G Or PG Movies That Would/Should Be Rated Higher

[Punisher Rising]

What are some movies that are rated G or PG that you think would be given a higher rating these days if they were released in this time, instead? Movies with a G or PG rating that have content decidely more "extreme" and enough to warrant a higher rating, possibly a PG-13 or even an R. Some that come to mind:

• Raiders Of The Lost Ark - Was almost rated R due to the face melting deaths. Even with that out of the equation, there's more than enough violence and gruesomeness here for an R rating, with lots of gory headshots, blood splatter and rotted corpses.
• Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom - The movie that along with Gremlins helped create the PG-13 rating. Even then, this is more than graphic enough for an R, with not only the infamous heart-ripping sequence, but also a rather graphic impaling at the beginning (with a flaming skewer of all things), a man getting crushed by a rock crusher and of course the infamous dinner sequence, with animals and monkey brains being consumed.
• Gremlins - Certainly dark enough and with enough mayhem and gruesomeness to warrant even an R rating.
• Ghostbusters (both) - Both movies are rated PG, but they have enough spooky moments and course language to warrant a far higher rating. I'm surprised the scene with the impaled heads on the stakes in the second movie didn't earn it an R rating.

 

[TNC9852002]

Marley & Me was really pushing its rating, IMO...

 

[TheDarkKnight08]

Jaws. That shot when Bruce

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bites into Quint and that blood he spits out

ruined me when I was a child. PG-13 at least nowadays.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

Jaws. That shot when Bruce

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bites into Quint and that blood he spits out

ruined me when I was a child.

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That huge CRUNCH noise was pretty sweet.

That alone would probably make it PG-13.

 

[Punisher Rising]

Can't believe I forgot Jaws 1 and 2. They both are definitely gruesome enough for an R rating, or a very hard PG-13 at least.

 

[Max J Power]

Annie Hall. I don't think you could put marijuana use and cocaine (albeit not in use) in a movie now and not have it be rated PG-13. It probably has a tad much sex-related dialogue too.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Too much innuendo and violence for PG.

 

[redhawk23]

The first two Planet of the Apes, especially Beneath the PoA durring the bomb worship scenes

 

[Catman]

All the old James Bond movies.

 

[Lone]

This thread is a really a good example of how over the last few decades, the world has been continually losing it's balls.

 

[Jumpin' Jack]

Fellowship of the ring. I always freaked out when Bilbo was in his weird demon faze.

 

[TNC9852002]

Fellowship of the ring. I always freaked out when Bilbo was in his weird demon faze.

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LOL. I would've loved to have seen that shot of him out in theaters in a packed crowd..

That was totally unexpected and terrifying...

 

[SuperFerret]

How to Train your Dragon

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How many kid's movies involve the child protagonist losing a limb?

 

[Jumpin' Jack]

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LOL. I would've loved to have seen that shot of him out in theaters in a packed crowd..

That was totally unexpected and terrifying...

S***! It still gives me the heebiejebies!

 

[SuperFerret]

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LOL. I would've loved to have seen that shot of him out in theaters in a packed crowd..

That was totally unexpected and terrifying...

Yay! I've got a new Facebook profile picture!

 

[TNC9852002]

How to Train your Dragon

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How many kid's movies involve the child protagonist losing a limb?

Well, I don't think that decision had much to do with pushing the ratings as much as going against the norm...

 

[Drizzle]

More recently, I'd say "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince". I have no idea why it was rated PG, especially when "Order of the Phoenix" was PG-13 and that was much less dark than "Half Blood Prince" was.

 

[Spider-Vader]

I think Empire would earn a PG-13 nowadays. It was a pretty dark movie, especially compared to ANH & ROTJ.

 

[thejon93]

I know the thread title says "G or PG Movies That Would/Should Be Higher" but, I have an odd movie for y'all (because it's rated higher in other parts of the world): it's called 'The Wraith'. The movie was rated PG-13 in the U.S. and was nude-heavy...

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THANK THE HEAVENS FOR SHERILYN FENN!

Pretty violent and, not to mention... IT'S AN F'N REVENGE FLICK FROM THE 80s! How could a movie from the 1980s like that even encounter a PG-13 rating?

'Lost in Translation' is another choice for me personally because, in the U.S., it's rated R, while, here in Canada, it's rated PG. While I believe that the PG rating here in Canada makes the film seem much more friendly and open to all audiences (which the movie truly is), it's still weird to see a light, dark, comedic-drama as that be rated PG. I could understand why they rated 'European Vacation' PG-13 in the U.S. (even with that extended nude sequence) because it's a comedy, but a film like 'Lost in Translation' just seems weird for a PG rating with it's content.

 

[Arc-Light]

This thread is a really a good example of how over the last few decades, the world has been continually losing it's balls.

I shall quote this for truth.............

 

[redhawk23]

Titanic should have been R and made half the money because all the 13 year old girls wouldn't have been able to see it like 15 times a peice. (I have a cousin who was that age at the time, and she saw it litterally 12 times, some of her friends saw it more.)

 

[TheDarkKnight08]

I know it's a bit too soon and a lot of people will disagree with me, but, in Toy Story 3, the [BLACKOUT]incinerator scene[/BLACKOUT] was INTENSE beyond belief. Looking back, that one could've gone up to PG.

And I don't know, but the Penguin crunching on the guy's nose and blood squirting out in Batman Returns wasn't something you'd necessarily see in a PG-13 movie.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

Jaws. That shot when Bruce

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bites into Quint and that blood he spits out

ruined me when I was a child. PG-13 at least nowadays.

I believe Jaws was rated X in the UK when it was released.

 

[Lightspeed]

I thought Temple of Doom was one of or the main reason for the PG-13 rating to exist. I don't think PG-13 was around when that movie came out.

 

[MadVillainy]

Teen Wolf
There was some heavy teen drinking for a PG film and I think the language was a bit much for PG

 

[Evil Twin]

Airplane! would be at least a PG-13 if submitted to the ratings board today. Bare breasts, drug use, and an oral sex joke among other offenses. And the xxxx literally hits the fan.