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Jaws is only rated PG?

Posted on 2/14/16 at 9:14 pm
Posted by FishQuiz
Denham Springs
Member since Apr 2011
456 posts
Posted on 2/14/16 at 9:14 pm
This seems crazy to me. I can't think of a movie that scared more people with a PG rating. Would it be rated R if it came out today?
Posted by dawgfan24348
Member since Oct 2011
49254 posts
Posted on 2/14/16 at 9:14 pm to
It would be PG-13 but that didn't exist yet
Posted by SW2SCLA
We all float down here
Member since Feb 2009
22807 posts
Posted on 2/14/16 at 9:17 pm to
I didn't know pg-13 didn't exist at the time
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
98169 posts
Posted on 2/14/16 at 9:17 pm to
Violent movies are as American as apple pie, as long as they're little or no secks involved.
Posted by BCMCubs
Colorado
Member since Nov 2011
22146 posts
Posted on 2/14/16 at 9:18 pm to
Wasn't Grease PG as well?
Posted by lsufan9193969700
3 miles from B.R.
Member since Sep 2003
55108 posts
Posted on 2/14/16 at 9:21 pm to
PG-13 didn't exist until parents complained about Temple of Doom...Red Dawn was then slapped with a PG-13 rating.
Posted by Jones
Member since Oct 2005
90471 posts
Posted on 2/14/16 at 9:23 pm to
Look at the movies of that time period. Go look at the ratings of some movies like bad news bears (jews, spi**,n******,etc) and laugh at the ratings. That was a kids movie rated PG lol
Posted by CocomoLSU
Inside your dome.
Member since Feb 2004
150633 posts
Posted on 2/14/16 at 9:55 pm to
Yes. Jaws is rated PG, and there is actually full frontal nudity in it.
Posted by jdaute2
lafayette, LA
Member since Nov 2012
1759 posts
Posted on 2/14/16 at 10:20 pm to
Airplane was rated PG. ?? I listened to a podcast about the MPAA and how twisted and corrupt it actually is. The whole rating game is just a way to get movies into theaters. There is no actual rule that any of these movies have to be rated but the production studios risk the theaters not showing their film if there is no rating. And as long as no nudity is involved, they can be pretty damn violent and still get a PG-13 rating.
Posted by ManBearTiger
BRLA
Member since Jun 2007
21835 posts
Posted on 2/14/16 at 11:13 pm to
The 70s Romeo and Juliet was rated pg but had a good bit of bewbs
Posted by Dr RC
The Money Pit
Member since Aug 2011
58054 posts
Posted on 2/14/16 at 11:17 pm to
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And as long as no nudity is involved, they can be pretty damn violent and still get a PG-13 rating.




thats always been the most fricked up thing about the ratings system.

its pretty insane that they somehow consider boobs to be far more offensive than people getting shot the frick up.
Posted by Seldom Seen
Member since Feb 2016
39990 posts
Posted on 2/15/16 at 12:50 am to
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Yes. Jaws is rated PG, and there is actually full frontal nudity in it.



PG aint what it used to be.
Posted by mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Member since Nov 2015
35467 posts
Posted on 2/15/16 at 1:29 am to
PG-13 ruined so much....films avoided it as soon as the rating came out...just like they avoided X...so to accommodate and all the bad connotation's it carried, despite just being a rating higher than R - as you could have very violent movies with no nudity, rated X and therefore unreleasable, so the MPAA invented NC-17.

After that, films became all-in on PG or strictly R. The nanufactured middle ground became unacceptable to studios.
Posted by LooseCannon22282
Mobile
Member since May 2008
33738 posts
Posted on 2/15/16 at 2:00 am to
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Yes. Jaws is rated PG, and there is actually full frontal nudity in it


wasn't it when the girl at the beginning went skinny dipping?

I guess I know the answer now that I sounded it out but they show an underwater shot thaT caused the tracking on our original VHS tape to get screwed up.

This post was edited on 2/15/16 at 2:02 am
Posted by PhilipMarlowe
Member since Mar 2013
20484 posts
Posted on 2/15/16 at 2:14 am to
It blows my mind that the original bad news bears was rated pg. n-bombs, f-bombs, all sorts of bombs were dropped in that glorious movie.
Posted by RollTide1987
Augusta, GA
Member since Nov 2009
65030 posts
Posted on 2/15/16 at 2:55 am to
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After that, films became all-in on PG or strictly R. The nanufactured middle ground became unacceptable to studios.


This was the case in the 90s. I remember being a little kid in that decade seeing all these cool TV spots for movies I wanted to see. Most of them ended up being R and my parents were the type that would sit through a PG-13 movie before deciding whether it was right for me to see it.

The rating for these films were either G, PG, or R. PG-13 didn't seem to start being used consistently until the late-90s.
Posted by mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Member since Nov 2015
35467 posts
Posted on 2/15/16 at 3:57 am to
It was this new weird thing...with a Scarlett letter - the early 90's were the fruition.... Studios didn't know what to do and were afraid teens couldn't carry films...different today.

But they did go Puritan, what used to be PG went stupid....with a rating nobody wanted. They wanted all audience's or just adults.
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I think it helped ruin movies by making everything geared toward children and all comic book movies. Teens use to watch Jaws, now they watch the Fantastic Four.
This post was edited on 2/15/16 at 3:59 am
Posted by GetCocky11
Calgary, AB
Member since Oct 2012
51268 posts
Posted on 2/15/16 at 6:56 am to
quote:

thats always been the most fricked up thing about the ratings system.

its pretty insane that they somehow consider boobs to be far more offensive than people getting shot the frick up.


Yep, I don't get it either. You can have a guy's head get blown away in a PG-13 movie...but as soon as they show a pair of boobs, R R R R R!
Posted by Captain_Awesome06
Nashville, TN
Member since Aug 2013
820 posts
Posted on 2/15/16 at 7:08 am to
LINK

I ran across this a few months ago. Pretty interesting and gives some explanation to the PG-13 rating use.
Posted by MorbidTheClown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2015
65814 posts
Posted on 2/15/16 at 7:36 am to
crazy how the ratings were back then. I ran across Logan's Run the other day. watched the last half of the movie and there were tits and arse all over the screen. It was rated PG.
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