Timeline for How did The Right Stuff get a PG rating with so many uses of the f-word?
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| Dec 11, 2015 at 10:11 | comment | added | user23614 | It's hard to believe that the people who rate these to protect kids from bad words have never walked past a schoolyard | |
| Dec 11, 2015 at 1:52 | comment | added | MattD | On a personal note, I feel ratings are largely dumb and loosely defined and should either be revamped or done away with. They made sense in a day and age when people could walk into a movie theater knowing next to nothing about the films there, but nowadays most everyone has some sort of device capable of pulling in every ounce of detail about a film and can make judgments based on that. | |
| Dec 11, 2015 at 1:51 | comment | added | MattD | I believe the reason many films don't receive new ratings is because they're supplied by the MPAA, which has a trademark on ratings other than X. In order to receive a rating in the NC-17 range or lower, they would most likely have to resubmit the movie for re-rating. Given how many films come out each year I doubt the MPAA or even the studios have much interest in doing that, and besides that the ratings were a product of their time. | |
| Dec 10, 2015 at 23:57 | comment | added | cde | Ratings are subjective. The MPAA uses 2/3 majority rulings after all. | |
| Dec 10, 2015 at 23:50 | comment | added | sanpaco | I disagree and the fact that it originally received an R rating I think supports my opinion that it would be PG-13 if released today. Because of the cursing and other factors. | |
| Dec 10, 2015 at 23:48 | comment | added | cde | The same movie today, regardless of the cursing, would never get a pg13 even on appeal. | |
| Dec 10, 2015 at 23:44 | comment | added | sanpaco | I just have one issue with your answer, however, and that is your comment about leniency and context rules for cursing being much more relaxed previously. I'm not sure I agree with this statement. | |
| Dec 10, 2015 at 23:42 | comment | added | sanpaco | You're right, I could have sworn I'd heard all kinds of examples of movies that received new ratings after a few years, but everything example I can find of a rating being changed was either because of changed content or an appeal prior to release. This article gives some interesting info about PG movies using the f-word and I found some interesting info about the original rating of The Right Stuff as well. | |
| Dec 10, 2015 at 23:28 | comment | added | cde | Temple of Doom, essentially the movie which caused PG-13 to be created, is still rated PG. | |
| Dec 10, 2015 at 23:21 | comment | added | cde | That's a separate question, but I've never heard of a rating change after the movie premiers, unless the movie changes something. Most often when the unrated full cut comes out on home video. | |
| Dec 10, 2015 at 23:20 | history | edited | cde | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 10, 2015 at 23:19 | comment | added | sanpaco | Hmm... ok that explains the initial rating, but why wouldn't they change the rating after the PG-13 rating was created? Its not uncommon for old movies to receive a new rating when the guidelines change. | |
| Dec 10, 2015 at 23:14 | history | answered | cde | CC BY-SA 3.0 |