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a friend owns the original poster for it. says PG-13

it was POSSIBLY changed while or slightly before theatres. but im pretty sure i remember it being 13 while in theatres.

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Really? That's odd..... imdb says nothing about it being PG-13, but yeah I know there have been a couple of times where I see a movie being advertised as PG-13, then as it gets closer to release it says R... Or vice versa...

Errr I mean, go Resident Evil 4! Be gorey and stuff!... Etc..

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it might very well have been changed before the relaease of the movie in theatres. i could be wrong on that part, altho it still sticks out in my mind i saw it released at pg13

but it was defintly 13 at 1 point in time.

ah well. doesnt really matter anyway. like the point he said, most get in no matter what age they are anyway.

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The thing is movies get off so easy on the FCC radar because they have been around for a lot longer than games, plus movies arnt generally aimed just at children.

Video games are thought to be just for little kids, thats why it is taken so seriously.

But i agree with whoever said this is no different that 10 years ago with doom.

What about Turok? Or any realistic war game? Half-life? Halo? Grand theft auto? Driver?

What about those arcade games they've had for 10 years where you sit in the box with a friend and blow the heads off of zombies?

These have no lasting effects on children. It didnt make me personally want to go commit murder, or rob a store or kill a hooker or anything. You would have to be mentally ill BEFORE playing the games to get it in your head that its alright to do these things.

The fact is these games arn't a big problem, the FCC just needs to wash all of that sand out of their vaginas, its making them kind of cranky.

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What? Gamecube has a "teh mature" game? Never thought I'd see the day..

Check out Manhunt for another good violent example.

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You guys have a point when it comes to Doom being no different in theme, but I beleive the difference comes in the increased detail that next gen consoles allow you to achieve. After all, there is a difference between Bugs Bunny dropping an anvil on Daffy Ducks head, and that poor guy who got hit by a train on one of those "Too Bad for TV" videos. Its the same thing, but the level of detail and realism are completely different. Where a violent game back in the day had a pixilated splat of blood, now games can have entire upperbodies explode in a glorious mass of flesh and fountainous blood, then repeat it several hundred times during the game. And it is different than movies as the sheer volume of violence in a 10 - 30 hour action game would make House of a Thousand Corpses seem like a teddy bear picnic.

And Stonecutter, you're being way too simplistic. EVERY government regulates what entertainment industries can do to some extent, and in most other countries the majority of the TV and radio stations are STATE RUN. If an enetrtainment industry refuses to regulate the product they put out and the government decides to do it because of their failure, we didn't lose, the industry in question was simply being idiotic.

All I'm saying is that the industry needs to watch themselves especially in today's climate. Tighter self-regulation is the lesser of two evils.

And on a side note, I will be at least renting RE 4 :D

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But you havent said why they ( FCC) make an exception for gory/ scary movies.

They are more real than any video game.

Like i said, the FCC just has issues, serious serious mental issues.

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Actually I did on an earlier post. They make an excepion because the movie industry actually makes a attempt to enforce their regulations. If you don't believe me, think about the last time you saw someone get ID'd for an R rated movie... then think about the last time you saw someone get carded at EB Games or Blockbuster for renting or buying a mature game.

I've NEVER seen anyone get carded for a game... EVER... and I know my EB Games guys by NAME.

This is the reason why the FCC would come down harder on the gaming industry, that and the fact that Congressmen like movies and tend not to play videogames :D

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i've never seen either.



and i know what your saying about the better graphics. but i dont believe that makes ANY difference.

What goes on in peoples minds, how they're seeing what they're doing when they're playing a game is EXACTLY the same as this and in doom.
people play doom and imagine a picture like that, while they're ripping thro a monster with a chainsaw. dont say they dont think of it, because they do. your imagination has no graphics. so it doesnt matter if it was 10 years ago on doom or now on RE, the voilence is exactly the same. And the FCC isnt going to change that.


Now when you see a game that you hunt down and rape girls and kill them afterwards. THEN you'd have something that they'd get involved in and stop.

but the voilence in this game is the same as it was at the beginning of games. nothing will happen just cuz of the better graphics.

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I have to disagree with you on the violence as I do believe the detail makes all the difference (especially when it comes to sensory perception), but I respect your opinion and you supported it quite well.

And you've never seen someone carded for a movie? I'm 27 and I see it CONSTANTLY around the Philadelphia area.

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nope, im 23, and i goto the best theatre at the biggest mall in michigan. And kids obviously younger than the right age get in all the time.

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I dont know about EB, but at Blockbuster they wouldnt rent Dylflon and me a game because we are 17, even though the game said 17+, yet she rented us Cabin fever ( i think it was) a few weeks before, which would also recieve an "M" rating if it was a game.

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By any chance have you seen Kill Bill?

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he isnt saying movies arent more voilent. he's tryin to say that the movie industry does more to keep that voilence AWAY from children.

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Bambi. :p