Movie

[azurelunatic]

Little Fayoumis looked all excited about The Matrix: Reloaded upon seeing the trailers. Informed him that he would not get to see it for quite a while, as there were some grown-up scenes in there. However, when we got our own copy, we could edit that out and make it safe for him.

He seemed quite contented with that idea.

Ahh, censorship.

...Well, it *is* rated R.


He and I had in-depth discussion of X2 upon leaving. He'll be a mutant for months. He dug Wolvie.

Comments

[sithjawa.livejournal.com]

At least that particular grown-up scene is really not integral to the plot in any way. :P I assume you mean the sex and not the violence anyway. Editing out the violence would be... tough?

[thrames.livejournal.com]

No it wouldn't! See, you leave the intro and the outro and the credits in. Boom! Done with editing out the violence.

[adjectivegail]

*grins* you can also leave in the loooooong-winded and boring bits of pretentious dialogue... ;P

[azurelunatic]

He has no trouble with most violence, nor does his mother have a problem with him seeing animated kung-fu goodness. Heck, he plays Need for Speed and crashes cars into things, and Tekken.

That would be the sex, yes.

[thrames.livejournal.com]

What about the tons and tons and tons of "naughty words"?

[azurelunatic]

He hears worse from Mommy.

[boojum.livejournal.com]

I thought this was referring to the "No, really, I'm Jean Gray and I *want* to fuck you." scene of X2, and was coming up with ways to explain how pretending to be someone else to someone who really liked that someone was a mean thing to do without getting into the details of the pretending (or the pretending to be Rogue thing). Sleep now.

[azurelunatic]

Hehe.

He thinks that mush is pretty icky.

He groks shapeshifters, happily. Being someone else without their permission is bad. Being someone else, even with their permission, and fooling one of their friends is mean.

[adjectivegail]

*blinks* it's rated R?
okay, what exactly does that mean?

it was rated 15 here in the UK, meaning that you had to be at least 15 years old to see it...

[wibbble]

The MPAA are incredibly informative about this:

http://www.mpaa.org/movieratings/

Most films that would get a '15' in the UK get rated 'R' in the US... but so do some films that get an '18' here.

And, of course, a '15' in the cinema might not make '15' on home video. The Matrix is a good example of that - a headbut in the subway fight sequence was edited out of the VHS and DVD releases.

[azurelunatic]

What he said.

Things that can earn an R rating:

Sex
Violence
Language
Nudity

...and probably Just Plain Disturbing, too.

[azurelunatic]

17, here, if not with parent/guardian.