Vari­ety reports that the pro­duc­ers of Ter­mi­na­tor Sal­va­tion: The Future Begins aim for a PG-13 rat­ing. You can surely imag­ine that I was like “What the fuck?” when I read that. I mean, are these guys fuck­ing crazy? What’s the point of hav­ing a Ter­mi­na­tor movie with a kid-friendly rat­ing? The pro­duc­ers as Haly­con think that this move “won’t com­pro­mise the series’ gritty vision”. They say that “the rat­ings have changed”. They say that “the PG-13 rat­ing has increased in inten­sity”. Can you imag­ine a PG-13-rated Ter­mi­na­tor? I can’t.

Ter­mi­na­tor Sal­va­tion is sup­posed to depict the future war betwen humans and machines and you can’t pos­si­bly to that with such a rat­ing. No, I’m sorry. Of course you can do it but it won’t be Ter­mi­na­tor. If they really go through with it, I’m def­i­nitely not going to watch this film. Nat­u­rally, a family-friendly rat­ing opens many doors like a licens­ing deal for action fig­ures with Play­mates Toys. I just don’t get it. But there have to be a few guys doing research who said that this will earn more bucks than just the­ater tick­ets and DVD boxes alone.

Wait, didn’t they mer­chan­dise the fuck out of Ter­mi­na­tor 2 an 3? Both with an R rat­ing? Oh yeah. A few things must’ve changed since then. Well, one thing is absolutely clear: I want to see the future war. I want to see killing machines killing of humans with­out emo­tion. I wanna get scared just by think­ing of what machines can do if they decide to exter­mi­nate humankind. Dying off-screen, lasers hit­ting noth­ing, and no extreme vio­lence? War with­out hard lan­guage? That’s def­i­nitely a no-go, boys. Nobody will believe it.