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News Credits: 730 · by **Raymond T.** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:31 am

ABS CBN Interactive has an article up on the Rating of the Transformers Movie in the Philippines, that opened its door on June 28th. As in other countries, according to the movie news item, it was supposed to be released with a PG-13 rating. Instead it was given the all ages rating of "General Patronage" or GP, after the offensive word of "Masterbation" was deleted from the movie. When the word was deleted, the movie was reviewed again by the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) and was given the rating it now has.

News Credits: 8 · by **Liege Evilmus** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:56 am

THe Masturbation scene was hysterical!

News Credits: 3 · by **Stormwolf** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:01 pm

Liege Evilmus wrote:THe Masturbation scene was hysterical!

Yeah, "happy time" was fun :lol:

News Credits: 8 · by **Liege Evilmus** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:04 pm

Stormwolf wrote:
Liege Evilmus wrote:THe Masturbation scene was hysterical!

Yeah, "happy time" was fun

UGHK, I hope you washed your hands before you typed that

by **originaldave77** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:09 pm

We sat next to two children at a screening yesterday (theatre was packed!) and one of them asked thir dad "What is masturbation?"
I can't tell if our section was laughing at the question or the movie...

News Credits: 8 · by **Megatron Wolf** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:17 pm

So they will allow people getting impaled and blown up but they cant say masterbation? They can say **** and flip cops off but no "M" word? And I thought the people here were uptight.

News Credits: 487 · by **Darth Bombshell** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:20 pm

So let me see if I got this right. It's because of that word, and not the fact that giant f*$king robots are kicking the crap out of each other in the last twenty five minutes of the movie, that it got a PG-13?

News Credits: 21 · by **dragons** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:30 pm

haha mother and her small childern was sitting in fonrt of after watching the film for the third time i over heard the boy or the girl asked whats masterbation mother just sat there viewing the film didnt know how to answer it great stuff i was surprised they didnt leave once that scene came up.

by **Auto Bot** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 1:04 pm

I wonder who said "masterbation" in the movie? I've watched the version minus the M word.

by **metalformer** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 4:06 pm

Megatron_Wolf wrote:So they will allow people getting impaled and blown up but they cant say masterbation? They can say **** and flip cops off but no "M" word? And I thought the people here were uptight.

Censorship art in mysterious way... :-P

But yeah, I agree with you. I still can fathom how does some people/contries mora codes are supposed to work.

US TV is a similar example: sex or erostim is a big, fat HELL NO yet we see plenty of violent and disgusting stuff on the small screen.

I am not being pro-censorship (though I support moderation) or I am a religious moralist (HA! I'm far away from being that), I am just pointing out a double standar that is occuring on TV rating today. Guess I should be happy the violence was not removed and replace with easter bunnies dancing like idiots the whole time. :grin:

by **metalformer** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 4:08 pm

Auto Bot wrote:I wonder who said "masterbation" in the movie? I've watched the version minus the M word.

Sam's mom! The version I saw had that line. It was the part after the lights were shut off Sam's parents were heading to his room and saw the light beneath the door.

by **MercilessOne** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 5:43 pm

Seeing as though I'm from the Philippines....

Wowie! I think that scene wasn't all THAT inappropriate.

Is the movie doing good there?

News Credits: 8 · by **Liege Evilmus** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 6:59 pm

Dam, look what I started!

by **guarayakha** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 9:49 pm

It was actually even more hilarious when they deleted the word 'masturbating' from the movie. In that edited version, Sam's mom repeated asking "Were you..." twice, so it makes it hard for minors to understand what's she's implying but obvious enough for grown-ups to know what it is(after the happy time comment). I didn't notice that edit, BTW, we had some awesome people in the censorship department that the scene actually appeared flawless.

by **Auto Bot** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:04 pm

Merciless0ne wrote:Seeing as though I'm from the Philippines....

Wowie! I think that scene wasn't all THAT inappropriate.

Is the movie doing good there?

Transformers is doing very well in the Philippines. Everybody knows it.

by **Auto Bot** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:06 pm

guarayakha wrote:It was actually even more hilarious when they deleted the word 'masturbating' from the movie. In that edited version, Sam's mom repeated asking "Were you..." twice, so it makes it hard for minors to understand what's she's implying but obvious enough for grown-ups to know what it is(after the happy time comment). I didn't notice that edit, BTW, we had some awesome people in the censorship department that the scene actually appeared flawless.

Yeah! Philippines 2000! (flashing the V sign)

Err... Philippines 2010? ;;)