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Smith wins appeal for R rating for ‘Porno’

  

Good News! Filmmaker Kevin Smith has won an appeal to lower the adults-only NC-17 rating for his comedy “Zack and Miri Make a Porno,” to an R rating according to AP.

Motion Picture Association of America spokeswoman Elizabeth Kaltman said Tuesday the rating was revised after the group’s appeals board viewed the movie.The NC-17 rating would have prohibited anyone younger than 17 from seeing the movie. 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.

Source: APÂ  

‘Zack and Miri’ to get official rating today …

Today is the day that Kevin Smith will be taking ‘Zack and Miri’ to the MPAA to appeal his twice rated ‘NC-17’. Now it seems the ‘X’ on the advertising logo seems pretty accurate.

Smith is obligated by contract to make the cuts to get it to an ‘R’ rating so if the MPAA sticks to their guns about the certain scenes that are bothering them, then he will have to cut them out. Rest assured we will get to see them on DVD, so all wont be lost if this is the case. I just wish people could accept the fact that some movies are meant to be NC-17, and to cut them down to make it an R rating just changes the movie. Cutting a couple of scenes out doesn’t change the fact that kids should not be seeing this movie. I am calling a bullshit on the MPAA.

Kevin Smith to try on the Dark Knight!

Comics not movies. Kevin Smith announce at Comic-Con that he is co-writing with pal Walt Flannigan a three issue mini-series for DC comic’s Batman. The mini-series will re-introduce a villain Smith originally created in his Green Arrow books called Onomatopoeia, a guy that can  perfectly imitate the sounds around him, rarely speaks and is skilled with weaponry. The first issue in the series is due to hit newsstands in November 2008.Kevin, I want to remind you that we are all still waiting (years)  for issues 2-4 of the Daredevil mini-series “The Target”. Keep your fingers crossed maybe we eill see the conclusion of both series by 2009.

Kevin Smith to appeal to MPAA this weekend

According to News Askew Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier will sit down with the MPAA, watch “Zack and Miri Make a Porno” and then argue/defend why their movies should get a R rating. Kevin has already made cuts to the movie and I hope he doesn’t have to make anymore. Scott(Mr. Movie Geek) and others have wondered how the donkey scene and all the dirty talk of going @$$ to mouth only got a R for “Clerks 2” I loves me some Kevin Smith but even those 2 items made me quite uncomfortable. So this weekend while you are out and about keep in mind Kevin and Scott will be fighting for you and for your cinematic enjoyment!

Also check out the Zack and Miri site for some cool pics and a screen shot from “Entertainment Weekly” that has a small tid bit o’ dialogue.

New picture from ‘Zack and Miri Make a Porno’ …

K Smith has dropped a new picture from ‘Zack and Miri Make a Porno’ and it contains all of the kick ass people from the movie not named Rogen or Banks. In the picture you get a glimpse at our good buddy Jason Mewes, Jeff Anderson, Traci Lords, Craig Robinson, Katie Morgan, and Ricky Mabe. The only person missing from the mix is Tyler Labine who was supposed to be cast in the movie but is missing from credits on IMDB.   We shall see… go read the rest of Kevins Blog …

Kevin Smith Having Trouble with MPAA Board

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Michelle:

One of our top 10 movies for this fall is already under attack. It appears that the always fickle MPAA wants to give Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri the deadly NC-17 rating instead of an R. Smith’s  already had to take down the Internet only trailer.

Seth Rogen recently  spoke to MTV about the problem.

“The MPAA is gunning for us, I think, it’s a really filthy movie. I hear they are having some problems getting an R rating from an NC-17 rating, which is never good.†

“A guy f—ing a donkey, (in Clerks 2) they ain’t got no problem with,† he continued. “But a man and a woman having sex they seem to have real issues with, for some weird reason. It’s insane. It’s completely insane.†

“They [fight against] sex stuff. Isn’t that weird? It’s really crazy to me that ‘Hostel’ is fine, with people gouging their eyes out and sh– like that,† Rogen shrugged. “But you can’t show two people having sex — that’s too much.†

Not unexpected because  of the title and the director, but Rogen makes a good point. While sex seems to be  verboten with the MPAA,  hardcore violence tends to get a free pass.  We’ll see what  cuts Smith  has to make to  satisfy the rating overlords.

Ram Man Says:

It’s Friday , it’s sunny outside and all my reviews are done..I’m a pretty happy guy. UNTIL! I read that the MPAA is debating on giving Zack & Miri Make a Porno the kiss of death in the movie industry..the NC-17.   I picture an assisted living center in (sorry Michelle) Connecticut somewhere with a group of grey hairs sitting around a bingo table deciding what rating to give what movie! This is probably retribution from Kevin putting a clip out on the Internet (they said was a trailer) without the all mighty MPAA approval and rating. I’m sure the title has some part in it also. I am equally as sure that they disregarded Kevin’s apology for the trailer mix-up and they haven’t even seen  the film.

The old always attack the visionary. We tried to lock up rock artists for singing, Columbus was a screwball for saying the earth was round. And now we are going to kneecap one of the finest filmmakers to come along the last 20 years because he dresses different, he puts bad words in his movies, people are have sex on film….NOOOOOOOOOO (MPAA ..people do have sex, that’s how most of us got here!) . I don’t get it. I would invite anyone with the MPAA who is up for the challenge to sit down with me and explain to me how Zack and Miri rates a NC-17 when we have seen the following the last 2 years:

Sex and the City (2008):Numerous sex scenes and male frontal nudity..R rating
Eastern Promises (2007): naked teen prostitutes, Viggo Mortensen fighting with all his “members” R rating
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008): Jason Segel is a nudist in three separate scenes. R rating

This doesn’t even take into account all the blood flowing. Saw1-5, Hostel 1&2, Halloween, Devils Rejects, House of a thousand corpses. I guess its OK to cut someones boobs off but lets not show them being fondled on the screen!

I don’t like to get the soap box out, but today, i feel the need..the need for  movie-geeks to unite and stand up to these crotchety old bitties. If we are stuck with an NC-17, you must get everyone you know and drag them kicking (not screaming… use a rag in the mouth it will disturb the other movie goers) to the theater opening weekend and get a big number to show these so call moral-measuring society the are full of s–t!

Ram Man has spoken!

Scott:

I say they just keep the damn NC-17 warning, the only one that will care is Roger Ebert and his opinions don’t matter anyway!

Kevin Smith is a sellout!

Well … that’s the name of his new DVD says so anyways. ‘Kevin Smith: Sold Out’ comes out in October which happens to be the same month that ‘Zack and Miri’ comes out. Here are the details from NewsAskew:

“According to the star himself, Kevin’s new Q&A DVD, titled “Kevin Smith: Sold Out†, will hit store shelves sometime in mid-October. This disc will chronicle the evening Kevin spend in Red Bank, New Jersey on his 37th birthday. We were there with full coverage of the event (though are saving some of the spoilerish stuff for after the disc’s release). Kevin entertained the crowd for another marathon Q&A and a ton of new tales, including the incredible saga of Die Hard 4 that you just have to hear (worth the disc’s price alone).”

Tonight at Midnight … ‘Zack and Miri’ teaser will be online!

“Don’t call it a trailer, ’cause it’s not a trailer; it’s a teaser. There ain’t a frame of footage in this puppy that’s in the actual flick, so feel free to watch it without fear of “spoilers†. This is just a little something to give you a bit of a feel for the flick.”

This from Kevin Smith on his “My Boring Ass Life” blog …

Tonight, at midnight, there will be a teaser trailer online … go check it out at Quick Stop Entertainment

Discuss: Kevin Smith Movies …

We are going to start having weekly discussions here on the site, and this week we will start off with Kevin Smith movies, as Zack and Miri just wrapped.

Here are some discussion questions:

Favorite Kevin Smith Movie?
Favorite Character from the Smith movies?
Favorite Scene?
Favorite Quote?
Which movies have you not seen?

‘Zack and Miri make a Porno’ new picture

Mr K Smith has released a new picture from ‘Zack and Miri make a Porno’. Of course it has something to do with Hockey! Seth Rogen is sporting a fullish beard, and talking to his buddy(Jeff Anderson) in the penalty box. I cant wait for this release, as it wont be from the ‘Jersey Tales’ that we normally get from Kevin. Dont get me wrong, I love everything else he has done, but I am ready for some fresh stuff.

Side note, check out the name on the jerseys, ‘Monroeville Zombies’..Dawn of the dead..very nice.