Movie sum-ups

[jenk]

I've been enjoying the little blurbs at the end of NYT movie reviews lately. You know, where reviewers normally sum up the title, director, writer, stars, rating, and reasons for the rating? Usually in italics?

Well, some liberties have been taken lately. From the "Beyond Borders" review:

"Beyond Borders" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). It has strong language, sexuality and shameless and scandalously cynical re-creations of third world suffering and violence that aren't even relieved by on-screen alcohol consumption.

Meanwhile in the Kill Bill review:

''Kill Bill: Vol. 1'' is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). It has shootings, stabbings, beatings, beheadings, disembowelings, amputations, mutilations, eye-gougings, slicings, choppings, bitings and a spanking. Also some naughty words.