The MPAA has rated MONUMENTS MEN PG-13 for war violence and “historical smoking.”
This is your MPAA at work. It won’t protect children from the violent images and horribly violent situations that you find in big-money summer blockbusters. No, they all get a PG-13.
But it will protect itself from getting criticized by anti-smoking groups, so it comes up with this bit of silliness.
I thought “historical smoking” might refer to something like the above — or maybe to Dietrich in SHANGHAI EXPRESS. But no, it’s a catch-all to explain why people are smoking in a World War II movie. You know, that’s just how it was back then.
How many different ways can they be gutless?