PG-13 Rating Turns 20

Ant writes "CNN has a story about the 20 year anniversary of PG-13 and how it was created/born from two of Steven Spielberg's movies. (Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom and Gremlins)" Oh, Mola Ram and your heart-removing antics, little did you know the profound impact you would have.

So for 7 years...

[Anonymous Coward]

PG13 has been able to watch itself.

You mean...

[genrader]

Indiana Jones wasn't G?

Woah

[Anonymous Coward]

Did anyone else think they were raising the allowed age for letting kids into a PG-13 movie to 20?

Or maybe 20 year olds could be naked now in a PG-13 movie.

Or... how old are the Olsen Twins again?

Re:Enforcement...

[Anonymous Coward]

How did you type this and still get a first post?

Misleading headline

[Will2k_is_here]

For a second there, I thought PG-13 was about to become PG-20!

Hooray

[Anonymous Writer]

CNN has a story about the 20 year anniversary of PG-13

In a related story... nobody cares.

Re:Enforcement...

[Izago909]

How did you type this and still get a first post?

I' a subscriber baby, I was read it, the link to CNN, and had a response typed in word 10 minutes before it was live.

God I need a life.

Mola Ram removed a heart?

[Radon Knight]

I guess that explains why Indy was so surprised when he said, "He's still alive!" Or why Short Round yelled, "Cover your heart Indy! Cover your heart!" during the bridge scene.

For those of you who don't know what I'm referring to, in the U.K. cut of Temple of Doom, the British censors refused to screen the movie without deleting the heart-removal scene, and the scene of Short Round being whipped, and maybe one or two other scenes. (The recently released Indy boxed set in the U.K. kept with the original theatrical versions, which pissed me off when I realised the difference.) As you might expect - and as I mentioned above - the heart scene was sorta crucial for making sense of a couple points of the movie.

Re:It really means nothing

[tntguy]

It's the exchange rate.

This is great!

[Arcanix]

As a concerned parent, I am very pleased that Indiana Jones himself came up with the PG-13 rating. Now that my oldest boy, Johnny, is 16 I'm thinking about letting him watch a PG-13 movie.

Catholic ternary system?

[MexicanMenace]

Don't you mean SNT, PC and NPC?

SNT = Skirts & Ties
PC = Practicing Catholics
NPC = Non-practicing Catholics

Re:First PG-13 Movie

[Mikey-San]

I knew it! Know how I knew it?

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Give up?

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I RTFA!

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Re:It really means nothing

[Chairboy]

For some PG-13 films, the use of English pushes them over the edge into R in Quebec.

Re:The Funny thing...

[Detritus]

Everything else about the temple and the rituals was all Hollywood BS though.

I can't think of any religion which includes roller coasters in the design of their temples.

Re:Lost in Translation?

[techwolf]

Ack, you missed the directors cut. Just after he whispers to the girl, space monkeys start attacking!

(Bows to Eddie)

I'm shocked!

[cascadingstylesheet]

People who are either kids, or are just barely not kids (i.e. most Slashdotters) don't like the rating system! Who woulda thunk it? ;)

But seriously ... grow up, have a few kids, and I don't think you'll mind having a few voluntary tools to keep them from becoming too coarse and vulger, too fast. Trash doesn't have to actually be harmful for you to want to keep your kids from wallowing in it.

After all, when that must-see, super duper important movie that the kids simply *have* to see comes out, you could just take them there yourself, you know. Or rent it, since movies come out on video about five minutes after they're released now.