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ILOHTFAHA (Aida Man)

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Les Mis Movie rated PG-13?
Posted: 10/23/12 at 01:52am

Has this been posted yet? It was on the Universal Awards site. Cause if this is true I'm happy!

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Les Mis Movie rated PG-13?
Posted: 10/23/12 at 01:57am

Why does that make you happy?

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Les Mis Movie rated PG-13?
Posted: 10/23/12 at 02:36am

I thought the same thing, why would that affect you?

As an adult, I only think about ratings when it comes to my children's films, and as they are older, that comes into play less and less.

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Les Mis Movie rated PG-13?
Posted: 10/23/12 at 04:16am

Actually, no good movies are rated PG-13.

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Les Mis Movie rated PG-13?
Posted: 10/23/12 at 05:54am

^^^
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ILOHTFAHA (Aida Man)

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Les Mis Movie rated PG-13?
Posted: 10/23/12 at 06:07am

The reason it makes me happy is because after reading the script that was posted on the site I thought it was going to get an R rating! THAT'S WHY!!

dramamama611

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Les Mis Movie rated PG-13?
Posted: 10/23/12 at 06:47am

Are you THAT young that you wouldn't be able to see a rated R movie?

Good god.

ILOHTFAHA (Aida Man)

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Les Mis Movie rated PG-13?
Posted: 10/23/12 at 07:06am

Not really I'm in my early twenties. I'm perfectly fine with R-rated movies. FOR THE LOVE OF PETE!!! I saw "Sweeney Todd" the movie when it first came out and I saw it on Christmas Day my freshman year in community college. It's just I don't think Les Mis should be rated R the only things that would considered R-rated would be Lovely Ladies and Master of the House but that's it all in all it's PG-13 rated. Therfore I think PG-13 is perfectly fine. That's all

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Les Mis Movie rated PG-13?
Posted: 10/23/12 at 07:12am

You're a college student?!! You come across so infantile!

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ILOHTFAHA (Aida Man)

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Les Mis Movie rated PG-13?
Posted: 10/23/12 at 07:36am

I get that alot actually.

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Les Mis Movie rated PG-13?
Posted: 10/23/12 at 09:08am

Did anyone think it would be anything other than PG-13?

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Les Mis Movie rated PG-13?
Posted: 10/23/12 at 09:24am

Jesus Christ, people! I think ILOHTFAHA (Aida Man) is happy it didn't get an R-rating, not for himself, but for the movie's sake. If a film receives a PG-13 rating, its chances of succeeding at the box office are generally greater than if it were R-rated; more people (teens) not needing parental supervision. I know there was some concern about that from other Les Miz fans.

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ILOHTFAHA (Aida Man)

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Les Mis Movie rated PG-13?
Posted: 10/23/12 at 09:35am

My point exactly thank you StageManager2

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Les Mis Movie rated PG-13?
Posted: 10/23/12 at 10:12am

An "R" rating for a musical is basically a death sentence. Fact is, most studios would want NOTHING to do with it. There are exceptions, South Park and Mormmon. But make no mistake, this film has to be below R.

Phyllis Rogers Stone

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Les Mis Movie rated PG-13?
Posted: 10/23/12 at 12:40pm

I feel like anyone who read that screenplay and thought it would be rated R hasn't seen many movies.

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Les Mis Movie rated PG-13?
Posted: 10/23/12 at 01:21pm

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HeyMrMusic

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Les Mis Movie rated PG-13?
Posted: 10/23/12 at 02:55pm

I haven't read the screenplay, but there isn't anything in the musical that would warrant an R rating.

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Les Mis Movie rated PG-13?
Posted: 10/23/12 at 04:06pm

R-rated movies simply have a harder time in terms of reaching an audience and some people actually avoid movies based on ratings, either to keep their kids from watching it or because they think their values will be somehow offended, or whatever. Given that LES MIZ is trying to appeal to a family audience (and Tom Hooper already experienced issues with the MPAA when THE KING'S SPEECH was rated R just because of how many times they say the word "Fvck," ridiculous), the studio would be unhappy with an R-rating. I think that this is where the original post was coming from.

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Les Mis Movie rated PG-13?
Posted: 10/23/12 at 04:14pm

From a script with countless uses of "whore" in it, I'm surprised this isn't rated R.

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Les Mis Movie rated PG-13?
Posted: 10/23/12 at 04:18pm

Whore isn't going to get something an R rating. You can say whore on television.

Jay Lerner-Z

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Les Mis Movie rated PG-13?
Posted: 10/23/12 at 04:21pm

BWW don't even **** it.

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Les Mis Movie rated PG-13?
Posted: 10/23/12 at 04:23pm

But they do C****nay.

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Les Mis Movie rated PG-13?
Posted: 10/23/12 at 06:19pm

If a big-budget big-studio movie wants to be PG-13, it'll be PG-13. See also: Titanic, complete with topless Kate Winslet.

Les Miserables wants to be viewable by families, but not get the juvenile associations of a PG rating. PG-13 is where it lives.

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Les Mis Movie rated PG-13?
Posted: 10/23/12 at 06:40pm

Children under 13 shouldn't be exposed to belting.

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Les Mis Movie rated PG-13?
Posted: 10/23/12 at 06:40pm

I'm not surprised it's PG-13 at all. There's nothing in there that should warrant an R rating. Chicago and Moulin Rouge were both PG-13 and did just fine.

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Les Mis Movie rated PG-13?
Posted: 10/23/12 at 07:59pm

Movies are usually only rated R if there's explicit sex or extremely gory or graphic violence. Unless they showed the whores actively having sex, or horrifically bloody battles a la Saving Private Ryan, there's no way Les Miserables would ever get an R. Universal wouldn't allow it and it wouldn't fit the story.