Funny MPAA ratings

[Chloenator]

Originally Posted by Mandalorian

I don't know about funny wording in the descriptions, but I get a kick out of PG movies from the 80's and before that would be borderline R, if not R, today.

Yeah, I was watching Sixteen Candles again the other day and laughed at how it is PG. If the same movie was to be made today, it would definitely be R or at least a hard PG-13. I mean, Molly Ringwald dropped the F bomb, there was a shower scene involving a nude woman and there was sexual innuendo throughout the entire film.

[Dr_Bedlo]

A Room with a View got an X when they still had those (prior to NC-17). Basically for a couple of guys running around a pond in their birthday suits and you could see their bits and pieces. It eventually got released unrated, and I had to show i.d. to watch it theatrically!

[Thomas Guycott]

It's kind of funny how many PG-13 films have been taking their permitted F-bombs in the last five years.

[BLUEGRASS]

Here's a few more good ones:

• Apollo 13 - Rated PG for Language and Emotional Intensity
  
• Jersey Girl - Rated PG-13 for Language and Sexual Content including Frank Dialogue

Also, I find it funny that Blade is rated R for "Strong Pervasive Vampire Violence and Gore, Language, and Brief Sexuality" but Blade II is also rated R for "Strong Pervasive Violence, Language, some Drug Use and Sexual Content." So I guess "vampire" violence was more of a talking point in 1998 vs. 2002

[Rich65]

Jaws is rated PG and it has plenty of gore, now it would be either PG-13 or more than likely R.
Guns of The Magnificent Seven is rated G. There is non stop shooting and people dying but the big one even though it is not shown

[Show spoiler] is a scene of prisoners getting their heads trampled by horses.

[BLUEGRASS]

The Monuments Men is rated PG-13 for "some images of war violence and historical smoking."

So is modern day smoking better or worse than "historical" smoking?

[imsounoriginal]

Originally Posted by BLUEGRASS

The Monuments Men is rated PG-13 for "some images of war violence and historical smoking."

So is modern day smoking better or worse than "historical" smoking?

I've seen that pop up more and more recently, just meant to say that it's smoking shown in a historical context because everyone did it back then. I think Imitation Game had a similar note. The wording is poor but I get what they're trying to say.

[Monterey Jack]

Originally Posted by imsounoriginal

I've seen that pop up more and more recently, just meant to say that it's smoking shown in a historical context because everyone did it back then. I think Imitation Game had a similar note. The wording is poor but I get what they're trying to say.

Reminds me of how the Miyazaki film The Wind Rises was slapped with a PG-13 for "disturbing imagery and smoking", and how the audience I saw it with kept cracking up whenever a character would stub a cigarette out in an overflowing ashtray and immediately light another one.

[Markgway]

Originally Posted by Dr_Bedlo

A Room with a View got an X when they still had those (prior to NC-17). Basically for a couple of guys running around a pond in their birthday suits and you could see their bits and pieces. It eventually got released unrated, and I had to show i.d. to watch it theatrically!

That was an uncut PG in the UK.

[Markgway]

Originally Posted by Buscemi

Psycho was rated R in 1983 for a forthcoming home video release, before the creation of the PG-13 rating (the much more violent Psycho II could have also played a role in the R rating). If re-rated today, it would be easily a PG-13 but there were some protests from conservative groups over re-rating pre-1984 titles at the time so re-submissions of older movies have rarely happened as a result.

I still think Psycho would be an 'R' today. Naked woman stabbed a dozen times in a shower by a transvestite, while she screams her head off, standing in a pool of blood and flesh. No chance of that getting a PG-13.

I believe Psycho was given a theatrical reissue along with a few other Hitchcock classics in 1983 hence the rating.

[Chloenator]

Originally Posted by Markgway

I still think Psycho would be an 'R' today. Naked woman stabbed a dozen times in a shower by a transvestite, while she screams her head off, standing in a pool of blood and flesh. No chance of that getting a PG-13.

I believe Psycho was given a theatrical reissue along with a few other Hitchcock classics in 1983 hence the rating.

I think it would be PG-13. No actual nudity was shown and while the scene was violent, it wasn't overly graphic to warrant a harsher rating.

[Markgway]

Originally Posted by Sad Beautiful Tragic

I think it would be PG-13. No actual nudity was shown and while the scene was violent, it wasn't overly graphic to warrant a harsher rating.

Nothing to do with it being graphic. It's the tone and intensity of the scene.

[pksmith74]

Pink Flamingos (1997) – Rated NC-17 for a wide range of perversions in explicit detail.

Coneheads (1993) – Rated PG for comic nudity and some double entendre humor.

Tokyo Decadence (1993) – Rated NC-17 for strong, explicit, sado-masochistic sexuality.

Grumpier Old Men (1995) - Rated PG-13 for salty language and innuendos.

[Chloenator]

Originally Posted by Markgway

Nothing to do with it being graphic. It's the tone and intensity of the scene.

Yeah, but it's the only scene in the movie that is like that and I personally don't think it warrants an R rating. I've seen plenty of PG-13 films that are more intense than that.

[Buscemi]

Originally Posted by Markgway

I still think Psycho would be an 'R' today. Naked woman stabbed a dozen times in a shower by a transvestite, while she screams her head off, standing in a pool of blood and flesh. No chance of that getting a PG-13.

I believe Psycho was given a theatrical reissue along with a few other Hitchcock classics in 1983 hence the rating.

No nudity is shown nor is the knife ever shown piercing the skin. Also, the blood's impact is muted due to the film being shot in black and white.

If a film like No Good Deed could get a PG-13 with much more intense and graphic violence, Psycho and its one sequence of violence could pass by with a PG-13 today.

And related to the 1983 theatrical reissues: Psycho wasn't one of them. It was Rear Window, Vertigo, Rope, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and The Trouble with Harry. All five had been out of circulation for many years and Universal acquired them from the Hitchcock estate as there was money to be made (Rear Window and Vertigo did rather well). Psycho had been on television many times by then and really had no remaining theatrical life at that point.

[FlyBry]

GODZILLA VS. BIOLLANTE - Rated PG for Traditional Godzilla Violence.

Ah yes, Godzilla violence.... Next to Thanksgiving, one of my favorite traditions.

[spectre08]

the one for Love should just say NC-17 - Gaspar Noe

[Monterey Jack]

Originally Posted by Sad Beautiful Tragic

I think it would be PG-13. No actual nudity was shown and while the scene was violent, it wasn't overly graphic to warrant a harsher rating.

Exactly...any episode of Hannibal had ten times the amount of gore as Psycho, and that aired on network television.

[cynatnite]

We rented Jefferson in Paris years ago. Husband pointed out the rating and we had a bit of a laugh.

"Rated PG-13 for mature theme, some images of violence and a bawdy puppet show."

[P-Rock]

MPAA, BBFC... Why does it even exist? Thank God ours got killed off in the '70's.