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What? ‘Die Hard 4’ rated PG-13?

Live Free or Die HardCheck this shit out (Fig. 1). Bruce Willis teams up with the freakin’ Mac Guy to stop the terrorists from making the horrible decision of buying Windows-based PCs to take over the country.

Well, it’s official. “Live Free or Die Hard” has been rated PG-13. There was a time when I could not fathom a “Die Hard” movie without an R rating, but given today’s climate, this PG-13 was inevitable. The first three “Die Hards” were released when studios actually put out R-rated action flicks. Now studios believe there is no such thing as an R-rated blockbuster (and everything in summer is positioned as a possible blockbuster), because you are denying too much of the all-important under-17 demographic. Now every would-be blockbuster is trimmed down to PG-13, even when they were born to be rated R. (Read more…)

‘Rated R for strong graphic smoking…’

Is everyone so wrapped up in their personal crusades that they can’t see anything from the standpoint of basic logic? (Read more…)