this movie is definitely up there with good war movies of its time, but why is it R? I know its violent but you never see any bullet wounds except in like 1 scene and theres hardly any blood in the whole movie, the worst scene is when sams taking a cigar off a dead man and you can see his intestines, but thats the only bloody part, should be PG13
shareI believe it's because the word "cock" was used during Smitty's landmine scene and you see a close up shot of a bloody piece of flesh that The Sarge tosses over his shoulder, oddly enough. The frozen ass scene might also have helped the push toward R. Go figure.
shareI think the us's rating system is laughable
shareThe land mine scene was actually in the PG version (complete with the word "cock" and the bloody testicle). I think the R rating stems mostly from the intestines in the restored cut (PG movies back then were lenient enough as to allow for blood spray, F-bombs, and even full nudity).
shareI know it's an old post but for the curious:
IMDB has the R-rated version as being a 2004 "reconstruction". It seems that the original rating was PG. One of the original posters I could find online looks like it has PG in the one corner but it's masked or damaged a bit and hard to read.
Yes, that is correct.
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