• originalucifer
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    934 months ago

    how about the topless shot halfway through this PG movie?! it feels like there is a lot of content they would never achieve that rating with today.

    • @protist@mander.xyz
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      4 months ago

      Ski Patrol, Police Academy 2, and Airplane the list goes on for 80s movies with a single brief topless shot.

      I’d argue the self-aware humor of Airplane was really calling out stereotypes like the one pictured, and defusing tensions with humor. Now Revenge of the Nerds, there’s a problematic movie.

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        394 months ago

        dude, lets just rape some people or otherwise sexually assault them and call it good-natured fun!

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          Breaking and entering into a sorority, barging into private rooms and house showers/bathrooms, stealing property, and installing hidden cameras in their rooms in order to casually spy on them while they are naked, sleeping, etc. Capturing images of the sorority girls naked, making hundreds of copies of those images, and sharing them with the entire campus to win a school-sponsored competition for a student government seat. Raping a woman while sharing said porn of her and her friends with the entire student body. Said woman then falls in love with her rapist. All played for laughs and zero consequences for any of it. An 80’s hit! Make 3 more sequels of it!

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      164 months ago

      I think you can still maintain a PG-13 rating as long as the boobs shown are not directly sexualized and they only appear in one shot or scene.

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      Airplane was released in 1980, before the PG-13 rating existed. I’m not sure how the film would be rated today, but I’d wager it would not hit PG standards without significant edits.

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      114 months ago

      That preceded the PG-13 rating.

      PG movies back then had more swearing and brief nudity like that scene in airplane was fairly common.

      Stuff like that is why PG-13 came about. American parents didn’t like it when their children saw two frames of boobs in a movie.