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R?

posted 22 years ago by WillCNixonJR
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I convinced my mom to let me buy this DVD even though it was Rated R for "Strong Violence" I watched the movie and seriously - I don't know what the hell they were talking about! I'd let my kids see this movie in Kindergarten! All action movies are just as violent as this (usually even more) and they all get PG-13! Maybe MPAA was high or something but damn an R rating is retarded. It probably would have done better at the box office as well if it was PG-13, because then no1 would need parental consent and a larger audience could attend. Ok well tell me what you think.

[–] Lando_Hass 22 years ago

I aggree, it should not have been rated R. I hate the MPAA, they always stop directors from making gory ass flicks. Look at Resident Evil, everyone kept saying there was no blood, it was the damn MPAA's fault. Even Paul Anderson said, if they added even one more drop of blood to the movie, it would have gotten an NC-17 rating. I hate the MPAA.

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[–] Bolex23 22 years ago

they probabay gave it an R rating because of that shot in the begining where the guy gets shot in the head and you see a bullet entry wound for a split second. I agree though, all it was was the SWAT guys in green getting blasted around, but there was no blood!

[–] 22 years ago

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[–] WillCNixonJR 22 years ago

no i am saying if I was a parent I would not have a problem with young kids seeing this. Dumbass.

[–] Spartan_234 21 years ago

NO BLOOD?! Then dang, the MPAA probably WAS high then. The content review at Kids-In-Mind.com says that the violence is not that bad.

Acutally, there are, like, a few drops of blood from numerous gunshots and cuts, but still...

A movie getting rated R for "strong" violence means that there's a lot of blood. Either some raters WERE on drugs or people from the ESRB probably came in to the MPAA main office and checked in disguised as MPAA members who were actually homesick that day! Because the MPAA has never lied like this any other time, for movies like The Matrix it's usually just the rating being undeserved but they've told the truth.

texastard, I actually wouldn't let kids watch this in kindergarten because they just might repeat the violence (they're 5 or 6 years old, they usually don't know any better).

Cheese_Battalion, you are so full of it. First off, Resident Evil has blood and gore. I read the Kids-In-Mind review. A laser cuts heads and limbs off, an elevator slices a woman in half, and dogs bite people's flesh, there's tons of blood coming from the wounds. And, where did you hear Paul Anderson say that one more drip of blood would give Resident Evil an NC-17 rating?

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