Comments about ‘PG-13 films dominate Oscar nominations’

I hope Hugo sweeps the Oscars. I could do with a lot more films like that.

I think the word your looking for after reading this article is "duh."

Also, the article you referenced that proved that PG movies make more money than PG-13 did no such thing. In fact, when you look at the numbers, it reinforced the idea that PG-13 movies make more than PG films. Not that it matters. A good parent shouldn't ever rely on what a movie is rated. There are R rated films I'd have no problem watching with my kids, but there are PG films that I won't let them see.
Good parents actually screen films first, be it through actually watching the films, or by reading content reviews, before allowing their kids to see them.

Unfortunately, but not suprisingly the PG-13 of today is the equivalent of the R rating of yesteryear.

I think part of the stigma is the PG-13/R barbed wire is much too imbedded within LDS culture, and there are more PG-13 movies nowadays I wouldnât show an 18 or 19 year old let alone a 12 or 13 year old. Yet every so often there comes along a morally powerful film that gets rated R (think Schindlerâs List or Saving Private Ryan) that I would not have a problem showing a 15 or 16 year old, or even letting them use their free agency to see it on their own.

I think the MPAA has to rank as the most woefully inadequate film rating system in all of the English speaking countries. The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is far better equipped to age appropriately classify a film and set a more consistent boundary of absolutes for LDS Church members that wish to follow the counsel of church leaders since they include a â15â rating between their PG-13 equivalent (which was a parental accompanied rating until just a few years ago) and more adult content rated films that garner an â18â rating. The Australian Office of Film & Literature similar classifies age 14/15/16 aged films as âMature Accompaniedâ or âMAâ rated. The MPAA could do their Classification and Ratings Administration more parental latitude and filmmakerâs justice by adopting a Parental Accompanied 15 (PA-15) rating to be situated between PG-12 and R ratings.

Modern Hollywood has an open and stated agenda of attacking traditional moral values. That is why Hollywood created the PG-13 rating and why is is touting movies with that rating as Oscar worthy.

People who watch R-rated movies do so because they obtain pleasure from watching actors engage in senseless violence and deviant sexuality while using the most profane and blasphemous language imaginable. These watchers of R-rated movies watch these movies with no shame or guilt. However, Hollywood knows that most people cannot feel good about watching this kind of filth. Thus, Hollywood has created the PG-rating to trick the masses into watching R-rated filth, but without the open acknowledgement that they are doing so.

We must all reject modern Hollywood as the purveyor of filth that it is. Do not be fooled into watching garbage by a subversive rating system.

Moneyball was pretty good. A decent film without all the sex and violence that Hollywood loves so much. A true story about a decent guy that made it.

Wow. Sure glad that John Charity Spring is in a place in his life he can judge the rest of the world.

I'm sorry, but I wouldn't feel bad watching Last of the Mohicans with my kids, rating R.

However, I wouldn't let them watch any number of PG movies from the 80s that were choke full of material that is now reserved for PG-13 and R films. The PG of yesteryear was much harder than it is today. Don't believe me? Go watch Ghostbusters.

PG-13 is the new PG. Live with it.

People who try hard enough to be offended will always succeed.