The PG-13 rating isn't necessary

yeah that's awful

So what makes the PG-13 rating unnecessary? You never say. I think it's fine: PG, ok for children to watch (parents' discretion). PG-13, perhaps not the youngest kids. It was not intended to let a PG rated movie get away with more, because the PG rating is still there. If anything, just the opposite: it now took less for a movie to be given a higher rating. And how do you figure R-rated movies being dumbed down as a consequence? That doesn't make any sense at all. Again, if anything, it would have the exact opposite effect: you could now have movies given a PG-13 rating instead of an R-rating, meaning R-ratings would be given to even harder movies.

All ratings are a form of fear and opression coming out of the sense of lack within us.

All people are different, all children are different with different ancestral traumas.

Interesting, how this is the only Indiana Jones film that tends to be the most relatable to little children, at least in my experience, stories of sacrifices or witches eating little children have been in old literary Soviet fairytales I grew up on as well, children were meant to be scared, not to be sheltered from our natural emotions, however everyone has different traumas, thus then different levels of sensitivity.

It was the occult imagery, right? Was the problem? I read something about it a long time ago. Anyhow, PG13 definitely destroyed mature cinema. Real damn shame.

For this film, PG-13 tells parents that maybe they don't want their 10-year-old to see the high priest pull a beating heart out of a live man. PG tells them that some other film's somewhat violent content and coarse language might be too much for a 5-year-old.

WITHOUT THE PG-13 MANY FILMS FELL INTO A HOLE.THEY WERENT FAMILY FILMS BUT THEY WERENT STRICTLY ADULTS ONLY FARE EITHER..

Anything below the restricted categories are redundant. So in that sense, I agree. Only thing I disagree with is the softening of R rated films. I think that is more a result of studios wanting to make more money than the fault of the classification system.

Despite this one's reputation, I always thought Raiders was darker with scarier imagery. It has people getting shot in the head, some guy is impaled by spikes, another is killed with a plane propeller, there are scary close up images of corpses/skeletons, the monkey is poisoned to death, and of course the end scene where people's faces melt and explode. I know this has the "heart scene" and deals with the occult but I think the tone is lessened by all the children and some of the goofy humour with the sidekick characters.