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PG-13 Rating Turns 20

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the microwaved-green-monsters dept.

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.

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  1. So for 7 years... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    PG13 has been able to watch itself.

  2. You mean... by genrader · · Score: 1, Funny

    Indiana Jones wasn't G?

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    the Political Inquirer
  3. Woah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    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?

  4. Re:Enforcement... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  5. Misleading headline by Will2k_is_here · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  6. Hooray by Anonymous+Writer · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    In a related story... nobody cares.

  7. Re:Enforcement... by Izago909 · · Score: 5, Funny
    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.
  8. Mola Ram removed a heart? by Radon+Knight · · Score: 4, Funny
    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.

  9. Re:It really means nothing by tntguy · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's the exchange rate.

  10. This is great! by Arcanix · · Score: 1, Funny

    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.

  11. Catholic ternary system? by MexicanMenace · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't you mean SNT, PC and NPC?

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

  12. Re:First PG-13 Movie by Mikey-San · · Score: 2, Funny

    I knew it! Know how I knew it?

    . . .

    Give up?

    . . .

    . .

    .

    I RTFA!

    [antilamenessfilter!]

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  13. Re:It really means nothing by Chairboy · · Score: 2, Funny

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

  14. Re:The Funny thing... by Detritus · · Score: 3, Funny
    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.

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  15. Re:Lost in Translation? by techwolf · · Score: 2, Funny

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

    (Bows to Eddie)

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  16. I'm shocked! by cascadingstylesheet · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.