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Rated R for Say What?

posted 19 years ago by donny-31
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"MPAA: Rated R for language and sexual content."

What sexual content? Hugs and kisses? Longing looks? Waking up in your boyfriend's bed? OH! I forgot! We did get to see his butt.

Here's yet another example of why American films are so saccharine. Our films are emasculated in pre-production, as Jack Valenti is wearing film-makers' bollocks for jewels in his crown - as King of the Right-Wing Censors.

You can't blame producers - they've got to turn handsome profits. The blame for our mostly inferior films rests solidly on the MPAA, which should be thumped like the Berlin Wall.

Here's looking at you, kid.

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[–] donny-31 19 years ago

The R rating is a result of homophobic disgust, in my opinion. This movie is so good, in my opinion, that it actually made me tense; especially his speech to his school.

I loved his fag hag.

I only find young Silverstone in Get Real and in that Albert Finney movie, when he was a kid. The other boy (Groton, I think?), I haven't seen in any other films.

I have very few "gay-themed" movies, and this is one of the best. I also have My Beautiful Laundrette, which is very good, and a couple of others. I wish there were more, but the theme is unpopular outside gay circles, anathema to the MPAA and the Bush administration, and the films don't make enough money. C'est la vie.

Here's looking at you, kid.