Grindhouse gets a rating

By Eric Walkuski

Posted 19 years ago

Last Updated on July 27, 2021

“Rated R for strong graphic bloody violence and gore, pervasive language, some sexuality, nudity and drug use.” That’s what ya like to see… Today, as GRINDHOUSE comes closer and closer to blowing our collective minds, it finally receives a rating AND a running time, after weeks of speculation. It’s rated R for all that good stuff above, and it’s clocking in at 3 hours and 5 minutes. That includes the faux-trailers, ads, whatever else they’re throwing in…

Honestly, neither is a huge surprise: we knew it wasn’t gonna get an NC-17, we knew it was gonna feature strong graphic bloody violence and gore, and we figured it would be around 3 hours long. But it’s nice to know it’s official, and now only one question remains: How’re we going to sit in a theater that long when we’re drinking all that beer? Can’t very well walk out during the “intermission…” Damn you Life, with all your grotesque twists of fate!!

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Eric Walkuski

Film Critic

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Favorite Movies: Jaws, Star Wars Trilogy, Aliens, Citizen Kane, The Third Man, Dawn read more of the Dead ('78), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre ('74), Fargo, Miller's Crossing, Reservoir Dogs, The Manchurian Candidate ('62), Taxi Driver, Back to the Future, Stand by Me, Shaun of the Dead, Boogie Nights, La Dolce Vita, 12 Angry Men, The Birds, Touch of Evil

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