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Ditto
earlobes. Heads come off, bellies are opened, a woman’s face is seared with a
torch.
A man has his Achilles tendon severed and then is told to run for it…’
“N.Y.
Newsday critic Jan Stuart (“Hostel is the perfect fit for an R
rating,” 1/6/06) wrote, ‘It could be eye-opening to have film students construct
a script entirely around the cautionary warnings assigned by the MPAA ratings
board.
Eyes are opened…in Eli Roth’s latest carnival of dismemberment,
“Hostel,” which seems to have been tailored to its designated R “for brutal
scenes of torture and violence, strong sexual content, language and drug use.”’
What Mr.
Stuart presumably means is that the MPAA should reserve its R-rating
for the real bad stuff (like Hostel) and perhaps do away with its ...
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