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I would argue that 21 Grams, Bad Santa, Cold Mountain, both Kill Bill's, The Last Samurai, Lost in Translation, Man on Fire, Passion of the Christ, and most recently Shaun of the Dead (still not wide, amazingly) have all used violence and/or nudity in aid of the story being told and not as...

I would definitely side with Kevin here in that violence and nudity aren't fluff, although they can surely be used as such. To argue that a film can have the intended effect without them seems quite impossible. The war films of the past inspired many (myself included) that war could be a...

For me, it boils down pretty simply. Is the film aided or harmed by achieving the rating that it gets. As an example, I think Temple of Doom was a good early example of a film that was able to justify a PG-13 rating (what with reaching in and taking out hearts and the like), in such a way...