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Topic: Wall Street: Money never bleeps- PG-13 v. R-rating

Grownups work on Wall Street. Grownups use colorful, if foul, language. Waiting for the one permissible F-bomb takes me right out of a movie. If Stone and Cast waited 23 years to tell this story, why waste theirs and our time hamstringing it with a PG-13 rating?

Shia Lebouf is one thing. A PG-13 rating to pump up the gate or make the characters more palatable is sad.

And I've listened to Stone's Commentary on the first Wall Street twice. So, you could say I'm a fan.

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Re: Wall Street: Money never bleeps- PG-13 v. R-rating

I've heard good things about this, actually.

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Re: Wall Street: Money never bleeps- PG-13 v. R-rating

It's very possible it's an accidental PG-13. That is, they just wrote and filmed what they wanted to and that's the rating it happened to get. They would have been happy with an R, but didn't feel like going back and adding some F-bombs or nudity to get it.

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Re: Wall Street: Money never bleeps- PG-13 v. R-rating

I hope the new movie's good, i'm a big fan of the original. Stone does a good commentary, it sounds like he's drinking and starts to slur his words by the half way point. "Bobby Risschardsson". I love no BS guys like that.

The making-of on the dvd is good too. Stone makes a point of embarrassing Charlie Sheen when he asks to go to his trailer to "powder his nose".

I've read some people think it's a dumb title. Money Never Sleeps refers to playing the markets all over the world. It's always business hours somewhere. Douglas wakes Sheen up at 5am in the first movie and says "money never sleeps, pal".

I hope it isn't but this might be Douglas' last movie, he has cancer.

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Re: Wall Street: Money never bleeps- PG-13 v. R-rating

frankasu03 wrote:

why waste theirs and our time hamstringing it with a PG-13 rating?

Yeah, it's stupido. Why appeal to 13yr olds who're never going to go see a Wall Street movie anyway?

I was going to say 'why put that Shia kid in the movie' but he's actually 2yrs older than Charlie was in Wall Street. I forget how young he was in Platoon, etc. Shit, the internet says he did 23 movies in 5yrs starting in 1985. Well, he's 3wks older than me so i get to call him old guy.

/old

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Re: Wall Street: Money never bleeps- PG-13 v. R-rating

"It's people like that who make you realize how little you've accomplished. It is a sobering thought, for example, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years."
-Tom Lehrer

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