Les Mis Movie rated PG-13?- Page 2

[sueb1863]

Posted: 10/23/12 at 7:59pm

Movies are usually only rated R if there's explicit sex or extremely gory or graphic violence. Unless they showed the whores actively having sex, or horrifically bloody battles a la Saving Private Ryan, there's no way Les Miserables would ever get an R. Universal wouldn't allow it and it wouldn't fit the story.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 10/23/12 at 8:17pm

Movies can get an R-rating for language alone, hence The King's Speech and that didn't have explicit sex or gory/graphic violence. Les Miz has a couple swear words and suggestive language, but nothing too extreme. Still my concern was the barricade scenes/deaths, not to mention the on-screen murder of a child. I was afraid it would be too much for the MPAA depending on how they were filmed.

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[best12bars]

Posted: 10/23/12 at 9:25pm

I agree with those who have said if this movie had received an "R" rating, it would be the kiss of death at the box office.

PG-13 pushes it as far as it could go for a musical to do "blockbuster" business in today's market.

[Jungle Red]

Posted: 10/23/12 at 9:37pm

And an R Rated movie opening on Christmas Day? Regardless of the subject matter, that turns a lot of parents off.

After working at a movie theatre for a number of years, I know that parents go by the ratings over anything else.

I had a mother demand a refund after seeing THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT. She thought it was a kid's movie... Point is, parents don't do any research on what they're taking their kids to.

(And I know KIDS was rated R.)

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 10/23/12 at 9:47pm

This thread makes my head hurt.

[Dave19]

Posted: 10/24/12 at 7:59am

"Children under 13 shouldn't be exposed to belting."

Seriously........belting? Amanda Seyfried and Anne Hathaway........