Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
I wasn't asking about banned movies. I was saying that if they are not banned, then cinemas should show them. I don't need a theatre chain deciding what I can and can't see. It's bad enough that the classification board does it.

I agree. Apart for pornographic features, which SHOULD be featured in separated theaters, every movie should get proper distribution no matter what is the rating. Also, what pisses me off is how filmmakers are having to tame down their movies so they have a lower rating, in order to cash more money, I think this is BS, it goes against everything this art stands for. I'll give you examples:

Uh might have some spoilers so uh, if you're sensitive to that don't read any forther...

* Pearl Harbor, in the atack scene there's a moment where the injured and burned american soldiers were crawling to the nearby hospital and the scene was shot in a foggy, un-focused way, when I saw this I screamed "F***! PG-13 strikes again!! Show me the true horror of war dammit!"

* Riders of the Lost Ark, Spielberg had to tame down the melting-nazis scene to avoid an R rating

* The infamous american cut of "Eyes Wide Shut" - fortunally it's uncut in other countries

* The non-japanese cut of Kill Bill 1

A good example of what should be done is ROTS, the movie was rated PG-13 so it could get a little bit closer to what GL intended, also the Matrix movies being rated R...