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Comment on When Ratings Didn’t Matter, or How The Andromeda Strain Got A “G” Rating by David

David — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 19:35:33 +0000

I’ve never seen The Andromeda Strain, so I can’t give my opinion on that film. But, as others have mentioned before, Jaws and Poltergeist (and, of course, the first two Indiana Jones movies) are given PG ratings and contain extreme violence and resulting gore. Those movies deserve to be rated R as they are too much for even a PG-13 rating, much less a PG rating.

I have no issue with nudity in films as long as they aren’t sexually-oriented or obscene. In fact, if I could rate films, non-sexual nudity would be allowed in G rated films. While most people can’t seem to separate nudity from sex, there is a such thing as non-sexual nudity. Why else are there nudist resorts that, for the most part, are family-friendly?

Also, I would add a couple of ratings and change one of the existing ratings to the system.

G
PG
PG-13
PG-15*
R
NC-17
NO-18*

*PG-15 and NO-18* are the new ratings I’d add and they would stand for “Parents Extremely Cautioned” and “No One Under 18 Admitted”, respectfully. With this, NC-17 would go back to its original meaning and stand for “No Children Under 17 Admitted”.

Comment on When Ratings Didn’t Matter, or How The Andromeda Strain Got A “G” Rating by bill

bill — Mon, 16 May 2016 01:34:21 +0000

‘Extreme violence’ in Andromeda strain? Wth?

Comment on When Ratings Didn’t Matter, or How The Andromeda Strain Got A “G” Rating by Justin Stewart

Justin Stewart — Sun, 20 Mar 2016 20:34:47 +0000

Jaws was rated PG. I remember a severed limb and characters getting eaten during that film.

Comment on When Ratings Didn’t Matter, or How The Andromeda Strain Got A “G” Rating by WTFPhD

WTFPhD — Sat, 07 Nov 2015 02:34:05 +0000

*since. Apologies, tablets aren’t great for typing.

Comment on When Ratings Didn’t Matter, or How The Andromeda Strain Got A “G” Rating by WTFPhD

WTFPhD — Sat, 07 Nov 2015 02:32:34 +0000

“Airplane!” and “Poltergeist” come to mind as similarly questionable PG ratings in the early 1980s. Those films were rated by “placed” MPAA voters, basically studio employees. Note those two releases coincide with the Reagan administration’s reversal of a 1945 court ruling that prohibited studio ownership of theater chains.

When the studio system potentially controlled exhibition, they manipulated the MPAA as a private alliance of film studios under the guise of public service. The PG made more money than an R rating. This absurd cycle of studio under-rating stopped in 1984 with “Temple of Doom,” with Paramount backing Spielberg’s “cinema hot sauce”– the PG-13, the most popular MPAA rating ever sense,

Comment on TV Show Review: The Americans by Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 06:47:27 +0000

Whoa, weird. I don’t know if anyone will even see this comment, but I had been operating on the assumption that the guy who played the main character on The Americans was the same guy who was on Nip/Tuck. But he’s not! Here’s Matthew Rhys:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0722629/?ref_=tt_ov_st

and here’s Julian McMahon, from Nip/Tuck:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0573037/?ref_=tt_cl_t2

Especially with about a decade between these shows, surely many others must have seen the resemblance, right?

I also think it’s interesting that one (Rhys) was born in Wales and the other (McMahon) in Australia, yet they were completely convincing as Americans.

Comment on When Ratings Didn’t Matter, or How The Andromeda Strain Got A “G” Rating by Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 03:51:48 +0000

That’s a good point, although it seems a lot of parents approach the “G” rating as being appropriate for the whole family, and thus kids. I guess they don’t have a rating that’s specifically for kids?

Comment on When Ratings Didn’t Matter, or How The Andromeda Strain Got A “G” Rating by Alfredo Pérez

Alfredo Pérez — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 14:20:59 +0000

G back then means “General Audiences” not for “kids”. G Rating ≠ Kids.

Comment on A Look Back At 2013 On Oscar Night by Sitzman

Sitzman — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 05:38:01 +0000

Wow, so I tried to watch the Oscars from an online streaming site, but the quality was horrible. So I watched “Her” instead. Man, it was great. Now I’ll have to change my whole list!

Comment on Three “Scary” Movies You’ve Probably Already Seen by Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 01 Sep 2013 19:19:33 +0000

Hey Mike! Thanks for the comment. I’ll have to check out that Hitchcock movie, then… have a good one!