Rated R... just like "Ninja Assassin"
(LA Times) A minor ruckus has erupted in Hollywood over the R rating assigned to the Meryl Streep romantic comedy, “It’s Complicated,” as reported in The Times’ Dec. 10 post on the Company Town blog, “It’s complicated, but ‘It’s Complicated’ will be released with an R rating.” According to The Times, those familiar with the Motion Picture Assn. of America’s hearing on the movie say a scene featuring “pot smoking with no bad consequences” was key to the decision.
The ratings board made its intentions clear when it slapped an R rating on “It’s Complicated” for including a brief, realistic depiction of adult marijuana use. The movie also briefly bares the buttocks of a double for Alec Baldwin. But according to industry insiders, the reason for the R rating is marijuana: The film dares to show beloved stars Baldwin and Streep casually using marijuana and enjoying it, followed by Streep dangling a joint in front of Steve Martin, all without suffering any adverse consequences.
In the Golden Age of Hollywood, a male and female character could not be shown in bed together. Early television sit-coms featuring married couples, like I Love Lucy, had to have the husband and wife sleeping in separate beds. There was even a rule that if a male and female were on a bed, even married and fully clothed, that each had to have one foot on the floor at all times..
That’s what this story sounds like to me as I read it. The MPAA, protecting our children from images of adults using cannabis without adverse consequences, when survey after survey shows well over four out of five teenagers find it easy to get marijuana, easier than beer, and one out of eight teenagers will use marijuana this year. Over half of all adults aged 18-49 have tried marijuana and about a third aged 50-65 have done so. Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin giggling over a joint in bed is hardly the opening of Pandora’s Box here.
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what the hell,i have 2 children ,two 12 year old girls and in canada its rated pg in the states its rated R my wife is a merican and the states and Canada arn’t much different how can it be such a big difference in ratings its ridiculous,how are we supposed to know whats appropriot and whats not
ITS RATED P-G IN CANADA!!!!! LOLLLLL
[...] av marihuanamyter Cannabisliberale har uttrykt sinne over at filmen It’s Complicated har fått en R-rating fordi Meryl Streep og Alec Baldwin nyter en joint sammen i løpet av filmen. [...]
The trailer for this movie even shows a one second shot of them smoking the J, followed by Steve Martin saying “I havent had this much fun in a long time”!!! This was on my local Fox station!
Relax guys its not just marijuana. Ive heard that now a days, an R rating is also given if tobacco products are being used in a movie.
Ok, so the movie The Incredibles needs to be rated R since Mr. Incredible drinks a mimosa which contains alcohol, but since there are no adverse consequences in the movie–according to the MPAA–the movie should be rated PG. And there is more than enough evidence related to the ADVERSE CONSEQUENCES of alcohol. Therefore the move should obviously made rated R. (And I hope no one takes this the wrong way because I love this movie.)
What amazes me is how the movie “Poltergeist” got a PG rating and there is a bedroom scene early in the movie with the two main adults characters smoking cannabis and enjoying life. They show the smoked joint and rolling a joint from the stash in a cigar box.
hope more producers see the free publicity this got… Controversy=$$$$
gee, i wonder why movies with consequence free alcohol references are not rated R….
oh that’s right, its a VICE which apparently make everything ok.
I think its great that this topic came up in the news. It gives reason for people that usually wouldn’t walk about marijuana -to talk about it! The more our green lady is talked about the more people have an interest to seek the harmless truth.