Not Safe To Screen @ Work:Twenty Years of NC-17

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Inspired by this. Pick yr favorite please.

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Crash (1996) 11
Showgirls (1995) 9
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1990) 7
Bad Lieutenant (1992) 5
Man Bites Dog (1993) 4
The Dreamers (2004) 3
L.I.E. (2001) 3
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990) 2
A Dirty Shame (2004) 1
Lust, Caution (2007) 1
Bad Education (2004) 1
Where the Truth Lies (2005) 0
Young Adam (2004) 0
Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes (2001) 0
Bent (1997) 0
Tokyo Decadence (1993) 0
Wide Sargasso Sea (1993) 0
Henry and June (1990) 0


Roomful of Moogs (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 29 March 2010 22:31 (fifteen years ago)

Only ones I've seen: L.I.E., Bad Education, The Dreamers, and Where the Truth Lies. Went with The Dreamers.

jam master (jaymc), Monday, 29 March 2010 22:35 (fifteen years ago)

Bad Lieutenant - my favourite because a) it doesn't even try and justify the character's badness, b) it's a grubby movie unlike the slick super-hip Tarentino films Keitel was in, c) at the time I could sort of relate to the character - given the power of a police badge, etc., etc., I would probably have fucked up that badly as well. Not any more though. Oh no. Now I am solid citizen snoball, your honour.

black jeans stained by (snoball), Monday, 29 March 2010 22:37 (fifteen years ago)

i'll be damned the only one i've gotten around to seeing is cook, thief, etc

goole, Monday, 29 March 2010 22:37 (fifteen years ago)

The Dreamers would win for absolute worst.

FIST FIGHT! FIST FIGHT! FIST FIGHT IN THE PARKING LOT! (milo z), Monday, 29 March 2010 22:38 (fifteen years ago)

ha and i saw it when i rented it alongside 'wild things' for a movie night in lol college and was forbidden from ever picking a movie again.

xp

goole, Monday, 29 March 2010 22:39 (fifteen years ago)

cook, the thief is pretty awesome. tim roth puking ftw

bodacious cowboy (hobbes), Monday, 29 March 2010 22:42 (fifteen years ago)

Man Bites Dog wins, cook thief etc is a terrible piece of garbage imo

First and Last and Safeways ™ (jjjusten), Monday, 29 March 2010 22:45 (fifteen years ago)

such a pointless rating (lolz @ Henry & June, which is about as explicit/dirty as an HBO miniseries these days)

shouldn't Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer be on here...? would vote for that if it was. Otherwise, um Bad Lieutenant I guess. L.I.E. was also good, altho don't remember anything in it that particularly warranted being NC17.

Whats with all the littering? (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 29 March 2010 22:51 (fifteen years ago)

cook thief etc is a terrible piece of garbage imo

^^^this

Whats with all the littering? (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 29 March 2010 22:52 (fifteen years ago)

huh I guess Henry was unrated. again demonstrating how useless the ratings system is...

Whats with all the littering? (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 29 March 2010 22:53 (fifteen years ago)

Showgirls or Cook/Thief

Simon H., Monday, 29 March 2010 22:57 (fifteen years ago)

I've only seen L.I.E. It wins!

Jeff, Monday, 29 March 2010 23:18 (fifteen years ago)

I've only seen Crash and Man Bites Dog. Between the two I'll take Crash.

Obama, Wellstone and Darwinfish, Attorneys (Pancakes Hackman), Monday, 29 March 2010 23:20 (fifteen years ago)

pretty sure henry & june was nc-17 when it came out? i remember seeing the poster at the video store as a kid and being all "wtf is nc-17"

bodacious cowboy (hobbes), Monday, 29 March 2010 23:22 (fifteen years ago)

yes it was. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, however, was released unrated.

Whats with all the littering? (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 29 March 2010 23:23 (fifteen years ago)

So many great movies!

Matt Armstrong, Monday, 29 March 2010 23:48 (fifteen years ago)

1. Crash
2. Bad Lieutenant
3. Showgirls
IMO

Matt Armstrong, Monday, 29 March 2010 23:49 (fifteen years ago)

i hear henry & june was only rated nc-17 because of a postcard featuring tentacle rape.

i also did this:
Best Highest Grossing NC-17 Movie of the Year (2008-1990)

abanana, Monday, 29 March 2010 23:58 (fifteen years ago)

1. The Cook, the Thief, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich
2. Bad Lewtenant
3. Showgirls

Some of the pix on the list being NC-17 feels kinda boggling?

Allbran Burg (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 00:06 (fifteen years ago)

Crash. though i haven't seen Man Bites Dog and i anticipate it being good.

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 30 March 2010 00:18 (fifteen years ago)

warner herzog's bad lieutenant is nowhere near equally immoral as the beginning

samosa gibreel, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 00:19 (fifteen years ago)

*original

samosa gibreel, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 00:19 (fifteen years ago)

which happens to be one of my favourite movies and the one i voted for

samosa gibreel, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 00:20 (fifteen years ago)

I've only seen L.I.E. It wins!

Nhex, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 01:27 (fifteen years ago)

Seen ten of these; foreign films shouldn't count. So Crash (Canada counts as not foreign).

kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 01:35 (fifteen years ago)

No points for guessing my vote.

queen frostine (Eric H.), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 01:41 (fifteen years ago)

Still refuse to believe Bad Education was an NC-17.

queen frostine (Eric H.), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 01:41 (fifteen years ago)

Newsflash: MPAA has a problem w/ gayness (& tbh any "sexual situation" not centered on a man & woman in the missionary position, & then only briefly/implicitly).

A capella key change in "Hold On" by Wilson Phillips (Pillbox), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 01:48 (fifteen years ago)

showgirls!

symsymsym, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 02:10 (fifteen years ago)

I'm actually struggling to remember any man on man sex in that movie. (There was one BJ scene, if memory serves, but I thought that was when GCB was in tranny mode.)

queen frostine (Eric H.), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 02:12 (fifteen years ago)

Seen ten of these; foreign films shouldn't count. So Crash (Canada counts as not foreign).

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, March 30, 2010 1:35 AM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark

Morbs otm.

Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 02:25 (fifteen years ago)

haven't seen most of the recent ones of these (even though I'm a huge Egoyan fan and even OWN Where the Truth Lies, I still haven't bothered with it), I'd have to go with Cook/Theif, if only because when I went to see it when it opened, some teenagers stood up in the front about 15 minutes in and yelled 'it's a fucking opera!" and walked out.

akm, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 06:16 (fifteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover For Sure, it's nothing short of fantastic (and really just barely constitutes an R rating in itself)

Tonight I Dine on Turtle Soup (EDB), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:40 (fifteen years ago)

shouldn't Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer be on here...?

It predated the NC-17 rating by about two years.

Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 02:02 (fifteen years ago)

I like Henry & June but it's disqualified due to Fred Ward's bald make-up.

Chris L, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 02:44 (fifteen years ago)

shouldn't Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer be on here...?

It predated the NC-17 rating by about two years.

― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Wednesday, April 14, 2010 2:02 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

it received the first and only X rating for "tone."

Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 06:25 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

Ah, I missed this. Lust, Caution was one of the best films I saw in the past decade, so I would have voted for that.

seandalai, Thursday, 15 April 2010 00:19 (fifteen years ago)


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