Have you ever gone to see a movie which is, like, R rated, and you were expecting a movie with probably a lot of blood, graves, and (of course) death, but after you saw the movie you thought it was pathetic, and it should have been rated G? If you've ever seen a movie like that, post the name here.

Pearldust, you are talking to one who's been thrown out of "X" rated horror films for laughing (at the wrong moments) - check out any of the 1960's Hammer Horror films and you'll see why.

I picked up a movie from the kid's section of the library for my step-son to watch once. It was called "Malcolm" and it was rated PG. A lot of kidvids are, like X-Men cartoons for instance, so I figured it was safe enough. It wasn't a bad movie or anything, and the kid liked it because it had a lot of cool gadgets like a car that could split in two and the passenger and driver could each drive half. It had way too much cursing and even a sex scene, though. I couldn't believe that it was rated PG and even worse was in the kid's section.

Oh, and my #1 most hated movie of all time, "Donnie and Marie Goin' Coconuts", was rated PG but should've been a G. I think sometimes they pay the ratings board to give it a different rating because they know they'll get more money with a PG than a G.

And they may get more money with a PG than a PG-13. Most of the top grossing movies are rated PG-13 or lower--the argument that Hollywood makes lots of R movies because the economy dictates it is actually a canard; it is the lower rated movies that tend to make more money (with some exceptions, of course.)

I don't know what differentiates a PG from a PG-13 anymore. It seems the standards are being increasingly lowered, and are sporadically applied.

I once saw a movie called "Radio Inside" on W.E. (Woman's Entertainment) and I liked it so, I went to the video store to check it out so I could watch it without commercials, it wasw rated NC-17 so I thought, wow they must have cut out quite a bit, what I saw was tame, the only nude scene was of a man's backside (which they blurred out) walking far off down a road. I watched the whole movie and it was EXACTLY the same thing I saw on TV, there was no reason for the NC-17 rating.

This topic is interesting so I read a couple articles. I was thinking that the reason why movies are hardly ever given an all-audiences rating is because the movie-makers didn't want that rating. From what I've read though, it's unusual for a live-action movie to get a G rating in the USA. I was probably mislead because when I was a kid it was easier to get a G rating. "Planet of the Apes" (the original) was rated G. The 2001 version, which isn't any more graphic or violent than the original got a PG-13, according to imdb.com.

"Radio Inside" is rated USA R according to imdb.com, by the way.

I knew it had an R rating, I just couldn't figure out why Blockbuster put the NC-17 rating on it. I was working there at the time and was told that if it had the NC-17 sticker on it you absolutely can not rent it to anyone under 17. I thought this was weird because the higher rating makes it less accessable to people, and I believe it is a fairly good movie.

I just saw the movie "S.W.A.T." today,and while it was a fairly good movie,I was surprised it was rated only PG-13. It had too much swearing for my taste and violence and a lot of stuff blowing up. Now I love stuff blowing up just as much as the next person but a guy (how should I put this?) "interfering" with a train? Ew.