movies you cant believe are g/pg/pg-13

I think you are allowed 2 or 3 "fucks" in a PG-13.

Yes. For instance, Elisabeth Shue: "Don't fuck with the babysitter."

― jaymc, Tuesday, October 7, 2008 10:59 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

some movies from before pg-13 ratings have "fuck" in them too, like spaceballs and all the presidents men

― and what, Friday, October 10, 2008 2:25 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

actually spaceballs is from 87 so i have no idea how it got a pg except maybe the mpaa didnt hear rick moranis adlibbing the line

― and what, Friday, October 10, 2008 2:26 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

beetlejuice drops a couple fucks too & im pretty sure that was pg

― and what, Friday, October 10, 2008 2:28 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

in american teen which is pg-13 they start bleeping out the fucks after 2 or 3 or whatever the limit is

― kgb (J0rdan S.), Friday, October 10, 2008 2:29 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the freshman, which is PG, also has a "fuck"

― omar little, Friday, October 10, 2008 2:30 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

new thread for this

― and what, Friday, October 10, 2008 2:32 PM (26 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yes we know there were goddamn fucks in PG films

― Dr Morbius, Friday, October 10, 2008 2:33 PM (1 second ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

dark knight!

^^thought this was gonna be the first post.

dark knight seems like one of those movies, like temple of doom, that should've set off a new rating between pg-13 romantic comedy with a couple f-bombs and hard-R ultraviolent torture porn shit

Movies I always forget are Rated R: Planes, Trains, & Automobiles for that one scene with Edie McClurg.

why was blair witch rated R?

they cuss a lot

Sixteen Candles is rated PG. It also features naked boobs!

it's a great example of lol america - u can't have a titty or two dudes kissing w/o everyone losing their shit, but a phone bomb sewed up under a schizophrenic fat dude's gut is a-ok

why ratings are age related is some bullshit anyway: there oughta be a simple code to tell you what's IN the movie if anything, not who's theoretically old enough to see it

really i didnt see dark knight but pplz have told me about shit in it and the fact it gets the same rating as whale rider and never been kissed is kinda o_O

drew barrymore doesn't stick a knife in a dude's mouth in that?

"Once" is rated R but should be PG.

"Once" is rated R but should be PG.

Ditto "Big Night." (Unless the MPAA objected to the wanton display and consumption of highly caloric food?) And I know the MPAA is leniant on violence (as opposed to sex or profanity), but "The Dark Knight" should not have gotten that PG-13.

Once was R!??! what the fuck. was there a boob in that film that i forget?

rated R for poverty, white-boy melisma, public transit

Q. I applaud your cogent argument against the MPAA on this week's Ebert & Roeper show. My question is this how can you be prevented from endorsing "Whale Rider" because of its PG-13 rating, yet one can go to any toy store and find "Lord of the Rings" toys and even "Matrix" toys that are tied in to films with PG-13 or even R ratings? Is it because "Whale Rider" is an independent film? (Paul Hardister, Arlington, VA)

A. The controversy arose over my quote in the "Whale Rider" ads: "Take the kids and they'll see a movie that will touch their hearts and minds." The MPAA informed the distributor that it had to remove the line, because a film with a PG-13 rating can't be marketed to children. This raises several problems. (1) I said "take the kids," not "send them in alone." (2) Kids can in any event attend PG-13 movies by themselves. They only need the parent or adult for an R movie. (3) It is my right and duty as a critic to make such judgments, and surely the distributor has a right to quote them. (4) This is a sad example of a system that has lost all reason and now categorizes an inspiring family film (yes, family!) like "Whale Rider" in the same category with "Charlie's Angel's Full Throttle" and "2 Fast 2 Furious."

I thought the Dark Knight was scarier and more disturbing than many R-rated horror movies.

When The Straight Story came out, I recall being dumfounded by the fact that the new Lynch flick was rated G. It seemed like the name above the title should itself have been enough to earn R status (fucking brilliant film btw)

i remember going to see "doc hollywood" (PG 13) with my dad and being mortified by omg boobs.

rated R for poverty, white-boy melisma, public transit

you forgot sympathetic portrayals of 1) immigrants and 2) busking

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/Batman/images//thumb/b/b8/TDKBatmansFriendsFoes.jpg/398px-TDKBatmansFriendsFoes.jpg

waht

drew barrymore doesn't stick a knife in a dude's mouth in that?

― goole, Friday, October 10, 2008 1:48 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

a u.s. senator's mouth!

When The Straight Story came out, I recall being dumfounded by the fact that the new Lynch flick was rated G. It seemed like the name above the title should itself have been enough to earn R status (fucking brilliant film btw)

Also see:

http://www.hotmoviesale.com/dvds/1656/1/The-Winslow-Boy.jpg

(Directed by David Mamet, rated G)

good thread idea

gremlins freaked me out in some parts for a pg flick

also i had no idea about this O_O

Despite its critical acclaim and popular success, Gremlins has been criticized as culturally insensitive. Some observers have commented that the film presents gremlins as African Americans,[13] and in an unflattering manner. At the time of its release, some members of the African American community protested that the film was racist. These critics suggested that the creatures exhibit some of the worst stereotypical behavior attributed to blacks: wild, drunken, violent, murderous, seductive and lascivious. In Ceramic Uncles & Celluloid Mammies, Patricia Turner writes that the gremlins "reflect negative African-American stereotypes" in their dress and behavior. They are shown "devouring fried chicken with their hands", listening to black music, breakdancing, and wearing sunglasses after dark and big-apple slouch hats, a style common among African American males in the 1980s.

i wonder how the mpaa would rate a blatant, unrepentantly racist family film with no other objectionable content

norbit was pg-13

(Rated G)

http://imagehost.epier.com/91300/Song_Of_The_South-front.jpg

Guys, just look at the damn poster:

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/5735/bamboozledum7.gif

poltergeist went from an R to a PG after an appeal

Thinking of Song of the South reminded me of this timeless gem

POLTERGEIST WAS PG ?????

related:

The Invisible Kid (1988) was PG and featured a locker room scene with topless girls. That was pretty O_O for a 5 or 6 year old.

I just got in a big discussion about Taken with a friend of mine. Movie should not have been PG-13 just because they didn't show blood and gore. Was super violent and dealt with some extremely adult themes.

Yeah frankly given the substance of the movie I was shocked it was PG-13

i am pretty boring these days. work school work school etc. we watched nick & norah's infinite playlist which was surprisingly dirty for a pg-13 movie. SPOILER ALERT - you hear (but don't see) the main female character have an orgasm from george michael bluth fingering her. i was scandalized.

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, February 9, 2009 12:55 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

w/e happened to 'adult themes' descriptors in R rated movies?

from planet of the apes thread

still amazed at how much you could get away with in a G rated movie back then... decomposing corpses, bareass astronauts, throat shootings, existential hyperbole, etc.

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, 6 February 2009 18:23 (6 days ago)

a lot of godzilla movies have objectionable shit in them. when my son was 5 he was really into godzilla. destroy all monsters was rated G, so I rented it and we watched it - it includes a man being shot in the forehead during a gun battle and a woman having an earring torn from her ear complete with blood + screams.

he still wanted to see other godzilla movies, so I started scanning them for anything superviolent before letting him watch them. next up, godzilla vs. gigan. after fastforwarding through the talking bits it seemed okay, so we sat down to watch it. one of the first scenes has a guy talking to his girlfriend. she starts giving him a hassle and he responds, "you're a hard bitch". WTF!

yes, Poltergeist was PG and so dumbass 8-year old me convinced my parents to take me, and after that I couldn't even pee alone for like a year. holy fuck did that movie scare me.

Airplane and Airplane 2 are PG and have topless women ("By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?")

Big is PG and has "Who the fuck do you think you are?"

Planes Trains and Automobiles, on the other hand, should not have been rated R. Ditto for The Breakfast Club.

Thank you for posting that clip and what!! I've been mentioning that joke to friends for years whenever Animaniacs comes up in conversation, but none of them ever saw that one and look at me like I'm crazy. I was starting to doubt myself.

I remember being really shocked by Eliot shouting "It wasn't like that, PENIS BREATH!" in ET when it came out, and thats surely a freakin G rated Disney palaver.

Wait up - the breakfast club was R!??! Is R a different rating in the US to Aus (I suspect it might be like our M rating)

breakfast club was R for language and ideas. that kind of shit is a big deal here in the states.

america in the 70s and early 80s was WAAAAY more tolerant WR2 what you could "get away with" in family films. boobs in PG shit like clash of the titans, etc. the change came in part because america became so much more socially conservative in the 80s, but also because filmmakers became so damn good at executing ideas & pushing emotional buttons. what you see in poltergeist, gremlins & temple of doom (the films that made people think we needed a new rating) isn't any worse than what you saw in mainstream 60s/70s horror flicks, but it's a thousand times more realistic, and delivered with an amazing degree of cinematic/emotional intensity.

i understand why most nudity and sexuality got pushed out of family films in the 80s, resulting in this super-weird PG-13 divide, much more proviolent and antisexual than at any time since the 60s, but i'm bummed that it's stayed that way.

i think you can only get one "fuck" in a PG-13 movie and it has not not be a verb. i wanted to catalog PG-13 fucks when i was a young aspie rube.

*has to NOT be a verb

The scene in Disney's The Black Hole where Anthony Perkins gets killed by the robot Maximillian - he essentially gets eviscerated by a giant whirring set of knives - was absolutely O_O to me as a kid. Can't believe that was PG.

http://www.virginmedia.com/images/maximilliancolour.jpg

I recently picked up the new mod dvd of The Outside Man, this great early '70s hitman movie w/Jean-Louis Trintignant, Roy Scheider, and Ann-Margeret. The scene introducing the latter takes place in strip club, and includes several shots of the stage performers who are wearing blue body paint...and nothing else. All three "B"'s are very much present and accounted for. I look at the rating on the case and it says "PG", which is perplexing enough what with all the kills and now this full-frontal business.

However, I check on imdb afterwards, discovering that this is actually the "X" version of the film. Apparently the strip club scene (and a few others) were excised to get a "PG" in the states, and the "X" version was released in English-speaking markets overseas. MGM kept the old rating for the art work.

watched being there w/ the kids the other night, had to skip the bit where shirley maclaine pleasures herself

I was the same with last weeks Downton Abbey..

relevant

http://metrograph.com/edition/article/36/pg-and-the-power-of-nightmares

I think when I was around 14 years old some friends were going to meet up at the mall movie theater to watch Jackie Chan's Rumble in the Bronx and my parents, not really knowing this group, walked me in to drop me off at the movie theater and at that point we determined it was rated R (why?!?). I think the other kids were planning on buying tickets for something else and sneaking in but my parents, having a moment of being chill, vouched for us and saw the movie too.

it was probably just them not wanting to battle censors for the american release or whatever, but knowing what other random shit was rated PG or PG-13 it kills me that this goofy Jackie Chan movie was R!

The Invisible Kid (1988) was PG and featured a locker room scene with topless girls. That was pretty O_O for a 5 or 6 year old.

― circa1916, Wednesday, February 11, 2009 7:31 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

CTRL + F comes thru. I didn't have the frame of reference at my single-digit age to realize that I hadn't accidentally stumbled upon a porno.

xp american censors prob didn't want to give kids the wrong idea about the proper use of ladders

lol

one of the people in the group was born in china and had a stack of dubbed-too-many-times jackie chan bootlegs we'd all traded and watched while pushing the "tracking" button on the vcr repeatedly

I hadn't heard of this Shallows movie. The trailer actually looks alright...until the comical shark pops up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgdxIlSuB70

I just rewatched poltergeist and checked to see if we had a thread for this, crazy that it got a pg rating given some of the shit that goes down in it. With beetlejuice it’s not just the fact that he says fuck (and clearly fucks), there’s a lot of gruesome stuff in that film, fairly graphic suicide jokes &c

The one that will always be baffling is the bbfc giving WATERSHIP DOWN a U certificate

https://www.bbfc.co.uk/sites/default/files/attachments/Watership-Down-report.pdf

i watched Picnic At Hanging Rock last night and there's a shot right at the end of the film that makes me amazed that this otherwise fairly mild PG film is still a PG, but I guess the censors didn't mind a bit of blood and death

also LOL @ the final sentence of the Watership Down memo!!!

Re-watched Andromeda Strain recently. Never realized it was rated G.

i'm sure that Poltergeist was an X in the UK on original release but there may have been a child friendly certificate A edit released later. also pretty sure that Beetlejuice was a 15 or AA on original release here

US certificates barely matched at all with UK certificates before the late 80s iirc

Walkabout was AA here but PG in the states despite containing not just nudity but underage nudity

yeah my understanding generally is that horror or gore wouldn't be heavily censored in the US but they threw a fit at sex or nudity

i don't think their PG = our current PG

but i can imagine a world where "underage nudity couldn't possibly be sexual" so

The bbfc is a pretty interesting (often bad) institution, I listened to a bit of their podcast (podcast warning: it’s a podcast) and would recommend it. Really drove home how much I would hate working for a state censor

An interesting diff there is that R films just mean you have to be accompanied if you’re under the age where our 15 or 18 means no admittance at all

there's the old "technically they weren't a censor" line isn't there, but they have increasingly become one. that Watership Down memo really paints a picture of people calling shots on stuff they have no real relationship to

Yeah they absolutely are a censor, they have refused to pass things many times! Sometimes rightly!

Watership Down terrified me as a child, but we've shared it with both of our kids and they seem to have enjoyed it unphased.

If I had kids I think I would be maybe a little more proscriptive than my parents, who let us watch anything, but I’d absolutely show them scary shit if they wanted to see it. And you don’t always know what’s gonna scare kids anyway, my nephew gets traumatised by Disney films

the argument pre videos was that the BBFC had an advisory role to protect film companies from being prosecuted - they didn't have to make the cuts and in theory a cinema could show the movie i think if it was stupid enough to. the reality was it was a censor, yeah.

so films that weren't passed by the BBFC could still be shown in arthouses if licensed by a local authority - think this happened with Last Tango in Paris amongst others

some people in the UK definitely saw screenings of Salo even tho it didn't technically get thru the BBFC until 20-odd years later?
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this is all hazy memory rather than doing the googling right now so apologies for what i get wrong?

Yeah exactly, an uncertified film = likely financial ruin so it’s kind of Hobson’s choice xp

ikr? but i remember seeing BBFC guys justifying their position on that distinction

Yeah they are often pretty disingenuous about their role

these aren't movies but the two N64 Zelda games getting E ratings is pretty nuts in retrospect, there was some pretty crazy shit in both of them. especially Majora's Mask which is still one of the most horrifying games I've ever played

ocarina isn't ever really scary imo. majora's mask is horrifying

idk man this

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_link_vs_dead_hand.png

and this

https://videogaminglaws.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/skulltula-guy.jpg

really scared me as an 11 year old

With games they are probably less focused on disturbing content than violence the player actively participates in

Also not movies, but: the miniseries of It is very noticeably playing within the limits of network tv censorship, the horror only goes so far and nobody uses a swearword stronger than “bastard” (in stark contrast to the book) so it’s extremely jarring when a child actor starts throwing the n word around

the shadow temple was pretty hardcore for an E rated game, the rest of ocarina seems fine for it

also that was before they debuted E10 which both those games likely would have gotten

caught the last half of Rango on TV last night and was amazed to discover it was PG not pg-13 with so much realistic violence, characters getting realistically shot with realistic guns, burning up, exploding, and dying in other various gruesome ways. My 9y/o nephew recently had trouble finishing Jurassic Park bc he was so scared of the raptors, Rango was like 'what if that, but also the raptors are also shooting each other'

Walkabout was AA here but PG in the states despite containing not just nudity but underage nudity

Wasn't that stuff cut out of the original American cut? Roeg's cut (British theatrical, 5 minutes longer) wasn't released here until the late '90s.

Speaking of Jenny Agutter, Logan's Run has been on TV this week, and it was a PG despite her nude scene and the general, er, transparency of her costume.

Self XP

IMDB sez:

Due to Jenny Agutter's and Luc Roeg's full-frontal nude scenes (one of which was re-shown over the closing credits), the film originally drew an "R" rating from the MPAA. It was reduced to "PG" on appeal because the scenes weren't considered sexual in nature. Decades later, when revised child protection laws were tightened and increased the age of nudity to 18 in films, the movie was reviewed again. But the board left the rating as is for the same reason.

The Monkees’ Head is rated G and features a montage that includes the famous footage of the Vietnamese prisoner being shot in the head.

Did Jenny Agutter have a real thing about nudity or something. seemed to be naked in pretty much every film i saw her in . With the exception of the Railway Children and whichever Avengers she's in.
& she even gets her knickers off in the railway children.
It's what she waves at the train to stop it .

...not to mention all those steamy Call The Midwife's!

why question a blessing?

Settle down lads