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[Engineer]

Lmfao wtf 😂

My first job out of HS was in a video rental store. I remember seeing snakes on a train on our shelves when it came out but I never even looked at the back of the box 😂 same thing with transmorphers and a dozen other ripoffs. "Alien vs hunter" made me laugh so hard! The funniest one though was "Pirates." It was just called "pirates" and it was clearly made to look like a "pirates of the Caribbean" movie, and it came out on DVD when the second or third film was just hitting theaters. Totally meant to capitalize off of the large franchise film! But the funny part was when this woman came in and rented the movie, then returned a few hours later and furious because she rented it for her kids not realizing it was a soft-core porno lmao

[HuDaFuK]

I f**king loathe those zero-budget talentless mockbusters.

"So bad it's good" movies only work when they don't realise they're bad.

[Eal]

I f**king loathe those zero-budget talentless mockbusters.

"So bad it's good" movies only work when they don't realise they're bad.

That's why all of Tommy Wisseau's work post-Room is terrible-bad and not funny-bad.

Can't enjoy a movie truly unless there's some amount of artistic sincerity behind it.

[BlueMarsalis79]

[HuDaFuK]

Exactly.

By far the greatest bad movie I've ever seen is Miami Connection - not because it's one of the most laughably inept films I've ever sat through, but because you can tell that absolutely everyone involved was convinced it was gonna be huge. It's the earnestness that makes it.

I mean, it's about an 80s taekwondo glam rock band fighting cocaine-dealing motorcycle ninjas, and that's not even played as a joke.

[[cancerblack]]

Lmfao wtf 😂

My first job out of HS was in a video rental store. I remember seeing snakes on a train on our shelves when it came out but I never even looked at the back of the box 😂 same thing with transmorphers and a dozen other ripoffs. "Alien vs hunter" made me laugh so hard! The funniest one though was "Pirates." It was just called "pirates" and it was clearly made to look like a "pirates of the Caribbean" movie, and it came out on DVD when the second or third film was just hitting theaters. Totally meant to capitalize off of the large franchise film! But the funny part was when this woman came in and rented the movie, then returned a few hours later and furious because she rented it for her kids not realizing it was a soft-core porno lmao

It wasn't soft-core lmao.

[Engineer]

Lmfao wtf 😂

My first job out of HS was in a video rental store. I remember seeing snakes on a train on our shelves when it came out but I never even looked at the back of the box 😂 same thing with transmorphers and a dozen other ripoffs. "Alien vs hunter" made me laugh so hard! The funniest one though was "Pirates." It was just called "pirates" and it was clearly made to look like a "pirates of the Caribbean" movie, and it came out on DVD when the second or third film was just hitting theaters. Totally meant to capitalize off of the large franchise film! But the funny part was when this woman came in and rented the movie, then returned a few hours later and furious because she rented it for her kids not realizing it was a soft-core porno lmao

It wasn't soft-core lmao.

She said it was 🤷 lol

[SiL]

Private the kind of person to think any nudity constitutes soft core.

[Engineer]

This is the one. It is listed as "adult" and "NC-17" lol

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/13860-pirates

[[cancerblack]]

Oh I thought it was hardcore.

[SiL]

Oh Jesus I was expecting an Asylum film.

[Engineer]

Oh I thought it was hardcore.

Maybe it is lmao
I never saw it, I'm just basing this off what she said...
She was so pissed off about it 😂
But, like, how were we supposed to know she was renting for her kids? It's not like we ask "you know you're renting an adult film right?"

[[cancerblack]]

I don't know your ratings. Can NC17 apply to something with unsimulated sex scenes?

[Local Trouble]

Oh I thought it was hardcore.

It is.  I just did some, ahem, research.

[Engineer]

I don't know your ratings. Can NC17 apply to something with unsimulated sex scenes?

NC-17 means no children under 17. The MPAA replaced X-ratings with NC-17 in the 90s because x-ratings were largely associated with pornography, even though it wasn't just for pornography. So changing it to NC-17 got the rating away from that specific negative association. In reality, though, x and nc-17 were the next step up from R ratings, and that was with respect to more than just sexual content. If a film had an x or nc-17 rating, no one under 17 is allowed in even if they have parent permission (but that's only enforceable at theaters, etc.).

Scarface originally had an x-rating (which would have been nc-17 post-90s). The x-rating was based on extreme violence and drug use. The director made several re-edits to try to get it down to an R rating, but the MPAA kept giving it an X rating. Eventually, the director and the studio refused to keep re-editing and appealed the x-rating and won. Scarface got its R rating. But this is where it gets interesting... the director felt that his edits were so minor, no one would notice so he felt his original cut should also get an R rating. The MPAA disagreed, but the director sent his original cut anyway... he was right, nobody noticed the difference, and to this day his original x-rated cut still retains the R rating anyway... here's an article about it (not my favorite source but they cover it well enough):

https://www.cbr.com/movie-legends-revealed-the-strange-tale-of-how-scarface-beat-the-x-rating/

Oh I thought it was hardcore.

It is.  I just did some, ahem, research.

Lmao
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