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RENT will be rated...what?
re: RENT will be rated...what?#25
Posted: 8/18/05 at 1:33amWell...there is a whole song about "Contact" and there's drug use. Not so much on the violence part. I personally thing that an NC-17 rating is impossible for such a mainstream movie. R is most likely I guess.
re: RENT will be rated...what?#26
Posted: 8/18/05 at 1:36amIf a movie uses the F word ONCE, it can be PG-13. Anything more than that has to carry an R rating. Rent uses that word more than once, therefore R. (in addition to all the drugs and sex and everything else)
re: RENT will be rated...what?#27
Posted: 8/18/05 at 1:37am
I'm sure it'll be R.
But if it turned out PG 13 which I know it most likely wont - I will LAUGH my ass off.
re: RENT will be rated...what?#28
Posted: 8/18/05 at 1:37amI believe "Contact" did not make it into the movie.
re: RENT will be rated...what?#29
Posted: 8/18/05 at 1:40amreally, no contact, thats my favorite and a HUGE semi-climax of the show
re: RENT will be rated...what?#31
Posted: 8/18/05 at 1:43am
hah. Hello, double entendre!
It would just translate... oddly to film, though. I'm sad to see it go, but it makes sense.
re: RENT will be rated...what?#33
Posted: 8/18/05 at 1:48am
Unintended, I take it? 
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re: RENT will be rated...what?#36
Posted: 8/18/05 at 2:03am
Iteresting tidbit. A movie was just released with an NC-17 rating. It was the first one in like 6 or 7 YEARS. So I think it is quite unlikly that RENT will be NC-17 since there hadn't been one for ^ years.
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re: RENT will be rated...what?#37
Posted: 8/18/05 at 2:11am
^ yes, NC-17 rated films are rare, but not THAT rare... a LOT of films get that rating, though the majority of the time, they're independent features or foreign films. Examples (recently, like past 10 years) are Bad Education... Y Tu, Mama, Tambien... The Dreamers... Last Tango in Paris... Crash... and The Matador, released by *gasp!* Sony!! -- all HEAVY with sex and violence. Sometimes they're advertised as "UR", meaning "Unrated"... it sells slightly better, usually only on video.
there've been more than just 1 in the past decade, but Rent will not be one of them.
Updated On: 8/18/05 at 02:11 AM
re: RENT will be rated...what?#39
Posted: 8/18/05 at 2:18am
There is no content in Rent that could possibly get it an NC-17 rating.... so that discussion should end right... HERE. It wont. Period.
And as for the "F-word law" (lol)... a movie can have more than one F-word and still get a PG-13 rating. It is all dependent on the context the word is used in. (ex. "F*ck you! :ok. "I f*cked your mother!" :not ok.) As long as it is not used in a sexual connotation, the F-word can be uttered multiple times. For instance "The American President" is rated PG-13 and uses the F-word 4 times. ~Just an interesting bit of information on movie ratings.
Regardless, Rent uses f*ck more times than that, and excessive use of the word would of course warrant an R rating. Rent will be R. It has been stated by everyone from Anthony Rapp to Chris Columbus.
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re: RENT will be rated...what?#40
Posted: 8/18/05 at 2:18amcrash?! methinks, no. but no matter...I'm on the "R" bandwagon, too.
re: RENT will be rated...what?#41
Posted: 8/18/05 at 2:20amCome to Canada, it will be rated AA, which means you only need to be 14 :)
re: RENT will be rated...what?#42
Posted: 8/18/05 at 2:21am
I plan on seeing it there... OPENING NIGHT!!!!
WEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
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re: RENT will be rated...what?#43
Posted: 8/18/05 at 2:22am
musicnmath: a DIFFERENT Crash... seriously... different. Not the Don Cheadle one from 2005... the James Spader one from 1996. Seriously. should be rated X.
That's the movie I was referring to, not the former.
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re: RENT will be rated...what?#44
Posted: 8/18/05 at 2:24amStarbuck: aha. well, then, never mind :)
re: RENT will be rated...what?#45
Posted: 8/18/05 at 2:27am
have you considered how conservative america has become, i wouldn't be suprised if people protest this movie, think SMALL TOWN AMERICA
let's use what happened where i go to college as an example
example:
New Paltz – They stood on opposite sides of Main Street, four narrow lanes and a million miles apart from each other.
On one side, nine strangers, related by blood, marriage and impermeable belief, shouted unholy accusations to people who stood in a cold, misty rain across the street from the New Paltz United Methodist Church.
"God hates fags!"
"God hates America!"
"You're degenerate filth!"
The Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., had just begun the first of eight hate-fueled protests in what they see as godless New Paltz.
Across Main Street, scores of locals, a mix of friends, acquaintances, strangers and news people stood in quiet astonishment as the sons and daughters and grandchildren of Pastor Fred Phelps sang their songs of hate and spoke their words of apocalyptic prophecy. or
http://www.godhatesfags.com/main/phelpsbio.html
yes there are people in america who are that closed minded
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re: RENT will be rated...what?#46
Posted: 8/18/05 at 2:30am
Well I loved the new Crash! starbucks, there is a differance between UR and NC-17. the major differance one being a rating and the other not. TV shows released on DVD are UR does that mean they are also NC-17, no. it is only NC-17 if it says 'NC-17'
oh and the most recent movie was 'The Dreamers'
re: RENT will be rated...what?#47
Posted: 8/18/05 at 2:35am
The film may get some opposition, but it'll be no different then any other controversial film that has themes of AIDS, homosexuality, drugs, sex, etc. There are a lot of films with similar subjects, even mainstream ones, so protesting is NOT going to be as intense as people feel it will be.
I have a feeling that Brokeback Mountain (which is released in Dec and is very mainstream, about 2 male cowboys who fall in love) will be coming under a LOT more protest or opposition than Rent... But either way, who cares, right?? If they don't want to see it, they won't. I doubt any massive picketing or boycottswill occur. If "conservative america" has something against it... I'd rather them not come anywhere NEAR this movie! It's too incredible to be tainted by them.
EDIT: and nodaybut2day2007: I know the difference between the 2 ratings (or lack of one in the UR case). Though the majority of the times with current FILMS that go unrated (for example, the recent release of The Brown Bunny), they don't submit their films through the ratings board (which, with independent films, or any movie for that matter, isn't required) because they know what it would get and they don't care. I'm not saying that's ALWAYS the case, but it is quite often with movies.
And I loved the new Crash too... but I didn't reference it in my post at all.
Updated On: 8/18/05 at 02:35 AM
re: RENT will be rated...what?#48
Posted: 8/18/05 at 9:00amDang! It's probably R! Y?!! I'll have to find a way to see it!
re: RENT will be rated...what?#49
Posted: 8/18/05 at 9:03amLOL. "Not suitable for children due to...."
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