Have you ever seen an NC-17 or X rated movie in the theaters?

I saw Midnight Cowboy and Fritz the Cat in theaters.

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1990)

Saw it in the theater in 1990. Watched it again a couple of years ago.


Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! 1990
Spanish film, subtitled with a young Antonio Bandares. I really don't remember much about it.


The one site lists Crash as being NC-17 but I thought it was R when it was released.

I never paid attention to ratings. I'm sure some of the movies I've seen might qualify, if they had ratings then. Oshima's Realm of the Senses, for example. Midnight Cowboy? huh? Yeah, saw it in a theater.

I'll have to look at those lists - this could be funny.

I was a scrupulous teen in my high school years (catholic of course) where we had to pledge all this purity stuff, and thinking impure thoughts was a sin. I got over that.

Ok, on that list, I saw Basic Instinct, In the Realm of the Senses, Last Tango in Paris on the big screen.

Checked another list and found Bertolucci's 1900. Huh.

Deep Throat.

At the Strand Theater in Plainfield NJ.

Place was loaded.

A Clockwork Orange.

Oh, yeah. Saw that one too.

I saw that too, figured Tsar ruled it out.

tsar, I saw a number of the films on the list in a theater. I don't recall being influenced one way or the other by the rating. I read reviews and decided what I wanted to see.

In the UK, classifications are all age related, apart from those aimed at children, U (universal) PG (parental guidance). That means our equivalent is 18. X is almost completely associated with porn, and can always be increased with XXX ratings.

The last 18 film I saw at the cinema was George Romero's Land Of The Dead, but I saw quite a few when I was younger, Midnight Express springs to mind.

The first "x-film" I saw, was "The Silent". It was rated for 18 and above, had even policemen controlling the age in my native town (since I was only 14 or 15 at that time, I just went in when they weren't there).
Later, this film was rated for 16 years olds ...

I think, the age limit of 18 is just for porn now.

The most X-rated films I've seen when I've been in England during holidays, there were no age controls in the cinema I went to in those days ...

Several of those mentioned above--A Clockwork Orange, Midnight Cowboy, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover and Fritz the Cat. I saw Midnight Cowboy i a regular theater, and the staff were giving everybody dirty looks and checking IDs. The others i had to go see in a porno theater--lots of decently dressed people at those showings, looking around as though they would say "Eewwww," but it was the only game in town. A few years later, A Clockwork Orange was in the local theater, and i was surprised because it was in a fairly conservative area. I should have known--the sex scenes had all been cut out, and all the violence left in.

<snicker>

In The Realm Of The Senses, a Japanese-French production that produced much checking of IDs and as I walked out of the theater I could be heard muttering"That was bloody god-awful"

no, but I rarely think that movies are worth the price, and rude audiences also make me not want to go, so I usually watch movies long after they come out on my big tv and high quality surround sound system. the only movies I make a point to see in theater is stuff that I am told is much better in IMAX.

an Nc-17 or X rating would increase my interest, I like bold out there stuff and in an era where movie companies are going so far to be tame as too try to avoid an R rating the exclusive rating would inticate to
me that the movie might be interesting.

btw, I was reading about 5 years ago that creators and movie companies think (thought?) that there is (was?) a market for NC-17 and X in wide release, but that the theater companies balk, and not because they dont think tickets would sell but because they fear ticket sales for the rest of the shows would suffer and because they would have trouble with landlords and neighbors. now that hollywood is going digital to the point of no longer printing film the indepent houses who to this point has been willing to show NC-17 and X are expected to mostly vanish due to the cost of conversion.

Me too, Roberta. And in my case, often not all the review, since I don't want much if any spoiling of the story and the way it unfolds, including how great the cinematographer is. I paid attention to who were the writers and directors and cinematographers in general though. Sometimes I read up afterwards, amused to find Kael, or whoever, agreed with me, or sometimes not. I'm similar with books, don't read blurbs that come with the books, including much on the back cover.

I remember thinking it was a very good movie.

When I saw Bambi I was 10. I was traumatized for life. That explains a lot about me.