ARES GW
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I would have to agree...plus PG-13 makes more money than R films. But I can tell you this I have gone to quite a few PG-13 films that I was surprised it wasn't rated R.
what's with all these PG 13 movies?
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I would have to agree...plus PG-13 makes more money than R films. But I can tell you this I have gone to quite a few PG-13 films that I was surprised it wasn't rated R.
Tron Legacy PG-13.... Why? Are people getting zapped into digital bits more graphic than seeing people jumping on decapitated heads floating in a river?
Cripes, I miss the solid PG like crazy. Why do we have to caution movie goers about Tron? I loved watching that movie as a kid and I still love how tame it is compared to other movies these days.
Cripes, I miss the solid PG like crazy. Why do we have to caution movie goers about Tron? I loved watching that movie as a kid and I still love how tame it is compared to other movies these days.
Which is funny cause like was mention Tron Legacy and other non-graphic movies get pg 13s along with movies that very nearly have nudity and pretty graphic violence. Do kids movies even get a G anymore or is it all PG? This is what happens when you let brain dead parents with too much time on their hands want to keep their kids in a bubble.
They over react and decide that everyone's kids need to be insulated under layers and layers of warning labels. I think i was listening to the commentary on one of the scary movie movies and the Abrams brothers said that you couldn't make a joke that adults would get but kids wouldn't but it was okay to put in one f-bomb per movie. I"m pretty sure if i was 13 my parents would rather the joke than the f-bomb.
Then again kids these days are about 300 times more advanced than i was at 13.
ARES GW
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I think that is sad to say. Kids are made to grow up too fast these days. Before I take my son to a movie I check the reviews and see why its rated what its rated. I will be the one deciding what my son sees not Hollywood or any other Rating association.
True. My folks used to do that and even then they'd have to jump in front of the tv when boobs appeared by surprise lol. They were more worried about that than language as it was easier just to explain that as a word you shouldn't say. Which is funny since i asked mom what the f-bomb meant the first day of kindergarten. Never let your kids ride the bus with high school students. I remember when finding naughty magazines was a right of passage now kids just have to klick a button. Then again i also remember playing outside and a time before videogames there weren't in the arcade.
I remember the major fuss about transformers the movie when it was violent (Ironhide getting his head blown off and prime dying) and the now bland "oh ****" uttered by spike that got it the PG rating since they didn't have PG 13 before then. I remember seeing revenge of the nerds and finding out why it was R lol. Now that would be on the very edge of PG 13.
I remember the major fuss about transformers the movie when it was violent (Ironhide getting his head blown off and prime dying) and the now bland "oh ****" uttered by spike that got it the PG rating since they didn't have PG 13 before then. I remember seeing revenge of the nerds and finding out why it was R lol. Now that would be on the very edge of PG 13.
ARES GW
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defstartrooper
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How times change, when i was a kid the movies that were rated above my age were the ones i wanted to and did watch :lol
I saw a documentary about censorship in cinema and they talked about this. According to the film, after they came up with the movie rating system, people associated an "X" rating with porn films. When "Last Tango in Paris" came out though, it was fairly successful in the box office, which gave studios some hope. Audiences were still reluctant to watch an "X" film, so they eventually came up with the NC-17 rating to distinguish between cinematic movies and porn. Studios figured the rating would be their saving grace.
The problem was, the first movie to be released with an NC-17 rating was "Showgirls". The film was so pathetically bad, that it left a stigma on the rating and studios didn't want to take the chance on being associated with it. Therefore, they cut out any scenes needed to keep an R rating.
When the PG-13 rating came out though, they found more families were taking their kids to the movies. It was no longer R for adults and G or PG films for the kids, but no real rating to give teenagers the chance to watch a movie without adult supervision. . PG-13 seemed like the happy medium and allowed the widest range of viewers. Since the rating was introduced, PG-13 movies have become some of the highest grossing films, regardless of how good or bad they might be.
So now, studios try to edit their films down just to get that rating. Some Indy film makers have continued making NC-17 rated films, but I'll bet most people can't name 10 of them they've seen; whereas just about anyone can name at least 20 PG-13 films.
So yeah...sadly it's all about the Benjamins.
The problem was, the first movie to be released with an NC-17 rating was "Showgirls". The film was so pathetically bad, that it left a stigma on the rating and studios didn't want to take the chance on being associated with it. Therefore, they cut out any scenes needed to keep an R rating.
When the PG-13 rating came out though, they found more families were taking their kids to the movies. It was no longer R for adults and G or PG films for the kids, but no real rating to give teenagers the chance to watch a movie without adult supervision. . PG-13 seemed like the happy medium and allowed the widest range of viewers. Since the rating was introduced, PG-13 movies have become some of the highest grossing films, regardless of how good or bad they might be.
So now, studios try to edit their films down just to get that rating. Some Indy film makers have continued making NC-17 rated films, but I'll bet most people can't name 10 of them they've seen; whereas just about anyone can name at least 20 PG-13 films.
So yeah...sadly it's all about the Benjamins.
exoray
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That is because most studios never submit or re-submit cuts they know will be NC-17 rated instead they opt to release the every popular "UNRATED" version after the dumbed down rated theatrical release...
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