Movies that didn't need to be rated-R

[CyberpunkCentral]

Birds of Prey

[The Debts]

The first Expendables really didn't take much advantage of its R rating in my eyes.

[mwynn]

The Matrix.

[Cremildo]

Prometheus. It was rather tame compared to the previous Alien films.

[The Debts]

Originally Posted by Cremildo

Prometheus. It was rather tame compared to the previous Alien films.

Especially its follow up Covenant, which is a full blown gorefest.

[Chaotic]

Don’t be Afraid of the Dark. the guy knocking the woman’s teeth out at the beginning wasn’t even shown.

[traths]

There Will Be Blood

[David McMinn]

"Munich" did not need to be rated R. Could have been a PG-13 or NC-17. It was pretty mild considering the subject it was dealing with.

[Tristen]

A Good Day to Die Hard. It might as well have been PG-13, such a stupid film to be R rated

[Jay H.]

Army of Darkness. Sam Raimi was aiming for a PG-13, but the MPAA was angry with him for releasing the first two Evil Dead films unrated. Bruce Campbell said they had to fight for an R-rating, as the MPAA tried to give it an NC-17!

Also, it may have been R-worthy in 1980, but John Carpenter's The Fog would easily get a PG-13 now.

[CyberpunkCentral]

There is movie I've seen where I was like, why the **** is this rated-R, but I'm forgetting the movie. I'll post it here when I remember.

[Samus Aran]

Young Guns shouldn't be R today. Young Guns II was PG-13 for basically the same content and that came out only two years later.

[Sage00]

The Gallows.

[BladeRunner2007]

BvS (UE)

[RodChester]

Caligula.

[Smithe]

The King's Speech is pretty much the poster-child for this. Without one line of expletives it's a PG-13 film. I don't remember it well but it probably could have gotten away with even a PG (barring that line of dialogue).

[Himmel]

The Conjuring... There was no language, nudity, or gore,

[Richard Graham]

Originally Posted by CyberpunkCentral

Birds of Prey

I'd say it's the

[Show spoiler]face cutting

scene.

The fact that Black Mask

[Show spoiler]promises to not cut the females face, then changes his mind adds elements of torture.

It's an unsettling scene for R-rated in my opinion.

[KManX89]

Originally Posted by Smithe

The King's Speech is pretty much the poster-child for this. Without one line of expletives it's a PG-13 film. I don't remember it well but it probably could have gotten away with even a PG (barring that line of dialogue).

Ironically, there WAS a PG-13 edit that redubs all but one of the F bombs and it completely undercuts that whole scene. Basically, Colin Firth says **** once after being mocked for not saying THE "F" word and the rest are shits, and the speech therapist gets up and celebrates like he won the damn lottery (because he was SUPPOSED to let out a string of expletives) even though he just mocked him for saying shit repeatedly earlier because "it wasn't dirty enough".

There's the bit from CoolBadFlick's censorship video for context. It takes a scene that was pivotal to the growth of his character overcoming his speech impediment and completely ruins that scene, thereby undercutting the end of the movie since he learned to speak from a scene that never should've friggin' happened (there's the censorship again).

[Lee A Stewart]