My dad showed me R-rated movies a lot when I was a kid. I saw Terminator 2 in the theater when I was 9, and I have fond memories of watching Alien and Highlander and Blade Runner on VHS around the same time. I just had to cover my eyes whenever there were bare boobs on the screen.
R doesn’t mean minors can’t see it, it just means they need an adult with them. And most theaters don’t care. Ratings are just a bone thrown to the blue-noses.
That’s not what it meant when I was a kid. PG-13 meant someone over 13 was required to accompany. R meant restricted to people 18 and older. Where did you grow up?
In the United States, Rated R always meant anyone under 17 had to be accompanied by an adult. Only NC-17 movies were outright restricted to 18 and older.
That is an interesting take because that is not what PG-13 means. It was just an upgrade for PG to indicate that it might not be appropriate for pre-teens. Rated R has always meant no one under 16 (now 17) admitted without an adult.
In any case, this is not something I would take a pre-teen to watch, but would be fine with taking someone in their mid-teens to see.
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Yeah, when I was a kid, PG-13 didn’t even exist.
Upon further inspection, it appears Canadian ratings are different from American ones. Restricted means parental accompaniment required in the US and A, but it means “no bambinos period” here in Alberta.
Or, it’s like watching a British Quiz Show, where the “quiz” part is really just an excuse to let British entertainers be clever and funny with each other.
I really liked the movie, but I wasn’t overwhelmed by it. A lot of it was meandering, a lot was just fan service, and the dog was hideous.
I was born in 1978 and grew up in the USA. By the mid-80’s, when Terminator came out, R just meant parents had to go with kids to see an R-rated movie.
X, which became NC-17, meant no one under either 18 or 17 years old. Most movies would choose not to have a rating rather than get that. Showgirls got it, though. Then again, Eyes Wide Shut got R, so the entire system seems to be wacky.
This is why I use Common Sense Media to try to determine if a movie is appropriate or not.
X-rated means not rated at all, and most movie houses won’t show those. NC-17 is different than X.
Back to the movie, which I loved – I thought the plot was exhausting to follow, but once my friend described it as a metaphor for the collapse of the Fox movies, it cleared up a lot. When Logan died, the Fox timeline started to collapse, so bringing him back could rehabilitate that movie line/timeline.
That’s definitely different than here in Canada. R means no children under 18. Odd thing though, when it comes to Canadian TV networks; when the Sopranos was shown on CTV, they didn’t cut or bleep anything. If you wanted full sexuality, language and violence, you’d have to go to HBO for that.
Only after ~1990. In the original MPAA rating system, X was the “adults only” rating. It was replaced by NC-17 because “X” was so strongly associated with pornography.
I thought I said X, which became NC-17, which is what happened.
@Miller and @Mahaloth, I sit corrected. Now back to how awesome DP&W was.
I really liked when Nicepool talked to the camera. Pretty funny break.
I like that his attempt at breaking the fourth wall is to simply turn to the camera and say, “The Proposal”.
Just so good!
I was definitely a fan of Nicepool - later, “what healing power?”
“I think I’m hit,” he says, bleeding from the mouth.
Personally I’d like to know more about the Logan variant that was crucified atop a mountain of bloody skulls. I like the cut of his jib.
Conanverine. Or maybe a variant of this guy -
