Ridley is pissed at MPAA over Prometheus Rating

they should get their house in order! I agree!

Seriously, wtf is this PG-13 crap??? I mean some movies are not for kids, it's ridiculous..

Yep, if Sir Ridley wants it to be "R" to make it the best possible story to tell, then they should let him. I would be ok if he wanted a PG-13 movie, but from what it sounds like to me, he wants it an R movie. Please let Sir Ridley get what he wants.

@birdbirdjimmy, yes and yes! We all stand with you

thanks Freeze Him! Just let him do his thing.

sorry, double post for some reason.

What's all the fuss with the rating? Wasn't "The Hangover" the highest grossing comedy EVER? Why didn't they just make it PG-13 then it would have made more money? The point is some films are meant to be R rated. I just want to tell 20th Century Fox, "Are you shitting me?" You've BURIED the franchise, you were actually able to get the guy who started it all (never figured in a million years Ridley would have ANYTHING to do with Alien again) You have an original story that has the potential to be great and you suits are quarreling over a rating, take a lunch break and let the big boys do their thing!! They can let Chris Columbus do the next one and make it G rated for all I care, just let Scott do his thing. There is a problem with the MPAA, but I blame the studio in this case.

Or George Lucas....God forbid. That man should never allowed behind a camera ever again.

@Cinefan, I think, and I could be wrong, but I think they made the Hangover on the cheep. It blew up and stayed with the R rating on the second movie because they new it would make money. I do agree with you about the studio, they better not screw this up all over again. On their half, I think that they are thinking that it might not make all that much money because it has been a few years since a GOOD Alien movie (or a profitable one in their eyes).

time to get a petition going.

just blame the rating system

[quote]There is a problem with the MPAA, but I blame the studio in this case.[/quote] It's always the case (when it happens). The money that makes the art, censors the art. Bloody shame.

Okay, maybe I'm missing something key here, but aren't we all making a few too many assumptions about this matter? Ridley has yet to outright state what rating he was even going for... R or PG-13? Who knows? He's said some ambiguous things over the course of a few interviews and Q and A's that could lead you to either conclusion. All we know is he is in disagreement with the MPAA. Does that mean they gave him and R on what he thought was a PG-13 film, or the other way around (and if it is the other way around, why would that even matter)? I literally cannot tell from the information we've been give thus far. As far as claims that the studio or the MPAA are forcing cuts on Ridley go, I've yet to see anything about the studio trying to force him to make cuts he doesn't want and the MPAA can't actually MAKE you cut anything. That's not what they do. So yeah... what's with all the assumptions and outrage. Am I missing something?

And Fox said they wouldn't let the project go ahead without Ridders behind the camera ... well that was a waste of fu*cking time then wasn't it? ... what WAS the point in that if he can't do what he's best at? ... I wouldn't blame him if he didn't make another movie ... Oh well, have to wait for the BluRay Directors Cut to get the full impact of this puppy then ... FOX ... you're a waste of space and a bunch of prats (and I don't mean just with this movie) ... End of chat ...

not surprised at all..I could smell this chicken shit coming from a mile away these days everything is numbers and marketing, capitalism at it's peak...I hope you are enjoying the world you created for yourselves...censored art, Michael Bay, iPhones....makes me want to puke..the most material and repulsive stage yet in human history...

My fear is that hes angry with the MPAA because the ask alot of cuts to make it PG13 ... and since i know Sir Ridley Scott will never show kinky , nude , rape things i fear that the cuts are about the "horror" parts ...and that will be bad .

I fear I'm missing something key here... as far as I know Ridley has only dropped a few vague references to the possible MPAA rating of the film. But what he hasn't outright said is what rating he's actually going for and what rating the MPAA tried to give him. Does anyone have an exact quote (links are always helpful) where either of those things is revealed? It could be that he thinks Prometheus deserves a PG-13 but the MPAA rated it R (in which case he'll have to make cuts to get it down to a PG-13 or just accept the R) or he thinks it deserves an R and they rated it PG-13 (which wouldn't matter since he wouldn't make any changes just to get a more restrictive rating, right?). Also, it's worth noting that the MPAA doesn't ask anyone to make specific cuts. They just rate the film you give them and you either accept their rating or you make the cuts you feel are necessary to change the rating and re-submit it. As far as the studio is concerned I've not heard of any attempts on their part to alter the cut to get a certain rating (whatever that would be since they haven't said what their preferred rating is either, as far as I know). Where is everyone getting the studio interference rumors from? Perhaps we're all making a few too many assumption about what's happening/who's to blame...

@ The Coming - Too right, my friend. It really makes me sick how everything is censored and designed for the mainstream(money) nowadays. Its not just happening in movies either. Gaming is going the same way at a quick pace. They need to let a genius like Ridley Scott have complete freedom to do what needs to be done. Why put limits on him??? It makes now sense to me. Im guessing that Ridley made a cut of the film that he thought would make a PG-13, but the MPAA [i]still[/i] want him to make cuts. At the end of the day though, I just want to own a copy of the movie how Ridley intended it to be on blu ray. Such a shame if the cinema version is a heavily cut version. I hate this sh*t.

The part I do Not get is this....if they make it PG-13 LESS people will go see it NOT more...Period. The reason is, the target market for this film is adolescent males between 12 and 19 yrs old. An adolescent male between 12 and 19 yrs old is far more likely to try to see a movie that is R rated than one that is PG-13 and this is just fact. The perception with any Pg-13 film is in fact, that it is SOFT and watered down. IMO the PG-13 rating on Batman is going to hurt it and is no different than saying this movie is FOR ALL...it's soft on language and violence or a lot of it has been cut out. As far as the money goes, everyone surrounding the making of Prometheus already has plenty/enough, so much so that making this film 14 and over could only force people to take it more seriously which I believe is what Ridley wants...and not for more people to see it just for the money.