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Xbbjf9s on 27 January 2014
Augen said:
Xbbjf9s said:

In my excitement I didn't even notice the rating but that doesn't bother me, PG-13 isn't the same as it was growing up. If anything I feel that today's PG-13 is yesterday's R.


Really? Can you show a PG-13 released in recent years that is as violent as the original Robocop?  It is my big concern as well that be no squibs (blood capsules) and instead just be guys falling over and explosions.

You got me cause I have nothing lol. I just feel the rating doesn't mean much, there a several movies that contain content that should be rated R and are given a PG-13 label. Sucker Punch is rated Pg-13 and has no business being rated as such.

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Augen on 27 January 2014
Xbbjf9s said:

That scene was pretty damn gruesome but I stand by my comment. Times have changed and PG-13 label isn't what it used to be.

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/pg-13-movies-are-now-more-violent-r-rated-80s-8C11566223#


"That's because PG-13 movies today — such as “The Hunger Games” or “The Avengers” — contain more violence than the R-rated films of the 1980s, according to a new report published today in the journal Pediatrics."

 

Here's the thing though, those two films I would not describe as violent. There is violence, but it is that sanitized style of violence. The Hunger Games books were far more violent to me because I imagined the horror of those kids slaughtering each other. In the film shakey cam and cuts never showed full on grotesque depictions of violence.  As for Avengers, it was pretty much Saturday morning cartoon violence.Aliens blew up and heros punched, but you never saw even thousands of dead civilians in New York rubble. Anytime violence was perosnalized a hero saved that group of people and the buildings were apparently empty when alien snake thing smashed through them.

I definitely find 80s violence more visceral and shocking with blood and organs being shown.




archer9234 on 27 January 2014
Xbbjf9s said:

In my excitement I didn't even notice the rating but that doesn't bother me, PG-13 isn't the same as it was growing up. If anything I feel that today's PG-13 is yesterday's R.

Yeepie Kayyea Mother Fucker says other wise in Die Hard.



NiKKoM on 27 January 2014

I'm gonna watch it so i can see how hollywood, again, ruins a Paul Verhoeven Classic..



 

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Xbbjf9s on 27 January 2014
Augen said:
Xbbjf9s said:

That scene was pretty damn gruesome but I stand by my comment. Times have changed and PG-13 label isn't what it used to be.

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/pg-13-movies-are-now-more-violent-r-rated-80s-8C11566223#


"That's because PG-13 movies today — such as “The Hunger Games” or “The Avengers” — contain more violence than the R-rated films of the 1980s, according to a new report published today in the journal Pediatrics."

 

Here's the thing though, those two films I would not describe as violent. There is violence, but it is that sanitized style of violence. The Hunger Games books were far more violent to me because I imagined the horror of those kids slaughtering each other. In the film shakey cam and cuts never showed full on grotesque depictions of violence.  As for Avengers, it was pretty much Saturday morning cartoon violence.Aliens blew up and heros punched, but you never saw even thousands of dead civilians in New York rubble. Anytime violence was perosnalized a hero saved that group of people and the buildings were apparently empty when alien snake thing smashed through them.

I definitely find 80s violence more visceral and shocking with blood and organs being shown.

That...artcle did not help me lol. I do understand your point though, I'm just saying that the rating doesn't mean much to me due to the content of some movies that had not right being PG-13. The movie "taken" is a perfect example, while it doesn't match up to robocop in viloence the content of the movie does not warrant a PG-13 rating at all....same goes for "Sucker Punch". You are 100 correct though, nothing Pg-13 matches RC's violenece.