GoodBadFlicks offers an impassioned expose on just how broken the MPAA's movie rating system is in this excellent video essay created in the same vein as This Film Is Not Yet Rated.
From the face-peeling scene in Poltergeist to the dude getting his heart ripped out in Temple of Doom, PG films of the eighties commonly featured graphic imagery.
The PG-13 rating was introduced in 1984 to serve as a necessary midway point between PG-rated family fare and R-rated adult stuff. And for a while, it worked perfectly — until studios realized that they’d reach a much larger audience by neutering R-rated movies, spawning a generation of incredibly mediocre PG-13 movies that flopped.
Make sure to join in the discussion in the comments on the Good Bad Flicks website.
From the face-peeling scene in Poltergeist to the dude getting his heart ripped out in Temple of Doom, PG films of the eighties commonly featured graphic imagery.
The PG-13 rating was introduced in 1984 to serve as a necessary midway point between PG-rated family fare and R-rated adult stuff. And for a while, it worked perfectly — until studios realized that they’d reach a much larger audience by neutering R-rated movies, spawning a generation of incredibly mediocre PG-13 movies that flopped.
Make sure to join in the discussion in the comments on the Good Bad Flicks website.
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