THis movie should have been rated R
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rwcass — 18 years ago(May 24, 2007 11:18 AM)
This movie, "Dreamscape," and "Sheena" are great examples of the MPAA working out the kinks of the new PG-13 rating in 1984. I just looked up their release dates, and they all came out the weekend of August 17, 1984. How 'bout that.
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Katz5 — 18 years ago(June 06, 2007 10:36 AM)
Sheena was rated PG. The first PG-13 movies were Red Dawn, Dreamscape and The Woman in Red. The MPAA was more selective about applying the PG-13 in 1984. Most movies that would be an automatic PG-13 today got PGs in 1984.
Sheena (nudity), All of Me (sexual innuendos up the wazoo), A Soldier's Story (multiple uses of the "F" word) all were PGs. Even then I was amazed A Soldier's Story got a PG and not an R.
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rwcass — 18 years ago(June 30, 2007 05:39 PM)
I'd forgotten "Sheena" was PG, not PG-13. Imagine seeing that with your parents as a "family-friendly" film.
"The Temple of Doom" was rated PG, as were "Gremlins" and "Ghostbusters," but "Temple" and "Gremlins" definitely led to the PG-13 rating being created. Even "Return of the Jedi" a year earlier contained a special warning about the intensity of its violence, I think, so the MPAA was probably already contemplating a new rating. And let's not forget the nightmarish images contained in the climax of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" in '81, or "Poltergeist" in '82. -
JasonIK75 — 9 years ago(January 11, 2017 04:07 PM)
rwcass
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I'd forgotten "Sheena" was PG, not PG-13. Imagine seeing that with your parents as a "family-friendly" film.
Forget about shielding children's eyes from the nudity. Shield their EARS so they don't have to hear the horrible dialogue.
Talk about a movie that should be watched without the sound.
"May the Force be with you."
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Katz5 — 18 years ago(July 02, 2007 01:12 PM)
Raiders of the Lost Ark was originally rated R but Spielberg added some smoke effects to the exploding heads sequence at the end, and got a PG.
Poltergeist was also rated R but (I think) re-rated PG on appeal. No cuts were made (but I could be wrong).
Jaws, I think, was R as well. Spielberg did some editing to get the PG.
Most movies that were PGs in 1984, when PG-13 was created, would be PG-13 today. Even "Splash," the first Touchstone release, would get a PG-13 for nudity. And Romancing the Stonewho can forget the alligator scene at the end?
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witster18 — 15 years ago(March 28, 2011 03:30 PM)
i can confirm through literally thousands of attempts to pause my betamax machine - we've got bush - to steal a line from ROTN.
I was only 11 at the time
mark this down as the only pg or pg-13 movie that ever did. -
Tolyngee — 14 years ago(July 10, 2011 12:11 AM)
"i can confirm through literally thousands of attempts to pause my betamax machine - we've got bush - to steal a line from ROTN.
I was only 11 at the time
mark this down as the only pg or pg-13 movie that ever did."
Wrong.
John Hughes' Sixteen Candles had completely non-accidental full body female nudity, profanity, drug use, and the climax was a rape
http://www.imdb.com/board/10088128/board/nest/143191806
http://www.imdb.com/board/10088128/board/nest/180436349
About a year ago I was going back down childhood memory lane, Sixteen Candles crossed my mind, and I had to admit I had to check out IMDb to convince myself this indeed was just a PG movie at the time.
But I went back and checked out Woman In Red. It will be interesting if this ever is released in 1080p Blu-ray, as watching closely, well, not only can spot the obvious bush
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witster18 — 10 years ago(March 29, 2016 07:18 AM)
well a couple of issues with the response
first the full-frontal shot is at an angle where it's basically just topless..
second I've got some issue with the last scene being "and the climax was a rape"
both parties were drunk.. she claimed to have remembered and enjoyed it the next morning. I think it's a bit of an unfair criticism I mean it's easy to say that and of course many will coming running in agreement, but think about how many rapes we have if we consider that rape.. hard to say it's non-consensual when they wake up in the morning, kiss, and start a relationship. I MEAN SHE'S THE ONE THAT CONFIRMS THAT THEY DID IT BECAUSE HE doesn't remember!!!! Not to mention we have nothing deep into the wee hours of the night in terms of movie you figure the party ended at what time? midnight-ish hits the town and takes the photos around 1am?,.,, then they wake up at 9:30-10:00 who's to say how many hours went by they could have had sex at 6AM and she could have been more coherent than he was by that time just sayin'
besides Ted's actions and personality just doesn't fit the insinuation he's too shy to be like that.. he actually shows genuine concern for her well-being in all of those scenes.. maybe he shouldn't have had sex with her BUT character-wise SHE would have been the aggressor let's just say he wasn't drinking anymoreeven though he seemed like he was just starting to drink the martini and two-three beers on screen after jake saved him from being under the table maybe he didn't 'fight her off' to stop her from making a move on him, but character-wise she would have been the aggressor she was experienced - he was a virgin.
don't get me wrong i have an intimate understanding and true sensitivity towards the subject, but always get a little bent when people say this about this film. -
MrNamelessOne — 18 years ago(August 11, 2007 04:22 AM)
Actually I agree it should've been rated R. Know why? Let's just say at the end when Kelly LeBrock's character finds out her better half comes home, we find out the carpet matches the drapes. Couldn't put it any other way.
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mlanoue — 18 years ago(February 25, 2008 10:53 AM)
I'm sure it WOULD be rated R today, but it shouldn't be. We need to scale back the ratings to that family stuff gets a G instead of PG, and PG-13 actually means there is mature content. I was just old enough to see this when it first came out and it didn't warp me at all.
Believe it or not, ratings in the early 80's made more sense than they do now. We're a bunch of freaks now.