Reported in various sources.
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I remember being baffled at the G rating for Jewison's...

"Jesus Christ Superstar."

And I don't just mean the crucifixion - or the whipping. If you know what I mean.

(I found out later that a G rating USED to mean almost any age up to 11 or so, and PG meant 11 to 17. That would also explain how the 1977 movie "Sinbad and the Eye of Tiger" got a G rating - nowadays, it likely wouldn't. But I don't remember just where, nowadays, the age line gets drawn between G and PG. Of course, PG likely only goes up to age 13.)

In the previous article, Lenona <lenona321@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I remember being baffled at the G rating for Jewison's...
>
> "Jesus Christ Superstar."
>
> And I don't just mean the crucifixion - or the whipping. If you know
> what I mean.
>
> (I found out later that a G rating USED to mean almost any age up to
> 11 or so, and PG meant 11 to 17. That would also explain how the
> 1977 movie "Sinbad and the Eye of Tiger" got a G rating - nowadays,
> it likely wouldn't.

Nowadays, producers would gratuitously put the topless girl in it just
to ensure a PG-13 at least, for commercial reasons. One of many
reasons the rating system (and preferably the whole MPA) ought to be
abolished.

Another example worth noting is 2001: A Space Odyssey. Those
(literally) chilling on-screen murders would earn it a PG-13 today for
sure.
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_+_ From the catapult of |If anyone objects to any statement I make, I am
_|70|___:)=}- J.D. Baldwin |quite prepared not only to retract it, but also
\ / baldwin@panix.com|to deny under oath that I ever made it.-T. Lehrer
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