does anyone know why this movie is R, get back to me soon? if know one knows for sure a guess would be okay aor a description ofo content.
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...the boobs in "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble" along with the end sketch with the newsman 'watching' the couple and the whole...I can't remember the name..but the one sketch with all the girls topless.
And the innuendo in other sketches.
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is it really bad liek veryone says, like is it that graphic and bad? would it really get NC-17 i dunno, back then movies like deliverance were controversial and straw dogs, now that stuff is in like pg-13, except for the nudity and stuff.
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"Catholic School Girls In Trouble" and the last sketch with the news reporter watching the teens have sex are the main two reasons the movie was R rated. Without those, the movie would be PG-13 at best.
Too bad they don't make movies like this or 'Amazon Women on the Moon' anymore.
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On the DVD commentary, John Landis says that if the film were released today it would be rated NC-17; the only reason it's not is because that rating didn't exist yet in 1977. And he says the only reason it was rated R in the first place was because of the sex.
"I'm not wearing any pants. Film at eleven."
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...the boobs in "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble" along with the end sketch with the newsman 'watching' the couple and the whole...I can't remember the name..but the one sketch with all the girls topless.
That sketch in question would be "Catholic School Girls In Trouble". >_>
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The first "ratings" were only a single voluntary code called Hays Production code, founded in 1922. Mostly it forbade nudity and profanity. There were lots of other rules too that seem silly today (For example, you couldn't say "nuts" as a swear word, or call a woman "hot" on film).
In the 1960s era of free love, plus the branching out of film companies, eliminated the old Hays code and introduced the ratings system. It started out as G, M, R, and X. At the time, M meant "Mature" (parental guidance suggested but all admitted) but you could see what misunderstandings that led to, so M was changed to PG a year later. The allowable age for "R" started out as 16 but was raised to 17. Also, a film that industries refused to submit for MPAA review was automatically rated as X, regardless of actual content.
The "PG-13" rating was introduced in 1984, for films too harsh for very young viewers but nowhere near the violent and sexual "R" standards.
It wasn't until 1990 that the "NC-17" rating was introduced, as well as "unrated" was used, simply because the phrase "X-Rated" became too attached to the idea of pornography, which simply did not apply to many of the "X" rated films the mainstream industry released. Also many of the "unrated" films of today did not want that stigma attached.
Sort of. The ratings were G, GP, R, M, and X, if I recall correctly. I don't recall offhand where M fit in. It was dropped fairly quickly. GP became PG to avoid confusion with G. The X wasn't automatically applied to unrated films. What happened was that the MPAA trademarked all of the ratings and logos except X, which was left in the public domain. That way, filmmakers could voluntarily adopt an X rating for their films without submitting them.
Some films, like Midnight Cowboy and A Clockwork Orange, were given X ratings under the then-new system.
However, in the mid-1970's sexually explicit films moved from the grindhouse into the public consciousness. Films like Deep Throat and Behind the Grteen Door were openly praised by intellectuals, and theie lead actresses became household names. Of course, they were rated X (probably voluntarily).
Because of this, the X rating became synonymous with porn in the public eye, and box office poison to mainstream films. Filmmakers would cut content in order to avoid an X rating, which was de facto censorship.
To address this, the MPAA added the NC-17 rating as a replacement for X.
Thank you! I'm not sure what the original question was looking for, but you have definitely nailed shut the idea that it would have gotten a PG, or even an R under the current rating sytem. "The Groove Tube", of which KFM is a rip-off, which came out three-years earlier, was an X. The three years of changing opinions about sex in movies was the only reason KFM didnt get an X. It came along at the right time and grossed tons of $$$$$$$. No way was a normal, hormone-addled 16 y.o. male of 1977 *not* going to see KFM.
BTW, as an adult now, I give the movie 3 stars. It really is boring and unfunny (sub-Saturday Night Live material, maybe even sub-Mad TV!)
I always thought Mad TV was better than SNL.
shareNaked school girls getting whipped by midget in a clown suit with some guy chained to the wall in the background with cake smeared on his ass should get an R rating. : )
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Never has the beauty of the sexual act been so crassly exploited, that's why.
Really, there's just a lot of topless women.
Unless I missed something, there's a sex scene at the end..?
shareYeah there's a sex scene at the end but it's not THAT explicit. According to an interview with Landis years ago that scene was slightly edited. In the original cut you see the guys butt when the woman pulls his pants down. However that was cut because (back then) ANY male nudity could give a film an X rating. However this film got an R despite the tons of female nudity. It would get an NC-17 today though--the ratings system has gotten a LOT more conservative over the years.
shareIt's not just the nufdity. The sexual dialong, humor, and references alone would have gotten the movie rated R at the first "Deep Throat" joke.
Additionally, "A Fistful of Yen" got fairly violent for back then.
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Well it has to be rated R you know due to the kind of things that they had in the film. I have not seen this movie in ages since USA UP ALL NIGHT use to air this on Tv back in the day on The USA Network.
Those were the days you know.