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CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: milomorris on March 16, 2012, 09:49:13 pm ---I thought "not rated" left things open. Is it possible to acquire a rating of NC-17 after a "not rated" release?
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--- Quote from: Mandy21 on March 17, 2012, 08:36:34 am ---From what I've read of these and other articles, "Not Rated" means just that. It would be released with no official rating specifying or limiting viewership.
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--- Quote from: serious crayons on March 17, 2012, 11:24:43 am ---Oh, I may have read it wrong. Somewhere I thought I saw that schools would balk at showing unrated movies, as well, thinking unrated can be an indication of adultish content. But now I see that Weinstein thinks that could be a good solution, so I may have misunderstood.
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I'm not sure how things have changed since 1978 (I'm sure they have in some way) but an unrated movie does not mean an unlimited audience.
In 1978 George Romero was set to release his movie "Dawn Of The Dead", and the MPAA wanted to give it an "X" rating due to the amount of violence & gore. Romero didn't want to edit down his film, and the production compay did not want an "X" rating, because that rating is assoicated with pornography.
The end result was that the film was released unrated, and a disclaimer was added that due to the extreme violence and gore, no one under 18 was to be admited AT ALL.
Obviously, "Bully" is not the same type of movie that DoTD was, however, the fact that it is released unrated could be viewed as a problem, unless the director and production company are pretty clear as to why it is unrated, and just what the film contains so as not to scare off potential viewers.
*side note* Even with that disclaimer, at age 10 I got into see DoTD with my father, who had no idea what film he was going to see. We both had nightmares for about 2 weeks. :laugh:
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on March 31, 2012, 07:44:30 pm ---*side note* Even with that disclaimer, at age 10 I got into see DoTD with my father, who had no idea what film he was going to see. We both had nightmares for about 2 weeks. :laugh:
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Sophia:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on March 31, 2012, 05:48:31 pm ---You don't feel like kids get bullied in the non-Western world? I agree it's horrible, but I would guess there are people in every culture who pick on others.
Also, I would argue that we do have poverty. Though not as prevalent, and with better safety nets.
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I may have been a bit unclear with my point. But for me bullying is about values. What kind of values we would like to have in our society. In Sweden every school needs to have an antimobbing plan.
If a kid is treated badly and the school doesn't do enough about it. He or she can sue the school.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: sophytofu on April 01, 2012, 07:52:14 am ---'
I may have been a bit unclear with my point. But for me bullying is about values. What kind of values we would like to have in our society. In Sweden every school needs to have an antimobbing plan.
If a kid is treated badly and the school doesn't do enough about it. He or she can sue the school.
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Well, that sounds to me like an enlightened Western world response.
I think bullying is part of human nature, all over the world. Which, needless to say, does not make it OK. The test of the culture is the systems in place to prevent and/or handle it when it occurs.
ifyoucantfixit:
If I got my statistics correct. Bully was in third place this weekend. After The Hunger Games, and Clash of the Titans. That is pretty good.
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