Monsterjoe, if Kill Bill gets an NC-17 (which it won’t, I promise you) how can it possibly make over 100 million?
Mike, I was just speaking hypothetically. I’d love for just one NC-17 rated movie to make over $100 million so studios wouldn’t be so afraid to release them.
Personally, I don’t see the big deal with the NC-17 rating. If you’re specifially going for an R rating, you don’t want anyone under 17 to see the movie anyways, so what’s the big deal.
The MPAA is a joke. Tell me why “Amélie”, this really beautiful and sweet film gets an R!! Rating ?? ??
[quote]The MPAA is a joke. Tell me why “Amélie”, this really beautiful and sweet film gets an R!! Rating ?? ??[/quote]
They are retards. Its 2002, not 1953. I mean gimme a break.
All of QTs movies are for adults, not little kids. Its obvious hes not making the films for young audiences. I think adults can take some good gory violence now and again. I think we can handle it. If you cant, hide under the seat until its over I guess.
[quote]The MPAA is a joke. Tell me why “Amélie”, this really beautiful and sweet film gets an R!! Rating ?? ??[/quote]
I couldn't tell you, having never seen that movie. I do agree that the MPAA is a joke.
There is a reason why I think Kill Bill will get an NC-17 (it may not be released with an NC-17, but I think it will initially get one.) Any of you ever seen a movie series from Japan called Lone Wolf And Cub? For those of you who haven't, it's a series set in Edo-era Japan about an assassin-for-hire trying to avenge his family name. It's gory. It's bloody. It's great. Here's an example of the kind of goriness I'm talking about. There is a scene in the second film, I believe, where the assassin Ogami Itto, slashes a man across the throat. It's a small cut, only about two inches long. Oonce this man is on the ground dead, a HUGE gush of blood comes out, almost as if it was sprayed from a fire hose.
Anyway, judging from the description in the script, it seems that QT is going for that level of bloodletting in his battle scenes. If he is, and if that's what he's filming, there is no way in hell he'd get through with an R without making quite a few cuts.
Yes the throath slashing scene reminded me exactly of Lone Wolf and Cub.The entire House of Blue Scene also reminds alot about this series.And the scene where she stabs the guy through the carpet.
It is truly some amazing movies,some of my favorites ever.Like I’ve said before,the only hope of seeing Quentin’s vision of Kill Bill will be on an unrated dvd.
i just got in a crazy rumor. QT seems to have trouble with the “pussy-scene” or the “rape in coma” stuff… maybe he has trouble getting this past the MPAA…
i am still searching for sources of this rumor…
Let me clarify this real quick, sorry if this has already been asking, but does NC-17 mean that you must be 17 to see the movie no matter what?
[quote]Let me clarify this real quick, sorry if this has already been asking, but does NC-17 mean that you must be 17 to see the movie no matter what?[/quote]
No one under 17 admitted
Rated R - under 17 requires adult guardian
NC-17 - noone under 17 allowed
I don’t know, I think the MPAA will let Kill Bill off the hook. It’s just the way it’s been lately. If a film like True Romance was out today, they’d probably let it go uncut with an R-rating. It just seems MPAA’s tolerance has gone up lately. I know they’ve cut down House of 1000 Corpses, but since it’s KILL BILL (capital letters) and the MPAA knows how violence is important in this movie, maybe they’ll have a spirit and let it go?
MPAA has to let kill bill off the hook with violence,
movies in the past like saving private ryan,blade 1 and blade 2
were acceptable why cant kill bill be no different…
Also if MPAA had a problem with cut off arms, legs, and heads
thats supposed to be in kill bill… They allowed HANNIBAL movie to
scalp RAy Liotta’s characther’s head and his brain was feed to him.
This movie has more hope of making it through uncut as an R rating if Quentin uses the ‘Film extremely violent scenes that he doesn’t intend to use’ technique. One movie where this worked well was Casino, which probably would have been refused the R rating if Scorsese hadn’t used this method.
The movie that everybody needs to see this year is Kill Bill.
I really would like to see Umas “cutest little pussy” and her from toes to the top of her head.
RATED R
and thats fuckin’ that!
seems like the R Rating is now confirmed
[quote]seems like the R Rating is now confirmed[/quote]
Yes, but at what cost?
I think that QT will cut some stuff of his own accord, then the MPAA will cut stuff, then Miramax will release an uncut/unrated dvd of some sort.
OK, SH we know you are fast, and the site ROCKS, alright, but ‘R?’ Where is your source? I would like the mpaa rating to be ‘officially’ confirmed so I can kick back and enjoy the hype without any remaining anxiety. :
Plus they really have to get going to print the frickin’ theater posters.
here in Germany it will get an 18 rating, which is kinda like NC-17 over here. very few cuts then. if they gave it a 16 rating they would’ve cut it like hell.
but R is fine i guess…
Kill Bill is rated R. I saw it on a TV spot last night. I couldn’t quite make out the content listing beneath the rating, it was a small white font on top of a light-colored background, but I do believe that it started off with “strong bloody violence.”