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DominicCobb said:

Temple of Doom is probably the only movie that ever scared me. The heart scene quite freaked me out when I saw it (must have been 6 or 7 at the time), and even though I enjoyed the rest of the movie I kinda avoided it for the next couple of years.

I’ve often wondered what happened with that one, It’s really just a horror movie, so how did it manage to get an initial pg and later pg-13 rating? didn’t the British sensors make george cut that scene to avoid a full blown R rating?

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It was still PG the last time I caught it at a revival screening several years back. It and Gremlins led to the PG-13 rating being created though. Parents still drop their kids off at a PG-13 without a second thought.
The whole controversy was quite laughable considering all the smart kids knew which theaters would let them into R rated horror films unchallenged. Even Fangoria magazine offered tips on how to see really scary movies without your parents.

The MPAA changes it’s mind on what one can get away with in a PG film more than most people change their socks. I don’t think the UK has a R rating.

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SilverWook said:

I don’t think the UK has a R rating.

I think the 18 certificate is the comparable choice. The BBFC uses age requirements like 12 (PG) and 18 (R), but I don’t know much about it beyond that.

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UK ratings are:

  • U (equivalent to US “G”)
  • PG (equivalent to US “PG”)
  • 12/12A (equivalent to US “PG-13;” from here on out, no one under the specified age is allowed in the theater or to purchase a copy, period - EXCEPT for 12A, which is theaters-only and a recent addition; under 12 requires adult accompaniment; 12A movies are all 12 on home video, so no one under 12 is allowed to buy them at all)
  • 15 (kind of a split equivalent to either a hard “PG-13” or a soft “R,” depending on the movie)
  • 18 (equivalent to a hard “R” or an “NC-17”)

So if a movie is rated R in the US, it might be either a 15 or 18 in the UK. And the other ratings aren’t 100% for sure analogs, either - some PG-13 US movies might be PG in the UK, some might be 12A/12, some might be 15.

The other important thing to note is that UK ratings are mandatory for all media - it’s illegal to distribute a movie unrated in the UK, whereas in the US it’s not a law at all, just generally difficult to market and distribute unless it’s digital or home video.

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ChainsawAsh said:

UK ratings are:

  • U (equivalent to US “G”)
  • PG (equivalent to US “PG”)
  • 12/12A (equivalent to US “PG-13;” from here on out, no one under the specified age is allowed in the theater or to purchase a copy, period - EXCEPT for 12A, which is theaters-only and a recent addition; under 12 requires adult accompaniment; 12A movies are all 12 on home video, so no one under 12 is allowed to buy them at all)
  • 15 (kind of a split equivalent to either a hard “PG-13” or a soft “R,” depending on the movie)
  • 18 (equivalent to a hard “R” or an “NC-17”)

So if a movie is rated R in the US, it might be either a 15 or 18 in the UK. And the other ratings aren’t 100% for sure analogs, either - some PG-13 US movies might be PG in the UK, some might be 12A/12, some might be 15.

The other important thing to note is that UK ratings are mandatory for all media - it’s illegal to distribute a movie unrated in the UK, whereas in the US it’s not a law at all, just generally difficult to market and distribute unless it’s digital or home video.

Aye, in the UK, Temple Of Doom had a ‘PG’ rating back in 1984, but has been a ‘12’ since 2012, and there was a 5 minute difference between the cinema and the video releases back in the 80’s:-

http://bbfc.co.uk/releases/indiana-jones-and-temple-doom-1984

There is an R18 rating in the UK - usually reserved for specially licenced sex shops and cinemas.
An E rating also exists for ‘exempt’ - usually sport, music and educational videos - though I can’t remember seeing one for a long time now; the E rating, not the R18, obviously 😃

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Thanks for the local context. All this stuff I picked up ages ago out of curiosity and a paper I did on the MPAA in college.

I seem to remember there being a lighter rating for kids, too - “Uc” or something, maybe?

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There is an R18 rating in the UK - usually reserved for specially licenced sex shops and cinemas.
An E rating also exists for ‘exempt’ - usually sport, music and educational videos - though I can’t remember seeing one for a long time now; the E rating, not the R18, obviously 😃

Spend a lot of time in those sex shops, do you? 😉

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ChainsawAsh said:

Thanks for the local context. All this stuff I picked up ages ago out of curiosity and a paper I did on the MPAA in college.

I seem to remember there being a lighter rating for kids, too - “Uc” or something, maybe?

oojason said:

There is an R18 rating in the UK - usually reserved for specially licenced sex shops and cinemas.
An E rating also exists for ‘exempt’ - usually sport, music and educational videos - though I can’t remember seeing one for a long time now; the E rating, not the R18, obviously 😃

Spend a lot of time in those sex shops, do you? 😉

Ah, nice one (on the MPAA paper) 😃

Yes, the old ‘Uc’ used to be for releases for younger children for on video (the sort of stuff toddlers and under 5’s would happily watch) - though I haven’t seen one (a title with a Uc 😉) in years now.

 

This is site normally quite decent for differing cuts and edits for movies and their various releases (and does often contain pictures of comparisons) - though it’s not too great for Temple Of Doom - http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=4643

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