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I'm really confused about the whole system. How do they figure this stuff out?

Films like Amadeus and THX-1138 are rated "R", but recently I saw "Soylent Green", one of the most violent and disturbing sci-fi movies I've ever seen, rated "PG". What the heck?

It seems like PG movies from the seventies were a lot more raunchy than R movies of today...
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Logans Run was rated PG and had a lot of nudity.
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Of course, you have to keep in mind that PG-13 didn't exist back then, so the board was just deciding between PG and R for all those movies.

There is no lingerie in space…

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Originally posted by: Davis
I'm really confused about the whole system. How do they figure this stuff out?

Films like Amadeus and THX-1138 are rated "R", but recently I saw "Soylent Green", one of the most violent and disturbing sci-fi movies I've ever seen, rated "PG". What the heck?

It seems like PG movies from the seventies were a lot more raunchy than R movies of today...


What is Soylent Green?
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Don't see it. You'll kill Charleton Heston if you do!!!
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Originally posted by: sean wookie


What is Soylent Green?


Solyent Green is PEOPLE!!!!

...Sorry... he asked.

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It wasn't until 1984 or '85 that the PG-13 rating came out. Before then, the R rating was reserved for ONLY severly violent/disturbing/strongly sexual films. If a film was rated R back then, it was bad. No questions asked. Not like today, when you only have to say fuck three times to garner an R rating.

Fuck fuck fuck.

There. This post is rated R.

Anyway, PG was pretty broad, and for years there had been parental outcry for the content in PG films. The last straws were films like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and another Spielberg film, Poltergeist. Both graphic and disturbing, but not severe enough to get an R. (Not back then anyway.) Spielberg himself suggested a PG-13 rating, and it was created. But when the rating was still new, the MPAA was still fairly leniant on films. For instance, Mel Brook's Spaceballs, which would most likely garner a PG-13 or even an R today got a PG, and PG-13 had been around for a few years. The rating really took off in the early ninties, which was also the start of the MPAA being comprised of retards.

Ratings make zero sense anymore. They give an R rating to films that have no discernable R rated content in them, and an R to films that should be NC-17. (Think Jackass.) Ratings are just silly today. Anyone see snakes on a plane? It was rated R for good measure, but the list of reasons for it had sex BEFORE gore and violence. It had hardly any sex, but the MPAA thinks seeing a boob is worse than seeing a decapitation.

Sorry for the rant, I just think the MPAA is pretty stupid.
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For a look into the Movie Ratings System a movie called "This Movie Is Not Rated" has recently come out.

http://www3.ifctv.com/thisfilm/about.php

From what i've read, the movie opens up the issue about leaving ratings to a small group of individuals, but fails to make a cohesive statement which is easily understood. The movie gets weighted down suppostedly on the dirt of getting to know the current regime of Ratings Givers.

Here's Roger Ebert's Review:
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060914/REVIEWS/609140301/-1/RSS

The MPAA insists that it has procedures that it applies evenhandedly. But the procedures are secret so nobody can tell what they are. If something is not allowed, it's because it's against the invisible rules.
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Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
Don't see it. You'll kill Charleton Heston if you do!!!


Heh. Is it wrong that I was thinking the exact same thing?!

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
Don't see it. You'll kill Charleton Heston if you do!!!


Heh. Is it wrong that I was thinking the exact same thing?!


I already do.