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- tomsentest, on 07/02/2008, -7/+77Another example of the MPAA's corrupt and pointless ratings board
- Borgcube636, on 07/02/2008, -5/+74PG-13 did not exist before about 1984. This fact basically negates what the article is trying to propose.
- kplo, on 04/01/2009, -0/+47Beetlejuice was a dirty man...
- DeviateSeptum, on 07/02/2008, -0/+42That was a good list. Good choices and good writing summary for each (although I disagree about the consistency of the MPAA system). I was very surprised that some of these were PG. I'm old enough to remember that the ticket booth once didn't give a hoot what the rating was. If you were 10 and wanted to see an R-movie, no problem or at least none that a slightly saddened look wouldn't solve. I saw Terminator (the first) when I was like 5 or something. I survived. I think parents way underestimate what their kids can handle.
- f4nt0m4s, on 07/02/2008, -0/+40Airplane! was rated PG. That had loads of profanity, racial humor, and *****. I can't believe my parents let me watch that when I was only 10 or 11. Of course, I didn't understand half the jokes, but good times.
The MPAA rating board is a ridiculous dictatorship. They don't let sex or language pass, but violence is okay. *****? Rated R. Brutally murdering someone? Ah, passive PG13. Seriously, sex is a beautiful, natural thing. I'd rather have my future kids watching something with sex than straight up reckless violence. I recommend "This Film Is Not Yet Rated" for a simple overview of the MPAA's enormous shortcomings. - Elranzer, on 07/02/2008, -0/+25Basically, if Spielberg wants a PG rating, he'll get a PG rating.
- reyoo30309, on 07/02/2008, -0/+21Once when I was younger I met a christian couple who said they refused to watch anything labeled as an R movie, it bothered me even back then but it was not until I was older that I understood why.
Saying you refuse to watching something above a certain rating is suggesting that the MPAA is a group of people that have either your morals in mind or in common. Which is highly unlikely given the amount of movies that end up with undeserved PG or PG13 ratings. - Davers, on 07/03/2008, -0/+19the ones that came to mind for me were Spaceballs (the only PG movie I know of with "*****!" in it) and Airplane! (naked chick, blow-up people getting blowjobs, etc)
- whatthefu, on 07/02/2008, -0/+18Raiders of the Lost Ark is way too awesome to bar kids from seeing it.
- EtherGnat, on 07/02/2008, -0/+16I don't know, looking at the list I don't have a problem with any of the titles being PG. The ratings board has gotten ridiculously conservative in my opinion. I saw many of those movies as a child, and with the exception of Poltergeist (which admittedly made me nervous to sleep with the closet door open) none of them had any real impact on me.
- drdave1114, on 07/02/2008, -1/+17Those movies were great and I watched everyone of them wen I was little, if you were frightened or messed up by them then you need to get over it, its a movie and they were good movies. We already censer ourselves too much, please don't give them more to censer that they forgot about.
- snareguy17, on 07/02/2008, -0/+15I was actually watching that the other day, and when he says "NICE ***** MODEL!", I looked at the box and was kind of baffled by the PG rating.
(also the best scene in the movie) - mywhitenoise, on 07/02/2008, -0/+14"and even though the bit where Beetlejuice himself drops an F-bomb and grabs his balls was cut out on the home video release"
It was!? I remember watching that movie in Beta hundreds of times when I was a kid, and laughing every time at that line. I just saw half of that movie in Universal HD last night and it was also in there. They better not cut it out of the upcoming Blu-Ray release! - squishee, on 07/02/2008, -0/+14HONK HONK
- cjh24, on 07/02/2008, -2/+14My dad bought my four year old nephew Watership Down the otherday, after years of spouting it's gory merits (I'm 25).
Apparently he always thought it a bit above it's rating, and was disappointed he never got around to showing it to my sister, brother and I when we were younger and more impressionable. - AceAMasta, on 07/02/2008, -0/+10I was expecting Spaceballs to be on that list.
- YoWhatDaFuxUp, on 07/02/2008, -0/+9Poltergeist was PG wtf
- lamarre2012, on 07/03/2008, -0/+7PG-13 wasn't around till after Temple of Doom. So beetlejuice would be the only offender. But what was wrong with BeetleJuice?
- tdogg241, on 07/03/2008, -0/+7They even mention that Gremlins was one of two films that led to the creation of PG-13 (the other being Temple of Doom). They're aware that there was no middle-ground rating when most of these films were made, yet all of them (except maybe Jaws) didn't meet the criteria for an R-rating. This article sucks.
- Khanvalescent, on 07/02/2008, -1/+7These movies are all fairly old, and "PG" stood for Parental Guidance and was more true to its name--and much broader--than its current niche rating. Do we really need two ratings under PG-13?
- inactive, on 07/02/2008, -0/+6"Picnic At Hanging Rock" should be added there, considering it's obvious hints of lesbianism, plenty of suggestive explicit nature, a 5 second shot of a bloody dead body, a scene with school girls stripping to their bra's and underwear, some coarse language, and the fact that it holds an extremely taut, disturbing, and enticingly creepy atmosphere.
- codered1322, on 07/03/2008, -1/+7Everyone should watch "This Film Has Not Yet Been Rated" it is a a pretty solid doc about MPAA ridiculousness.
- centran, on 07/02/2008, -0/+6Notice the year all those movies came out? There was some serious changes in the 90s with ratings.
- TheBuz, on 07/03/2008, -1/+7I work at a Hollywood video, and we are only allowed to play PG movies after 9 o clock. And every single movie on that list I play, knowing that they can't get me in trouble because they are only PG. :D
When I put Gremlins on last Halloween, some kid cried. It was awesome. - xtinamo, on 07/03/2008, -0/+6Sounds like you were talking to my parents. I had to lie to them when I was 13 just to see a PG-13 movie. Raiders of the Lost Ark was a childhood staple for me, but I think that because it tied in Christianity they allowed my sisters and I to watch. Their overprotection had me still covering my eyes during the melting face scene until I was nearly a teenager.
- clarked2, on 07/03/2008, -0/+6What about Sixteen Candles? That gets a PG?
- wonderbriefs, on 07/02/2008, -0/+5I can understand now why the older generation are so overly conservative with film ratings. They were really relaxed, then they had to spend hours on end taking care of scared kids. Poltergeist scared the ***** out of me as a kid. Gremlins on the other hand was just awesome.
- Boodie, on 07/03/2008, -1/+6How can Spaceballs not be on the list?
- tdogg241, on 07/03/2008, -0/+5"Suck, suck, suck!"
Yeah, my parents really weren't fans of that part. - reyoo30309, on 07/03/2008, -0/+4I think as a parent you just watch it before your kid then ok it yourself. Parents have this tendency to blame everyone else when they don't do there job. Happens a lot with videogames and its often the rating system that gets the blame.
- scabbers, on 07/03/2008, -0/+4"Big" starring Tom Hanks.
A 12 year old boy who looks like a man has sex with an adult woman. - inactive, on 07/03/2008, -0/+4Hell, I remember getting in trouble when I was a kid for repeating that bit. Like hell they cut it out of the home video release.
- JoeViturbo, on 07/02/2008, -0/+4I think the MPAA is very subjective when it comes to rating movies. I also think that kids are way too sheltered from reality as depicted in movies. I'm not saying they need to go out and watch gory horror movies (that's not reality either). What I'm saying is that the best way to decide if something is acceptable for children or not is to preview it. Additionally, before 1984 there was no PG-13. PG-13 as a rating came about later to clarify the gap between PG and R which is why a lot of these films are rated PG. Most of them did not deserve solid R's.
And I love Watership Down, great book and flick. - dagnabbit, on 07/03/2008, -0/+4We had that on VHS too and I remember that scene. They must have re-released a director's cut or something. Or the writer is completely wrong.
- NathanielJ, on 07/03/2008, -0/+4If you had read the article, you would realize that it said that exact same thing.
- NathanielJ, on 07/03/2008, -0/+4This fact was mentioned in the article. In fact, in the description of the very first item on the list, it is mentioned that that movie was partly responsible for the advent of the PG-13 rating. It is also mentioned that some of the titles were originally slated to have R ratings or should have had R ratings.
- mywhitenoise, on 07/02/2008, -1/+5The author of the article is coming off as one giant pussy. I could see why some of those films COULD be rated PG-13, but none of them traumatized me as a child...and I was around 5 years old when I saw most of those.
- Haoie, on 07/03/2008, -0/+3Shirley you're not serious?
- nickymouse, on 07/03/2008, -0/+3WHY ISN'T SIXTEEN CANDLES ON THE LIST. In the first 30 mins of the flick we have a scene of full frontal in the shower.
- KaiUno, on 07/03/2008, -0/+3My mom even went so far as to hype up Poltergeist back in the day It was the freakiest thing she ever saw, she told me and I wasn't allowed to see it. Of course, that only spurred me on. I didn't sleep for weeks after seeing it.
Same thing with the first Nightmare on Elm Street by the way. Ah, fear. Somehow I miss that 13 yo scared in the dark in bed drawing parallels between the Freelings and my own family feeling. - unixjanitor, on 07/03/2008, -0/+3oh my god, until I read this article I thought Watership Down was some crazy nightmare I had as a kid
- valis, on 07/02/2008, -1/+4I made the mistake of watching Poltergeist with my son when he was quite young. I figured it might be a bit over the top, but he really liked ghost stories. I had to shield him at one point (the closet scene) when he started shaking and hugging on to me very tight. I stopped the movie at that point.
He says he still remembers how much it scared him. He's over 30 now. - inactive, on 07/03/2008, -1/+4Hell, what we need is a list of movies that were rated R that didn't deserve an R rating. Right off the bat, "The Birdcage" comes to mind - I can't figure out what the hell that movie has done to deserve an R rating other than portray a homosexual couple.
- SquishyMon, on 07/03/2008, -0/+3I think that film brings up very good points about the broken ratings system, but it also gets sidetracked by the whole gonzo-journalism track-down-the-rating-people thing.
- v0lrath, on 07/03/2008, -0/+3Ummmm... what?
- GoteamVenture, on 07/03/2008, -0/+3"Think again, I tell you, as I relate the personal trauma of one child of nine years old, who certainly expected to watch a cartoon involving the frolics and fun of bunny-rabbits, and instead got a dark, violent, and disturbing parable of the unrelenting cruelty of nature."
OMG so true. Watership down seriously traumatized me, like to the point that I have a slight aversion to bunnies. - teamgwho, on 07/03/2008, -0/+3I'm looking at this list and thinking to myself, man how things have changed. I think if there were a PG-13 at the time those films came out, then yes they probably would've been rated PG-13. If they were released now they would probably still be rated PG because they are tame by today's standards. Personally I have no use for the MPAA or their ratings because they are subjective and are not used even-handedly. Thank you for the movie "This Film has not been rated" for opening my eyes to the hypocrisy and ***** that is the MPAA.
I choose instead to read reviews, find out for myself what the movie is about and what it contains and then decide whether it's appropriate for my kid. Since my son likes horror movies and even worked with my wife & I in a haunted attraction last fall, I have no issue with him seeing a film like Wanted. Did I mention he's 9? I made that decision and I stand by it because he's my kid and I know he can handle this stuff. he hears quote unquote bad language in real life and he knows that it's fake and not to be taken seriously. Most other kids it might not be appropriate but that's for their parents to decide. not me, not the MPAA. ***** the ratings. - Walcherina, on 07/03/2008, -2/+5***** the MPAA!
- cankillar, on 07/03/2008, -0/+3More surprising is that Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis) says "*****!" And it almost goes completely unnoticed.
- cj485, on 07/03/2008, -0/+3watership down is a great book.
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