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Terminator 4 aiming for PG-13 Rating
- By Crystal Carroll
- Published 05/6/2008
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Crystal Carroll
Crystal is a 30-something writer living in Northern California. She divides her time between writing technical documentation (techy, tech, tech requirements docs), analytical essays on television shows that hold her brain for ransom, and the occasional bout of fiction (like plague, only with characters). She enjoys Pinot Noir, but not during robot apocalypses, and feels all movies could be made better if they had a Sleestack in the background.
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According to Variety, Terminator 4 will be aiming for a PG-13 rating
for its May 22, 2009 release.
This might worry me if I weren't already addicted to the T.V. show, 9:00 prime time has got to be somewhere between PG and PG-13, and yet it certainly delivers on dramatic tension. The main fight scene in the finale alone was one of the most balletic battles I've seen in some years. Also, I fairly surprised to realize how deftly Iron Man (also PG-13) handled the overall violence without actually toning anything down.
The previous three movies were release with an R rating, but the family-ier friendly rating does mean that the studio can now drown us in Terminator merchandising. Mind you, if I can get a large Slushie in a Terminator head that's not all bad.
It will also be no surprise to discover that they will be releasing a Terminator game in combination with the movie. These days, I'm surprised if a big action movie comes out without having a game. The real question being if they can pull off the visuals from the movie while still delivering on the game play.
Filming began on Terminator 4 on May 4th.
Sources
http://www.variety.com/VR1117985086.html
This might worry me if I weren't already addicted to the T.V. show, 9:00 prime time has got to be somewhere between PG and PG-13, and yet it certainly delivers on dramatic tension. The main fight scene in the finale alone was one of the most balletic battles I've seen in some years. Also, I fairly surprised to realize how deftly Iron Man (also PG-13) handled the overall violence without actually toning anything down.
The previous three movies were release with an R rating, but the family-ier friendly rating does mean that the studio can now drown us in Terminator merchandising. Mind you, if I can get a large Slushie in a Terminator head that's not all bad.
It will also be no surprise to discover that they will be releasing a Terminator game in combination with the movie. These days, I'm surprised if a big action movie comes out without having a game. The real question being if they can pull off the visuals from the movie while still delivering on the game play.
Filming began on Terminator 4 on May 4th.
Sources
http://www.variety.com/VR1117985086.html