Mad Max: Fury Road rated 'R' in the US

[seriz]

I didn't see the movie, but something like the milky room is a "disturbing image" I think, no ? It's hard to imagine such a thing in a PG13... After, I don't know how it is shown in the movie...

[CouplaDaisygo]

In a way this possibly makes a for a subversive marketing tool, even though it seems to exclude a large portion of audience.
It creates an aura of WOW ... forbidden fruit... must have!! Younger teens will be faking ID's etc

In the 1960s or 70s there was the early days of Duke of Edinburrough adventure scheme... like the scouts.... and kids would go on walks in the bush, bird watching, learning compass and maps etc... Yawn eh?
The scheme was dwindling away and almost all interest was lost because it seemed such a yawn and then suddenly a kid had an accident rockclimbing or something similar on the scheme and died and the organisers paniced.
They tried to hush it up..
Surely the death will be the literal deathknell of the scheme the organisers thought but word got out some kid died doing DOE scheme....

Suddenly interest soared and they were swamped with enquiries. Kids in the thousands began signing up..... because word on the street became that Duke of Edinburrough Scheme was so BADDASS that you could DIE doing it, and who didn't want to be deep in that shit to prove how baddass you could be.
Remember the rumours that stuntmen died making MM1 and 2
You all know there's now a roadside cross to a SouthAfrican Fury Road crew member who died on the Swakopmund to Windhoek road during the shoot right?

Fury Road SO violent it had to be rated R RRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!

[kickherintheguts]

In a way this possibly makes a for a subversive marketing tool..It creates an aura of WOW ... forbidden fruit... must have!!

You know Coupla, more than any other theory I agree with you about this being a subversive marketing tool. Nowadays movie makers have to go to extreme lengths to create buzz for their product. Kind of reminds me on how they rolled out Prometheus, they created all that buzz esp. with the R rating and even though the movie was a complete piece of junk it made a handsome profit.

All systems are GO for the release of Fury Road..can't wait!

[biolumen]

So blackmocco isn't the only one questioning this rating.

@RandyofAFTimes

@DrewAtHitFix @DGSimo @EricVespe Huh.
Maybe they added some more blood, boobs or bad words...

[Ol' Coyote]

I cant believe it either. The good news is more people (R rated fans) will see this movie. Lots of people had been complaining about the rating the past few months.

And again, no way it's an R. There's nothing in it that lends itself to that rating. The test screenings were specifically ages 13 and up.

If you say this then i believe you, but then why it is listed as R in the MPAA ? Is it possible that they put some more blood or disturbing scenes ?

[blackmocco]

But why would they? According to sources on here, the movie tested well at the screenings and the screenings were PG 13. Why then alter it? Makes no sense. An R rating would be absolute box-office suicide for a movie with a budget this big. I don't know what else to tell y'all but no way it's going to be R rated. It's closer to Thunderdome in tone than RW.

[Ol' Coyote]

But why would they? According to sources on here, the movie tested well at the screenings and the screenings were PG 13. Why then alter it? Makes no sense. An R rating would be absolute box-office suicide for a movie with a budget this big. I don't know what else to tell y'all but no way it's going to be R rated. It's closer to Thunderdome in tone than RW.

I guess we'll just have to find out in May, if its indeed rated R then i wanna know how different the movie is compared to the one you saw back then.

[kickherintheguts]

I don't know what else to tell y'all but no way it's going to be R rated.

BM, I believe you but the one thing that bothers me is that right now it's being blasted all over the internet and beyond that MM4 is going to be R rated. Even before this shocking revelation I can't tell you how many posts I've seen with the header "better not be PG-13" or "why can't they just make this R?" and every variation thereof.

If MM4 gets changed back to PG-13 there will be a huge outcry, why would WB want that negative publicity?

[Nightwalker]

I've never understand those ratings anyway. Every country rates it at another age. For what I've seen so far of the movie, MM4 will probably be rated 16 here in The Netherlands. Unregarded if it get a PG13 or R in an other country. In The Netherlands "normal" movies never are rated 18. That is only reserved for real pornography. Even if there is almost real pornography or full front nudity in a normal movie, it will only receive a 16 rating maximum.

[MWFV8]

It may be that there's some silly rating rule that's pushed it over to an R; amount of continuous violence, quantity of blood, subject matter, etc. It does seem financially limiting on WB's part, especially given the budget and the potential audience.