It's official: R rating sticks for F 9/11

[LTR]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=493&u=/ap/20040622/ap_en_mo/film_fahrenheit_9_11_rating_1&printer=1

LOS ANGELES - Michael Moore (news) and his distributors lost their appeal Tuesday to lower the R rating for "Fahrenheit 9/11," his scathing assault on President Bush (news - web sites)'s actions before and after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Lions Gate Films and IFC Films, the movie's distributors, said an appeals board for the Motion Picture Association of America rejected their request to reduce the rating to PG-13.

The R rating prohibits those 17 and younger from seeing "Fahrenheit 9/11" without an adult.

The movie, which won the top honor at last month's Cannes Film Festival (news - web sites), was rated R for "violent and disturbing images and for language." The movie's images include an Iraqi man tossing a dead baby into a truckload of bodies, Iraqis burned by napalm and a public beheading in Saudi Arabia.

[mopinko]

1. well,

you have to admit that just about everything that w has done is obscene.

[LoZoccolo]

5. Moore could use this to his advantage that way.

As in, these are the things the war has done, and they get an R when put in a movie.

[iamjoy]

2. Disturbing Is Right

such horrific images. such violence.

truth hurts.

[thebobartist]

3. If the content calls for it

then the content calls for it. Obviously I haven't seen the movie, but if what I've heard about it is correct, then an R rating is suitable. Really, though, my thought on that depends on what rating The Passion had, which I don't remember.

If it wasn't R, then I'd be pissed that F-911 was.

[LTR]

4. "Bowling For Columbine" was also an R

It had some pretty disturbing images of the Columbine massacre, as well as some murder and suicide images. Very moving.

If F 9/11 is anything like B4C, I don't see an R rating out of the question. But I feel every teenager should see it.

[thebobartist]

6. Fundies

I don't know many people whose parents would ever have an issue with it, but then again, I stopped hanging out with kids with fundie parents long ago because their parents hated me. :D

If those kids are interested, they'll sneak in.

[fameless]

7. It's just the news...

It is just what is actually happening. It doesn't matter what the content is, it is the news. It should be seen by everyone. There is no age limit for the nightly news is there?

[GumboYaYa]

8. Well then, they need to start running a parental warning on the

evening news too. I bet there is nothing in that movie that is more obscene or violent than some of the things the US media shows to promote the propaganda, like those morbid pictures of the made up disfigured bodies of Saddam's sons. They don't mind US contractors' dead bodies all over the news or heads getting chopped off if it helps promote the disinformation campaign.

Censorship comes in many forms. This is why us First Amendment radicals have railed against Lieberman his whole career. The ridiculous media rating rules have become just another tool for keeping information from people. They can do the same with music. Thanks so much Joe and Tipper.