Even though I’m not an ardent Smith fan, I’m looking forward to ‘Zack and Miri Make a Porno’. Ya have to like Smith….hearing him speak so lovingly about his movies, makes him all warm and fuzzy. One of the best tidbits is how he got ‘Superman Returns’ Brandon Routh to be in his “porno flick.” And listening to Thompson say “dildos†and “erect penises†had me in hysterics. The film opens on October 31st.
Source: Thompsononhollywood
Thanks to our homie Kevin Smith we have a new, Hi-Res poster for ‘Zack and Miri’ and everyone is up in arms about the damn thing!
The above poster is the “Canadian” poster, which is always better than ours. Lets face it, the majority of Americans are offended by the above poster! Thanks, K. Smith!
Despite Kevin Smith’s recent win in the battle against the MPAA for an R-rating instead of an NC-17, the “unfriendly, over-protective” ratings board is now giving Smith grief over his marketing of the movie. The above poster, set to hit the streets on October 31, will now only be visible in Canada because the MPAA doesn’t like what they see and feel it’s too much. Blow me, MPAA!
“I’ve always loved Canada and Canadians for giving us hockey,” says Smith. “Now, I love ’em just a little bit more. For allowing tufts of hair.” — Kevin Smith during an interview with EW.com
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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.
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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.
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.â€
“A guy fâ€â€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.â€
“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.â€
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.
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!
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!
