...but I found the comparison between 70's "PG" and 2000's "PG" fascinating!
Well into the 80's, a PG rating meant something a LOT rougher and questionable for younger viewers than today, where it's been so defanged that there's virtually NO difference between a PG and a G. Whenever my sister introduces a formative classic from our generation to her kids, I have to warn her about "80's PG", especially after she showed Sixteen Candles to her teenage daughter a few years back, and was mortified by the topless female shower scene barely five minutes into the movie. And showing 80's classics like Gremlins and Poltergeist to my nephew (now nineteen) kind of blows his mind when he's seeing faces getting torn off and Gremlins gets melted in microwaves with the same MPAA ratings as toothless contemporary Disney animated fare like Frozen and Moana.
Whenever my sister introduces a formative classic from our generation to her kids, I have to warn her about "80's PG", especially after she showed Sixteen Candles to her teenage daughter a few years back, and was mortified by the topless female shower scene barely five minutes into the movie.
The middle east has nothing on this. Heaven help me a female caused another female to see something they both see every time they take off their underwear! How can they live with the trauma.
And showing 80's classics like Gremlins and Poltergeist to my nephew (now nineteen) kind of blows his mind when he's seeing faces getting torn off and Gremlins gets melted in microwaves with the same MPAA ratings as toothless contemporary Disney animated fare like Frozen and Moana. 