We’ve already gone on at length about Moon Bloodgood’s breasts in McG’s “Terminator Salvation.”
First they were wailing open in the rain in an R-Rated moment (“Sometimes, you want to say that the softness of the human flesh is one of the things we’re fighting for. It’s decidedly human and it’s not like the machines,” McG said with a straight face earlier this year)
Then they were tastefully topped from the film and the film earned a PG-13 (“I thought was a very beautiful scene, but, in the end, it felt more like a gratuitous moment of a girl taking her top off in an action picture,” he intoned)
But now they might, “I’ll be back” on DVD? “I suspect it will be on the DVD because Moon has a very sophisticated, third wave feminist take on why she made that choice,” the filmmaker told Moviehole, pretending he knows what third wave feminism is. Speaking to Collider, the director said the same thing, there would be 30 to 40 minutes of deleted scenes, plus Bloodgood’s deleted breasts.
And that’s a nice boast and all. But can one take a PG-13 film and release an R-Rated DVD cut? Sure, there’s plenty of “unrated DVDs,” that any kid can ostensibly buy, but… dunno. We won’t believe it until we see them blinding us before our eyes on DVD (not that we’ll purchase it or anything, really!).
Note early on, McG insisted he was striving for an R-Rating of the film, but just this week, he changed his tune. “We thought, ‘Well, that would be ridiculous to make it tough for kids to go see this movie.’ We were inspired by ‘The Dark Knight’ getting a PG-13 and being a film without any compromises,” he said. Which one is it, bub? We like to needle McG endlessly, but we gotta say, we’re extremely curious about “Terminator Salvation.”