How was this rated PG?
Those rollercoaster cars smashing skulls into the ground was graphic. I felt the impact vicariously. No PG.
shareThey did not have PG-13 until 1984, and PG films were pretty graphic and violent. The R rating was reserved for the truly hard core films with language, sex and violence combined, but back in the day people weren't as pussified as they are now.
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Plus the film was a summer release and obviously aimed at teenagers. There was no way this film was going to get an R rating. Yes that opening scene is pretty graphic but the rest of the film is fairly benign as far as violence goes.
shareThe same reason Jaws was PG, it was a different time back then.
shareThat's right. People weren't prudes back then. Now if someone so much as puts a drop of blood in a film, parent groups start crying like little p_-_ys. But if the film is a big budget film, The MPAA will say, "oh just trim it by 2 seconds and we'll pretend we saw nothing."
The times they are a changing!
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LOL at the "pussified" remark. Yes, the world has become pussified, especially in relation to our kids.
In the summer of 1977, I was 11 years old. I could ride a bike without a helmet. I could dive off both low and high diving boards in our pool. I could slide down our water slide in our pool. I could jump in the Potomac river. I could spend a day in the summer without shoes. I could walk by myself to the nearby 7-11 through the woods. No video games, no Facebook, no iPods, no Blackberries. And we could see fairly adult PG rated movies like Rollercoaster, The Deep, White Buffalo, and other movies of the summer because the lines for Star Wars were so long.....
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