They just said "Damn" in the movie. Today that would give this movie an automatic PG rating. Ironically, the TV rating is "TV-14" ouch!
shareThis was a 60s, when Dracula movies were rated G (unless they had some nudity, then they were bumped to PG). When The Planet of the Apes (with all its disturbing violence) was rated G. It was a different time.
shareThey snort "coke" out of a soda bottle
smoke cigarettes
drink alcohol (or do they? I seem to remember shots of them with drinks- am I wrong about that)
run off to an "orgy"
gay entendre with the "queen" magazine
lots of disrespect towards adults from the "kids"
I was surprised that the movie got away with a G rating with the interview scene where John Lennon writes a note to answer the lady's question. Some of the jokes are so provocative. It's one of the things that makes the movie so hilarious!
sharehaha that's what I thought too, this can't be G.
shareTo say nothing of "This place is surging with girls." "Please, sir, can I have one to surge with, sir?"
shareI remember reading that "Star Wars" almost had a G rating. The producers were worried because they didn't think G-rated movies made that much money, so they added the scenes where Obi-Wan Kenobi slices off the alien's arm and Han Solo saying "Damn" to bump it up to PG. Odd, considering that Gone With the Wind" was re-released and rated G despite Rhett Butler's "Damn".
"There will be blood. Oh, yes! There will be blood."-Jigsaw; "Saw II"
Filmmakers generally avoid the "G" rating, except for a narrow range of movies.
It may be a fundamental rule of nature that the "end" ratings become useless for general purposes. Early on, the "G" rating was given to mainstream films that didn't have anything objectionable (like "2001: a Space Odyssey"), and the "X" was applied to mainstream movies with adult themes (like "Midnight Cowboy"). But within a few years the "G" became an indication of a children's movie and the "X" (of course) became a marketing label for porn. Renaming the latter with "NC17" didn't really change anything.
Except that the porn industry didn't grab NC-17. Since, in the days of the X porn called their movies "XXX", would that make a porn movie (if they still played in theaters) "NC-51"?
"There will be blood. Oh, yes! There will be blood."-Jigsaw; "Saw II"
You all do know that there were NO RATINGS in 1964, right?
shareJust to quote a post in this thread that is now over four years old:
The movie was, of course, released before there were ratings. The ratings website* indicates it was rated G in 1979, presumably in connection with a theatrical re-release.
I notice that the 2014 uncut re-release was rated U. But currently it has a 12A rating on IMDb.
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