[HCIsland]

New Line will not allow an R rating. I simply won't happen. If they have to tone down the violence to slip under the line, then they will. The rating was something they were very conscious of in Fellowship and Two Towers and they are just flying under the line. A little more spirting blood and they would have been R-rated. Listen to Jackson's commentary during the Amon Hen battle as he talks about this there.<P>Personally, I find the rating system bizarre. You can have all kinds of guns blasting and people dieing and if you make it cartoonish there's no problem, but heaven forbide you actually show real life consequences of violence let alone a boob or the f-word. A word, by the way, that you can hear repeatedly anytime you want if you care to hang around some middle-school students.<P>On to the flying heads. This does seem up PJ's ally, but whether they'll have it in or not is a tough call. When they rate movies, it's an accumulation of events that they are looking at and we all know there will be lots of other acts of violence besides this. To keep the movie from being R-rated, they may have to tone down the impact of the scene but, in my mind, if the scene is not horrific it becomes trivial and gratutous and I would rather not have it in there at all in that case.<P>But anyway to repeat, the movie will not be R-rated. It ain't gonna happen.<P>H.C.