Cinema on the Verge

I’ve taken the screenplay samples offline because I’m retooling many of them and they may end up being very different than what they were before.  As many of who have created you know, these works are never really done.  However, I promise the samples will make their triumphant return very, very soon!

In possibly the worst summer blockbuster news I’ve heard yet, Fox may be trying to get Live Free or Die Hard (Die Hard 4.0) down to a family friendly P-13 rating. I guess my question is why?

Yes I know the sales figures indicate that P-13 ratings have a better chance at performing well at the box office, but this is the fabled Die Hard series for fucks sake and I use that word to give this post a nice R rating.

I don’t want a watered down Die Hard film. I want blood, I want profanity, I want all the elements that made the first set of films successful. Who gives a fuck (just to give this post an R rating) if the teeny boppers can see it or not. I don’t care about them nor do the people who remember these films who ARE THE ONES WHO ARE GOING TO SEE THIS!!!!! These punks don’t know who John McClane is nor do they care. Let them go see Pirates of the Caribbean already!

I’m not the only one upset, so is the man himself, Bruce Willis, as he told Vanity Fair:

“I really wanted this one to live up to the promise of the first one, which I always thought was the only really good one.’ And he’s not happy about it. ‘That’s a studio decision that is becoming more and more common, because they’re trying to reach a broader audience. It seems almost a courageous move to give a picture an R rating these days. But we still made a pretty hardcore, smashmouth film.’“

You mean P-13 like smashmouth? With words like heck, darn and blimey? Not a lash out at you Mr.Willis, just the system. And it’s this system that always seems to find away to take the fun out of a good idea. Can the American film industry produce a successful R rated action film anymore? All indicators seem to be yes, but not on their watch.

Yippie Kiyay Mother fuckers and scratch this one from my list. I’ll wait for the unrated DVD.