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RE: does any one watches rated r moiveS? - 7/18/2009 11:30:52 PM
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stellaluna
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Absolutely. Violence is perfectly acceptable, unlike sex.
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RE: does any one watches rated r moiveS? - 7/19/2009 8:26:42 AM
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The Passion of the Christ was violence for a reason, and although it was difficult to watch, it was very powerful.
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RE: does any one watches rated r moiveS? - 7/19/2009 9:23:58 AM
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I was addressing this.
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I watch very very few rated R movies especially since movies nowadays have a lot of immoral content in them. I'd go for action genres when it comes to rated R moves.
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RE: does any one watches rated r moiveS? - 7/23/2009 3:26:45 AM
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I don't usually pay much attention to ratings, but the style of movie I like usually doesn't end up being R, it's usually pg-13. I don't mind violence (but I can't watch gore), I don't mind action or suspense (but but I can't watch horror), and I don't mind swearing (but I won't watch sexual scenes).
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RE: does any one watches rated r moiveS? - 7/23/2009 5:04:57 PM
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Film the Bible as it is and yes it would get a X. Look out for the Song of Solomon book. Imagine filming the life of Peter as he really was before he was filled with the holy spirit. Imagine filiming the life of Jacob before and after he became Israel - all verbatum from the Word of God. "The Ten Commandments" did a good job filming God writing those commandemnts on the tablets of stone with his finger - but in reality what was it really like. I would like to see a director try to reproduce as close as he can what it must have really been like to be so near to that.
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RE: does any one watches rated r moiveS? - 7/23/2009 8:11:28 PM
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Film the Bible as it is and yes it would get a X. Look out for the Song of Solomon book. Imagine filming the life of Peter as he really was before he was filled with the holy spirit. Imagine filiming the life of Jacob before and after he became Israel - all verbatum from the Word of God. "The Ten Commandments" did a good job filming God writing those commandemnts on the tablets of stone with his finger - but in reality what was it really like. I would like to see a director try to reproduce as close as he can what it must have really been like to be so near to that.
The reality is that these stories and topics are covered in the bible without ever resorting to anything that would ever even cause a PG-13 rating. It is not the topics alone that result in a given rating but the way that those topics are dealt with.
BTW - did you know that in biblical Hebrew there are not even cuss words, and even in moden Hebrew all the cuss words are borrowed from Arabic. Although some moden comentators would have people believe differently, even the tantalizing Song of songs is conveyed to us in very chaste language. [B]NO the bible is not "X-rated!"[/B] while it deals with some very adult topics, it always does so in a very respectful and chaste way; in everything it is always a reflection of the Holy God who inspired it!
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RE: does any one watches rated r moiveS? - 7/23/2009 10:29:25 PM
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The reality is that these stories and topics are covered in the bible without ever resorting to anything that would ever even cause a PG-13 rating. It is not the topics alone that result in a given rating but the way that those topics are dealt with.
Actually, the topics themselves can result in a higher rating; that's what the "adult situations" tag means when a movie lists the types of potentially objectionable material it contains. There's no way that you'd get a PG rating for a movie that contained armies slaughtering each other, a bodyguard disemboweling his king, another king committing suicide, a third king murdering his misstress' husband, and a woman falling out a window and getting eaten by dogs. The move from PG-13 to R, however, is more dependent upon how exactly the subjects are handled.
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RE: does any one watches rated r moiveS? - 7/24/2009 12:21:31 PM
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The Passion of the Christ was violence for a reason, and although it was difficult to watch, it was very powerful.
I call it "Sam Peckinpah's 'Passion of The Christ'" for the movie's over-the-top gore level. That picture was a holy snuff film.
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RE: does any one watches rated r moiveS? - 7/24/2009 12:22:54 PM
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There's no way that you'd get a PG rating for a movie that contained armies slaughtering each other, a bodyguard disemboweling his king, another king committing suicide, a third king murdering his misstress' husband, and a woman falling out a window and getting eaten by dogs.
Sounds like a few plays by Shakespeare....
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RE: does any one watches rated r moiveS? - 7/24/2009 12:29:27 PM
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I don't think everything is meant to be made into a movie, actually.
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RE: does any one watches rated r moiveS? - 7/24/2009 3:44:23 PM
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The reality is that these stories and topics are covered in the bible without ever resorting to anything that would ever even cause a PG-13 rating. It is not the topics alone that result in a given rating but the way that those topics are dealt with.
Actually, the topics themselves can result in a higher rating; that's what the "adult situations" tag means when a movie lists the types of potentially objectionable material it contains. There's no way that you'd get a PG rating for a movie that contained armies slaughtering each other, a bodyguard disemboweling his king, another king committing suicide, a third king murdering his misstress' husband, and a woman falling out a window and getting eaten by dogs. The move from PG-13 to R, however, is more dependent upon how exactly the subjects are handled.
-Dan.
Don't forget about the king that God hated so much that He gave him a disease that caused him to vomit up his own intestines. I'm sure they could handle that in a PG-13 fashion.
I know I have a sick sense of humor because I laugh at that part of the Bible. It's the verse after, (paraphrasing) "And no one missed him."
I also laugh when the kid falls asleep and then out of a window while Paul is preaching. Maybe that's why we have pews, so all we can do is bump our heads rather than fall a story or two. (joke)
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RE: does any one watches rated r moiveS? - 7/24/2009 4:08:28 PM
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I got two or three mostly cussing. i think some pg 13 moives should be rated even some pg should be ratedr. do any one watches rated r moives?
Not too often! I recently watched a movie called "Hangover". It reminded me of why I generally don't see R rated movies.
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RE: does any one watches rated r moiveS? - 7/24/2009 6:07:21 PM
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yes i have watched one. but it was a oldy. i think it was a western. it was just for violence anyway.
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RE: does any one watches rated r moiveS? - 7/24/2009 8:26:57 PM
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I got two or three mostly cussing. i think some pg 13 moives should be rated even some pg should be ratedr. do any one watches rated r moives?
Not too often! I recently watched a movie called "Hangover". It reminded me of why I generally don't see R rated movies.
This is a good example of why it's pointless to generalize about "R movies." The movie is called "The Hangover" and it's about 4 dudes who get really drunk at a bachelor party in Vegas. If anybody expected to be anything other than shallow and gratuitous, then I'd suggest they didn't really look into it much before watching the movie. However, there have been hundreds, if not thousands of movies that have been rated R, yet are deep, thoughtful, and worth seeing.
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RE: does any one watches rated r moiveS? - 7/25/2009 1:03:48 PM
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I got two or three mostly cussing. i think some pg 13 moives should be rated even some pg should be ratedr. do any one watches rated r moives?
Not too often! I recently watched a movie called "Hangover". It reminded me of why I generally don't see R rated movies.
This is a good example of why it's pointless to generalize about "R movies." The movie is called "The Hangover" and it's about 4 dudes who get really drunk at a bachelor party in Vegas. If anybody expected to be anything other than shallow and gratuitous, then I'd suggest they didn't really look into it much before watching the movie. However, there have been hundreds, if not thousands of movies that have been rated R, yet are deep, thoughtful, and worth seeing.
-Dan.
I couldn't agree more. I did see The Hangover and even though it was pretty much as I had expected it had been a long time since I had seen an R rated movie such as that and I was a little shocked at some of the stuff.
But there are so many movies that are worth seeing. I think the most of the movies we have seen recently have been R rated movies. An R rating isn't an automatic no for me.
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RE: does any one watches rated r moiveS? - 7/26/2009 12:03:12 PM
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I got two or three mostly cussing. i think some pg 13 moives should be rated even some pg should be ratedr. do any one watches rated r moives?
Not too often! I recently watched a movie called "Hangover". It reminded me of why I generally don't see R rated movies.
This is a good example of why it's pointless to generalize about "R movies." The movie is called "The Hangover" and it's about 4 dudes who get really drunk at a bachelor party in Vegas. If anybody expected to be anything other than shallow and gratuitous, then I'd suggest they didn't really look into it much before watching the movie. However, there have been hundreds, if not thousands of movies that have been rated R, yet are deep, thoughtful, and worth seeing.
-Dan.
What I said was partially tongue in cheek. However, then again, what makes the deep thoughtful movies any better? What it sounds like you're saying is that the 'R' rated comedies are the one's to avoid. The 'R' rated comedies, irregardless of how shallow, consist of the comedy movie stars of the day, just as at one time they were Abbott & Costello, Marx Brothers (risque for that time), etc. I certainly wouldn't say the old black white drama movies were better than the old b & w comedies. Laurel & Hardy were just as significant as Gregory Peck.
Incidentally, I rarely go to the movies. On 4 occasions within the last year or so, through a work related scenario I've had to sit in a theatre, which allowed me to walk in and watch any movie to kill time. I didn't know a thing about The Hangover, and although the title itself could give a pretty good idea of the nature of the movie, the other options didn't seem much better. On a prior occasion, I watched Public Enemies which I assume was rated 'R'. I don't really think the movie was much better even though it had an historical, and theoretically less shallow theme. For one, the movie was just plain bad IMO. And, like all other movies of the day, they place scenes that are not relevant in themselves. They add to a movie what often establishes an 'R' rating, because it's the way things are done today.
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RE: does any one watches rated r moiveS? - 7/26/2009 12:08:39 PM
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What I said was partially tongue in cheek. However, then again, what makes the deep thoughtful movies any better? What it sounds like you're saying is that the 'R' rated comedies are the one's to avoid.
What I'm saying is that you can't just categorically state that an act of violence, or a glimpse of nudity/sexual situation, or a swear word has no place in any film ever and that no 'R' films should ever be watched. There are good ways to handle these things and bad ways to handle them. They can have their place.
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RE: does any one watches rated r moiveS? - 7/26/2009 12:18:45 PM
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What I said was partially tongue in cheek. However, then again, what makes the deep thoughtful movies any better? What it sounds like you're saying is that the 'R' rated comedies are the one's to avoid.
What I'm saying is that you can't just categorically state that an act of violence, or a glimpse of nudity/sexual situation, or a swear word has no place in any film ever and that no 'R' films should ever be watched. There are good ways to handle these things and bad ways to handle them. They can have their place.
-Dan.
Well, those things you mentioned are in PG movies. I'm not saying one shouldn't see an 'R' rated movie. I just said that I generally don't see 'R' rated movies. If I think a movie is worth seeing, I won't not see it because it's rated 'R'. But generally, I find most not worth seeing. And yes, The Hangover was a bit of a reminder since I hadn't seen one in a theater in awhile. But that's just me.
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RE: does any one watches rated r moiveS? - 7/28/2009 5:18:34 PM
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I am very careful about what movies I watch.. I rarely watch rated R, i just don't wanna put that junk in my mind.. and i saw it mentioned earlier, and I really agree, some pg-13's movies now-a-days are getting really bad
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