Surprisingly violent for a PG

Dear greig-2: There were a good number of movies made in the 1970s that were rated leniently by the MPAA. Remember JAWS was [PG] as well and you know what a gory ending Robert Shaw had -- blood spurting from his mouth as he gets chomped up by the shark.

And check out VIGILANTE FORCE (1976) and THE GREAT SCOUT AND CATHOUSE THURSDAY (1976). SATAN'S CHEERLEADERS (1977) was originally rated [PG] and I believe was later re-rated to [R].

THE GREAT SCOUT AND CATHOUSE THURSDAY had lots of bad words and nudity.

Some of these '70s movies would never get a [PG] today. They'd be [PG-13] or [R].

I think something else to remember is back in the '70s a lot of parents wouldn't take their kids to an [R]-rated movie so that's lost box office revenue right there and so a lenient [PG] rating could definitely lead to a bigger take at the box office.

>>> JUST THINK: Would JAWS have crossed the $100 million dollar mark in the US back then had it been rated [R]? I truly do not think so. A lot of families went to see it with their children because it was [PG]. Had it been [R] many of those families would have stayed home.

There's some other movies I've seen from the '70s that were very gritty that were [PG], like REPORT TO THE COMMISSIONER (1975).

Regards, CARTER GORMAN

It's funny how we've been conditioned by artificial rating systems and pop culture to expect certain things.

Someone mentioned Sixteen Candles as having an F-bomb in it. I grew up in the 80s and at the time I didn't think anything of it. Now it seems odd.

The definition of what is nasty vs. what is really nasty has changed over the years. Eddie Murphy's stand-up used lots of foul language, including derogatory terms for homsexuals, which wouldn't pass today. The Paul Neumann hockey comedy Slapshot used the C-bomb in it, as did Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Today this word is off-limits around most women, while the F-bomb has become more acceptable. I hear the F-bomb in office settings and out in public quite often.

Times change, I guess.

As long as you don't kill a giraffe to serve meat to the lions, or kick a dog.
As long as you only mistreat and kill people.
No problem.

i thought if they had just cut that very brutal scene of someone being shot this would have been more acceptable for a younger audience i guess, i recognise about every actor i was surprised how early they killed off the actor from blazing saddles, another actor in this was later teamed up with bronson in death wish 3. it has higher standard than bronsons cannon movies but very slow going like that overlong sequence where a fella had fallen out of the train. it has some neat shots and location but i didn't care much for the story put into it, beware some releases of this gives away too much on the back of the dvd cover.



in the small town cafe walked in,
hooked up with the woman of my dreams,
calendars and clocks reverse in full speed,
little richard on the juke box records in a spin,
reached to the past to create future reality with a twist,
at the round table having soda and ice cream,
we were apart in space and time,
so i turned us into teenagers and i fixed it now,
walked out of the cafe with everything i want.