SXSW: Harold And Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay Review

I am a female but have to agree with the above posters. It seems someone has let the door open on male frontal nudity and seems to have a very bad grasp on biology. Breasts are NOT genitals and it is wrong to classify them differently. I will go one up though from you guys and I think you will be shocked by this---it ain't new! In Basic Instinct (the token film everyone uses to say---see we also do female nudity) you had a huge controversy over Sharon Stone's "alleged" vagina shot. YET, let me point out, you would need a horny teenage boy with an extremely quick pause finger to actually see more than a flicker lasting milliseconds. BUT furthermore, what people so oddly did not realize is that if you watch the film, which was argued about rating wise due to that shot by the motion picture association, the film opens with a naked male corpse being shown fully nude even if he is dead with a clear genital shot lasting several seconds. What I found odd about that is that the argument to cut Sharon Stone's millisecond vaginal clip went on without any fuss about the dead male's genitals. It is just time to either stop acting like two year olds with the "hee hee we can show a penis, hee hee" attitude or start applying the rules fairly and evenly. Historically though, the word penis was first used in tv and such with impunity and Cybil Shephard was first to complain that penis could be said but vagina could not--then both were allowed. Same now goes for more profane words which use "dick" etc on tv and yet pussy would be considered over the line---for now and naturally the lack of biological understanding in regard to what genitals are in films certainly needs addressing. I believe some man should sue the motion picture association for discrimination, but the film makers have no "ovaries" to do it!

if they cut out
ANYTHING in the unrated version i will be mad... about to go buy it now

I agree with Kelly, and Tim, if they cut the female nudity I won't go see any more movies, fair is fair.

I agree with Kelly. It is time that there is an equal amount of female frontal nudity shown. Enough of this double standard !!!!

They shouldn't have to cut ANY of the nudity out! Fuck the MPAA ! If they try to rate it NC-17 because of the nudity, then the producers should take the MPAA to court for sexual discrimination in how they apply their nudity ratings.

"Walk Hard" showed several scenes with a man's penis, including a graphic close-up. "Forgetting about Sarah Marshall" had 4 scenes showing penis, including one which lasted for over 30 seconds! These were both rated R for "graphic nudity". Why weren't these films forced to cut the nudity out?

So the bastards in the MPAA better not try to rate "Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay" NC-17 because of the nudity. It seems those homosexuals in the MPAA are allowing graphic male nudity to be shown nowadays in "R" rated films, so they better allow graphic female nudity to be shown too!

Yeah, just looked it up myself Chase and you're right The MPAA hasn't assigned it a rating yet.

They'll get it past them, but not without removing a lot of nudity... at the least.

I was pretty shocked by all the elements that were portrayed in the film. I found out that we watched the unrated version and the MPAA has not seen it yet.

It's not going to be easy passing them!