However, situations like this occur on many films. A green band trailer (which is obviously the standard), is very limited in what can be shown. No blood for the most part, (and if blood DOES appear, it will almost universally be colored brown/black, almost dirt like) and obviously no quasi nudity with Jolie in this case. The point is, a green band trailer is basically equivalent to a tame G rated film. There is no such thing as a “PG-13″ trailer. However, with the growing popularity of viewing trailers online, thus taking away the need to only have safe green bands for theatre use, several studios are putting more interest into cutting red band trailers to show off the edginess of the films to the youth market on the internet. Hence, you get Paramount cutting a red band trailer for Beowulf, utilizing mostly PG-13 elements. Red band isn’t a sign that a movie is R, it’s simply the trailer rating. I’ve worked for trailer houses for years, and can assure you it’s depressingly hard at times to bring things down to a green band. And I can remember several PG movies (not even PG-13!) and in some cases G films that you could easily cut a red band for.

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Any way you slice it (no pun), it’s still doesn’t make any sense.

And Chip, I put a lot of effort into the images I use in my posts. I could have selected a different screen grab, but I try to keep my site PG-13.

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Thankfully, I care so little for this film that the trailers are probably enough. That whole so-close-to-real-it-looks-fake issue bugs me too much to sit through the entire movie.

Damn, I miss the Robert Zemeckis that gave us ‘Back To The Future’ and ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit?’

When was the last time he did something truly fun and great, without simply showing off how fancy technology can be? Didn’t he learn anything from the Star Wars prequels?

Exactly! It seems like they’re trying to fool moviegoers and while that might get them a big opening weekend, word spreads fast and it’ll crash and burn by the following one.

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