SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE is slapped with an R-Rating!
I haven't seen Danny Boyle's latest movie SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE yet, about a young poor kid from India who makes an attempt at cracking their version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in an attempt to win back the love of a girl he lost but I can't imagine it contains any scenes which would warrant an R Rating. Seriously. Can the movie possibly be more adult themed than THE DARK KNIGHT? The official MPAA decision is MILLIONAIRE has been given the R Rating for "some violence, disturbing images and language." Give me a break! Cinematical, who have seen the film... claim the movie has several uses of the F-Word, a couple of intense moments and some non-graphic violence but nothing anyway near enough to warrant such a rating which would block teenagers from seeing this uplifting movie. As seems to be the case with everything in life, it's one rule for the big guys and another entirely for the smaller ones. Where Warner Bros. with their Batman flick had knifes to mouths, a huge suggestion of violence both visually and aurally, several gunshots, suggestion violence to children, a man's face burning in half, etc... Fox Searchlight's picture seems to have been punished for peanuts in comparison. How can this kind of double standard be allowed to go on? SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, the R-Rated movie... will open on a limited U.S. release from Nov. 12th with us Brits getting it on Jan. 23rd.