The NC-17 rating is very fascinating for me in terms of movies.

There's going to be a marylin Monroe biopic called blonde. The film was delayed until 2022 due to the conflicts between Netflix and the director over its proposed nc 17 rating (director appears to have won out)

I remember finding out that Steven Spielberg was prepared to accept an NC-17 rating for "Saving Private Ryan". It's also my understanding that "The Passion of the Christ" came close to getting the rating as well.

I remember when South Park: Bigger, Long and Uncut almost got that rating with all the strong language it had.

I was telling somebody about NC-17 and she didn’t even believe it was a rating in America

A word of advice don’t do nc-17 unlwise your film is a box office bomb

Have you ever seen this movie is not yet rated

The film "But I'm A Cheerleader", made in 1999, and given a wide release in 2000, originally received this rating due to a line of dialogue and a particular scene involving the main character. However, it had to get cut for an R-rating. The director explained in the 2006 film This Film is Not Yet Rated how she was frustrated with the MPAA's double standards for films with gay and lesbian content, or LGBTQ+ content in general.

In your opinion, do you believe that the G film rating has gone extinct considering how pretty much every family and kids film nowadays, particularly animated films, are all rated PG?

Kimberly Pierce faced the same problem with Boys Don't Cry bringing it up in the documentary This Film is Not Yet Rated: She argued that the MPAA had no problems with the violence directed towards the main character and yet they were more disgusted at the sex scenes that secured the NC-17 rating.

Another film that had trouble with the rating is "South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut" which that film was hell hole to release. Paramount wanted the movie to be PG-13 (which was a terrible idea in my opinion) so it could Garner more at the box office and be more appealable, which Matt and Trey refused (because they like they're raunchy humor and it's South Park, there no way you can make it kid friendly, even if you tried [looking at you Comedy Central with that TV-14 rating]), but the MPAA wanted to release it as an NC-17 because it's South Park and they don't shy away from going over the line.

This was incredibly comprehensive and educational!

The following Saw movies were originally rated NC-17 before being cut to get an R rating:

Very nice hearing on these movies. Also on retiring the X rating for the less NC-17 rating.

Very Interesting Episode you have there!

Great video! Engaging and informative

The Evil Dead, Showgirls, Henry & June, and A Dirty Shame are the ONLY movies to go to theatres in the US.

The Orgy scene in Eyes Wide Shut is my favorite scene in the movie. And not only that, but I think it's one of the best scenes that Stanley Kubrick has ever directed.

I recall Ebert once saying that the asinine reason why the MPAA didn't copyright the X rating was because they felt the ratings system had to remain open-ended so it didn't seem like a censorship board. But by not copyrighting the X, they wound up becoming the very thing they claimed they wouldn't.

This seems to only be a problem in America. The UK for instance has an 18 certificate (which means you have to be 18 or over to watch or buy a film carrying the rating), and yet it is not considered the kiss of death as the NC-17 rating is (although most films released in the UK are the cut MPAA versions and the BBFC used to cut a lot of 18 rated films in the 80s and 90s).