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Transformers Almost Rated R?!

March 9, 2007
by Alex Billington

Transformers PosterOur friends at IESB caught up with the big up-and-comer Shia LaBeouf, and one of the details they got out of him was that the live-action Transformers movie due out in July, went to the MPAA and actually got an R-rating the first time!! Although a bit more skeptical (of being real), IESB said that Shia's newest friend Steven Spielberg went and argued the point with the MPAA in order to get it set at PG-13 instead. The reason why it was initially rated R: "intense action and violence".

This is the first very good sign that Transformers may actually be really damn good! There's enough robots-in-disguise rampage that it merits an R-rating?! Oh man, my geek senses are tingling today! First Rorshach and now this, and the release of 300!!!! What a day…

If this all is true, it's a very interesting consideration. I'm not sure if the MPAA have just gotten more strict and are only ever talked down, or if there really was a vast amount of "intense action and violence" that it required an R. Either way, it's actually a good sign. Everyone wants a Transformers movie that not only lives up to the history that the series has, but that is incredibly awesome in every way a giant robot movie should be! Go Michael Bay, make us proud!

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Reader Feedback - 8 Comments »

1

FRICKIN' AWSOME! SPIELBERG LEAVE IT R! PLEASE!!!!! DON'T LET THIS BE A BABY MOVIE WHERE FATHERS TAKE THEIR LOUD AND ABNOXIOUS 10 year old along.

Micah on Mar 13, 2007

2

GO SPIELBERG! Good to know that its gonna be so awesome, but if it's R i swear i would sneak in(or wait a few days untill im 17)

~OMG~GANON on May 30, 2007

3

i think it should be a 15

gok on Jun 25, 2007

4

My 6 year old has wanted to see this movie since he heard it was coming, he's gonna be pissed when I tell him he cant due to the rating. Oh well, I'm still gonna go see it.

Ryan on Jun 27, 2007

5

Make, it an R, leave it an R, and don't let it suffer the Same fate as TMNT, ’cause If I made the damn movie, you can bet your ass it would have been an R. (and Not CGI on top of that either).

fenny on Jun 28, 2007

6

This is NOT a real Transformers movie.
My review: http://andydreamseeker.blogspot.com/2007/06/movie-review-transformers.html

andydreamseeker on Jul 2, 2007

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[...] de ruegos y lamentaciones, ahora unos breves comentarios cinematográficos. Llevan pululando desde hace unos cuantos días rumores acerca de la posibilidad de que el film Transformers (20007) de Michael Bay se gane la [...]

Uruloki :: Blog » Uno de esos días en donde hay poco o nada que contar… on Apr 1, 2009

8

Yes make it an "r" rated. how about make it xxx and have transformers screwing each other. that would be more realistic than part one. transformers part 1 was retarded and the 40 year old men going to see a kid movie is even more retarded. people should grow up

retardz on Jun 25, 2009

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