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The PG-13 rating isn't necessary


I honestly don't see why we need a PG-13 rating, I think PG makes it quite clear: PARENTAL GUIDANCE SUGGESTED as in "THERE MAY BE THINGS IN THIS FILM THAT YOU EITHER DON'T WANT YOUR KIDS TO SEE OR YOU SHOULD BE IN THE ROOM WHEN THEY ARE WATCHING IT"!!!! Such as in Titanic there's a scene where you see Kate Winslet's boobs, or in Edward Scissorhands there's a scene where a character gets stabbed and is pushed out a window, or in Interstellar there is a scene where a character uses the word "fuck".

We only need 4 ratings:
- G - Not 100% clean (not exclusively a kids movie) but not enough that warrants parental supervision (2001 A Space Odyssey, Planet of the Apes, It Happened One Night, Despicable Me your typical Disney Film). Includes all current G rated films and the lower half of PG
- PG - Parents should be warned there may be inappropriate content for small children (Jaws, Edward Scissorhands, Indiana Jones, James Bond, The Dark Knight, your typical superhero movie, Harry Potter, etc.). Includes all PG-13 rated films and the upper half of current PG
- R - Restricted (Rambo, The Terminator, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Silence of the Lambs, your typical Gangster film)
- X - No children at all under 17, over the top graphic violence or sexual acts (A Clockwork Orange, Cannibal Holocaust, Human Centipede 2 and 3, Wolf of Wall Street, Boogie Nights, the original cut of Robocop, porn)

Raiders of the Lost Ark , Jaws and Temple of Doom DO NOT need their own separate PG-13 rating, they fit well within the guidelines of PG.

Some parents are just stupid, including the ones who brought their kids to see Deadpool and then complained about the explicit content (It's rated R you morons).

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Totally agree.

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AGREE.ROGER EBERT ARGUED FOR AN "A" RATING THAT WOULD FALL BETWEEN R AND PORNO TERRITORY X.

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I agree with this.

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Me I feel some films with a little bit of nudity, a moderate amount of language, violence, etc should be PG-13, I personally support the PG-13 rating, there are some R rated films from the early 1980's I feel could've easily be PG-13

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It's even dumber when you consider that kids are using coarse language and looking at porn online anyway as well as doing lord knows what else. Not to mention they can just see these films online without anyone ever asking them "Is your mommy or daddy watching this with you?"

Reminds me of when I was a kid, pre internet and I saw Beverly Hills Cop with my dad, he was all upset about the amount of swearing something that really bothered him. Like I hadn't heard every swear word anyway. In terms of nudity I had seen it years before as well when I discovered his nudie mags in the garage lol.

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I've had many first and second graders tell me names of R rated movies they've seen. Mostly for violence but still not Ok.

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Maybe it's the R rating that doesn't make sense. Why have R and NC-17? And for that matter, why PG and G?

PG, PG13, NC17

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NC17 is far more obscene

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R is more obscene than PG13. ETC.

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The difference between R and NC17 is a lot wider than the difference between PG13 and R

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Nope , only 4 years. You might be confusing nc17 with X which isn't a real rating.

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No I'm saying take a movie that is X/NC-17 and the difference in obscenity between that and an R rated film is more than the differences in obscenity between a PG-13 and R. We don't need 5 ratings.

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