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Is the 18 rating basically dead?

posted 8 years ago by FantasticFearOfMisterBobo
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Checking the BBFC website, the last new film to get rated 18 was about a month ago and even then it was a little known Polish film. The last major film I can remember being rated 18 was Hateful Eight and then before that Fifty Shades. Doesn't seem like many films can get there anymore, unless you use the C word more than a few times and include sexual violence.

[–] Zombie55 8 years ago

No its still alive and kicking as far as I believe.

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[–] Tim-johnston-215-469291 8 years ago

Your right in a way, it's rare for films to get the 18 without those two things

[–] filmmagnet 8 years ago

There are a couple of 2016 films: Neon Demon (horror) and Fifty Shades of Black (parody) but the rating has been in decline for some years. I think it was telling when Scream 4 got a 15 (I thought it was more violent than the first three, all 18). To see how easy it used to be to get an 18 look at In The Company of Men (no violence or nudity, mild sex references, about 20 F words) none of which would have been enought to get an 18, even then, but it got the rating due to theme of emotional cruelty. I think you could edit out the F words today and have a 12A while leaving the disturbing theme intact.

[–] filmmagnet 8 years ago

Having said that I'll be shocked if this sequel doesn't get an 18, its got a pornographic theme FFS.

[–] krypton_son 8 years ago

Having said that I'll be shocked if this sequel doesn't get an 18, its got a pornographic theme FFS.

We don't know that it has a pornographic theme. There's nothing in the trailers that suggest it, and it's been stated that it's very loosely based on the sequel novel.

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[–] Tommy 42 8 years ago

I don't think it has anything to do with the rating or the BBFC, it's more to do with studios cutting films to fit the ratings.

The '12' cert is my biggest issue as studios cut films to hit the 12 cert. It's all about money (bums on seats) against art/craft/vision.

I love it when a studio backs a director's vision and the film gets a 15 or 18 cert.
'Gone Girl' is the most recent example of a film that could so easily have been cut down to a '15' if the violence and language had been edited. Fincher didn't do it and the studio backed him up.

I'm glad that T2 has an '18' cert. It shows that Boyle and co. have not compromised the writing, editing etc. It will be a 'deep cut' and no mistake.

Bring it on.

TS