It seems that Live Free or Die Hard will be rated PG-13. PG-13?! Yes, even with the obligatory “Yippie ki-yay, motherfucker”.
Apparently you can say “fuck”* one time in a movie and still avoid an R-rating**. What is this world coming to? I ask you.
The good news, though, is that most everyone seems to like it. Not that bad reviews would have detracted from my unshakeable intention to go see it and enjoy the explosions—er, the movie—thoroughly.
* I’d have said “the f-word” (but never, God forbid, “f***”) there, but it seemed a bit like closing the barn door after the horse had already run out.
** This post has been rated R. Children under 17 may read it with parental supervision.