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

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

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.

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

The Dreamers would win for absolute worst.

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

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

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

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.

cook thief etc is a terrible piece of garbage imo

^^^this

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

Showgirls or Cook/Thief

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

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

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"

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

So many great movies!

1. Crash
2. Bad Lieutenant
3. Showgirls
IMO

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)

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?

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

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

*original

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

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

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

No points for guessing my vote.

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

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).

showgirls!

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.)

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.

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.

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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)

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

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

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

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."

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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.