Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Pre-release) (Spoilers)

[Inquisitor Peregrinus]

G meant you could let your kids go see it without a worry. PG meant you should look into it first to make sure you felt it was appropriate. PG13 was added because many parents were treating PG like G and then getting pissy about it because displacement. It was sort of a "no, really -- make sure this is okay for your kids before letting them see it". R has always meant no unaccompanied minors (parents can still take their kids, should they deem them mature enough to handle whatever got it the R rating), while NC17 means no minors, period.

Those seem pretty clear to me. The first three kids can get in unaccompanied (though a PG13 film might get a "you sure your parents are okay with you seeing this?"), R they can't/shouldn't be able to, and NC17 they can't/shouldn't be able to get in at all.

--Jonah

 

[Krull]

Who cares? all I know is if you see a woman undressing in a movie americans will lose their minds,yet in places like Japan you see characters nude in a KIDS TV show fer chrissakes!!

We're retarded,like licking windows and don't forget your helmet retarded.

 

[DINVADER]

Most of the Disney owned Marvel movies are PG13 and that hasn't stopped anyone from going of any age that I've saw.

 

[Laser Brain]

Lots of pics of Bloomingdale's TFA window display...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/44005369@N05/sets/72157659254893404

 

[Axlotl]

Digging the mini scavenger. Not so much the boob-bot.

 

[joshvanrad]

I don't know many 13 year olds with identification that shows their age. How would a movie theater dictate who can see PG13?

 

[Bryancd]

i don't know many 13 year olds with identification that shows their age. How would a movie theater dictate who can see pg13?

they don't have to.

 

[joshvanrad]

they don't have to.

Right. That was my point.

 

[OldKen]

That's because they DON'T!!!

I'm glad it's PG13! Because as has been stated ad nauseum.... The RATINGS HAVE CHANGED since the early 80's!

I would bet that even ROTJ would be PG13 had it been released nowadays if for nothing more than the Luke "torturure" scene... Not to mention slave Leia, and the fact you can actually see Oolah's green boobs!

I want to get closer to the original and ESB...

Who doesn't?

I don't know many 13 year olds with identification that shows their age. How would a movie theater dictate who can see PG13?

 

[JBLAKE]

Digging the mini scavenger. Not so much the boob-bot.

Agreed. That is just silly.

 

[OldKen]

That droid is seen in the entertainment weekly photo shoot. (I think it was EW) that shows the "pirates" and creatures from Maz's castle.

I kind of like "her". Very Metropolis meets D.O.T. Matrix...

I kind of wanted BB8 to be a "her"...

No idea why! She... I mean, HE just comes across as a female...

Maybe it's all this Bruce Jenner-esque-ness pushed on us lately. Or maybe it's BB's sounds... Idk... Random post over!

LOL.

Agreed. That is just silly.

 

[PoopaPapaPalps]

Nowadays, PG13 is the rating to reach for the prime target audience of these kinds of big-budget movies. Movies typically get an R rating now if there's a gruesome amount of killing, blood, violence, sex or, gasp, two F-bombs!

Before, like Inquisitor Peregrinus said, PG13 was originally added after some parent groups started worrying about what their kids were seeing for a "PG" movie (I remember hearing Spielberg had a hand in it shortly after some reviews came out for Temple of Doom). Now, no matter what the movie's subject, if there's a lot of money to be made from the property, the studios are going to push for it to get a PG13 rating to market to that large audience, even if it means the movie will have wonky cuts to subvert the violence/action on screen (The Dark Knight being a glaring example that comes to mind).

 

[LrdSatyr8]

You stop and think about the movies today that are getting away with the PG13 rating... back during the day, they'd be more like Hard R rated. I have seen alot of PG/PG-13 movies that have come out in the past 10 years that would never have gotten that rating before (language, sex, drugs, violence, etc). But if you took a R rated movie from the 70's and 80's it would probably be PG13 now. Like Taxi Driver or the Substitute... both R rated back in the day... would be PG13 today.

 

[Axlotl]

Taxi Driver has a 14-year-old prostitute, though. Would that be appropriate for a PG-13 audience?
Then again, when she was around the same age, Jodi Foster got nekkid in a PG rated movie.
Aargh... I'm so confused now...

 

[Jaitea]

Who cares about all this PG-13 stuff,.....whats the certificate gonna be in the main part of the world,.....Northern Ireland?

J

 

[PoopaPapaPalps]

Here's the dividing line, @Axlotl: Was there a big, bloody shoot-out at then end with pimps in the one she got nekit in? You can't have both in a PG13 movie; it's either/or.

 

[cayman shen]

The MPAA has always been extremely arbitrary. Stuff that you could see in a Swiffer commercial today would get some old movies an R. Then you pop in some old PG flick and get hit with full frontal nudity. It's a very small group of people making decisions that aren't always consistent or fair. (I'm still bitter about Friday the 13th VII, sorry...)

 

[Sourdoh]

Ratings are meaningless today. Kids whine and get to see pretty much everything they want to see. Hell, they see more at school everyday than in most movies.

 

[Laspector]

Can a kid buy an R-rated dvd?

 

[Sourdoh]

As long as there are people who will sell it to them, yes ...