The theater I work for just got a print of Scary Movie last weekend. Almost all of the employees were there to preview it as soon as it was built Thursday night. It’s funny, but quite dirty. Definitely good for a few good laughs. But my manager thinks we got a bad print. We think they accidentally sent us the NC-17 or X-rated version. When you saw Scary Movie, did it have these three scenes:
Shawn Wayans being killed by a penis through the head?
A very large pubic bush?
A gym teacher with a big ol’ set of hairy balls?
If you don’t remember these scenes (and believe me, you would), then we may have to change the rating on our marquis. Thanks for your help.
If I’m right, Scary Movie got away with an ‘R’ rating, with each of those elements you mentioned. Nope, nobody really knows how it did get away with an ‘R’ rating, considering that some movies got an “NC-17” because of an extra thrust of a woman’s pelvis. One theory says that it is a comedy, so it gets more leeway with what it is showing.
Yes, those scenes were in the version I saw which was rated R. I haven’t heard of an NC-17 cut, though. I do have it on authority that the killer penis was actually a realistic looking dildo, though.
I laughed until I peed, and then I laughed at that.
Seriously, I was quite shocked at seeing those things in an R-rated movie. What was even more shocking was that there were a large number of children in the theater with me. And I don’t mean teens, I mean children. I estimate there were eight or ten children between the ages of 8-12 in the immediate area where I was sitting. If that was an accurate sample for the entire theatre, there would have been 50 or 60 kids all told. It was a little awkward trying to absorb the shock factor of so many raunchy jokes & explicit scenes such as already have been mentioned.
I don’t have any children, but I like to think I would be a really together and way-liberal parent if I did. Still, I know that I wouldn’t take my eight-year-old child to an R-rated movie without having seen it myself first or getting the heads-up from a trusted source. And yet these kids were all accompanied by [people who appeared to be] their parents.
Minor rant: (I wanted to start a thread about this single issue, but my threads have been getting an average of zero responses lately so I’ll just attach it, parasite-style, to this one.)
When did it become necessary to take out a second mortgage to go see a movie? My tickets were $8.50 each! Is this a “normal” price for movies these days? The last movie I saw was The Phantom Menace and I’m pretty sure it was only about five or six dollars. Heaven help the family of five when they stop at the concessions stand:
5 tickets: $42.50
2 Large bags of popcorn (each containing 25¢ worth of popcorn): $12.00
2 Large drinks: $10.00
3 Small drinks: $9.00
Minimum total: $73.50
Hot dogs were $2.50 and Nachos were $5.00, for families that can afford to really splurge. Further compounding my irritation were the advertisements (one for Amex & another for Volkwagen) that came in place of the usual previews. And if that wasn’t enough, after the lights had been off for these commercials, they were turned back, blinding everybody so that theater employees could walk up & down the aisles to collect money for child cancer research. A really kind-hearted & hungry family could have spent over $100 that night.
Answer to minor rant: I’ve never understood why people need to eat when they watch movies. Why? You’re there to see a movie, not to eat. I don’t need that extra artery busting lard popcorn anyway. Would you eat that stuff if it was served to you in a restaurant.
Anyway, I only see matinees. $4.75 at the most. I never buy drinks either. At 4 heads, that’s $19. $19 for 2 hours in a nice air conditioned theatre. It’s a good deal. After that I can go eat or drink to my heart’s desire.
Where I live, we have two multiplexes which show second-run features for $1.00 each. One of these bargain multiplexes even has fifty cent matinees. Unless the movie I want to see, is some big mega hit like Gladiator, I try to wait til they go to the dollar show. The films usually hit the dollar theater about a month or two prior to video release. Video rental costs more, and you lose the big screen experience, so I try to see many films as I can at the dollar theater.
I am currently waiting for U571 and a few others to hit there. I saw “American Beauty” there most recently. great film, and only cost me a buck![/end hijack]
When I first moved to this area, a matinee cost 4.00 and a regular cost like 7.00. One year later a matinee cost 5.00 and a regular cost 8.00. I know it doesn’t seem like a lot, but they kept increasing it a quarter like ever 3 months.
But I do NOT buy the expensive sh*t at the theatre.I smuggle food in. You’d be amazed at the ingenius things I have thought of =P
Yeah, all those were in the version I saw. Hilarious!
And I hear you pepperlandgirl. They just put the prices up where I live. Though these are Candadian prices: Reg. $9, Week Matinee $5, Weekend Matinee $7. What the hell is up with there being two matinee prices?!?
Anyway I think the penis and balls is the only one that would make me think it should be rated higher. All of the others, you never really saw anything. Take Fight Club; they had several penises in there. Later all.
hehe same here its amazing what you can get away with if you wear huge pants like mune with the 18 inch deep pockets in the back -only prob. is chocolate melting while waiting in line
Yeah, I’d actually taken take-out noodle soup into a movie theatre a long time ago when I didn’t have time to eat. I had to go back out to the restaurant when I realized I forgot to get spoons.
My wife thinks it’s a picnic and brings in things like hamburgers, fruits (with a knife too peel) and drinks. If we’re with a bunch of friends, I sit the furthest away possible from her because frankly, I’m embarassed.
Re:bringing in food – I guess it’s not as much of a hijack since this very issue was brought up in the movie.
BTW - because of the way distributors and exhibitors make their deals, if you go the first week, nearly all the box office goes directly to the distributor (hence the upcoming Pokemon give-aways for the first week only) – so if you have mor elove for the guys who screw you on concessions than for the one’s screwing you on ticket prices, wait a couple of weeks. The exhibitors make a killing on “sleepers” like Sixth Sense
And, regarding the OP. I don’t think there ever was an NC-17 version of Scary Movie. Some of the people who saw the unrated preview assumed it would need to be censored to get an R, but then apparently the MPAA never requested anything. – this after all the hoopla about Boogie Nights.
I guess they just decided that faked sexual content is no more objectionable than faked violent content which has been ok since day 1. There wasn’t a real on-camera penis in this movie, the “bush/geyser” scene sidestepped anything graphic and went straight to cartoonland.
This movie is not for children, but it’s nothing the average 15 year old hasn’t conjured up already in his imagination.
My family always smuggles in food. We usually get away with it and save a lot of money but, one time my brother tried to hide a Snapple or something like that in hs inner coat pocket. He dropped it in the aisle and glass went everywhere. It was very embarassing and the theatre staff was not happy.
R rated movies can show limp penises on men just not erect ones. However, erect dildos or other fake penises are ok. I dont think they could get away with an erect dildo attached to a man though… hmmm. Anyway, that is how they were able to show the “I KNOW” picture, and the other scenes. As far as the penis murder, only penetration of the vagina, mouth or anus is not allowed. They never said anything about penetration of the ear and skull…
South Park used the fake penis loophole in their movie too.
It’s amusing (and sorta pathetic) how creative people can get at this. I’ve seen families sharing a bucket of KFC Original Recipe. I’ve seen pizza boxes sticking out of the trash cans at the exits. I think they got it in by covering the stash with jackets. Or they had the missus put it in her purse (of course, that’s why we women carry purses, after all). Maybe they had the baby sit on top the pizza box in her carriage. Amazing.
BTW I’m going to see Scary Movie tonight. Man, I’ve got a lot to look forward to, don’t I?
Amazing.