Cinematical are reporting that Grindhouse might be having a little trouble with the MPAA. As a result, Tarantino and Rodriguez will need to cut some of the more extreme moments of the film to get the R rating that they’d like.

Wait a second – they want an R rating? This is Grindhouse we’re talking about: a film conceived to be a celebration of everything that’s sleazy, gory, and politically incorrect about horror films. Why should they care if it gets an NC-17 rating? The film won’t play in as many cinemas, but surely that the point of making something like Grindhouse?

It strikes me that there’s something wrong with setting out to create an extreme and dirty homage to a genre of film that would only ever play in unpleasant, back-street cinemas, and then complaining that your film will only ever been seen in establishments that exist outside of the mainstream. What did they expect?

The more I hear about splitting the film into two separate releases for anyone outside of the US, and trimming out the more interesting aspect of extreme cinema, the more I think I’ll be waiting for the DVD on this one.