While Warner Brothers hasn’t confirmed that the rating for the newest “Terminator” installment, a Pizza Hut web site associated with promoting this summer’s upcoming fourth installment is listing the rating as PG-13.
This comes after news that director McG wanted an R-rated cut of the upcoming “Terminator: Salvation” released in theaters. All three previous “Terminator” installments have been R-rated.
It’s nothing official, yet, but it does indicate that Warner Brothers wants to keep the film as accessible as possible to as many viewers as possible. And a PG-13 release would allow teenagers to see the film without parental supervision. (Or having to sneak into theaters to see it.).
And while there may be a PG-13 release for theaters, fans can expect an R-rated or unrated cut when the film hits DVD and Blu-Ray.
I wouldn’t concern myself too much with this. Today’s PG-13 was yesterday’s R…just as I can remember when today’s R rated movies were once considered X-rated films.
So…We want the overwhelming terminator violence to be something more accessible to impressionable children without them having to have a parent nearby…Sure, that makes sense.
Damn straight! Bout time those little snot-nosed, overly-pampered, germ carriers learned about the real brutality of life. And where better to learn that than from a movie! 😉
let us not forget the director who made this possible james Cameron and the Actor who kept the trilogy going Arnold and let us not forget he made the movies violent, nudity, and best of all the cussin long live James Cameron!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As long as an unrated directors cut comes out to blu ray, that has all the foul language and intense scenes… I guess it’s ok. But if they don’t do that, their basically screwing the routes of the franchise big time. I mean, a 4th installment should be crazier than the old one’s, so how can it go P-13? Even if the battle scenes are mostly against robots, and this falls under less strict ratings… do they plan on just not showing anyone get killed by the robots in a realistic and awful way that we would experience if we were actually there?
And who in the world wouldn’t friggin swear after robots who are trying to take over the world, if this were to really happen? I think anyone would want to scream a big F You to them if they could.
So why broaden the audience if it will make the films quality suffer and make it seem watered down? If it’s actually for the toy license and that… I’m sorry but this is truly a sad year for any true Terminator fan. Don’t get me wrong, the movie may still be great and I do want to see it… but I just don’t understand how a R rated franchise that did so well, can change to P-13…
Please, if you have any brains at all… release a unrated more intense version of this film to Blu-Ray, so all the die-hard fans can have something to be excited about.
-Terminator Fan
Oh and by this time, you guys must all know that it’s been officially announced that it will be P-13. It’s on the posters… in case anyone didn’t know.