Blue Valentine - Why the NC-17 rating?

Weinstein is challenging the rating and it's very possible the film will ultimately earn an "R". I'm just confused as to how this rating came about when there's not even nudity in the film...? Plenty of other films depict rape, incest and graphic murder, but still receive only an R rating. Two that come to mind off the bat, Precious and Hostel.

All that aside, the film looks great. Really dig that song Ryan Gosling sings in the trailer.

If you watch Kirby Dick's 2006 exposé documentary This Film is Not Yet Rated you'll get numerous examples of how inconsistent and arbitrary the MPAA's ratings of films are, including those with scenes of strikingly similar content in the same or different eras that somehow receive completely different ratings. Under the rules, a studio of filmmaker cannot even present those similar or more graphic scenes with lesser ratings in the appeal process.

It's not a new story.

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Think I'm gonna have to watch this in the near future and I get double points for downloading it, the MPAA loves that.

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I think because he goes down on her.

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I'm pretty sure it just got changed to R.

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Yes, they resubmitted it and it got an R rating. I don't know whether they cut anything or not, but I've not seen it mentioned.

I'm almost certain they didn't cut anything. They went in for a repeal, which usually means they go in with the same cut of the film.

OK, thanks TUS.

According to IMDB it's still rated NC-17
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1120985/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Great to know.. if you put cunnilingus in a film, you're ****ed.

Rated R on appeal. IMDb likes to put the original rating with the title. That's why Midnight Cowboy and Friday the 13th are listed as X.

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