r/flicks • u/Phyliinx • 1d ago
Wait, is the new Naked Gun movie rated R?
I googled the previous releases. They are all rated PG 13. Now Liam Neeson stabs the bank robber with his Lollipop and blood's shown, at least in the US trailer. Why are they aiming for an r rating here?
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u/Kataratz 1d ago
PG13 ratings are all more strict today maybe
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u/AvatarIII 18h ago edited 16h ago
Yeah back in the 80s you could have a lot of blood even bare breasts in a pg-13, now that's an automatic R.
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u/Wangchief 18h ago
Yeah bear anatomy really ratchets up the rating these days. Idk how nat geo and planet earth do it with those tv G ratings!
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u/Daoneandonlydude 10h ago
Sixteen candles. Has full frontal nudity. A zoom in I her boobs and two f bombs. It’s PG
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u/badwolf1013 1d ago
It's been 30 years. Your counter-culture cartoons in the early 90s were things like the Simpsons, The Critic, and Ren & Stimpy. Now, it's Rick & Morty and Harley Quinn where someone gets eviscerated every 3 minutes (but nary a penis or bare breast are ever shown -- we have weird taboos as a culture.)
So I imagine that they are hoping for a little bit of nostalgia viewers like me who loved the silly sight gags and wordplay of the original movies (and TV show,) but they aren't betting the farm on it. They want to pull in the Rick and Morty crowd who need a bit of violence and gore with their puns.
(Full disclosure: I'm a Rick & Morty fan, too.)
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u/monoglot 1d ago
Per the MPA rating guidelines "There may be depictions of violence in a PG-13 movie, but generally not both realistic and extreme or persistent violence."
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u/unsolicitedbadvibes 1d ago
I can't speak for movie ratings, but I can say with some experience that on cable TV that scene could fly at a TV-14-V rating. Victim is seen from behind, the impact of the weapon is not seen, no wound is visible, the blood is more of a mist than a thick spray, and the overall scene is absurd and comedic.
(See also Weird Al's head exploding in the PG-13 rated Spy Hard: https://youtu.be/EhuM7etoAAI)
Again, can't speak for the MPAA but I wouldn't say this one scene means it's going to get an R rating (or that it is aiming for one). That said, I could also see this being a franchise where no one involved would have a problem with an R rating.
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u/PlasticStarship 23h ago
I believe that specific scene is meant to lampoon Neeson's current career.
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u/DrFriedGold 22h ago
Yes. I don't think the scene will be in the film either, I think it was only made to be a teaser trailer.
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u/Grand_Taste_8737 18h ago
If those original movies were made now they'd at least be rated R. That is if they could even be made.
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u/Low-Key-Dumb 13h ago
Because they want you to know this isn’t your dad’s Naked Gun, we’re in the future.
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u/notboring 8h ago
I had not considered this as part of the reason the trailer looks utterly unfunny. Does not look like McFarland's history with feature films is not about to turn around. Just as the Mission Impossible films finally abandon the awful CGI masks, here we have it back. And on what planet can a six foot tall man hide his legs to pretend to be three feet tall?
This bodes ill. Everything that happens in the first Naked Gun movie is physically possible. A man can get his foot caught in a trash can, set curtains on fire and fall out a window. Everything in the trailer of the new film is a cheat. OJ's "death scene" in Naked Gun (the wet paint, stove, window) is real on planet earth. Nothing in the new teaser can happen outside of a cartoon and even then, wouldn't really work for humor.
Neeson showed in LIfe's Too Short he can be deadpan funny. But if the movie is going to cheat all the "jokes" then,, well...it's not looking good.
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u/DivineAngie89 1d ago
It looks like garbage. Liam neisons modern roles almost always suck and it's directed by that no talent hack from the Lonely island
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u/dakilazical_253 1d ago
That no talent hack directed Hot Rod and Popstar, two of the best comedies of the last 15 years
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1d ago
I wonder how much of "Hot Rod" was directing or was it just Samberg goofing around with great success?
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u/Wingmaniac 1d ago
You couldn't be more wrong.
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1d ago
The power of Nielsen's performance came from him being relatively unknown. There were no signature roles that could be compared to. Neeson is completely different - there are expectations there based on his body of work. This film will be unremarkable regardless of who is financing/directing.
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u/Wingmaniac 1d ago
Wrong again. Neilson was a known dramatic actor. What made his performance initially surprising was the turn to comedy. Naked Gun was not even close to his first comedy, so the role was obviously compared to previous comedies.
Neeson is an established action and drama actor. His absolutely hilarious guest role on Life's Too Short with Ricky Gervais shows he has the chops for the pivot.
The director has previously made amazing work with the lonely Island SNL digital shorts and Hot Rod, Popstar, and I Think You Should Leave are hilarious.
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u/Dreadnought13 1d ago
Guess nobody learned anything from A Million Ways to Die in the West
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u/SokkaHaikuBot 1d ago
Sokka-Haiku by Dreadnought13:
Guess nobody learned
Anything from A Million
Ways to Die in the West
Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.
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u/ItIsAboutABicycle 1d ago
I presume a) it's now a Seth McFarlane production and b) they figure their target audience are above a certain age so there's no need to water it down.