, only to get a memo ignoring their bait and the preferred content still got cited... then three edits later they'd claim to cut something and they'd get approved as-is... so whether the MPAA stopped checking and took them at their word, or they went in with the bias that it was cut and they didn't see the non-difference when watching...

another thing too is that they would haggle, and ask "if I cut 3 'Hells' can I get an extra 'Damn'?"

so with all of that I'm not surprised that a Movie from the First Year of PG 13 could get away with 5; even though 20 years Later 'Be Cool' is openly mocking the 1 F-bomb in a PG 13 film, by actively citing it in the dialog as they drop said single F Bomb