Why is it rated R?

Due to being very un-PC,language, i always heard that the movie was cut before it was even put out in movie theatres back in 1980, maybe there was more of the lovely Stacy Nelkin to be seen before edits..who knows?

OMG have you ever seen it??? Yeah, it may not be COMPLETELY like the rated R's today, but I still think it's worthy of an R...Though maybe between PG-13 and R may be a bit of a better rating, if possible.

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It was the 80's. There was no such thing as a PG-13 rating.

It does have a drug use and sexual references involving characters that are in junior high.


The movie "Thirteen" with Evan Rachel Wood and Holly Hunter would probably only be rated PG-13, if it was named "Eighteen".


The rating for "Thirteen" states this since now the MPAA lists some reasons why the movie was rated:

MPAA - Rated R for drug use, self destructive violence, language and sexuality - <b>all involving young teens</b>.


Also there was no PG-13 back then. Today the MPAA would probably tell them to cut stuff, if they wanted to get a PG-13 instead of an R. Today you can't market an R rated movie directly to high school students let alone middle school students.


When I was a kid they sold Rambo lunch boxes. And black plastic Rambo M16s and submachineguns that could get you shot because they were so realistic.


There was also a Rambo stinger missile from "Rambo III" when Rambo was arming the Mujehadin in Afgahnistan, which would later be used by Al Qaeda against the USA. I didn't know the name stinger missile back then, I just wanted the Rambo rocket launcher.


I had the Rambo video game for the Commodore 64 it was a ripoff of the Capcom game Commando the top scrolling shoot. My cousin had Rambo for the NES, it was a Contra ripoff, but it didn't have Co-op like Contra did.

I remember when this was released and I was 10 years old. I was a huge MAD Magazine fan, and I actually felt betrayed that they put out a movie that I couldn't actually go see! As in, who did they think their readership was? (And actually I still haven't seen it...)

The language and sex scenes, probably did that. You're right, from just reading that stuff you can't see why it would have an R rating. But watch it and you'll see why.

The crass scene showing a "turd" in a punchbowl in itself would warrant an "R" rating.

In one scene there is a classroom full of boys masturbating while watching their beautiful teacher as she showed them how to clean guns. You didn't actually see the actual act but you could tell by their arms moving, facial expressions, and noises they made.