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Shia Laboeuf was interviewed by the people over at IESB. They sat down and talked about various things like Surf's Up, his rumored role in the new Indiana Jones and more.

More importantly, he says that the new Transformers Movie has been rated by the MPAA! Micheal Bay send a cut of the movie and Shia revealed the rating. According to Shia the new Movie first was rated "R" because of intense action and violence. But thanks to Steven Spielberg, the MPAA reconsidered and changed the rating to PG-13.

Click here for the original source on IESB.net.

Originally, Rated "R". I'm impressed. There might be new hope for this movie after all.

I wonder what that will translate to in the UK, either a 12 or a 15 I suppose. I guess it will go with 12 so more kiddies can see it.

F+ck YES...I would love to see some gritty combat between the robots like in War Within...Forget the little kids and go all john woo/commando/rambo/ID4 with the movie...keep it at rated R

Well, I'm guessing we know some of the DVD special features, then.

Alien vs. predator was suppose to be rated R and they changed it to pg-13 too!!!

so will see

personally, i'd like a more reliable source than shia on this, as the guy sort of has a history of talking out of his ass in interviews. "razor," anyone? i've read the leaked script, and nothing in there seemed anywhere near graphic enough to warrant a violence-based "r" rating. i'm calling bull on this until i hear it from someone more trustworthy.

not like it really matters what the rating is anyway. i've seen plenty of awesome pg-13 action movies and just as many terrible r-rated ones.

and j-man, id4 was pg-13, so it makes no sense to list it as an example of why this movie should shoot for r.

Faceful of Kitchen wrote:personally, i'd like a more reliable source than shia on this, as the guy sort of has a history of talking out of his ass in interviews. "razor," anyone? i've read the leaked script, and nothing in there seemed anywhere near graphic enough to warrant a violence-based "r" rating. i'm calling bull on this until i hear it from someone more trustworthy.

Correct, that's why we listed it as a rumor for now.

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That'll be an M for Australians then

And AVP had to be cut drastically to be pg 13, atleast the new sequel will be better. I hope that this movie gives me the crazy fighting I need. lol.

Stormrider wrote:Originally, Rated "R". I'm impressed. There might be new hope for this movie after all.

Sechs scene in the back of Bumblebee?

The Mad Asshatter wrote:

Stormrider wrote:Originally, Rated "R". I'm impressed. There might be new hope for this movie after all.

Sechs scene in the back of Bumblebee?

"Intense Violence" I'm in!

Heres hoping for some dismemberment!

Liege Evilmus wrote:"Intense Violence" I'm in!

Heres hoping for some dismemberment!

Human or Cybertronian?

Leonardo wrote:

Liege Evilmus wrote:"Intense Violence" I'm in!

Heres hoping for some dismemberment!

Human or Cybertronian?

Both.

I hope no cuts are needed to achieve a 12A rating in the UK. It is really annoying when films, like Spiderman 2 and SW episode 2, are cut to achive a PG rating. I'd rather have a 15 rating.

j-man wrote:I would love to see some gritty combat between the robots like in War Within...Forget the little kids and go all john woo/commando/rambo/ID4 with the movie...keep it at rated R

I'd rather see it be a PG-13 movie since I don't watch any movies that are rated "R".

The Mad Asshatter wrote:

Leonardo wrote:

Liege Evilmus wrote:"Intense Violence" I'm in!

Heres hoping for some dismemberment!

Human or Cybertronian?

Both.

This could very well be true. Look at the desert scene with Scorponok's spiked tail behind the soldier..

I wonder how much blood will be in it now..

Silver Wind wrote:

j-man wrote:I would love to see some gritty combat between the robots like in War Within...Forget the little kids and go all john woo/commando/rambo/ID4 with the movie...keep it at rated R

I'd rather see it be a PG-13 movie since I don't watch any movies that are rated "R".

Are you not old enough yet?

(Silver Wind wrote:
j-man wrote:
I would love to see some gritty combat between the robots like in War Within...Forget the little kids and go all john woo/commando/rambo/ID4 with the movie...keep it at rated R

I'd rather see it be a PG-13 movie since I don't watch any movies that are rated "R".


Are you not old enough yet?)
well considering silverwind is turning 21 in may,i'd say a high moral barometer

rated "R" than changed to pg-13 what was that movie gonna have. to get "R" you need either nudity or some really sick gory stuff nowadays. i don't think we are gonna see robot make outs but maybe starscream rips of the head off of a human

i'm thinking scorponok is gonna tear some humans up in a really baaaad way

So it'll be "G Unrecommended for Young Children" in Quebec. W00t!

What the hell? Transformers is a family license. There's no way in hell Bay would be permitted by Hasbro to shoot a film with an R rating.

Considering that it's a franchise primarily for children, if children were prohibited from attending the film, it would be quite regrettable.

This seems to be fake, at any rate- Hasbro has quite an aversion to realistic depictions of violence in their franchises, as evidenced when they purchased Magic: The Gathering.

R rating doesn't mean it'll be better. just means someone dropped the F bomb a lott added to the robot violence