SlyTF1 wrote:Evil_the_Nub wrote:Autobot032 wrote:5150 Cruiser wrote:Autobot032 wrote: Actually, this isn't quite correct. You could use the f-word once per film, in PG, in the '80s. Notable examples: Beetlejuice, BIG.
BIG was the game changer. When the boy used it, it made the MPAA crack down. That, along with a few other things made them change their minds.
One use, no matter the connotation behind it, will automatically net you a PG-13.
You may use up to three of them in a PG-13, as long as they're spaced out and without a sexual connotation. The instant it becomes sexual, it's automatically R.
Looks like you got me on a technicality, because i was thinking of beetle juice when i was typing my past post.
Good Eye. But regardless, it wasn't the F-bomb that recieved iDOTM it's PG-13 rating since it wasn't used in the theater version.
BUt it sems that the MPAA comitte can in fact over rule this if they feel it nessasary. BUt it seems they do that more with the transition between PG-13 and R ratings.
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They certainly can. Which is kinda messed up. I've seen movies that clearly needed a much heavier rating and ones that weren't even close to a PG-13 but got it anyway.
The ratings system needs a massive overhaul, with public input to help them pin down exactly what goes where.
I agree with that, I don't understand how a few words or nudity is considered worse than horrific violence. What were the Indiana Jones movies rated? PG or PG-13, yet they have peoples faces being melted off, heads exploding, hearts getting ripped out, and people being burned alive. I think that's the kind of stuff they should be concerned with, not a few harmless words or body parts.
Holy damn! I didn't know they allowed such violence in PS/PG-13 movies! I remember how in the Star Wars original trillogy, people got limbs cut off all the time and they where only PG. I always wondered why.
You could actually get away with quite a bit in that time frame. ('75-'85) Gremlins is another movie that pushed audiences and the MPAA to their limit. Cited too much gore and they were right. Spielberg didn't fight 'em on it, in fact, he spoke to Jack Valenti, personally and helped him create PG-13.
Oddly enough, Gremlins has never been recertified. Though it should be. If it returns to theaters as a lead in for the rumored sequel/reboot, it'll most likely need to be recertified and grab a PG-13.
Once PG-13 came along, the directors tried to push limits, but not at first. It took time for them to go really taboo. Today? Taboo is normal. The f-bomb in a TF movie would've never gotten through in an earlier time frame. The board is much more lax than they once were.
To be fair, it was a time of major change. The '60s were free love and nobody cared much. The '70s were decadence and over indulgence and dealt some odd and twisted blows to cinemas. The '80s were about greed, anger and violence and it was reflected in the films that were made.
Now, we're desensitized somewhat. We don't even flinch on most things.
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