Comments on: Michael Bay’s Transformers Slapped with R-Rating, Spielberg Bails Him Out

By: Camille

Camille — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:09:12 +0000

Good for Matthew for walking out. I wanted to a couple of times and should have. I was very dissapointed with all the crap throughout the film…swearing and all the other above mentioned stuff. I wish I would have done my research first and then been able to make a decision to not see it in the first place.

By: matthew

matthew — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:46:41 +0000

i seen transformers and i left because of when that girl was crawling on him like the were about to have sex and when i went tot the theater the movie rating was just pg please don’t see this movie

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:27:43 +0000

What is this shitty things rating you know the movie

By: Netbug

Netbug — Sat, 03 May 2008 04:33:12 +0000

But apparently nobody cares about the huge amount of sexual humor. Sad to see the fall our generation is taking. >.>

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:24:59 +0000

What???
An ‘R’ movie getting reduced to PG?
why was it R in the first place?
Its not that violent

By: Deiders

Deiders — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 03:28:55 +0000

I used to watch TF with my brothers when I was a kid. Yeah, I enjoyed it! Now I’m all grown up and a mommy with a six year old boy who love the action figures. I got him some for his birthday a few days ago. I have been so looking forward to this movie and now I find out that it is PG13! Great for all of us grown up fans, but what about the kids that are being marketed to?! My kid wants to see the movie! But I’m not going to take him to a movie that is inapproiate for him! I’m getting sick and tired of all these movies that are marketed to our small children and then have them rated for the older kids!

By: Goon

Goon — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 06:06:28 +0000

“If this is true, the integrity of ratings are forever compromised.”

seconded, this is hyperbole. the ratings board has always been a joke with different standards for different people. they make exceptions for people a lot lesser than Spielberg so long as a studio is talking for them.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 21:13:21 +0000

IF MY MOVIE GETS A “R” I AM GETTING STEVEN TO BAIL ME OUT!!!

By: Henrik

Henrik — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:20:59 +0000

I do think that the ratings people are sincere in their decisions though. The fact that some studio movies may seem to get away with more than indie movies could have alot of reasons.

For instance, From Dusk Till Dawn has a sister
shooting her brother in her head. But it also has tons of outlandish things. A scene in an indie movie that has a sister shooting her brother in the head, would probably be perceived in an extremely different way, right?

I guess that is what you refer to when you talk about grey areas, but I do think that there is a tendency on these ‘edgy’ filmmakers part to whine a bit about the ratings board not ‘getting their movie’.

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:13:14 +0000

Sure, the movie has an obvious bias but it gives some interesting examples of movies that were rated R versus those that were NC-17, with negligible differences. As a general rule, the ratings work, but there are always grey areas.

Plus the issue is not so much what you see in the final movie, but what the filmmaker was forced to cut in order to avoid an NC-17 (because there aren’t many venues for an NC-17 film to be shown in the U.S.).

By: Henrik

Henrik — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 17:43:12 +0000

I haven’t seen the movie – obviously is not released here – so I don’t know how it plays out, but I imagine it’s coming from a point of view. Doesn’t it have tons of interviews with people who don’t like what the MPAA did to their movies etc?
I’m sure there are good and bad cases. While I do think there are some ridiculous things involved with the rating of movies, usually I think the rating is pretty accurate, especially when it comes to expectations of a movie. You know what you’re getting with a PG-13 movie as well as an NC-17 movie, right?

This case just seems blatantly corrupt though.

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:42:53 +0000

I don’t know if that’s necessarily true either. If you watch This Film Is Not Yet Rated it talks about how the MPAA is in tight with the major studios, and as a result often give them more leeway than indie films.