Bruno, the new film from Borat creator and star Sacha Baron Cohen, received a MPAA NC-17 on its first pass through the rating process. We don't recall, but I'm surely Borat did too. So that's not a surprise, but it does give pause to discuss what seems to be a ridiculous process/denotation altogether.
Adam Breckenridge wrote it out just fine at examiner.com:
I am angry over the ridiculous attitude we take towards the NC-17 rating itself. We never stop to think about just how irrational we are about it. Most major theater chains and stores will not carry an NC-17 film, apparently due to some preposterous sense of morality, though rental chains and retailers will gladly carry “unrated” versions of movies, which are basically movies that would have gotten an NC-17 rating if they had been submitted to the MPAA, meaning that it’s okay for a movie to have the kind of content that would warrant being rated NC-17 just as long as it doesn’t have the actual rating on it.
Read the rest of his interesting opinion, HERE.
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