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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Saw that upcoming film The Walk is rated PG for some nudity plus other stuff.

Yes, I recall that Jacqueline Bisset's first full nude shot was in the G rated Airplane, but that was some time ago.
No long ago any suggestion of nudity, or side boob resulted in R rating. Now nudity is PG.

Anybody heard of changes in criteria?
Opinions if this is better or worse? Will it help parents or not?

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Originally posted by Moose:
Jacquiline Bissett was nude in Airplane? Didn't even know she was in it.

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Originally posted by ecgordon:
Everything started changing in the mid-80s when the PG-13 rating was created. Some things that had been reserved for R started showing up in PG-13 films, including mild profanity and brief nudity, and even some PG films were allowed a limited amount of "adult" material. For instance, one utterance of "fuck" was allowed in PG, but more than that qualified it for PG-13.

Just as with TV, the changing mores of the population has allowed more graphic content in films. If I was a parent with a child under the age of, let's say 10, I would feel the need to preview anything higher than a G rating before letting my child watch it. Then if there was certain content I felt was questionable I would decide either to not let them see it until they were older, or else watch it with them and prepare to discuss it. And I'm fairly liberal. I feel for any conservative, and especially religious, parents with small children. They might as well throw away their TVs, rip out their internet connection, and never go to the theater except for G rated movies.

EDIT: One other thing. What is now called NC-17 was originally X, then the MPAA dropped that when the porn industry appropriated it for their XXX rating. Both A Clockwork Orange and Midnight Cowboy were originally rated X, then later down-graded to R, although I'm not sure if that meant they were slightly edited or if the MPAA relaxed their standards at that time.

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Originally posted by Moose:
Jacquiline Bissett was nude in Airplane? Didn't even know she was in it.

I think the context of a nude scene or swear word usage counts also.
For example, if the F-word is used as a simple expletive it can be used in a PG13, but if there is a sexual connotation to it, it has to be R. Or something like that.

There's a pretty good documentary, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, that deals with how messed up the MPAA ratings system is.

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Originally posted by ecgordon:
If I was on the rating board I'd be more inclined to be stricter on violence and less strict on sexual situations. But as Moose said, context is key.

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