R18 SNVL
So I'm at home this past Saturday night, waiting for the weekend movie(s) while reading a copy of True Love. Yeah.
I'm really enjoy watching several movies simultaneously. Or is that concurrently. Flipping between channels. Knowing the title of the movie I'm about to watch also bears a rather disproportionate amount of importance to me and affects my enjoyment of the movie. I guess it's akin to missing the first corner of a F1 race.
Anyway, The NTV movies starts first and there's a parental guidance/rating bit before the movie. I'm impressed that they're rating movies but am a bit taken aback by this particular one. R18 SNVL. Aii. It's like 9:40 pm. Even satellite TV shows movies with such ratings in the dead middle of night. The only movie I've seen with a more restricted rating is... Well porn doesn't have a rating. I sit up in part apprehension, part excitement.
As it is, the movie was some strange, 80s, hippie, spy movie which I hardly understood. There was a scene where a guy actually set a swimming pool on fire! Or attempted to. No gratuitous sex or nudity of any kind. Who rated this moview. Ok. To be fair to the guy/gal, they cut off at least one scene that seemed headed to show some skin. I'm not for prime time nudity, but what's the point of the rating if the movie won't live up to it. The problem with crying wolf is that nobody will take you seriously when you actually say the truth. Even the Violence and Language was barely PG, let alone the non-existent Sex or Nudity.
Perhaps I'm too deep in the gutter. You're more likely to see some R18 stuff on a Saturday night on the streets of Nairobi rather than on the telly. A reason to get out of the house if I ever needed one.
posted by Samborera @ 12:35
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This reminds me of this afternoon my Bro (very straight christian guy) and I were at home and some KBC daytime movie was showing. So the woman proceeds to do a strip tease for her guy and just after everything has come off and we've had 2 whole seconds of total nudity and embarassment KBC blacks out the screen to "censor". So as to alleviate his embarassment my bro goes like "its a bit late for that ama?"
But anyway, I think ratings should be strict, you have to think of the kiddo's
Of ratings should be strict. What gets me is when a movie gets the most restrictive rating and then they cut out the juicy parts that earned the movie that rating in the first place.
A few years ago KTN screened 'Basic Instinct' on a Saturday at 10. It started with the usual pomp 'above 18 blah blah' and then they murdered the movie by cutting out all sex scenes.
Why did they even bother?
Then there was this time I was watching a movie on KBC and my mom was knitting or something and there was a 5 minute uncesored scene at 3pm in the afternoon. I pretended to look for something on the floor for the 5 minutes and immediately walked out when the scene was over!
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