Former ESRB rater says revamp system

[Great Rumbler]

I'm just saying I don't know what the ratings themselves mean. So okay, PG-13 is worse than PG?

PG-13 was specifically created because it was decided that the gap between PG and R was too broad, so they inserted PG-13 as a middle ground.

G = Virtually no unsuitable content, All ages.
PG = Some mild content, might be innapropriate for the youngest audiences.
PG-13 = Even more unsuitable content, not for ages under 13.
R = Lots of unsuitable content, not for ages under 17.

To give some perspective to that in the 80's, I'll use two movies as example: Beastmaster and Temple of Doom, both PG movies. Beastmaster showed a woman nude from the waist up in a bathing scene and Temple of Doom featured human sacrifice and scenes of violent, bloody death. Neither met the requirements for an R-rating, at the time, so there was only one place left to go: PG. So that's what they got.

Of course, this gives us something of a problem. Either we can lower the R-rating, so that those movies recieve the highest rating a wide-available title generally gets. Or we can somehow change up G and PG so that the difference between the two becomes wider. The problem with that is that G means virtually no unsuitable content, so there's a lot of movies that it simply can't hold and still mean anything. So G has to stay where it is. Now we're left in exactly the same spot. You can't change R because that messes everything up and you can't change G because its where it needs to be.

This is where PG-13 comes along. It allows PG to hold movies that didn't quite meet the G requirement and catch movies that go well beyond that but didn't quite meet the R requirement.

And now you know.

Yeah I thought that, then someone said it was the other way around.

Well, that person is wrong.

The thing is, I have no idea what movies are rated what, so no, I am not saying I can't tell the difference between Austin Powers and Ice Age.

You said that you didn't know what PG and PG-13 meant and that you thought they were exactly the same. Now you know that they are not.

Say it once, even in a Pixar movie and you just got yourself an R rating.

Nope. One instance would only get you PG-13 at worst. And that's like saying that its ridiculous that you can't show someone being disembowled in a violent manner in a PG movie. But they only showed it once!! Or saying the same thing about one, single scene of explicit rape. Come on.

There are a lot of things that can land you an R-rating and they run the gamut from language to nudity to violence.

Well in the movie you see a character deal with rape, endure it, live through it and cope, how this character got through that situation hell it might even help Suzy if at the very least to spark discussion with her friends and family about it but now that you said THIS MOVIE HAS TEH RAPES she's going to avoid the experience.

It's a good thing for Hypothetical-Suzy that the internet exists so she can read about this movie in advance and know whether or not its something that she wants to see.