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Yippie-Ki-Yay, Mother Fudger.

According to Vanity Fair by way of AICN, Live Free or Die Hard (a title I’m not crazy about simply because it fucks up how I’m going to order my DVDs, provided I like the film) will be rated ‘PG-13′ instead of ‘R’ like the rest of the films in the series. AICN’s Vern then proceeds to go off against the rating, and rightly so.

I won’t add anything to it other than a PG-13 rating automatically guarantees that this film will be worse than the previous three. I’d love to eat my words, but you can’t castrate the main character and hope he’ll be just as bad ass. PG-13 means he can’t say his classic one-liner (or at least not the way it’s supposed to be said). Personally, I find the decision baffling simply because the R-rating no longer means a film can’t cross the $100 million mark. Granted, last year’s highest R-rated grosser was The Departed and that only came in with $132 million and Fox will probably hoping for at least $160 million domestic for Mr. McClane’s latest outing. Still, Die Hard has name recognition and by slapping it with a PG-13, you diminish any possible profit because the amount of teens you bring in will probably be equal to or less than the amount of adults who will now just say “Fuck it. I’ll wait for the DVD”. Furthermore, teens aren’t excited about Die Hard (despite dubious reporting about the film’s big buzz in the blogosphere) because he’s not their hero. The last Die Hard film was in 1995! Just because now all those teens with their damn MySpaces and Hula-Hoop-Pac-Man-Videogames can see the film, doesn’t mean they will. I guarantee you they’re going to go see Evan Almighty and Ratatouille. Die Hard shouldn’t bother competing with these films. It should be the hardcore action film for adults that weekend so while all the teens are getting suckered into seeing Evan Almighty and all the parents are taking their kids to Ratatouille, us cool kids can see John McClane be one mean motherfucker…assuming such a cut even exists in the first place and that this news about the rating is legit.

Best Holiday Since "Jesus Day"

Yesterday, George W. Bush declared May 1st, Loyalty Day. But during the other 364 days of the year, feel free to go apeshit with treason.

Trailer Trash 2

Two new (well, recent) trailers to share with you today. First up is the new trailer for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. It looks like director David Yates has managed to successfully cram all 896 pages of the book into one fantastic looking film. If you’re not already hungry for the final book of the series, then the movie should seriously whet your appetite when it’s released on July 13th.