Studio co-chair Harvey Weinstein noted the tendency of the MPAA to hammer movies for including sex and coarse language, but not violence. After the R-rated “King’s Speech” won Best Picture at the Oscars, the studio released an f-word-less version to try and reach an even bigger audience. Weinstein successfully appealed the rating for “Blue Valentine” (below), bringing it down to the much more accessible R. film, Ryan Gosling drama “Blue Valentine” (above), largely on the pungency of a single sex scene.Īlso read: Harvey Wins! MPAA Overturns ‘Blue Valentine’s NC-17 of America’s rating system garnered a lot of attention late last year, when it not only slapped “The King’s Speech” with an R but also delivered the entirely restrictive NC-17 mark to another Weinstein Co. Meanwhile, a genial Oscar-bait historical film that features a four-letter word in just one scene got clobbered with the dreaded R rating - as do any number of films with milder sex than you’d see on HBO in primetime. Make no mistake, the PG-13 rated movies are getting edgier and rougher - including, notably, the final “Harry Potter” installments, and the even more brutal “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” that debuted last weekend.Įspecially at “Apes,” unsuspecting child-accompanied parents may have found themselves wondering just how much more ape-thwacking, electrocuting, cop-pummeling onscreen action it would take to push the simian origin story a notch deeper into marketing no-no land. After nearly three decades, the PG-13 rating seems to have outlived its usefulness.
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