The British Board Of Film Classification are a bunch of religious hypocrites

The bbfc also presumably take into account what rating the makers want- There Will Be Blood was passed 12A then raised to 15 when Disney asked for a 15- and I'd imagine the Danny Dyer movie wanted an 18 rating.

Also the bbfc freely state the way the word is used determines the rating; This is England (the film) was given an 18 for one use of the c word, in a context too aggressive to go at 15 by bbfc standarRAB.

This may seem ridiculous but the bbfc say they get more complaints about strong language than anything else, it is the public that is complaining about it. Gawd knows why, but they are.
 
The distributors of Couples Retreat sent it in for classification with a request for a 12A certificate; the BBFC state this in their 2009 Annual Report which is available to read on their website.

The same thing happened with Disturbia, Cloverfield and I Am Legend.
 
It would be a 15. You can say the f-word as many times as you want in a 15. Knocked Up, Eddie Murphy: Raw, Jackie Brown and Jarhead are all perfect examples of this.

BTW, I forgot to mention in my last post that the episode of Arrested Development that has the c-word in it is rated 12!:eek:
 
OT but didnt it used to be that if there was even one use of the word c*nt in a film it got an 18 rating (I think Bridget Jones 1 was cut for this), now I think there can be a maximum of 2 (depenRAB on the context). Of course there was the hoo ha over Kick-Ass and little Chloe Moretz dropping a c-bomb...

On the other hand I have a stand up comedy video (Jack Dee) of a 1997 gig (rated 15) and he uses the c-word twice, but not in a really aggressive kind of way. It's the same with Live Again (2005) as well, Maybe the rules with stand up are different.
 
Not different enough, though. How can a stand-up comedy video be the same classification as a film with gunfire, murder, blood, serial killers or whatever? Personally I dislike the 15 certificate anyway (should be 13 and 18) but if there has to be one it should only be on the basis that a film is too violent for a young audience. The "c word" is not a reason to stop people watching an otherwise inoffensive film.
 
I like the Australian ratings, they have M (recommended for mature audiences over 15 but anyone can see it regardless of age) and MA (anyone under 15 must be accompanied by an adult).

If the UK ratings were 13 and 18, what would stuff like Get Him To The Greek and The Hurt Locker (which I thought were perfect examples of 15's) get?
 
The King's Speech, which is a period drama with Colin Firth, was given a 12a today despite multiple uses of the f word, with the following bbfc reasoning:

"This work was originally classified '15' without cuts on 15/10/2010. The BBFC has, after an appeal by the distributor of The King
 
I haven't seen the film but I think it deserves a 12A. Then again I thought Up In The Air should have been a 12A and there's around 20 uses of the f-word in that.
 
12A for 'Up In The Air'? Seriously? Come on, 20 uses of the F word is way beyond a 12A.

I saw 'The Social Network' last week and it surprised me that it managed to get away with a 12A seeing as it featured multiple uses of the F word (and on one occasion it was quite close to the previous utterance, surely contravening the "frequency" part of the BBFC's rules at 12A), and it also had a scene where Justin Timberlake and a bunch of college students snort cocaine off of a womans breasts. Personally i would have given that a 15.
 
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