Rent Rating

I don't know how many of you know/care, but according to the official site, the movie will be rated PG-13.

Hmm, I hope they don't have to cut a lot just to save it from an R rating. What are your thoughts on this?

Where do you see PG-13 on the official site? All I see is "this film is not yet rated."

ETA: Orangeskittles, what email?

Updated On: 9/9/05 at 12:26 AM

I hope they don't do that... especially after stating time and again that it would be R. I'll be so supremely disappointed if they hacked this thing to pieces in the editing room trying for that damn PG-13.

Sure it will get them a bigger box office.... but the finished product will not be nearly as good.

---

Well ****.... that's the official ratings box from the MPAA... even has their symbol.

... IT IS OFFICIAL:

RENT WILL BE RATED PG-13...

Suddenly I'm nervous about this movie all over again.

---

Updated On: 9/9/05 at 12:39 AM

forgetregret: Two words... BOX OFFICE.

They will make more money with a PG-13 movie, because it is now more accessible to a wider audience.

I hate this trend of cutting movies to get the stupid PG-13. Whatever happened to ART!?!
... it's all about box office receipts.

GRRR.......

---

I still don't understand how even the show of Rent could be rated PG-13, let alone the movie, which is supposed to expand on the show. I mean, drug abuse being depicted in a movie is automatically an R rating. I can't believe the Larson's and the OBC and everyone would let them edit out an entire subplot of the movie just for the sake better box office numbers.

I'm just hoping it was a mistake on the part of the people making the email and not for real *knocks wood, throws salt over shoulder, etc.*

---

Updated On: 9/9/05 at 12:46 AM

If it turns out to be rated PG-13, I am going to find EVERY SINGLE interview and article that has been written wherein they mentioned that it was gonna be rated R, that it was gonna be Chris Columbus' first R movie, that they were gonna stay true and depict the gritty sh*t, then mail it to him and say "Wow, way to stick to your guns. A**wipe."

Unless it got rated PG-13 with all that stuff IN. But I can't remember the last time someone has predicted that a movie would be rated R, and it got a LOWER rating.

[EDIT] I am hoping this all a big mistake.

Updated On: 9/9/05 at 12:50 AM

I'm pretty sure that isn't a mistake... it's the MPAA box... with all the ratings descriptors.

... I'm too scared to even imagine what this will look like as PG-13...

...art2 is going to have a field day...

---

i started out fealing optimistic about the movie. but with those soundclips, the new trailer, and now this. im really doubting this movie is gonna be any good. i do hope i am wrong though.

Updated On: 9/9/05 at 12:58 AM

If this is true, it'll be the first time I've worried too much about if it would be good or not since I read the screenplay. With all of the access we've been given, this does surprise me.

And while I did/do think that Rent getting a PG-13 wouldn't be a very good position, I still want to beleive what Anthony, Columbus, and company have told us for about six months is true. If that's the case, and Larson's vision is intact without it being watered down, and it STILL got a PG-13, then that might be the best possible case. I didn't think it could work, but if it did, and it's very good AND it gets the B.O. (the good kind, not the kind you get after working out), then that's wonderful. If it's good and it starts to catch on with the general public, I've been saying it could be even bigger than Chicago was, which would have been difficult - not impossible of course, difficult - had it been rated R.

---

I can just imagine non drug lyrics for "will you light my candle"

"...I think I dropped my gum..."
"...I had it when I walked in the door, it was really chewey..."
"...Uh huh I used to be a gum -chewer..."

*just having some fun...its late*

---

I'm not too worried. To me it just says that the messages of the movie reached the MPAA.

---

I'm in slight disbelief just because I don't understand how even the stage show could be rated PG-13. The Larsons said they're happy with it and so is the cast, so unless they've sold their souls to the devil (or Hollywood) and let the show be butchered, I don't see how the content is only PG-13.

---