What movies ratings have been the most incorrect? | Thread profile

Quote: Originally Posted by TheBoltEater But typically, the board lives by the code, expressed so elegantly in the South Park movie, "Horrific, deplorable violence is OK, as long as you don't say any naughty words." Horrific, deplorable violence inevitably gets an R rating — just like naughty words.

Quote: I can only assume you're whooshing or don't remember the movie very well. The movie would have earned an R-Rating based on a single scene: A kennel full of huskies howling in terror as a not-huskie's face splits open and it slowly peels itself apart into a hideous, bloody monstrosity and impales them with intestine-like tendrils? These effects may seem dated now, but at the time they were horrifyingly realistic. If any...

Quote: Originally Posted by CalMeacham Why did the John Carpenter version of The Thing get an R rating? Everybody thinks it's an incredibly gross and gory movie, but when you come down to it, the only real violence you see to people are a helicopter blowing up, a guy shot in the eye (and another shot in the head), and a guy's hands geting cut off. Just about everything else either shows you an aftermath, or involves something...

Quote: Originally Posted by CalMeacham Why did the John Carpenter version of The Thing get an R rating? Everybody thinks it's an incredibly gross and gory movie, but when you come down to it, the only real violence you see to people are a helicopter blowing up, a guy shot in the eye (and another shot in the head), and a guy's hands geting cut off. Just about everything else either shows you an aftermath, or involves something...

Quote: Originally Posted by CalMeacham But you get a chest-burster scene in Spaceballs , too. And with the same actor, no less. Spaceballs gets a PG. Don't say that it's because it''s played for laughs. When the beastie first appears it looks just like the chest-burster in Alien, except it's got eyes. It's only after a brief setup as the horrific thing that it smiles, puts on a boater, and breaks into Chuck Jones...

Quote: Originally Posted by Biffy the Elephant Shrew This led to one of the great censorship stupidities of our time: McClane's famous catch phrase "Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker" being cut from the theatrical release of Live Free or Die Hard so they could get a PG-13. I know. That was ridiculous. Why allow them to film an R rated movie, then force them to re-dub it into PG-13? Morons.

Quote: Originally Posted by fusoya Big , which was released after PG-13 was invented, had a PG rating despite a KID saying FUCK in it! Not to mention some awkward sex scenes which could have pedophilic overtones if you keep in mind that it's a movie about a 13 year old caught in a 30 year old's body. I haven't seen it in years, but I didn't remember them actually having sex. Did they?

Quote: Originally Posted by Rhythmdvl Um... you are aware of what DVD you're talking about, no? Well played.

Well, yeah. Having Luke lose his hand wouldn't earn Empire Strikes Back a PG-13. And there's no scene of Anakin killing kids - he walks into the chamber, music swells, then later you see the result - an oddly bloodless layout of uninjured bodies that look no more dead than my six year-old does when she is "shot" and acting "killt".

Quote: Originally Posted by Raguleader Not just sex, but what is implied to be essentially sex for money, ie: Mrs Truman was paid by the studio to act like she was in love with Truman, with everything else branching from there. Really, the movie is so wonderfully messed up on a number of ethical levels, it's one of the few times where Jim Carrey's hysterics don't seem at all out of place when you consider he's watching his...