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Question: Regarding the recent controversy about the rating of The Woods...

It's better to make it PG-13. More people will see it, and it's just a word.
Keep it rated R. Teens who want to see it will find a way.
As long as the DVD is R-rated or unrated, I don't care.
This isn't a movie I'd go to see anyway.
"Firecrotch" is an offensive word that shouldn't be uttered anywhere.


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THE WOODS ratings poll
08/01/5 at 11:15am
 
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Reply #1 - 08/01/5 at 12:26pm
 
honestly, i don't know how they're to market this movie to teens anyway, even though it ostensibly stars teens. this is a tough one. i voted for one, cause box-office often means make or break on next project in the studio world and seemingly opening it up to a potential younger audience seems a decent move, but i don't know now. it's an older person movie, all language aside. it's two cerebral for teens i'm afraid.
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Reply #2 - 08/01/5 at 12:37pm
 
As I said with The Island, the PG-13 only opens movies up to audiences if it's something they'd like anyway.

With horror movies, which are a niche product, PG-13 actually runs the risk of alienating the core audience, kind of like a pro-choice Republican.

The Woods really is a fever dream about emerging from adolescence and recognizing your adult power -- I don't know if the under-13 crowd will appreciate that.
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Reply #3 - 08/01/5 at 2:11pm
 
What's the context? Never heard 'firecrotch' before, tho I have a few guesses...
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Reply #4 - 08/01/5 at 2:43pm
 
I don't the big freakin' deal about the R-rating thing. I really don't. When I was in Junior High the big thing was those slasher flicks they made like Freddy and Jason and all that and those were (obviously) R-rated. I always thought the idea of anyone between the ages of 12 and 17 not being able to see an R-rated movie was laughable at best. I know that's what the rating is, and it's good as a general guideline but I think the only time I wasn't able to watch an R-rated movie at the theater when I was in High School was during a free Senior movie night (and even then we snuck in to see "the Ref"). Did I miss some major shift here? Aren't most of the people who work at movie theaters teenagers? Who let their friends in? I don't get it.
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Reply #5 - 08/01/5 at 2:55pm
 
Second would be Julie. I looked up 'firecrotch' on the Iiiinternet, and it seems to either be a red headed person's naughty bits (I found men and women) or just a promiscuous woman? Hard to tell.
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Reply #6 - 08/01/5 at 3:05pm
 
dnjscott wrote on 08/01/5 at 2:11pm:
What's the context? Never heard 'firecrotch' before, tho I have a few guesses...


Read the blog entry, yo. I mentioned the context.
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Reply #7 - 08/01/5 at 3:07pm
 
dnjscott wrote on 08/01/5 at 2:43pm:
I don't the big freakin' deal about the R-rating thing. I really don't. When I was in Junior High the big thing was those slasher flicks they made like Freddy and Jason and all that and those were (obviously) R-rated. I always thought the idea of anyone between the ages of 12 and 17 not being able to see an R-rated movie was laughable at best. I know that's what the rating is, and it's good as a general guideline but I think the only time I wasn't able to watch an R-rated movie at the theater when I was in High School was during a free Senior movie night (and even then we snuck in to see "the Ref"). Did I miss some major shift here? Aren't most of the people who work at movie theaters teenagers? Who let their friends in? I don't get it.


The government started making a huge deal about it after Columbine, and after some survey that showed R-rated movies were being marketed to teens.

It's one of those issues that it's easy for politicians to grandstand about
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Reply #8 - 08/01/5 at 8:17pm
 
To be more specific--who was it said to? It would seem really, really stupid if it was to a guy, but would make a bit more sense if a girl was involved.

Dunno about the question, though. I'd probably  go for the R, unless it'll lose a bunch of $$.

Edit: Well, it's probably a girl saying to a girl when I thought about it, duh. I got 5 hours sleep last night, and not much more night before, and so on. Going to bed way early to try to get brain online again. I miss thinking.
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Reply #9 - 08/02/5 at 10:53pm
 
Probably should suspend the poll for Lucky's sake....

But I'm in total agreement about the MPAA suckin' ass.

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Reply #10 - 08/04/5 at 9:48pm
 
Prism crotch!  Wink
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