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Clearly I'm living under a rock for not knowing that Kevin Smith is making a sex comedy with Seth Rogan. I'm excited about this - I love Kevin Smith in theory but have only genuinely liked Clerks and Chasing Amy, but I have high hopes for this. Plus Seth Rogan has proven to be the seal of quality.

In any case, it will certainly be crude. It received an NC-17 rating but Smith did what he does best - talk.

From CNN:

Filmmaker Kevin Smith has won an appeal to lower the rating for his comedy "Zack and Miri Make a Porno" from an adults-only NC-17 to an R. [...]

"Zack and Miri," due out October 31 from the Weinstein Co., stars Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks as best friends and roommates who try to make a homemade porn flick to dig themselves out of debt. [...]

Smith said the MPAA ratings board objected to two sex scenes involving co-stars Jason Mewes and Katie Morgan. After the movie's initial NC-17 rating, Smith said he trimmed those scenes as far as he was willing to go but was unable to convince the board to lower the rating. [...]

The appeals board, a separate panel from the ratings board, viewed the movie Tuesday, and Smith presented his arguments. It was the third time Smith successfully talked his way down to a lower rating: His 1994 debut "Clerks" initially received an NC-17 rating that was reduced to an R on appeal, while his 2003 film "Jersey Girl" was reduced to PG-13 after first being rated R.

What do you guys think? Crude but smart like Clerks, or crude but idiotic like Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back? Frankly, the plot reminds me of Trey Parker & Matt Stone's Orgazmo, which isn't particularly a bad thing. Orgazmo is kinda a guilty pleasure of mine.