Heaviest PG-13?
This has got to be one of the heaviest Pg 13's of all time don't you think? By today's standards it's a complete R.
shareI am not quite sure why you'd think so? I am not saying you are not right - I just don't remember what scenes in the movie would justify an R. Maybe you can explain?
sharealot of movies are PG13 that seem to have Rs, if you look at this one, you ahve to look at all of them. This is a good movie, it has the cuss words in it galore, but I think the earliest instances of using the F word was in Blind Date with Bruce Willis (1987), they used it once and it was still pg13 as long as with the butt shot. The movie REAL MEN with John Ritter (1986) had a booby shot in it and it was PG, so whos to call. Lets see you think about that now.
sharereal men was also PG-13. Doc Hollywood had swearing and nudity, which wasn't brief. It would be R were it rated today.
sharePuhleese....
I don't know what you think has changed so much since 1990, but there is no way this movie would get an "R" rating today or back then. The "R" rating has a lot more to do with the overall film. It's not about one nude girl -- that the hero falls in love with -- or the use of the "F" word anymore. There was no violence in this film, no close ups of people's heads being blown off or torture scenes. This was a sweet film, with a "good" ending, and even the idiots at the MPAA would not give it an "R".
From http://www.filmratings.com/about/content5.htm :
"A film's single use of one of the harsher sexually-derived words, though only as an expletive, shall initially require the Rating Board to issue that film at least a PG-13 rating. More than one such expletive must lead the Rating Board to issue a film an R rating..."
It certainly is about the use of the F word.
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PG-13 movies are allowed to say the "F word" once. I can only recall one insttace in which a Pg-13 movie said the "f word" more than once and that was the movie version of "RENT" but it uses it in the same context and it's in song.
shareWhy did you bother posting? This was already clearly stated above.
Piss off.
Yes, except it's wrong.
It depends upon the context. If it is sexual then it is an automatic R-rating. For example, if a character says, "I want to f_u_c_k you," it's R. If the character says, "F_u_c_k you!" as an insult, it's PG-13 (because in context, the latter use of the word is not sexual).
However, the MPAA can change this on a whim. The 6th Day was PG-13 and featured Arnold telling the bad guy to go "Eff himself." Even though it was an insult, it was a sexual context, because he was implying he should have sex with his clone in the film.
Doc Hollywood would definitely be rated R today. The MPAA is stricter with what passes through. The nudity in this film alone is an automatic R by today's standards. The "nude scene" is lengthy enough - and clear enough - that it would never pass as a PG-13 now.
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'Hot Shots!' had two uses of the "F word" - one spoken softly by Lloyd Bridges and the other in subtitles at the very end. It was rated PG-13 and contained sexual innuendo as well.
'As Good As it Gets' had three uses of the "F Word" - all spoken by Helen Hunt. The film also contained coarse language, a scene of a beating, partial nudity...and it was still rated PG-13.
Those are two more that I can think of.
Straight Time needs to be released on DVD!
As Good As it Gets was initially rated R. It was downgraded to PG-13 on appeal.
shareI can think of another PG 13 movie where they got away with it twice...in a row nonetheless "Crybaby". The scene where they're in court. Now whenever the movie plays (I even saw it cut on one of the premium channels, they say it once and then bleep it the second time.
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Just for future reference the earliest use of the f word in film was in 1967's Ulysses, based on the James Joyce novel. Released almost silmultaneously was another film that used the f word, I'll Never Forget What's 'Is Name.
shareThis may be off the subject -- and if so, please don't flame me, ddreams -- but the extended boob sequence and use of the F-bomb seemed out of place in this light comedy. They distracted me to the point of checking the DVD box to see if this was really PG-13.
sharethe f word was used at least twice in "back to school" with rodney dangerfield as well as a female topless shower scene and it was rated pg-13 in the mid 80's.
shareI think the rules hinge on sexual context. "Spaceballs" and "Clear and Present Danger" both had the F word, but it was only used as an explative, and not as a referance to the sex act. (( "F- you!" gets you a PG-13. "F-me!" gets you and R.))
Nudity does not also guaruntee an R, if it's not sexual. "Titanic", and "Medicine Man" both contained breast shots ("Medicine Man" was brief. "Titanic" of course, not so much.) But since the charachters weren't having sex, it only gathered the flim a PG-13.
Of course, none of the above referanced films had any graphic violence.
The Back to the future movies should be PG 13. BTTF 1 2 and 3 are ok on TV but the VHS version has all the swearing in it.
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"Prior to 1984, when three films associated with Steven Spielberg triggered calls for yet another addition to the list of ratings, other films had been released that suggested there needed to be a middle ground between PG and R. The summer of 1982 featured Poltergeist, which was highly frightening for a PG-rated film (yet not severe enough for an R). [1] Violent scenes in the 1984 PG-rated films Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (which he directed) and Gremlins (which he produced), were the final straws. Public outcry about the violence led Spielberg to suggest a new PG-13 rating to Jack Valenti, who conferred with theater owners and then introduced the new rating on July 1. The rating still allowed children under 13 to be admitted without a parent or guardian, but it cautions parents about potentially shocking violence or other offensive content. The first movie to gain widespread theatrical release with a PG-13 rating was 1984's Red Dawn (although the first to receive the classification was Dreamscape)."
shareSixteen Candles was a "light comedy" and it had not only a nude scene of a girl showering, but a sudden close-up of her breasts (accompanied by a humorous bouncing sound). I think it was PG, or PG-13 at most.
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