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Agreed with both of these for the most part. The upper limits of content for PG and PG13 are both ridiculously low and need to be reevaluated. I feel like it has killed what were once "soft R" blockbusters, which are serious, adult minded films, and encourages filmmakers to either sanitize such a story to get a PG13 rating or go overboard with R rated content to make sure the adults feel like they get their money's worth. Like Shauner, I saw things like Terminator 2 as a pre-teen and watch the Sopranos with my Dad at age 12 every Sunday night.without issue. However, not all kids are that mature. Most of the Marvel films should fall in PG instead of PG13 and PG13 should be loosened to allow a little more grit, blood, and language. I think the lack of blood and similar things in PG13 films, just shows a lack of consequences for violence and just desensitizes kids to it. It all becomes a joke.
However, I still think there should be some language, gore, and violence limitations for PG13 films, if in part to challenge filmmakers to be more creative with storytelling. Restraint can be good and sometimes needs to be forced. For instance, with Birds of Prey, the core story was a PG13/soft R story. However, but by making it R rated, I feel like the filmmakers took that as go ahead to get excessive with the language and the gore. A lot of it just felt like cheap thrills rather than serving the story.
The only **** that should be R rated in my opinion is any film that explicitly deals with themes of pedophilia or sexual assault in very graphic ways, stuff like A Serbian Film or Happiness, films that'd disturb even adults.
Anything else... I don't see why teenagers shouldn't be allowed to watch. Even stuff like Joker I'd rate PG 13.
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