PG? What does it all mean Basil?

Posted by Pink is God's | 1:00 PM | 4 comments »

I've been thinking again. What does the term Parental Guidance Suggested mean anyway?




"A PG-rated motion picture should be investigated by parents before they let their younger children attend. The PG rating indicates, in the view of the Rating Board, that parents may consider some material unsuitable for their children, and parents should make that decision.The more mature themes in some PG-rated motion pictures may call for parental guidance. There may be some profanity and some depictions of violence or brief nudity. But these elements are not deemed so intense as to require that parents be strongly cautioned beyond the suggestion of parental guidance. There is no drug use content in a PG-rated motion picture."
So in today's society why would any movie be made for children and be rated PG? In other words why would a movie like Kung Fu Panda have to be rated PG? Why can't Dreamworks make a motion picture for kids that doesn't have "mature themes", "profanity", "violence", and "brief nudity". Who in the world are they making the picture for anyway?!?
Why can't a kid's movie truly be a kid's movie? Why is it necessary to include any of the quoted items above into a "kid's movie"?
Theory #1
These movies are made so that parents will be entertained also. If parents don't want to have anything to do with these movies they will probably wait until the movie comes out on video so they can leave their children alone in a room to watch it by themselves.
Theory #2
It is the Liberal Agenda. Tolerance rules the day. We are teaching our kids through PG movies that certain things, we as a society once deemed wrong, are now acceptable, and we should not be interested in absolute truth.
Theory #3
Satan is alive in Hollywood, or anywhere else they make these movies.
Let's just be straight with each other for a minute. Any movie that has a PG rating has something in it that children should not be seeing our hearing. What does it matter if a parent is sitting with them in a theater with them or not? Evidently the Motion Picture Association of America deemed the rating as necessary for a reason.
It's sad that movies come out such as Kung Fu Panda or Speed Racer, movies my boy would love to see, make me feel like I have to compromise my beliefs to let him to see them. I would feel much differently if it had been rated G and not had any of the garbage in it. Honestly what would that take, chopping out 3 words, two kisses, and a sexual inuendo joke. Come on people quit being so lazy and make a really funny kids film that is entertaining for children and adults that is rated G.

4 comments

  1. Kris Sorensen // May 14, 2008 at 7:56 PM  

    Good insights.

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  2. Nathan // May 14, 2008 at 8:52 PM  

    Good points.

    The concept of the rating system has always bothered me too.

    I hate how things are deemed appropriate when in small doses. Sure, let's show kids something inappropriate, but not enough for them to really figure it out. Just enough to perplex and taint them and have them guessing, obsessing until the next glimpse they get!?!?

  3. Tonya // May 15, 2008 at 8:35 AM  

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  4. Tommy Phelps // May 15, 2008 at 3:40 PM  

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