Kevin Smith won his appeal today to lower the rating for his comedy "Zack and Miri Make a Porno" from NC-17 to an R. Yahoo says…
"We didn't set out to make an NC-17 film. That's just commercial suicide," Smith told The Associated Press.
The NC-17 rating would have prohibited anyone younger than 17 from seeing it. With an R rating, those under 17 can see it in the company of an adult.
"Zack and Miri," due out Oct. 31 from the Weinstein Co., stars Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks as best friends and roommates who try to make a homemade porn flick to dig themselves out of debt.
Smith said the MPAA ratings board objected to two sex scenes involving co-stars Jason Mewes and Katie Morgan. After the movie's initial NC-17 rating, Smith said he trimmed those scenes as far as he was willing to go but was unable to convince the board to lower the rating.
"They felt it was rather sexually graphic. My point is, it was comically graphic. All the sex in the movie with the exception of one scene is very cartoonish, very campy," Smith said. "It wasn't designed to titillate."
The MPAA is such a fucking sham. If those people had any conscience, they’d kill themselves, they somehow come back from the dead and kill themselves again. They hold filmmakers hostage until they abide by rules that don’t exist. The MPAA has no set rules, they just tell you later if you broke them. "Hostel 2" has a scene where a naked teenage girl is suspended upside down over a huge bath, then a naked woman lays underneath her and slits her throat with a sickle, then bathes in her blood. That was rated R. But Jason Mewes humps a girl and that gets an X. Ok actually I hadn’t pictured that until just now. I think that actually might be worse.
"We didn't set out to make an NC-17 film. That's just commercial suicide,"
I thought having Kevin Smith's name on your film was commercial suicide.
fistymcfisterson…
and who wants to see these people doing ANYTHING sexy??? jay and silent bob, maybe…but rogan, mewes and snaggleteeth??!
ok, i will rent it when it comes out on dvd prob….but only for the comedy!
Brittany playing a stripper, a porn star having a baby, Cindy Crawford has great tits, Ali Lohan called a old stripper, is it time to start talking about our genitalia yet?
It's bullshit anyway… fucking "parents" will take kids of any age to see anything.
dammit…simultaneous fisting!
Isn't it odd what gets some people worked up?
As Jay would say "FUCK YEAH FATASS!!!"
People will still take their fucking kids to see a movie that has "PORNO" in the title and then be confused and shocked when it offends them. Fuck people.
Mmmm… Katie Morgan though - there's a pornstar that hasn't lost sight of the reason she's on this Earth.
That goofy bitch sat stark naked on a wooden stool for a half hour HBO "Special"… God bless her little mind & tig ol' bitties.
Kevin Smith should just title this film "Two Hours of Boring, Pithy Dialogue About Sex".
Can't wait to see it!
I once heard Kevin Smith hasn't seen his penis since 1989…don't know if it's true, just what I heard.
I went to an Adam Sandler "concert" once… right around the time the Hanukah Song was popular. Kids everywhere. Idiot parents thinking it was just good ol' family fun.
First song: "At a Medium Pace"
Mass Exodus… it was a fucking stampede outta there.
Anderson=Emote,Cindy=Boat,Britney=Bloat,Jenna=Goat,Kevin=Scroat.
They should release this on Halloween. Wait… what ?
Pardon me for the change of subject, but why in the hell has there been no mention of the Mary Louise Parker sex scene from Weeds the other night? She's incredibly sexy and the scene is amazing. This makes it more than worthy of mention here. Get your act together WWTDD! (I'm saying that in as nice of a way as possible, because I still love this site regardless of what happens)
scum, you're uhhh…. yeah, you're really putting a lot of thought into today's selection.
Wow. As always though, nice Avi.
Fried, if all goes well, no one else will either, hopefully for another decade.
Hey Kev,
Since I actually had a beer with you once at a house party (actually more like 7– I was the guy that knew how to fix the keg tap. Yeah, that me.), I feel I can talk to you like a friend.
More Rosario Dawson, less Jason Mewes. Thanks.
As long as Katie Morgan's part isn't a speaking one, I'm there.