It can be higher or lower
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brandon-caplan — 15 years ago(February 01, 2011 01:11 PM)
Andromeda Strain (the original one), rated G (but contained a content descriptor that it wasn't appropriate for children). Contained skeletons, blood, cursing (albeit very mild), and nudity (also mild, bare breasts and buttocks). Should be PG or PG-13.
The Informant!, rated R (contains a dozen or so f-bombs and a couple of crude remarks), should be PG or PG-13.
The Jerk, rated R (there was no PG-13 back then).
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (rated R, should be PG-13).
Oh, and you CAN show blood spurting from wounds in PG-13 movies (Lakeview Terrace comes to mind as a more recent example, also had two f-bombs). -
ebrock1988 — 15 years ago(March 19, 2011 01:47 PM)
you should all be ashamed of yourselves.
PLANET OF THE APES!(original) rated G, should be at least PG for the premise alone. i could have brought it in for movie day in elementary school. granted the teacher would never show it, but based on the rating it would have been a legitimate submission. -
cca382000 — 14 years ago(July 13, 2011 06:42 AM)
Toy Story 3 rated G for some reason The garbage dump fire scene should have given the film at least a PG. Also Lotso's story of his abandonment should have been a PG factor, because of the scary images in both those scenes
The Social Network was rated PG13 obviously. You can tell by the first FULL trailer that this was originally going to be an R rating, but to appeal to bigger audiences and bigger box offices numbers they edited it down to PG13 You can also clearly hear 2 F words
Frost/Nixon. Rated R for LANGUAGE I only heard two F words plus one muffled one If The Social Network can get away with two F words and be rated PG13, this film should be PG13
Even though I HATED The King's Speech, I much agree that it should not have been R. They also shouldnt have edited out the "swear" scene for the "pg13" family freindly version (which by the way NO ONE came to see) Due to how inspiring that scene was and how swearing constantly throughout it helped him through his impedement, i would think the MPAA would have given a pass on this
Andy=
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WhySoSeriously — 14 years ago(July 14, 2011 07:09 AM)
Appleseed got an R thanks to a head crush scene with blood but it was not gratitious at all and it was animated (though in a special form of CGI).
Plus Frost/Nixon had a MF in it, but The Social Network didn't. -
ferreira0665 — 14 years ago(July 25, 2011 01:19 AM)
I am one that thinks Top Gun deserves a PG-13 rating. The sex scene in that movie was too graphic for a PG. Also from what I have heard, if a movie uses the F word at least once, which Top Gun did, although not scripted, it automatically gets a PG-13 rating. That movie should have got it just for that. If you ask where the word is said. Its said in one of the times Cruise gets nailed in Top Gun. He says it.
But from what I am getting in more recent TV. BS and A-hole are used more frequently. Check Raising the Bar, and Franklin and Bash for that. Franklin and Bash is hilarious.
Also what I found really funny was in the Disney movie The Invisible. Goddamn is used more than once. I believe the movie was rated PG-13 but still. I was like wow in a Disney movie.
But what I think would be interesting is to discuss which movies and TV shows that if the language was taken out would be the same movie.
My honest opinion. Deadwood would have been a better series if they toned the language down. Didn't need to get rid of it but toned it down because it distracted from the movie.
The Breakfast Club - losing the language that is in the movie would ruin the film.
Liar Liar - I may get attacked for this but thought the language in the film was distracting.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - Movie would be ruined if the language was even toned down. Why? Because it was part of the joke at the end.
American History X - if language was removed it would ruin that film too. There are other films I could bring up but there is a few. -
Movie_Buff_Brad — 14 years ago(December 26, 2011 02:11 AM)
Is this from the MPAA's point-of-view, or our own?
In my opinion, any movie that got an R just for language should be PG-13. It must take a special kind of naivety to think that your 13 year olds' not only don't hear those words everyday at school, but aren't saying them themselves.
Jaws and Poltergeist should both be rated R. The latter shows a guy ripping his own face off. -
tyty2790 — 14 years ago(January 27, 2012 09:49 AM)
The 2011 American version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, in all honesty, SHOULD be NC-17, I know it's not because David Fincher made it and they wanted higher marketability, but it really should be NC-17 for the brutal rape scene.
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ebrock1988 — 13 years ago(May 17, 2012 10:03 AM)
and then next to noone would have seen what is actually a pretty damn good film, and that's with my "the book is better" goggles on and my "remakes suck" bias firmly in place. honestly, if any rating should be done away with, it's NC-17 because it's far too often used as a means to bully non-studio productions. on paper R and NC-17 are the same thing anyway: noone under 17 years of age allowed. i don't care who made the movie; if a brutal rape, of a main protagonist no less, can get by with an R but too much hair in a scene between two consenting partners earns an NC-17 then the system is broken.
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eloiseshf — 13 years ago(May 18, 2012 02:04 AM)
Brick: despite a strong anti-drug message and the lack of any graphic sex/violence, it is rated R. I suspect that if it had been released by a major, it would have been a PG-13.
Say Anything: is it PG-13 because it encourages rebellion against a dishonest father, which is a big no-no for the "parents are always right" brigade? I see it firmly in PG territory.
Now something off my chest about the rating system of my own country, Italy.
The following films are all rated G: Sin City, Wild at Heart, 300, Bram Soker's Dracula and Hannibal, the latter for no other reason that it helped the national film industry due to scenes being shot in Italy and the casting of Italian actors.
Rating is mandatory only for films that get a theatrical release. Romper Stomper and American History X are rated 18, but The Believer is rated G simply because it went straight to DVD. Better still, some Italian exploitation films from the 70's featuring hardcore inserts and one porn "Luana la porcona" are rated PG because they weren't released theatrically.
Pretty in Pink, on the other had, is rated 14, same as The Exorcist, Full Metal Jacket, and Dario Argento's Deep Red, Suspiria and Phenomena.
Brokeback Mountain is rated 14 and cut, it would have made far more sense to give it an 18 and release it uncut. -
tyty2790 — 12 years ago(December 09, 2013 01:24 PM)
Found another one
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
VERY graphic, bloody, 10x more so than any of the bigger blockbuster Batmans, easily a hard R
Rated PG-13..All I can think is that it got a lower rating bc its animatedWhich means 7 year old will see this, all the more reason to warrant an R -
jpalmquist-99-955350 — 12 years ago(May 28, 2013 07:21 AM)
I first saw Saving Private Ryan when I was 12 or 13 and it had a profound impact on me as to the nature of war. A movie like that does not glorify the violence- it helps bring a proper, realistic understanding of it. The R rating is 100% correct, as parents with kids who are mature enough to handle the subject matter should be able to show it to them.
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