Come on Rodney, it’s not like I’m assuming with no prior knowledge of what PG-13 means. You’re hard-lining you’re argument, buddy.

PG-13 – according to the MPAA, means: parents are strongly cautioned to give special guidance for attendance of children under 13 – Some material may be inappropriate for young children. I’ve seen hundreds of PG-13 rated films. I know there are certain issues they simply cannot touch without receiving an R rating. The movie Spawn got itself an R for having a “dark atmosphere”. They had to evicerate that film to get it PG-13-a-fied.

Yes, I’m assuming, but not without good reason. Much of what I like about Akira is, frankly, restricted material. You honestly believe they’re going to touch sexual violence against women in a PG-13 Hollywood blockbuster? Are you nuts? I bet you my life savings they skip it.

Sorry jeff, you are basing your argument on what you haven’t seen them try to do.

Should they fail to gain the same impact, that would be your opinion, but you cant claim its impossible to do before they have even done it.

You are assuming.

Rodney,

Of course what you don’t see can be just as powerful as what you do – if not more so. But if you think that a PG-13 rated Akira could even APPROACH these concepts – in modern day American Hollywood no less? – I’m sorry, but you’re in some pretty serious denial.

Yes I do.

As ANY film student will tell you, the power of what you DONT see is often far more impacting than shoving it up your nose.

There is no reason this film MUST deliver such graphic imagery. As long as it translates well, there is no reason they cannot use other methods to deliver the same message.

Do you deny that a PG-13 can delve into adult concepts like an R rated movie can? Do you think the scene where the biker punks brutally beat Kaori and degrade her by ripping off her shirt, exposing her breasts, fully intending to rape her, only to be saved by Tetsuo, who then nightmarishly hallucinates his own guts falling out – do you really think that a PG-13 rated film could really explore the trauma of this scene? Do you honestly believe it could be near as powerful?

I have no reason to think it wont. Are you just hoping it doesn’t?

Read all six of them. And yes they are lengthy.

But no, there is nothing in them that cannot be adapted to a PG13 rating if handled right.

And yes, I believe it does have something to do with other niche market films further reducing their audience with a restricted rating – Like Watchmen.

Again, it can be done with a pg-13 rating but it will be very hard to pull off and please the audience that will want to see it. I wonder if this has anything to do with Watchmen being ‘R’?

Id like to know exactly what about this NEEDS to be a Rated R?

I can appreciate that you might perfer it to be R, but you haven’t said anything that this would be “limited” by if it was a PG13.

So they can’t show in graphic slow motion detail the refrigerator gently pushing through his nostril. How does that take away from the film?