Movies That Were Rated R For Very Strange Reasons

On top of all the usual suspects, some movies were rated R because of excessive amounts of No One Knows. Even the reviewers at Common Sense Media, which watches everything through the eyes of the world's most overprotective parents of the world's most fragile snowflakes, aren't sure why this movie got the dreaded R rating.

Air Force One, starring Harrison Ford, is the story of a badassed American president/action hero, who battles the terrorists who have infiltrated Air Force One. Besides having a really stupid premise, the film also has the requisite action hero violence, which is to be expected since a movie about terrorists taking over Air Force One would be totally boring if everyone just went, "Whatever man, have a gourmet cheeseburger and just promise not to stink up my super-cushy luxury bathroom, okay?"

"Parents need to know that violence in the film includes close-range shootings of innocent hostages, and death threats to women and an adolescent girl," said the reviewer at Common Sense Media. "There is also scattered profanity, but in general the R-rating is pretty surprising; seems the MPAA has slapped PG-13s on nastier films than this." And really, if Common Sense Media is left scratching its head, you have to wonder what kind of a bad day someone at the MPAA was having when they decided this movie was going to get the [censored] finger.