Who Invented the Movie Rating System?

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When you were a kid, sneaking into a rated R movie was a big deal. Everyone had their own tricks, but this author’s was to buy a ticket to a rated G Disney movie, say, Mulan; when the usher turned their back, I would run into a rated R movie like, for example American History X. But it wasn’t always this way - not kids sneaking into movies deemed only for adults, but rather the movie rating system. There was a time when movies didn’t have ratings. So how did we get from there to the current system?
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@TimPeterson 5 жыл бұрын

TBH "The Legion of Decency" sounds like a second rate comic book villian organisation

@sparkplug1018 5 жыл бұрын

Could be a good name for a heavy metal band.

@FraterSoddi 5 жыл бұрын

The Catholic Legion of Decency = Opus Dei. They tried to ban James Joyce's "Ulysses" in the U.S. They succeeded in banning contraception until 1965.

@jenniferbrewer5370 5 жыл бұрын

Damn Christians, fucking up everyone's good time.

@SunflowerSpotlight 5 жыл бұрын

Honestly!

@loraxdavewalters2696 5 жыл бұрын

Right! Lol

@eddiewillers1 5 жыл бұрын

Interesting. In the UK in the 70s, it went: U = Universal, all ages A = children to be accompanied by an adult AA = over 14 only X = over 18 only

@cradica 2 жыл бұрын

We have a 14 in the US too but it's for TV and yes I know that's the UK old rating system.

@scaper8 5 жыл бұрын

For anyone interested in more on the ratings system and it's ingrown hypocrisy, I cannot strongly enough recommend the documentary film _This Film Is Not Yet Rated._

@raychang8648 5 жыл бұрын

When I was really little, my sister told me that G meant "good", PG meant "pretty good" and R meant "rotten" and I believed that for many years. HA!!!!

@Threedog1963 5 жыл бұрын

When I was a kid, it was (G)ood, (P)retty (G)ood, (R)eally good, and e(X)tra good

@daviddavis7752 5 жыл бұрын

Threedog and it being “extra good,” meant that it was “too good” for kids.

@Johnny_Shields 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, now I can use that on my little cousins.

@SunflowerSpotlight 5 жыл бұрын

That’s awesome. I think I had a head cannon explanation like that. I was the youngest and felt asking would lower my cred, so I often tried to explain things to myself in a way I could understand, from inference, and muddle along as well as I could! I had a few... noticeable mistakes along the way. But, hey, all that practice was helpful; I’m now a student in psychologist, and picking up on little bitty cues is so dang handy! 😅

@whydoesthischannelexist-3119 5 жыл бұрын

Dan she didn't do that because the PG13 rating probably didn't exist back then

@emmayoung736 5 жыл бұрын

In 1990, the X rating was replaced with NC-17

@spamkaze 5 жыл бұрын

You should do an episode on who actually gives the movies their ratings, and how they go about it. As I understand, it is a very mysterious and inconsistent process.

@matthewlozy1140 5 жыл бұрын

I'd like to know this too. I think a movie gets an R rating vs a PG13 rating partially based on type and amount of swear words. Only a few and just bitch...PG13. F bombs every where ...R

@spamkaze 5 жыл бұрын

@@CashelOConnolly Fascinating! Thank you for that! Is it a transparent process?

@FraterSoddi 5 жыл бұрын

See the movie "This Film Has Not Yet Been Rated". No knows who comprises the MPAA rating board, but I can guarantee you that at least 25% are clergymen.

@rickyhunt4075 5 жыл бұрын

@@matthewlozy1140 Any Movie with more than 1 F word is immediately an R.

@rickyhunt4075 5 жыл бұрын

@@FraterSoddi Probally because they are far more critical of Sex than violence.

@DuelScreen 5 жыл бұрын

You should do the Game Rating System next. It builds off the Movie Rating System and has some interesting twists and turns due to congressmen. There's even a ready-to-go Bonus Fact about how the Hot Coffee Mod in Grand Theft Auto changed the rating system and got the game banned from Walmart. Do the research. This is a fun one.

@scaper8 5 жыл бұрын

I would love one on the video game rating system. How it was inspired by the the film system, how it is similar, how it is different, and how it changed over the years. Definitely a good companion video!

@pokepress 5 жыл бұрын

The MPAA even took the idea of content descriptors from the ESRB system. Honestly I think the ESRB system is pretty good, but like any ratings system, it’s relatively easy to find folks who ignore it.

@robloxian_yt7221 13 күн бұрын

I can fix the system (this is all my opinion): E: I think the ESRB is fine with how they handle E rated games; E10+: I think E10+ can allow for more (but not persistent) of the mild swear words. Maybe a bit more violence but not disturbing (such as Fortnite); T: I think they should allow infrequent uses of "f**k" or "motherf**ker" at T, provided the words aren't used sexually; M and AO: Nothing wrong.

@sparkplug1018 5 жыл бұрын

What should also be noted is that what rating a film gets is entirely arbitrary, and we actually have no idea who the people are who rate them. So saying the same thing in different ways or context can earn different ratings. The Marx Brothers were also masters of screwing around with the Hays Office, finding ways to either sneak it by or fly it so far over their heads that they didn't get it, which of course the people watching did.

@SaraHouck461 4 жыл бұрын

Yeesh, it's no wonder films have easily been defended as teaching tools that deserve to be shown in schools or for schools (with a cinema being treated as an educational field trip destination in the case of the latter), which is presumably what is meant by arbitrary, as explained by some of the other comments posted. Then again, the system itself was supposedly essential in order to make a particular type of subject like that possible.

@sparkplug1018 4 жыл бұрын

@@SaraHouck461 What I mean by arbitrary is, saying the same thing, but in a different way can get vastly different ratings. Such as "I want to F*** you" between a male and female character, PG-13. Same line, between two characters of the same gender? Rated R more often then not. I mean yeah there's more that goes into the overall rating but that's the kind of stuff that they do. It would be nice if we knew who these people were and what criteria, if any they use to rate a film.

@Akira625 5 жыл бұрын

Before the M rating became PG, it was briefly known as GP.

@cradica 2 жыл бұрын

M is still used for video games and manga.

@michaelquinones-lx6ks Жыл бұрын

I remember the day it was it went from "GP" to "PG" in the summer of 1972.

@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache 5 жыл бұрын

*Now we know who invented the movie rating system, but now we need to know who actually takes these movie ratings seriously.*

@jonseon5952 5 жыл бұрын

My mom who wouldn't let me watch the pg 13 movie The Hunger Games with my class when I was 12, even though we read the book in class.

@savagedragon79 5 жыл бұрын

The people making the movies definitely take it seriously. The biggest return comes from PG 13.

@stevefox3763 5 жыл бұрын

@@jonseon5952 some parents are idiots! i was a kid when gremlins 2 came out, in the cinema it was a 12 here in the UK but when it came out on VHS there was not a 12 rating for videos yet and so it got a 15 by defualt even though it have been a 12 in the cinema. i managed to buy it aged 14 and my parents threatened the shop with being reported for supplying an under age with a rated film and all over a film i could have watched in the cinema by myself 2 years younger than i was!

@jaydunbar7538 5 жыл бұрын

@@savagedragon79 also don't want to be nc-17, R has a much higher revenue

@FraterSoddi 5 жыл бұрын

Well, theatre chains take them very seriously and will not book any films with an NC-!7 rating.

@k-trashradio5163 5 жыл бұрын

And so the definition and relevance of free speech was never questioned again.....yup never again

@Asher8328 5 жыл бұрын

For more on this subject, I'd highly recommend the documentary, "This Film Is Not Yet Rated." Not only does it go in depth on the history of movie ratings, but it shows how arbitrary and ridiculous the system of rating movies has become.

@DioneN 5 жыл бұрын

Asher8328 yes that was a good documentary. I haven’t seen it in years but from what I remember, violence is OK but any nudity or sex gets a way harsher rating.

@vovodetna8828 5 жыл бұрын

FYI - The X Rated "Midnight Cowboy" won the Oscar for Best Picture despite its designation. Also, "Jaws" was released (in the USA) in the summer of 1975 NOT 1977, as mentioned by Simon.

@TulilaSalome 5 жыл бұрын

Being the only one, when X was new. It is a pity in a way, that it didn't lead to any adult art film boom.

@josephvitug 5 жыл бұрын

Slight lapse: Jaws was released in 1975, not 1977.

@rawr51919 5 жыл бұрын

This.

@Stoppskylten 5 жыл бұрын

Confused with "Star Jaws" no doubt.

@anotherunnecessarychannel 5 жыл бұрын

HI!!!!! I have a question: how did unknown people come to be known as John or Jane Doe?

@vacancyvisions 5 жыл бұрын

Grace Heine LoL i see you are a man of culture...

@jacqueplett1800 5 жыл бұрын

Good question

@FadeGotMotion 3 жыл бұрын

Because March 18

@TheSpencermacdougall 5 жыл бұрын

8:13 ah pg. back when it actualy meant something more then a "foot size joke" was in the movie (looking at you frozen)

@NoLanConnection 4 жыл бұрын

Now it means G, no film is getting rated G anymore, and if they are they're indistinguishable from PG films. Basically, PG=G and R is still R. But PG-13 I dont know. Fuck the PG-13 rating, it basically takes movies that wouldve been R before the rating existed and tones them down to get the PG-13. Also films that should be PG still get PG-13 ratings, because again PG=G, and because filmmakers might toss an f bomb for instance in a PG movie to get it a PG-13. Seems like everything is PG-13 and this is because it's the best rating for marketing. I really shouldn't care about the MPAA ratings, they're supposed to be for overprotective parents, but many good movies get watered down by studios and filmmakers, and even straight up censored, just to get that fucking PG13. It was meant to be for movies like Temple of Doom, Poltergeist and John Carpenter's The Fog, not the Die Hard franchise.

@cradica 2 жыл бұрын

Old PG is like current day TV-PG. In fact Frozen was TV-G on TV.

@digapygmy70 5 жыл бұрын

Bonus fact: The Vatican newspaper called "The Blues Brothers" a Catholic classic and recommended viewing for all Catholics (despite the questionable actions made by the protagonists lol)

@fromthehaven94 3 жыл бұрын

Probably because Elwood said they were on a mission from God. Nothing more.

@Duncan_Idaho_Potato 5 жыл бұрын

Jaws is a funny case. It's rated PG to this day (movies are rarely, if ever, given new MPAA ratings after release) and yet it contains some pretty realistic blood and gore, not to mention very brief nudity in the beginning of the movie. It's also scary AF, even by today's standards. The blood and gore includes: a partially decomposed severed head with a dangling eyeball; a ( kinda fake looking) severed hand lifted out of a disturbingly small pan containing a woman's remains with a graphic description of the state of said remains; a preteen boy being eaten alive amidst a fountain of bloody water; a partially-off-screen necropsy of a dead shark; Quint's death with all the blood spurting, gurgling and screams of agony and terror; the slowly sinking severed leg with bloody, ragged torn flesh; and, best of all, brief flashes of graphic photographs of actual, real life shark attack victims (when Brody is looking at the book about sharks). And yet this movie has the exact same MPAA rating as Ralph Breaks the Internet.

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@BeastOfTraal 5 жыл бұрын

There's a good documentary about this call "This Film is not yet Rated"

@mattwolf7698 5 жыл бұрын

My Little Pony and Jaws both being rated PG show how much the rating industry has changed over the years.

@SlapstickGenius23 4 жыл бұрын

Matt Wolf that’s strange but true.

@cradica 2 жыл бұрын

Also the MLP show is rated TV-Y. That's less than G!

@Nathaniel_E_Dearing 5 жыл бұрын

I still say "Jaws" should have it's PG rating replaced with a PG-13 rating.

@jameskenny8821 5 жыл бұрын

It's only violence when man kills man

@Stoppskylten 5 жыл бұрын

@naftali safanov Jumping all the sharks there eh.. :)

@1701spacecadet 5 жыл бұрын

Why? Coz kids today are a bunch of pussies who are protected from everything and now can't handle real life when it happens?

@KevinStriker 5 жыл бұрын

@@1701spacecadet Simmer down, there

@nicholasbullock5894 5 жыл бұрын

PG-13 was first introduced with Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom, and Jaws waw ‘75. Much earlier than the PG-13 rating being invented. So they couldn’t give it a PG13

@emmayoung736 5 жыл бұрын

Quick trivia: before the TV channel, there were little nickel theaters called Nickelodeons

@flee4342 5 жыл бұрын

Emma Young What I miss is the old dollar theaters. For $1 you could watch a movie in a small pub. A waitress would bring beer and snacks, and you would watch say Ghostbusters like 7 years after it came out. It was a great place to bring the wife on date night.

@danielbigham6290 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for answering a question I never really thought to ask. Most enjoyable and enlightening.

@kirbymarchbarcena 5 жыл бұрын

I wonder what would happen if those who enacted the rating system would see the movies of this day

@willywood6508 5 жыл бұрын

"The Legion of Decency"...Is this turning into a DC universe plug?

@cag3891 5 жыл бұрын

These classifications are slightly different in Australia and they come in colours since 2005. These are the same for TV and Video Games. E - Exempt (Educational purposes) [Grey] G - General Admission (Everyone) [Green] PG - Parental Guidence (Need a parent or guardian to see if under 15) [Yellow] M - Muture Audience (Recommended for people over 15) [Blue] MA - Mature Accomplained (Has material that is suitable for 15yo and under] [Red] R - Restricted Audience (only for 18 +) [Black]

@Roxor128 5 жыл бұрын

You mean "unsuitable", not "suitable" in the MA description.

@cag3891 5 жыл бұрын

@@Roxor128 Oops my mistake

@cradica 2 жыл бұрын

E=TV-Y,EC(before it went extinct) G=G,TV-G,E PG=PG,TV-PG,E10+ M=PG-13,TV-14,T MA=R,TV-MA,M R=NC-17,(also)TV-MA,AO

@primoroy 5 жыл бұрын

My nieces and nephews asked me what these rating letters meant! G = Good PG = Pretty good R = Real good 😂😅🤣 They still remember as adults!

@marrqi7wini54 5 жыл бұрын

What do you say when it's PG-13?

@liensmith569 5 жыл бұрын

Umm I think u copied this

@primoroy 5 жыл бұрын

@@marrqi7wini54 This was BEFORE PG13

@primoroy 5 жыл бұрын

@@liensmith569 Nah! I'm sure I'm not the only one with a warped mind! 🤣

@liensmith569 5 жыл бұрын

Umm ok

@thomasturner6980 5 жыл бұрын

I wish movies had a similar thing to KZfaq where u just have to have an 18+ account to watch age restricted movies even of your 5

@tavferry3301 5 жыл бұрын

Simon Whistler is the guy that has a response to everything at the party. "But did you know....."

@SunflowerSpotlight 5 жыл бұрын

He’s both my kind of person and my spirit animal for this reason. 😂 My whole circle of friends and family have an inside joke because of the vocal roller coaster I go through when I say the phrase. “Buttt did yOUUU knnnoOOWWW?” I often try to tell myself to shut up, but it’s just too interesting to not put out there, so it’s kind of an external sign of an internal conflict. It’s nice when in a group of people who are also curious, though, less stressful. I can never get enough of channels like these!

@Daleymop 5 жыл бұрын

Interesting to note. In Australia we have quite a few more ratings. G - General PG - Parental Guidance Recommended M - Mature Audiences Recommended MA15+ - Not suitable for under 15s, under 15s must be accompanied by an adult R18+ - Restricted to 18 and over X18+ - Restricted to 18 and over (Generally a pornography classification, not sold in normal stores or shown in cinemas)

@cradica 2 жыл бұрын

so in the US G=(same for movies and TV) E for games PG=(same for movies and TV) E10+ for games M=PG-13 for movies, TV-14 for TV, T for games MA=R for movies, same for TV(except its 17), M for games R=NC-17 for movies, A more intense TV-MA for TV, AO for games X=Not sure?

@PixelatedH2O 5 жыл бұрын

The PG of the 1970s was much different than the PG now. Then you could find full frontal nudity by men and women in PG movies. Now that's barely in the harshest of R movies.

@FakeSchrodingersCat 5 жыл бұрын

Can you give an example? You and many others have claimed this but whenever they name a film and I go to check it's in line with some PG-13 from recent history which is understandable since PG-13 was not separated out until the mid 80s.

@PixelatedH2O 5 жыл бұрын

@@FakeSchrodingersCat Logan's Run, cult classic sci-fi from 1976 is the best example I can name. There are a few scenes of nudity from both men and women, including full-frontal.

@FamilyGuyBob 5 жыл бұрын

@@FakeSchrodingersCat Airplane 1 or 2, can't remember which, had a naked woman and I'm pretty sure it was only rated pg. Also beatlejuice drops an f bomb in a pg movie.

@mytech6779 5 жыл бұрын

The original intent of PG-13 was to expand the envelope of PG. But, due in large part to lazy parents who have blanket rules about R movies, the PG-13 rating actually made many movies more conservative so they could slip from R into the PG-13 slot which was seen by marketing departments as a larger slice of the market to be blindly grasped at even at the cost of artistic merit and critical review.(really ruined a large number of movies)

@Bacopa68 5 жыл бұрын

@@FakeSchrodingersCat The Man Who Would Be King is good example of nudity in a PG movie. Brief full frontal female nudity and male nudity with Caine and Connery's dicks in shadow. Also, a quite open reference to homosexuality. I think Dragonslayer was the last PG film with breast exposure back in 1981.

@NicholasVargo Жыл бұрын

Just to clear up, the MPAA logo has not always been the same. From its inception in 1922 to 1967, it was a squeezed oval logo with the letters of the company inside of it, not the one we know today.

@stevefox3763 5 жыл бұрын

Here in the UK we have U (universal-suitable for all), PG (parental Guidance), 12A (under 12's must be accompanied by an adult), 12 (12 and over), 15 (15 and over) and 18 (18 and over) . I thought all film ratings, regardless of country were the same till i saw this video but i guess not.

@ilovenoodles7483 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, me too. Thanks for letting us know. Greetings from America

@cradica Жыл бұрын

So I guess U=G PG=PG 12=PG-13 15=this is a weird one it's sorta like R? 18=NC-17

@griplove 5 жыл бұрын

William H Hays was born in my home town of Sullivan, IN. He’s featured in the historical society’s museum.

@luissantiago5163 5 жыл бұрын

It is interesting how these ratings have changed so much over time.

@jewhittamore 5 жыл бұрын

The reason they have changed is because they are "suggested ratings" of which are introduced by the person watching it and the movie companies lobbying against ratings they don't agree with.

@blupunk01 5 жыл бұрын

There's a great 2006 documentary called "This Film Is Not Yet Rated" that looks behind the curtain and the arbitrary and largely secretive MPAA ratings system.

@GiggleSkull 4 жыл бұрын

For anyone interested in how the MPAA Uses its rating system. Check out the documentary “This film is not yet rated” it’s very fascinating

@regularfather4708 5 жыл бұрын

Red Dawn will always be one of my favorites. Watched it all the time on cable as a kid.

@commentguy4711 5 жыл бұрын

Nickelodeon is a real word? Not a kids channel on TV? Whats up with crazy world?

@Roxor128 5 жыл бұрын

I think it referred to early pay-per-view film machines that played a short film for 5c per play. Basically showing off the novelty of motion pictures in the early 20th century.

@FraterSoddi 5 жыл бұрын

@@Roxor128 hand-cranked as well

@cradica 2 жыл бұрын

That's what I was thinking.

@scottandrewhutchins 5 жыл бұрын

No mention of The Miracle? Were you not able to find an image of the M symbol? It made it all the way to the VHS releases of The Dunwich Horror and Demon Seed. Did you think mention of the GP rating that preceded PG would be confusing? I wrote most of the Wikipedia article on The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (unless it's been heavily revised since I last got to it), but I never found as much footage of it as shown in this video.

@IceWolfLoki 5 жыл бұрын

In Australia it is: G - General - Available for General Viewing - Very Mild in Impact PG - Parental Guidance - Not recommended for people under 15 without guidance from parents or guardian - Mild in Impact M - Mature - Recommended for people aged 15 and over - Moderate in Impact MA 15+ - Mature Accompanied - Unsuitable for people under the age of 15, People under 15 year must be supervised by a parent or adult guardian - Strong in Impact R 18+ - Restricted - Unsuitable for people under the age of 18, People under 18 are not allowed to buy, rent, exhibit or view - High in Impact - Highest level for Video Games RC - Refused Classification - legal to possess unless it contains illegal content (i.e. child pornography) but restricted to people over 18 not necessarily pornographic in nature but anything that exceeds R 18+ - Very High Impact There is also X 18+ between R 18+ and RC for films that "depict unsimulated sexual content only" sexual violence and fetishes are not permitted.

@Roxor128 5 жыл бұрын

You forgot E - Exempt from classification - Non-fiction material only.

@cradica 2 жыл бұрын

G=G(The movie rating)/G(The TV rating)/E PG=PG(the movie rating)/PG(the TV rating)/E10+ M=PG-13/14/T MA=R/MA/M R=NC-17/also MA/AO I don't think there is an equivalent to X or RC.

@cradica Жыл бұрын

Now what I just realized is Interspecies Reviewers was banned in Australia which I found interesting given in the US it was rated a warning that reads "Do not watch if your under 18" which I guess would be equivalent to X-18 but it's not because it's not even a rating just a warning screen

@michaeltaylor9977 5 жыл бұрын

I was a movie projectionist in the early to mid- 90's. Cineplex Odeon ran Faces of Death IV in 1994. We could only show it at mid-night. It was rated "X" There were 2 scenes where patrons (lost it) and walked out. It was on a 30-40 foot wide screen by 18 feet. The "gross out factor" could NOT be understated on this film. LOL

@JackDecker63 5 жыл бұрын

Why does "86" mean to kill/cancel something?

@deadfreightwest5956 5 жыл бұрын

I always thought it was a military code thing, but apparently not: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86_(term)

@sparkplug1018 5 жыл бұрын

Was a term for when the bartender would cut you off in a way. So they'd stop serving you the 100+ proof stuff and give you eh 86 proof. And over time as things do its meaning changed, and it became a phrase for to kill or get rid of something. At least thats the story I've always heard anyway.

@TulilaSalome 5 жыл бұрын

Rhyming slang obviously: 86 - nix

@Echo32x 5 жыл бұрын

sparkplug1018 yea I’ve heard it was the address of a speak easy in New York, no idea if that’s true or not

@eaminyashed7799 5 жыл бұрын

Echo 32x there was a speakeasy in New York that had two entrances. The owner paid off the police so would get a heads up when there would be a raid. When a raid happened all the booze and customers would escape out of the entrance that had an 86 address

@jevinday 5 жыл бұрын

Good stuff Simon!

@lutalutamedia 5 жыл бұрын

Legion of decency created by the Catholic church, irony.

@williamhild1793 5 жыл бұрын

Just like that line from the old 1970's cartoon..."Meanwhile, at the Legion of Decency..."

@williamreffett5862 5 жыл бұрын

Great video bt-dubs I just wanted to put a different thread out there you guys do great work

@FreqyBiker 5 жыл бұрын

Do you think you can film a follow-up for the UK's version (BBFC). Especially with the discrepancy between 12 cert between cinema releases and video (where video's weren't allowed to use 12 so we're classes as 15) and the reclassification of 12 to 12A?

@stanleydenning 5 жыл бұрын

I can't remember the last time an X rated movie came out at the movies.

@splaar 5 жыл бұрын

The X rating was abandoned in the 1990s and replaced with NC-17 because, due to the lack of a patent on the rating system, the porn industry rebranded the meaning of the X rating. Even still, very few movies are ever given an NC-17 rating.

@fromthehaven94 3 жыл бұрын

Including movies that got released unrated, I've seen only three movies that got the NC17 rating in their original versions: Shame, Mysterious Skin, and Easier With Practice (a movie with no onscreen sex or nudity, go figure).

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@tammyelizabeth5157 5 жыл бұрын

Part of why the ratings system had to become so was due to not actually the amount of sexual innuendo or nudity, but the increasing violence. Westerns were very popular in the 60s and 70s and became more and more realistic in gun violence. Then horror films came along with similar issues, then bringing movies that crossed the line like clockwork orange and last house on the left with graphic rape scenes that just had to be considered for ratings that only those 18 and above should see. It wasn't till the 80s that swear words were taken into account as to how a film should be rated. As before this blood guts and tits were primarily the problem. Now the rating is very important as the number of busts in seats is set by the age of ticket buyers. So cleaning up the dialouge, or removing all the blood from the injuries could bring the film to a PG rating tripping the box office.

@mytech6779 5 жыл бұрын

Wait what was the hays code? Mentioned at about 6:50 but I didn't hear the term earlier in the video. Looked it up, seems to be the "voluntary" mppda system between 1930 and 1968.

@FamilyGuyBob 5 жыл бұрын

Video footage from the 1800s is just plain creepy what with knowing that everyone alive on earth at that time is long gone.

@vacancyvisions 5 жыл бұрын

supermario_2 yeah it fucks with your brain

@FamilyGuyBob 5 жыл бұрын

@Ken Hudson Fair enough, still creepy knowing everyone on earth in that video is dead though.

@FamilyGuyBob 5 жыл бұрын

@Ken Hudson No I haven't

@FamilyGuyBob 5 жыл бұрын

@Ken Hudson My original point still stands.

@FamilyGuyBob 5 жыл бұрын

@Ken Hudson It's all good. Gone with the wind is on my to watch list but damn, I thought Lawrence of Arabia was long..

@ausbare140 5 жыл бұрын

I find it interesting on who decides what is offensive and what rating film should get. It is different country to country. Violence in one country gets a G rating in another it gets a R rating. Nudity will get G or a R depending on the country. All these ratings are subject to a very small group of people so are really of very little use.

@FraterSoddi 5 жыл бұрын

You missed one big turn. In 1990, indy thriller "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" was released with a hard X by the MPAA. Independent filmmakers were outraged, as much brutal slasher films were being released by the majors with R and even milder PG-13 ratings.

@StepDownFoxytheFox110Forever 2 жыл бұрын

Raiders of the Lost Ark: PG Disney Teacher's Pet: PG What?

@PaulMeranda 5 жыл бұрын

.. wait........ 'Nickelodeon' is just, like.. a regular ol' word word?? ... huh....

@rgerber 5 жыл бұрын

That background music... There is definitely somethinf ominous going on behind the camera. Either it's a sneaky killer clown playing his organ. What do you think?

@dannydaw59 5 жыл бұрын

It seems like movie theaters never really enforced the rules anyway. They want to sell tickets.

@midnighttornado22 5 жыл бұрын

I remember the whole PG-13 fiasco with Temple of Doom. When Indiana Jones threw that flaming shishkabob through that guy's chest, it was crazy. Even as a kid, I was like "huh, this ain't PG but it's not really R either". So when PG-13 came out, it seemed to make sense. I thought it actually made it easier to market films after that, and easier for me to filter out a lot of the safe, homogenized, formulaic PG garbage .

@michaelquinones-lx6ks Жыл бұрын

The current movie ratings system needs to be overhauled and upgraded because it's old and obsolete. and, here is the new system that should replace it it goes like this, PG-12+, T-14+, M-16+, R-18+,

@Sir_Uncle_Ned 5 жыл бұрын

Wow. Thank god the church doesn't control our rating system anymore!

@williamhild1793 5 жыл бұрын

Well, in a sense they do. Churches make no bones about who they want their members to vote for. And quite often, they urge their members to vote for very self-righteous people who love nothing more than controlling people and telling them what to do. They do this because they must establish how "alpha" and dominate they are. Anything to keep the masses under their thumb. By hook or by crook, they WILL impose their will on the rest of us, until a day comes when we finally have enough and take them all out fish, hook, line, and sinker at the ballot box. Of course, I come from a viewpoint of being both a Socialist and an Atheist.

@SunflowerSpotlight 5 жыл бұрын

The Legion of Decency!?!? You’re kidding me! Sometimes life is stranger than fiction. You’d be laughed out of the room with that title in any book or tv show or movie. Wow!

@soterioncoil2163 5 жыл бұрын

Astonishing that Jaws was rated PG, that's an R rating fo sho!

@TulilaSalome 5 жыл бұрын

"most movie material is reprehensible" Movies: "hold my beer"

@RetroMonkey1999 5 жыл бұрын

I vividly recall seeing Gremlins before it was changed to PG13 and being scared to absolute death. I shouldn't really even say I saw it because mostly I saw my hands in front of my eyes! I was only about 4 after all.

@LoveDoctorNL 5 жыл бұрын

Love the way you pronounce Nevada as based on it’s Spanish origin.

@EmilyCheetham 4 жыл бұрын

In uk the rating system is - U (universal = for everyone), PG, 12,15,18 and in cinemas there is 12a with the a standing for adult. Meaning under 12s must be accompanied by an adult.

@lamajarmystrong91 5 жыл бұрын

NC17 is the Pluto of movie ratings

@marrqi7wini54 5 жыл бұрын

Well what movie studio will make that for the general public?

@lamajarmystrong91 5 жыл бұрын

@@marrqi7wini54 imma say cartoon network productions...i swear these "kids" shows b grown af

@ITpanda 5 жыл бұрын

Cool! Thanks

@brapboy72 5 жыл бұрын

One more thing to add about PG-13 and Gremlins. Gremlins was released in the theaters as PG but as PG-13 was made available soon after, then Gremlins was changed to PG-13 for its VHS release.

@kargetea2977 5 жыл бұрын

Hello I'm Simon Whistler and Today I'm gonna learn you a thing!

@fromthehaven94 4 жыл бұрын

The ratings system is only voluntary up to the point that every movie released from a studio under the MPAA has to have a rating. Unfortunately, major American theater exhibitors to showing movies without a rating isn't common. The same goes for NC17 rated movies, where some studios won't release a movie with the rating, and the exhibitors won't show them.

@LittleJoeTheMoonlightCat 4 жыл бұрын

And the First PG-13 Film I saw was Once Bitten Starring Jim Carrey, Lauren Hutton, and Cleavon Little, Despite it Being Released in 1985, I Saw it on T.V. in 1987, While Working on 4 School Productions 1 of them Andrew Lloyd Webber's CATS.

@darksword67 5 жыл бұрын

The more things change the more things stay the same. Censorship is alive and well and just as it was with the newspapers back then just being led by the tech companies.

@tuppytower2578 5 жыл бұрын

Wow, your opinion is so terrible and wrong I want to censor it

@martinbaxter6414 5 жыл бұрын

The MPAA was staring at Jane Russell's bosom? (Couldn't get my eyes off her gams, personally.)

@northrendicecrown631 5 жыл бұрын

The real question who are the people who Decide this far as I know nobody knows

@TheAnnArnold 5 жыл бұрын

Are you sure “Jaws” was released in 1977? My son was born in December 1974 & i remember seeing it in the theater with his dad while he was still young enough, i carried him in a blanket as a baby.🤔

@SlapstickGenius23 4 жыл бұрын

TheAnnArnold Jaws was in 1975. Star Wars was in 1977.

@BlackburnBigdragon 5 жыл бұрын

And now, every movie that would benefit from being Rated R for storytelling purposes are always shoved out the door toned down to PG-13 to get that target demographic of teens in those seats. PG-13 is the main focus of the entire damn industry now for all the summer blockbusters. They've pretty much killed the R rating and studios seem terrified to try it for fear of losing that PG-13 money making demographic.

@splaar 5 жыл бұрын

Star Wars

@DylexionTV 5 жыл бұрын

huh, who knew I was related to the mayor of NYC in 1909. guess my family has more history than just the civil war 😂

@xMidan 5 жыл бұрын

Nobody cares

@matepasztor282 5 жыл бұрын

@@xMidan apparently the five people who liked his comment do.

@gooseluck3269 5 жыл бұрын

Why the hell did the rating boards decide to change the minimum age to view x rated movies from 17 to 18, is there a magical transition in between these two totally made up numbers? This whole thing screams out of touch 50 year olds.

@paranoidrodent 5 жыл бұрын

18 is the age of legal majority. The puritans would probably push it even higher if it wasn't awkward to deny legal adults the ability to decide for themselves what is offensive to them. (never mind the fact that drinking ages are often higher than the age of majority)

@dustydarkhorse 5 жыл бұрын

Man, I never knew about the connection to religious zealots but it makes sense. True to form. Wasn't the church behind the comic book standards too?

@vinothshepard7451 5 жыл бұрын

Where did the education system come from?

@seriousgoat76 5 жыл бұрын

When the industrial revolution happened and we are still using the same system unfortunately.

@starrs0 5 жыл бұрын

where did the custom of giving "Birthday Spankings" come from?

@williamhild1793 5 жыл бұрын

It may have come from that creepy uncle everyone seems to have. :)

@richardtornblom6399 5 жыл бұрын

Simon great work But can you make a video about the small swedish slave colony that Karl Gustav the III had

@14-18_Highway_MPG 5 жыл бұрын

I did a senior exhibition on this exact subject what this video misses is the fact that despite the fact the x rating was changed to the nc -17 rating to differentiate film from pornography they never worked to remove the stigmas. This has now become like a new form of censorship where if a movie is rated nc-17 it will almost certainly fail at the box office so as a result films self censor themselves to get the R rating. So essentially the nc-17 rating is broken and is used as a big ambiguous line in the sand that filmmakers aren’t allowed to cross, and more and more violent films are forced into the R rating because they censor themselves to get an appeal from the MPAA. We should get rid of film ratings imo. Films and books are both art but only one of them is rated and censored by a board.

@dalezapple2493 5 жыл бұрын

Used to be an "m" rated films too... In USA 🎉

@GreenAppelPie 5 жыл бұрын

Dale Zapple ‘showgirls’ comes to mind. The only ‘M’ rated movie on standard I ever remember seeing.

@cradica 2 жыл бұрын

we still do for video games and manga

@GreenAppelPie 5 жыл бұрын

I’m surprised Simon didn’t mention the Al Pacino version of ‘Scarface’, it was reportedly rated X just for the violence initially.

@Telescope1LH 5 жыл бұрын

The story of the English film rating story is longer.

@betterlatethannever4529 5 жыл бұрын

Where does the term Blockbuster come from?

@williamhild1793 5 жыл бұрын

I think it came from a special bomb used to destroy "blocks"---heavily fortified parts of a military defensive line.

@kirilvelinov7774 2 жыл бұрын

Some countries used card suits to represent age restricted films: ♧Suitable for all ages ♡Not for children under 7 years old ♤Not for children under 14 years old ◇Restricted,for adults only

@cradica 2 жыл бұрын

we have a 7 and a 14 for TV

@gubjorggisladottir3525 5 жыл бұрын

Would be interesting to learn about other countries than U.S.A. and other media than movies.

@danhostetler1423 5 жыл бұрын

Question: Why are the largest cats' ears rounded with lots of inner ear fur, but smaller cats' ears are pointed and proportionately less fur?

@Null507 5 жыл бұрын

I have a question: How does one get someone else charged with a War Crime? Can a US President be tried at The Hague? When can the UN get involved to stop ongoing War Crimes by Member States?

@cfltheman 5 жыл бұрын

I can tell you that the answer to your second question will be a "no". I think that the United States isn't part of the ICC.

@garyevans3421 5 жыл бұрын

I don’t care what Spielburg or any of them said about it, PG13 was a money move. 12 has as long as I remember, has always been the cut off for children’s fare. Any older and you have to pay as an adult. No kid that age has driver license, which is the only picture ID most people will ever have. For years kids 13 and a little older lied to pay the cheaper children’s fee. After the change, kids 11 and 12 were lying and saying they were 13 just to get in and paying the adult rate!

@ferdieosgar3829 7 ай бұрын

Why should anyone trust a movie rating made up by a group of individuals using their own set of values? Art it's by definition an individual experience. I will watch any movie I believe will make laugh, cry or be moved or inspired by it... then I will decide my own personal rating and that rating will remain private and I won't try to impose it upon anyone.

@InvisibleMag 5 жыл бұрын

This video could have been 2 seconds long: Moms.

@williamreffett5862 5 жыл бұрын

That first video was the first one submitted for a copyright but it wasn't the first video as far as I know I believe it was a horse running which is in the really early days of motion pictures