"World War Z - NOT" Topic

Just crossed this off my Must See list.
After reading an ariticle today I found out it is going to be rated PG13. You CANNOT make a serious HORROR movie if it is only rated PG13. A horror movie about crazed Zombies, werewolves, vampires, whatever has to be rated R. If your doing a Ghostbusters movie that can be PG13.
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Did you see the remake of Fright Night? That was excellent. It would have been lousy if it was PG13. And that was a tongue in check comedy.
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I don't know, I've seen some pretty offensive/scary/etc movies and was suprised to discover they were PG-13

yeah, our rating system is pretty useless now.

The Ring, which scared the ####, out of me was PG-13.

If no sex or nudity, and they avoid gratuitous close-ups of internal organs being eaten, I could see them getting a PG-13 easily. Keep in mind the Walking Dead has decent graphic violence and is on televisio

Today PG13 allows tons of gore and violence. In USA this is OK but you show some leg and it gets an NC17 Lol..

PG13 is fine for a made for TV movie. But for $10 USD I want the max. Guess I'm just greedy. The Exorcist would not have been the same as PG-13.

I mentioned this in another thread but Brad Pitt said in an interview he made the flick with the idea that his young children could watch and enjoy it. A kid-friendly zombie movie, I suppose it could work but I am not holding my breath.

Arnold got to chop off tons of heads in "Conan the Destroyer", considering how bad the movie was perhaps I should not use that as a reference though.

Kids are dressing up as zombies for Halloween for crying out loud.
Why shouldn't they get to have their own zombie movie?

The only one with a real right to object is Max Brooks, and I am sure Dad told him to just cash the check and show up sober at the premiere.

While an R-rated zombie movie does give me pause, I can see why the decision was made: a PG-13 audience will be much larger than an R-rated one.

Having said that, I will give WWZ a chance and judge it on its own merits, as I always do on my movie blog.

the only reason Zombieland got hit with an R ratung was the zombie stripper in the leading credits.

I think the poorly-rendered "scarab swarm" zombies and endless rewrites/reshoots were enough to cross this one off the list, irrespective of rating.

Its not the PG-13 that is putting me off this movie its the whole army ant zombie swarm idea, Its just so over the top that there is no way I could enjoy it. Its to dumb to be scary.

You CANNOT make a serious HORROR movie if it is only rated PG13.

Buddy, it's all about the money and always has been since day 1 in Hollywood. (My son is a freelance Hollywood historian--he'll tell you all about it.) They don't care what YOU think, just what the masses think. They will pull in far more $$$ at PG13 than R. Look it up. BTW likewise there is a reason no one makes NC-17 movies.

Transformers III was PG13 and there was an awesome scene of Optimus Prime cleaving Megatron face and proceed to rip its spine out. That's about the only thing awesome about the movie though.

> an awesome scene of Optimus Prime cleaving Megatron face and proceed to rip its spine out

If Megatron had been human it would have been rated R. The ratings board is pretty consistent on not counting robots (as long as they are not TOO human looking) as people.

I too am skeptical about how good this movie will be, but this gave me some small hope…

From a 20 minute preview at Cinemacon:

Based on the footage that the actor and Paramount Pictures brought to CinemaCon on Monday, his children better have strong stomachs. The roughly 20 minutes that was screened in Las Vegas at the annual trade show for exhibitors was terrifying and intense.