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Originally posted by SykkBoy@Mar 8 2005, 02:11 PM
Jaws was rated PG, although Spielberg was responsible for the creation of the PG-13 rating after outcry from Gremlins (which he produced and Joe Dante directed) and Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom (which he directed). The first movie released with a PG-13 was Red Dawn if I remember right....
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Good memory, you nailed it!
Red Dawn was the first movie released with the new rating, but Temple of Doom was the cause of the creation of the PG-13 rating. Spielberg made sure that he didn't put anything in the movie that would draw an R-rating, but the violence and such inspired the MPAA to create a rating between PG and R.
And horror movies have largely sucked ever since!
There's no way to do a PG rated horror movie. So the studios used to go with buckets of blood and bouncing naked teenage boobies. If you're gonna have an R-rating, might as well go for it!
However, teens love horror movies and to not pass up those dollars, the vast majority of horror movies that come out today are PG-13. Which means no real nudity and nothing that would truly constitute gore.