Witnesses never watch R movies. but they understand references to wood chippers and banjo music.
Other than that the rating system is not worldwide
R movies
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FFGhost
Witnesses never watch R movies
LOL. Just like they "never" engage in oral sex, get pass-out drunk, or watch copious amounts of porn.
The more accurate statement is "never admit to" unless caught.
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neat blue dog
Also up until recently R movies would very frequently air edited versions on TV. I saw plenty of R movies this way as a JW.
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road to nowhere
Yes also unedited versions. There are dub women who use the f word ( usually in a title of a web site) which still bothers me.
The wood chipper scene was R i am pretty sure , as is the connection of banjos to deviant crackers ever since that movie
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TD
Movie ratings have never made a lot of sense to me.
The Andromeda Strain (1971) is rated 'G' despite scenes of mass death and suicide including a deceased young woman, naked to her waist on the floor and an elderly woman who has hung herself in a stairwell and is gently swinging in the breeze.
Paprika (2006) an animated adaptation of Yasutaka Tsutsui's book by the same name is rated 'R' for god knows why. Some of the scenes are surreal, there is an implied sexuality here and there and a very brief scene of androgynous nudity (i.e. The figure has no genitalia)
I'm not sure how one could make a value judgment about a movie based on such an arbitrary system.
To be fair, both Fargo and Deliverance are like The Exorcist in the sense that the references in pop culture are everywhere.
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WTWizard
They are not supposed to watch R movies. This is one of those things that, if you are caught, you can lose "privileges" for. And if they feel like it, they can monitor you and if you watch any more "bad" movies, they get you for "brazen conduct".
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BluesBrother
I never came across an official rule not to see R rated films, ( equals an 18 certificate in UK )
Plenty of dubs have made it their own rule but it is hardly an effective way of finding “ wholesome “ entertainment . A lot of films with a PG or 12 certificate contain stuff that may offend .
When I was in the congregation I found there was always someone who would object to whatever you did. I used to make my own decisions and keep quiet
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mickbobcat
I know of many who watched R movies. They would not advertise it but would bend the rules as all JWs do in their own cases. The thing is what was an R movie 30 years ago is now on TV uncut. I also know of elders, one was my business partner back in the 90s that when we were on a job at a customers home, and they were not there if we had to wait and we did from time to time, we would watch movies if they had them. This elder when around his wive who was a pompous ass to the first deg, he would denounce R movies like it was poison. But on one job we were waiting for supplies and the customer was gone as it was their summer home, and we used the TV. I put in Clock Work Orange, Yep the Stanly Kubrick movie that was very violent. LOL he would always use the singing in the rain and do a kick from the movie when we were getting pushed around by the shop we were working for. It shows that most JWs even the pompous ones say one thing but do another when no one is looking.
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mickbobcat
The R movie is not some made up thing. Its real. I don't know if its in the elder wank book or where but its a rule.
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carla
When mine joined up he quit watching anything R rated. 'Shindler's List' would be on the banned movies for instance. Even PG were suspect, even Disney movies are often PG. sigh.