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I know, I know...another end of the world movie. This one looks fun though! :)



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Rated PG movies of today are not the Rated R of the 80's period. Totally disagree with that. Compared to the PG of the 80's, today's PG is just more action and destruction.
 
Well this thread died a death

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Good gig though!

My gf cried during this



(vidio game relevant!)
 
I don't go to many. Plus Madison would probably be the closest to anything decent. Milwaukee usually has some good stuff but that's about 3 hours away.
 
http://www.thewrap.com/pg-13-movies...movies-gun-violence-r-rated-films-study-finds

Gun violence in PG-13 movies has more than tripled since 1985

Heroes in big screen hits like “Skyfall” and “Iron Man 3″ are more likely to be packing heat than they were three decades ago, according to researchers at the Annenberg Public Policy Center and Ohio State University.

Gun violence in PG-13 movies has more than tripled since 1985, the study’s authors write. In fact, last year movies with that rating contained more gun violence than the top-grossing R-rated movies. Since 2009, the amount of carnage in PG-13 films has been roughly equivalent to films that are rated R.

“It’s disturbing that PG-13 movies are filled with so much gun violence,” Dan Romer, director of the Adolescent Communication Institute of the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) and a co-author of the study, said in a statement. “We know that movies teach children how adults behave, and they make gun use appear exciting and attractive.”

PG-13 is the favored rating of studios, because it allows teenagers to buy tickets and can reach a wider audience than their R-rated brethren. Of the top ten films released in 2012, seven were rated PG-13. The rating was first introduced in 1985 amidst protests about the amount of gore in PG-rated films like “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” and “Gremlins.”

Overall, the amount of violence in the highest grossing movies has more than doubled since 1950, which isn’t exactly shocking, since censors were much stricter in the Eisenhower era than they are today. It took until the latter half of the 1960s, for films like “Bonnie & Clyde” and “The Wild Bunch” to weaken restrictions on the type of violent content that could be seen in movies.

To arrive at its conclusions, the study examined the 30 top-grossing movies each year from 1950 to 2012, and found that 396 of the 420 movies studied since 1985, or 94 percent, had at least one, five-minute segment containing violence.

The study was published in the December issue of Pediatrics.
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Interesting article about PG-13 violence with a little tidbit about the history of the rating. Had no clue Gremlins struck such a core. I do feel that the death of the Gremlins is part of what makes the movie great. Seeing them die in all these brutal and disgusting ways was great, even as kid I thought it was awesome. As for current day PG-13 movies, yeah, they get away with a ton of stuff. The Dark Knight movies and Thor: The Dark World came to mind.
 
That's what I tried to explain to the posters of this forum. They kept crying like babies.
 
I was so into the first one that I kept a close watch on any sequels. As a result I got real early reviews telling me just how god awful they were and to avoid them. So I did just that.
 
Thor 2. I heard a murmur of Dr. Strange showing up at the end of some "Marvel" movie. He definitely wont show up on the Fox or Sony movies.
 
Pretty sure Dredd made its budget back and a profit thanks to DVD and BD sales.

Anyways I actually think this film is looking alright.
 
sharkboy1200 said:
Probably because R-rated movies aren't as successful as they used to be. Look at Dredd. Great movie, huge financial flop. I'd say that it's pretty obvious that the decision was in hopes that it'll reach a wider audience and thus make more money.
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There are at least six R-rated movies this year that have grossed over $100,000,000 at the domestic box office. Dredd's problems were with it's marketing, not with it's MPAA rating.
 
Should have been longer. Would be nice if a show came about from these.

 
Did anyone see last night's episode? Awesome. It's PS4 vs. XB1 with a Game of Thrones set up. I think it's a 2 parter.

 
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