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Watched Beetlejuice with my 9yo last night
Posted on 9/17/24 at 6:47 am
Posted on 9/17/24 at 6:47 am
Holy crap. How was this rated PG with Keaton dropping F-bombs?
I'm not a prude but I wasn't expecting that. I thought even one F bomb got an automatic R rating.. see Snakes on a Plane.
The movie was out in 1988 so I would have assumed it would have least warranted a PG13 rating.
Tl;Dr CAD rewatched Beetlejuice for the first time in 30 years
I'm not a prude but I wasn't expecting that. I thought even one F bomb got an automatic R rating.. see Snakes on a Plane.
The movie was out in 1988 so I would have assumed it would have least warranted a PG13 rating.
Tl;Dr CAD rewatched Beetlejuice for the first time in 30 years
This post was edited on 9/17/24 at 6:49 am
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Posted on 9/17/24 at 7:09 am to CAD703X
check IMDB parents guide before you let your kid watch a movie. It takes 10 seconds.
Posted on 9/17/24 at 7:13 am to CAD703X
You're allowed one f bomb for PG13, though a few movies have gotten away with two.
Posted on 9/17/24 at 7:14 am to CAD703X
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I'm not a prude but I wasn't expecting that. I thought even one F bomb got an automatic R rating.. see Snakes on a Plane.
PG 13 is notorious for letting 1 F bomb, that’s why in the new one they bleep out the second one
Beetle juice being PG is a bit odd, ratings were a lot different back then, PG13 had only been around since 1984 so guessing they were still finding the level there. Ratings historically have a lot of odd instances like that, I watched a documentary on it once and how much backdoor poltics plays into those things, or did for a long time
Posted on 9/17/24 at 7:41 am to CAD703X
we did the same thing with our 11 year old and was shocked honestly its been like that with almost all the old movies we show our kids
for all the bitching we do about kids movies today, the 80s/90s kids movies had all kinds of sex and language in them, far more than they do today
Posted on 9/17/24 at 7:47 am to Salmon
My oldest loves Greek mythology so I was like great let’s wash clash of the titans since it was PG. One min in just tits and arse fully out
Posted on 9/17/24 at 7:50 am to St Augustine
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My oldest loves Greek mythology so I was like great let’s wash clash of the titans since it was PG. One min in just tits and arse fully out
My 5th grade teacher made this exact mistake
I still remember her leaping out of her desk chair to turn the TV off
Posted on 9/17/24 at 7:56 am to Salmon
I miss 80s boobs. Almost every movie had that one scene...
Posted on 9/17/24 at 7:58 am to CAD703X
I was more shocked by the birthing scenes. My daughter was going to take her 7yr old. I put a stop to that.
Posted on 9/17/24 at 8:00 am to CAD703X
Spaceballs was somehow PG despite raunchy jokes with the big one being an F bomb near the end of the movie.
That’s how it was back then… violence and sex got you PG13 or R post-84 but foul language didn’t do it unless Eddie Murphy was dropping F bombs ever 30 seconds.
And Clash was pre-1984, for the person who mentioned it, so it was in the same class as Poltergeist, Escape From Alcatraz, and a number of other movies which would have been PG13 or higher if released later than they were.
That’s how it was back then… violence and sex got you PG13 or R post-84 but foul language didn’t do it unless Eddie Murphy was dropping F bombs ever 30 seconds.
And Clash was pre-1984, for the person who mentioned it, so it was in the same class as Poltergeist, Escape From Alcatraz, and a number of other movies which would have been PG13 or higher if released later than they were.
Posted on 9/17/24 at 8:03 am to CAD703X
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I'm not a prude but I wasn't expecting that. I thought even one F bomb got an automatic R rating.. see Snakes on a Plane.
This doesn’t make sense. That movie has tons of F bombs doesnt it? Famously?
And you get one frick in a PG-13 movie. Also famously.
ETA: pretty sure Jaws is PG and has straight up nudity in it. As someone else pointed out, ratings can be weird. Especially on older movies around that time because PG-13 is relatively new. It came about because of Temple of Doom. It was the first time it was really obvious that there needed to be a step above PG and a step below R
This post was edited on 9/17/24 at 8:05 am
Posted on 9/17/24 at 8:03 am to teke184
Legend of Boggy Creek was G and that movie caused severe PTSD for my little 8yo self
Posted on 9/17/24 at 8:10 am to CAD703X
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I thought even one F bomb got an automatic R rating
I think you’re allowed one usage, depending on the context.
You can say “nice frickin’ model!”, but not “frick your mother!”.
Posted on 9/17/24 at 8:14 am to CAD703X
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I miss 80s boobs. Almost every movie had that one scene.
70s pg rating had lots of nudity
Posted on 9/17/24 at 8:24 am to jlovel7
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ETA: pretty sure Jaws is PG and has straight up nudity in it.
Was about to post this.
Jaws is PG and literally has bush in it.
Different times back then (and IIRC, PG-13 didn't exist yet).Posted on 9/17/24 at 8:27 am to CocomoLSU
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Jaws is PG and literally has bush in it.
same with Logan's Run.
Posted on 9/17/24 at 8:30 am to MorbidTheClown
I learned how to properly curse from Smokey and the Bandit.
Posted on 9/17/24 at 8:40 am to CAD703X
Welcome back to 1988.
Posted on 9/17/24 at 8:42 am to CAD703X
Far more F-bombs drop around my house than most PG-13 movies. My toes against the couch have been responsible for more than their fair share.
Teach your kids that the word exists but it's not okay for them to use it.
Teach your kids that the word exists but it's not okay for them to use it.
Posted on 9/17/24 at 9:58 am to jcaz
I must have watched Beetlejuice on TV too much because I don't remember him cursing at all.
Interesting , per IMDB
fricking is used once despite the f word not being allowed to be used in a PG movie. This is the second PG rated movie to have an f word in it with the first being White Water Summer which was released a year earlier.
frick" is said twice, "Nice frickin' model!", "frick you, say it!".
Two uses of "shite", and two uses of "frick".
Two uses of "Jesus"
One use of "pissed off"
"Goddamn" is said at the very beginning of the film.
Interesting , per IMDB
fricking is used once despite the f word not being allowed to be used in a PG movie. This is the second PG rated movie to have an f word in it with the first being White Water Summer which was released a year earlier.
frick" is said twice, "Nice frickin' model!", "frick you, say it!".
Two uses of "shite", and two uses of "frick".
Two uses of "Jesus"
One use of "pissed off"
"Goddamn" is said at the very beginning of the film.
This post was edited on 9/17/24 at 10:03 am
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