The NC-17 rating turns Twenty!

To commemorate this anniversary, Cinematical has a very interesting article here on the rating. It's well worth a read, but I wanted to see what everyone thought about the most controversial of ratings.
-Thoughts on the NC-17?

Well, we finally get some info about 'Invictus'...

...but only that it's got a rating, and is rated PG-13. Not exactly a poster or a trailer, but at this point, I'll take what I can get.
-Thoughts on the rating?

It appears Bruno wasn't the only comedy of late to have issues with the Ratings Board

Courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter:

Sony's "Year One," the new Jack Black comedy from producer Judd Apatow and director Harold Ramis, has been rated PG-13 after the filmmakers made some cuts to the film.The MPAA's Classification and Rating Appeals Board on Tuesday upheld the R rating originally given to the movie in which Black and Michael Cera play a couple of barely out-of-the-cave men who travel through the ancient world.Apatow and Ramis appeared before the board to argue for a more lenient rating, but the appeals board still opted for the R, which requires moviegoers younger than 17 be accompanied by an adult, because of "some sexual content and language."The filmmakers then made cuts to the film, and as a result, the ratings board has now given it a PG-13 "for crude and sexual content throughout, brief strong language and comic violence."
-Seems only Kevin Smith can successfully win with appeals board these days, but that's another story...now, I wonder what cuts they made...hopefully nothing to damage the film

Bruno in trouble with the MPAA?

Perhaps, according to this in Variety:

The Motion Picture Assn. of America has slapped an NC-17 rating on Universal Pictures’ laffer “Bruno.”
The ratings board objected to a number of sexual sequences in the Sacha Baron Cohen comedy, in which he plays a gay Austrian fashionista. Pic is set to unspool July 10.
Studio is hoping to land an R rating for “Bruno.” It’s making the necessary edits before resubmitting the pic to the MPAA. The deleted sequences will likely be saved for the DVD release.
Baron Cohen’s previous docu-comedy, “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,” also received an NC-17 rating when first submitted to the MPAA but wound up with an R.
-These films almost always appeal or edit down to an R, so don't get your hopes up for a major NC-17 release anytime soon...