MPAA Ratings Explained
Sometimes, you don't even need the New York Times' movie reviews--the rating explanation at the end makes it all clear. Take, for example, A.O. Scott's review of The Wicker Man:
“The Wicker Man” is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). Scary ladies! Bees!
For those considering reading the whole review, don't bother. Having seen the film at noon on Friday and having to get his piece in for Saturday's edition, Scott was clearly on a tight deadline, so he spends most of his wordcount relating the experience of buying the ticket and seeing the movie in a theater with a regular , paying audience. Everything of note shows up in the last graf:
I’m trying to imagine how this movie was pitched. There’s this island, see, and it’s ruled by women. Goddesses! Most of them are blond, and a lot of them are twins, and they have all this honey, and these wild costumes. Porno? What are you talking about? It’s a horror movie. Don’t you get it?
posted by Peter @ 9/02/2006 02:45:00 PM
2 Comments:
why why WHY was this movie remade? are they going to remake Zardoz next? the original was SO british and SO sexual revolution in context--never has one movie been so utterly irrelevant. movies are dead
i could handle scary women in movies by age 13, but not bees. for me, this movie should be rated pg-35++
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