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Posted by Charles Everett (Member # 889) on 01-06-2002, 11:59 AM:
Got to see In the Bedroom at the AMC Hamilton yesterday. After the last slate in the end credits the slide projector comes on. Then . . . the 10-15 people still in the auditorium, myself included, get to see the slides superimposed on the tail as the film tails out. Apparently there was no rating card -- and this is a new print fresh out of the lab! Fortunately the automation reads the shutdown cue and cuts off the main lamp.Did Miramax release In the Bedroom without a rating card? Even though that picture was a negative pickup Miramax is an MPAA member and is obligated to include a rating card.
BTW, this was in a hall that sold out 1st matinee, 2nd matinee and 1st evening show (AMC had an exclusive for In the Bedroom).
Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 01-06-2002, 12:07 PM:
Could it have been at the beginning of the feature and the person who built it up cut it off?
Posted by Charles Everett (Member # 889) on 01-06-2002, 12:14 PM:
Adam: Miramax has gone back to placing the rating card at the end. AMC policy is not to remove the rating card from the feature.
Posted by Howard Johnson (Member # 62) on 01-06-2002, 01:54 PM:
It seems very strange to have the rating card on the end after the credits in the USA . It's still on sometimes in UK when we get one of your secondhand prints hopefully not from AMC (cant afford splicing tape) cinemas. In the UK the censor certificate has always been on front, but over here children under the age categories, 12,15,18 are not allowed in even with an adult.
Posted by Howard Johnson (Member # 62) on 01-06-2002, 02:14 PM:
It's strange that you have the ratings card on the end of the credits in USA . In the UK the censor certificate is always on the front of the film. Sometimes when we receive one of your second-hand prints in the UK , hopefully not from AMC (cant afford splicing tape) theatres, the ratings card is still on the end with our censor on front! Over here though children under the various age classifications 12,15,18 are not allowed even with an adult. Many years ago we had U, A and X certificates, U was universal , A was adults but under 16s could go with an adult and X (for sex?) was over 16 only. This meant that children would hang about outside the cinema asking a total stranger to take them in I used to do it to see such films as The Vikings which was an A. Imagine that happening nowadays!!