There is a story going around the web today that suggests that upon viewing the first cut of the upcoming Transformers movie, the ratings folks over at the MPAA decided to slap the movie with an “R” rating. Wow… really?
Anyway, instead of re-cutting the film to get the desired PG-13 rating, Michael Bay just had Steven Spielberg make a few phone calls. Our friends over at Filmjunk give us this:
It seems that when the MPAA got a look at Michael Bay’s first cut of Transformers, they delivered a rating of “R” for intense action and violence. Not wanting to cut the film, Bay called on executive producer Spielberg to plea with the ratings board to reconsider their decision… which they did, after some fast talking from Spielberg. Now they have settled on a PG-13 rating for the film instead.
Ok, this is good news. Is there really enough action in this film that it made the MPAA want to give it an R??? Really??? How much freaking violence is in this thing? I was told by one ofthe producers that there wouldn’t be any human blood in the film. Sooooo… how much destruction of a non-human kind has to be in a film to get a frigging “R”?
I feel all happy inside.
