Comments on: CENSORSHIP LOL

By: outrider

outrider — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 01:36:35 +0000

More up-to-date hilarity: the Watchmen movie received an R (17+) rating in the US, an 18+ in the UK… and 16+ in Germany.

By: Curunir

Curunir — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:37:52 +0000

I call it PROBOTECTOR!

By: outrider

outrider — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:33:42 +0000

What happened to AO2 in Germany? No release as recently usual, or indexed/cut?

By: clockwork

clockwork — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:13:49 +0000

sure, it´s the old thing again. but in my opinion it´s quite right. (army of two…*hint* *hint* :-((((((((((((((((((((( )

By: outrider

outrider — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 03:17:26 +0000

As suggested by the headline, it’s not intended to be EXCESSIVELY serious.

However, do note that the 18+ rating in Germany was before the 1995 re-rating and it’s been 16+ ever since. Whereas in the US it was just rated down from “porn” to “17+ only”.

Note that R is also one of the two MPAA ratings that are legally binding. The movie currently is “adults only” in every country (listed on IMDB) aside from Germany, Italy, Sweden and Iceland. And in quite a few of the current “adults only” countries, it was re-rated to LOWER than its original rating at some point.

My basic point stands unchanged: people who think the German government bans movies and forces game publishers to turn blood green and insert robots annoy the fuck out of me, because it’s at best wildly inaccurate and at worst just plain idiocy.

By: Maddin

Maddin — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:52:14 +0000

Don’t be such a manipulative bitch. If you post a screenshot, don’t cut the “West Germany: 18″ out ;P