[UA] PoMoMa NC17

[Epoch]

On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Doug Stalker wrote:

> Kevin Elmore wrote:
> 
> > >I almost feel this is the reason.  However, that's because
> > of the debacle surrounding the creators of South Park.
> > They made a movie called Orgazmo which received a rating of
> > NC-17 and portrayed a minimal of nudity (from what I heard;
> > I have not had the pleasure of seeing this) and typical
> > amounts of objectionable material.  South Park, the movie,
> > is a lot worse, yet it was given an R.  Trey Parker said
> > over and over again that South Park only received an R
> > because it was backed by a major studio while his little
> > independent film had no power behind it.
> >
> 
> Can someone summarise ratings in America?  In Australia R is restricted
> to 18+, but from your comments it sounds like in America R is a lower
> rating than NC-17, which I assume means 17+ years old only?

In the US, R means, "Children under the age of 17 can not attend /unless
accompanied by an adult/," while NC-17 means "Nobody under the age of 17,
Period."

> There was some sort of Vampire novel released that included things like
> necrophillia, rape, beastiality and so on. (WW put a chapter up on their
> web site, and that included rape/incest/pedophillia/necrophillia with a
> headless corpse) The illustrations supposedly included sexulised
> violence.  The gaming store I frequent was selling it, but it was held
> behind the counter and only sold to 18 year olds (offically at least)

Eternal Hearts.  Boy, did that cause some anger.

Mike

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