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Well, there seem to be two primary arguments different people are proposing against PG-13. The first is that by forcing material that should be R into a PG-13 a substandard product results (hence my statement about quality since some of these questionable PG-13 would have been equally...

It is interesting that the movies people use to support more R rated movies and fewer PG-13 were all R movies to begin with and under no pressure to be PG-13 (that I am aware). For artists making low budget movies with their own funding there is little pressure for them to provide a...

Remember that the studios also have to think outside the box for how the movie will be rated in other countries where the standards are even tougher and often determined by the government. I suspect that one reason for the PG-13 preference is that at that rating the movie can transition to the...

Here are a number of recent PG-13 films: Spiderman and Spiderman 2 X-Men and X-men 2 Indiana Jones and Last Crusade Big Trouble in Little China and of course many others I am unclear how these would be better films as an "R", or do you think they are misclassified "PG" films :confused...

So you're saying that Raider's of the Lost Ark would have been more realistic if when Indy shot the swordsman we see the back of his head explode and spatter the surrounding people with blood. That would definitely have pulled in the "R" rating. Or maybe we needed the snake scene to go, "****ing...

This assumes that it was a rating issue that caused the exclusion of this event. I think it was a time issue. Even in an extended version the Scouring requires setup in all three movies to be meaningful to the casual viewer. One reason that LotR was so successful was partly because the rating...

This highlights an interesting aspect of movie ratings: they are a snapshot in time. Since this is a self developed system imposed by the movie studios to avoid government control (much like the Comic Code Authority before it) their standards change as cultural standards change. This is why some...

I agree with Jason that the rating "R" vs "PG-13" is fairly meaningless if you are over 17. Also, since I remember the days before PG-13 when there was just PG, I think they moved some of the softer elements of the old "R"'s into the PG-13 ratings. The PG-13's can get fairly violent when they...