Comments on: Yippee-ki-yay and so forth

By: Brother Reed

Brother Reed — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 06:09:55 +0000

It would seem that even with the added clarification the guidelines are still confusing and that arbitrary deviations are often made. I was listening to the writer’s commentary for Frequency (one of my favorite movies) and Toby Emmerich stated that he had initially planned for the PG-13 film to contain one F-word in the final, climactic scene. The antagonist has grabbed a child, the protagonist’s son, and is using him to try and prevent the kid’s father from firing his shotgun. He is supposed to assert, “I’ll snap his f***ing neck!” That should be one use of the f-word allowed as an expletive. However, the mpaa thought it was too disturbing, I suppose, in the context of threatening harm to a child. So he had to edit the line in order to avoid an R rating. It does seem a bit less weighty in its current form.

By: Brian J. Hill

Brian J. Hill — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:05:02 +0000

One of the major sports networks got in trouble a while back for showing footage of a fan with a T-Shirt reading “F*** the Eagles.” If I’m not mistaken the fan was the wife of one of the players; I’m assuming the player was not an Eagle.

By: David Manning

David Manning — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:26:41 +0000

“Kinda makes me wanna see a movie with imaculate vocabulary, yet f-bombs written all over the background in every scene, just to see what theyÃ¢â‚¬â„¢d do.”

Yes. That would be AWESOME.

The closest thing to that I’ve ever seen in a movie that I can remember right now isn’t very close, but nearing the end of Michael Moore’s “Bowling for Columbine” there’s a brief interview with a gun nut who’s wearing a hat that very blatantly says “F*** Everybody”. No attention is ever pointed toward the hat for the entire scene… I still randomly burst out laughing from seeing that hat from time to time.

By: card

card — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:08:45 +0000

“Notting Hill?”

By: Dave the Slave

Dave the Slave — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:20:02 +0000

I wonder how the mpaa handles the written F-bomb as opposed to the audible version. Whats that Hugh Grant/Julia Roberts movie where the gross funny brit flat-mate has the shirt that says “Fancy a F%@$” on the back..? Kinda makes me wanna see a movie with imaculate vocabulary, yet f-bombs written all over the background in every scene, just to see what they’d do. I’ve known 5 year olds that could read pretty well tho….hmmmm

By: Rob D.

Rob D. — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:30:23 +0000

Sorry Goss, I’ve been misreading things lately. I must be getting old………

By: William Goss

William Goss — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:06:15 +0000

Sorry, Rob, but I’m legally obligated to point this out: G-O-S-S. No ‘r’.

By: Rob D.

Rob D. — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:31:27 +0000

I also forgot to say that a lot of music artists that I listen to that used to have bad language (occasionally) in theri songs, have completely eliminated it from their albums. A lot of them don’t even put out 2 versions anymore. I think it has to do with stores like walmart being so big (where they only sell clean albums).

By: Rob D.

Rob D. — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:24:36 +0000

Very funny stuff Eric and William Gross. I hate how some movies that should be R go soft to get that pg-13 rating. There are very few dark comedies anymore.

By: Ree

Ree — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 09:25:44 +0000

Not that “Be Cool” is the best or most accurate source, but they claim you can only use on F-word in a PG-13 movie. In fact, Eric pointed that out! (http://www.ericdsnider.com/movies/be-cool/)

Chili points out that you only get one F-word in a PG-13 movie, then immediately uses his one; hardy-har-har.