This is a porno!

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The original X rating was given to films whose plotline was a little more adult and the filmmakers could present the film in a way that was not confined to the by-laws of a R rating.

Films like Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Midnight Cowboy, The Boys in the Band, Fritz the Cat, and A Clockwork Orange all were rated X for their subject matter.

It wasn't until the release of the Holy Trinity of Pornrographic Films or "The X-Rated films everybody knows about, even if they will never, ever see those films": Deep Throat, Behind the Green Door, and The Devil In Miss Jones, that the X rating became to be associated with films featuring hardcore pornography and the stigma of the X rating came shortly afterwards.

The pre-pornographic X rated films were re-classified as NC-17 because the X rating for those films and the NC-17 rating was interchangable, except in the case of Midnight Cowboy and A Clockwork Orange, those films were re-classified with a R rating.

The edited version of Flesh Gordon had an R rating (as seen in the trailer included on the Hen's Tooth DVD).



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What am I wrong about?

If you do not state your facts, then I shall consider you trolling on this board.

And your post is that of a typical troll.

What I'm saying to you is to be factual or else you're a troll because you present yourself as a troll.

I stated facts, where's yours at??????

Edit: At least I can present posts like this:

Flesh Gordon was released in the last days of pre-pornographic X-Rated films, before X meant seX, that's why an R rated version was released a few years later, to prevent it from being confused with an all out sex fest, like all X-Rated films were becoming at the time.

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Legend has it that a hard-core version did the rounds in the 1970's. Seems unlikely as a copy surely would have surfaced by now.


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035369/