Let's make a list of all the R-rated movies that members watched all the time and justified watching. These are the R-rated movies that you are likely to find in any ward member's DVD collection!

I'll start:

Total Recall
The Matrix
Slumdog Millionaire
The Last Samurai
The Shawshank Redemption
Air Force One

You guys have any more...?

The Patriot
Glory (saw this at YBU)
The Gladiator
Maybe "Apocolypto" (because of the Lamanites in the movie *sarcasm)

Glory at BYU was quite edited though. I saw it there too.

bought the "doctored" ones from places in Utah.

Schindler's List was another one that mormons saw.

"Schindler's List." The other half of the class was slack-jawed with amazement that we admitted to it.

maybe because i was never a TBM or because i was a convert to mormonism or i just missed that temple covenant but what is the big deal with mormons and r-rated movies?

i don't get it: the bible and book of mormon and even joseph smith had a small militia with guns ready to fight. also current news are full of violence (wars, killings, etc), why would they care for a little tomato sauce on the actor's shirt?

so they make such a big deal for fake blood but they are ok with the real violence?

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I've noticed most Mormons aren't really bothered by violence. At least this is the way most of my YBU friends are. They have those clearplay dvd players that will censor movies. It will let you filter out violence, nudity, sex, language, etc from movies.

The thing is, they usually turn off the violence filter. If someone uses a naughty word they get all offended. If there is so much as side boob they get all read in the face. But someone getting decapitated and blood spurting all over the camera ? That they have no problem with whatsoever. It's a really bizarre mentality they have. But they are BYU students so what do you expect?

Personally, I want the oposite of the clearplay device. Something that will filter out all of the movie except the nudity and sex.

Not R Rated, but in my mission there was an urban myth that the Rocky movies were OK for us to watch on P Days since they were "inspirational".
Me and my companion got through the whole box set 1-5 one day. Good times!

Helios: Are you naming yourself after a liquid oxygen portable unit 300 series? Or its the marathon?

I saw saving private ryan with my BYU Book of Mormon professor.

Good times.

While visiting my family a few years ago in Eastern Utah, I was at the local Blockbuster and rented a couple of movies that were critically acclaimed which I hadn't seen. While checking them out, the young (I'm assuming obviously) TBM man said of one, "This is R rated. There is a lot of bad language in this one" to which I replied, "So? And?". The next one was a foreign film and he said, "This has subtitles. I hate subtitles. Why can't they make them all in English?" I replied, "I like to watch movies in their original language with subtitles." He finally figured out I wasn't buying his "advice". I have been to a lot of movie rental stores and have never run into this unsolicited advice anywhere else.

haha..funny..so why do they have those movies there then?

well, the clerk was not the store owner i'm assuming. but still annoying.

Saving Private Ryan. Because it's historical and informative.

I can't believe I missed so many good movies in the last two decades. Trying to make up for it now.

I am sorry guys, but I had a home teaching companion who felt the Lion King was too strong for adults.

None of these are approved.