(Image Source: We Are Movie Geeks)
BY CHRISTINE SLUSSER
“RYAN GOSLING: I can’t really sing. I have to sing goofy in order to sing. I’ve got to sing stupid. Okay?
MICHELLE WILLIAMS: Okay.” (Movie Trailer)
It was one of the hottest films at the Cannes Film Festival and now-- it’s feeling the heat. “Blue Valentine” starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams just received an NC-17 rating from the Motion Picture Association of America.
Entertainment Weekly says the company should consider making a few trims to get the film to an R rating.
“I won’t even get into how ludicrous this decision is on the part of the MPAA. I’ve seen far more sexually explicit films get away with an R rating. As a huge fan of the film, I’m most worried about what today’s news means for its Oscar chances... NC-17 movies simply don’t get Oscar nominations."
Gossip Cop reports the scene that prompted the MPAA to give the film such a harsh rating may have made the audience a little squirmish, but that NC-17 is just too much...
“The NC-17 rating is supposedly due to a scene in which the couple gets drunk while spending a night in a hotel, where Gosling’s character wants to have sex while his wife doesn’t. But there is very little nudity in the scene...”
Online movie site Rope of Silicon says the timing of the NC-17 news is interesting...
“...the same day this bit of ratings controversy erupts, Yahoo has debuted the brand new trailer for the film. Could this ratings controversy be a conspiracy conjured up by the Weinstein's to garner additional attention the same day the trailer is released?”
“WILLIAMS: You’re actually good!
GOSLING: Don’t dance to this part.
(Music continues, trailer ends.)”
The film will hit theaters at the end of December. Will you see it if the NC-17 rating sticks?
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