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I really liked Soylent Green. I think it's at least as relevant today as it was when it was first made. I was a little surprised at how abrupt the ending was,
I was expecting a big either downfall of Soylent Corp or a coverup, but instead it just ends with the big reveal
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It's probably been close to a year since I watched Beneath the Planet of the Apes, and I'm still amazed that one ended the way it did.
 
JD said:
It's probably been close to a year since I watched Beneath the Planet of the Apes, and I'm still amazed that one ended the way it did.
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And to think that it got a G-rating back then, despite the concluding bloodbath and the monumentally depressing ending . . ..
 
RJDiogenes said:
For those of you with TCM On Demand, they are now showing a true classic called Sex Kittens Go To College. This is of interest to genre fans for the presence of both a robot and Vampira. It's... uh... riveting. Oh, and Martin Milner is in it, too.
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Billed as "Marty Milner!" Judging by the performances, I'd say that the director decided to catch up on his beauty sleep on set rather than actually direct the film. Yikes!
 
Greg Cox said:
And to think that it got a G-rating back then, despite the concluding bloodbath and the monumentally depressing ending . . ..
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And some really grim footage of human corpses being hauled around like dead animals (which was cut from TV broadcasts).

Sto-Vo-Kory said:
Billed as "Marty Milner!" Judging by the performances, I'd say that the director decided to catch up on his beauty sleep on set rather than actually direct the film. Yikes!
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Oh, yeah, Marty Milner. :rommie: And John Carradine was in it, too. The movie definitely had a bizarre vibe, like they all got high and shot it in one afternoon.
 
Greg Cox said:
And to think that it got a G-rating back then, despite the concluding bloodbath and the monumentally depressing ending . . ..
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Different times, 2001, ST:TMP, Andromeda Strain were also rated G back then. I'm not sure when G came to be as sanitized as it is now but there was also a time in the 70s when PG movies had nudity more often than the PG-13 films of today.
 
Greg Cox said:
Just to nitpick: HORROR EXPRESS isn't a Hammer flick either, despite having both Lee and Cushing. Cool old movie, though.
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My goodness you're right! All these years I thought Hammer. I see it's Belmar Productions. And I have been reading the descriptions, reviews, and especially casts of their few other early 70s flicks and I am seeing those!

Greg Cox said:
And to think that it got a G-rating back then, despite the concluding bloodbath and the monumentally depressing ending . . ..
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I had seen a cut up version from the first time it ever showed on tv many years ago. The first time I saw this uncut was on Chiller channel on Time Warner Cable about 5 years ago. My jaw dropped open. That was some massacre of the guards! One of the most brutal things I've ever seen in visual media.

That was a G? Holy cow.

Oh wait--that was Conquest. You're discussing Beneath, my bad. Just looked up Conquest----still astonished that what I saw was PG, not R.
 
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RJDiogenes said:
It was definitely a more liberal time.....
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Well, remember that 'Patton' was Rated X (for language; yes Kids 'X' was originally an actual MPAA rating at one time to denote 'truly adult' themes) - but hell, today it would probably barley get a PG-13 and actually most of the language wouldn't raise an eye when broadcast on open TV. :)
 
Noname Given said:
Well, remember that 'Patton' was Rated X (for language; yes Kids 'X' was originally an actual MPAA rating at one time to denote 'truly adult' themes) - but hell, today it would probably barley get a PG-13 and actually most of the language wouldn't raise an eye when broadcast on open TV. :)
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As I recall, "Midnight Cowboy" was also rated X back in the day.
 
Vandervecken said:
My goodness you're right! All these years I thought Hammer. I see it's Belmar Productions. And I have been reading the descriptions, reviews, and especially casts of their few other early 70s flicks and I am seeing those!
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It's an easy mistake to make. You've got Cushing and Lee in a horror movie from the seventies. Easy to assume it's a Hammer flick.
 
CorporalCaptain said:
Do you have a link for that? This is something that I cannot confirm.
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No - I can't find an online source either - but I do clearly remember a commercial for the film where at the end the announcer said: "Patton...Rated X". And for a short time the MPAA was pushing the 'X' rating for what they considered 'truly adult' material.
 
Noname Given said:
No - I can't find an online source either - but I do clearly remember a commercial for the film where at the end the announcer said: "Patton...Rated X". And for a short time the MPAA was pushing the 'X' rating for what they considered 'truly adult' material.
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I have my doubts here. I did a quick search, too, just out of curiosity, and can't find any indication that PATTON was ever rated X. Although your basic point, that there was a brief period when "X" was not synonymous was porn, is certainly true.
 
Noname Given said:
No - I can't find an online source either - but I do clearly remember a commercial for the film where at the end the announcer said: "Patton...Rated X". And for a short time the MPAA was pushing the 'X' rating for what they considered 'truly adult' material.
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Well - I found the trailer I recall. And I was wrong in that at 51 seconds the announcer says 'Rated M' (although I don't recall the MPAA having an 'M' rating although looking online afterward it seems they did - which is probably why over the years I recalled it as 'X') - but either way I was incorrect - Patton was originally Rated 'M'.

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Noname Given said:
Well - I found the trailer I recall. And I was wrong in that at 51 seconds the announcer says 'Rated M' (although I don't recall the MPAA having an 'M' rating although looking online afterward it seems they did - which is probably why over the years I recalled it as 'X') - but either way I was incorrect - Patton was originally Rated 'M'.

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Thanks for tracking that down.

M was the name of the category that evolved into PG, by a couple of iterations of clarification.

FWIW, here's the Wikipedia article on it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_America_film_rating_system#History
 
Additionally, the Wikipedia page for Patton also mentions that Oliver Stone had to make concessions to Patton's speech to avoid an R rating.
 
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