Kevin Smith latest film, “Zach and Miri make a Porno” has received an NC-17 rating due to its presumably obscene amount of sexual content and offensively infantile attempts at comedy.
Likely filled to the brim with immature potty-mouthed humor (not even the good kind), even we have to admit that it does seem a little hypocritical that gruesome torture porn B-movies, a la “Hostel,” get away with an R-Rating, while a goofy, puerile movie with lots of sex is considered unseemly. The star, Seth Rogen, voiced his displeasure with Cinemablend.com.
“I honestly don’t feel like it’s anything I haven’t seen some version of in a movie before.” Rogen also went on to complain that his upcoming film, “Pineapple Express,” isn’t much better, but yet still got passed the MPAA’s madness. “I mean, we sell weed to 10-year-olds in this one, and no one gives a shit. All this movie [“Zach and Miri”] has to do is with sex and shit.” How eloquently put.
Sorry Seth, but this America, where we love our drug-induced tweens, violence obsessed masses but you know, sex on screen, has never really been our thing. Kevin Smith is under contractual obligation to cut the film to an R-Rating otherwise the studio can take away his final cut and make the R-Rating for him, so he’s already said he’s going to begrudgingly make the cuts to appease the puritans. MPPA: 500, directors: O.
One word, Dogma. Kevin Smith pissed off everyone on the religious right with that one, and made a lifetime (And Afterlife) of enemies. Who runs the MPAA, why the Christians of course! Hence the NC-17 rating. So it should surprise no one, that a film made by Smith, with the word Porno, starring two known porno stars, would not get any help whatsoever from the religious overseers of the movie ratings system. They’re probably organizing the protests when the film comes out right now. Smith should have done Mallrats 2 instead.