Name A Movie Where You Disagreed With The Rating (G, PG, PG-13, R, etc.)

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  1. tonyc

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    I'm sure there are lots of good examples you can name.
     
  2. MekkaGodzilla

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    Midnight Cowboy (1969) Rated X
     
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  3. balzac

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    "Beneath the Planet of the Apes" from 1970 features a fair amount of blood (fake-looking, but it's supposed to be blood), shows the hole in the head of a character who gets shot in the forehead, and has the entire planet being destroyed, and it received a G rating.

    A shot-for-shot remake would surely at least get a PG if not a PG-13 today.
     
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  4. Maggie

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    Along the same lines as Midnight Cowboy, any film rated R for a few instances of "coarse" language. The King's Speech is a well-known recent example.

    I think a lot of graphic exploitation horror movies that get R ratings should probably be rated more harshly, while a lot of movies with relatively benign sex-related scenes (such as Bent) should not have received NC-17 ratings.

    A rare example of an American film I think should have been rated more harshly was The Neon Demon, which I enjoyed but I think ought to have qualified for an NC-17 rating.
     
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  5. Ken_McAlinden

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    1969's True Grit is a bit on the bloody side for a "G" rating, but that was the early days of the ratings system when it was still evolving.
     
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  6. Vahan

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    Good question.

    The School of Rock
    immediately comes to mind. It was rated PG-13, but nothing in it screamed such rating. PG would have been better.
     
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  7. Encuentro

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    Bruno getting an R rating. If any movie deserved the NC-17 rating, it was that one.
     
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  8. halfjapanese

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    A Clockwork Orange
    X-rated when I first saw it.
     
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  9. The Panda

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    I saw Ryan's Daughter in the theater, having read about the hubbub over the PG rating. There was one close up shot of Sara Miles' ______ and it wasn't a flash. It should have been an R based on the rules they had at the time.
     
  10. balzac

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    My guess is that the PG-13 may be due to one particular scene where Jack Black's character is meeting with all of the parents. It has been probably 10 years since I saw the movie, so I had to grab this from IMDB where hopefully they got the quote right. In trying to describe his enthusiasm for teaching the class, he says:

    I have been touched by your kids... and I'm pretty sure that I've touched them.
     
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  11. keefer1970

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    The original "Halloween" was rated "R" in 1978 but I bet it would get a PG-13 if it were released today.
     
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  12. lbangs

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    I thought this once, but I was only recalling the rather tame violence and forgot about the breasts.

    In the 80s, perhaps, but now? I'm not sure. There seem to be far fewer breasts in PG-13 films now (and as a boy who was 13 around the time that rating came about, believe me, I knew such things)...

    Shalom, y'all!

    L. Bangs
     
  13. Spaghettiows

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    I have no doubt that it would get NC-17 today.
     
  14. Cheepnik

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    Is there even such a thing as a PG movie anymore? Since PG-13 was introduced, the milder rating seems to have slowly vanished, which is funny since material that would have gotten a PG rating 40 years ago would now earn a PG-13 if not an R.

    To answer the OP, there have been lots of movies great for teens that have unfortunately gotten slapped with an R rating because of brief nudity or one too many effenheimers.
     
  15. Spaghettiows

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    There's a lot less nudity in general in movies today. And you'll never see the "nether regions" any more in an R-rated film. Revenge of The Nerds would probably get NC-17 now.
     
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  16. Cheepnik

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    Not a chance. It barely reaches the current threshold for R.
     
  17. Oatsdad

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    "PG" is often the domain of animated films. Even Disney films - for eons the bastion of "G" ratings - are now commonly "PG"...
     
  18. Oatsdad

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    Not accurate. Cripes, Viggo Mortensen showed his dick and got an Oscar nomination for it! :laugh:
     
  19. Also the description of groupies coming from li'l Miranda Cosgrove - "they're sluts who sleep with the band!" - and some onscreen and implied drinking.
     
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  20. dr jazz

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    Argo. Too many f bombs but nothing else. Had to go with my 16 year old son as he was interested in the history behind it. Should have been pg 13 not r
     
  21. Monosterio

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    I recall the 1972 Papillon containing quite a bit of violence and nudity for its time, yet being rated PG. (Not surprisingly, Allied Artists appealed its original MPAA rating of R.)
     
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  22. Spaghettiows

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    True, if you're talking about a flapping wang. But I'm pretty sure that female pubic hair is now off-limits if you want to maintain an R rating. Boy, I hope this kind of talk won't shut down the thread.
     
  23. Spaghettiows

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    Seriously? With all of those graphic rape scenes and implied sex with underage girls? A Clockwork Orange is pretty nasty stuff. You must have watched a different movie than I did.
     
  24. Logan's Run surprised me (and as a kid I enjoyed it of course) with Jenny Agutter's nudity. It got a PG as I recall.
     
  25. jupiter8

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    "The Beastmaster" and "Embryo" also had a lot of nudity for PG flicks (not that the teenaged me complained)
     
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