ST OFFICIAL - The Force Awakens Rated PG-13

I love how you think you have seen this movie already.... Are you aware you actually have no idea how much killing or death is in it? Or how the killings look on screen, or how anything looks on screen for that matter.

 

Agreed. If it's anything like the past movies, I'd say it'll probably be pretty similar the AotC level with the Tuskin Raider slaughter/Geonosis battle and all.

 

I mean they almost put a PG-13 rating on AOTC because of Jango head butting Kenobi. so they have been watered down for a long time.

 

The extended edition of the hobbit the battle of the five armies is rated R for a small blade going through a giant orc's hand

 

selling my tickets tbh

 

Man, I was hoping for some Chewie + Maz action.

 

Y?

 

The PG-13 rating is essentially meaningless now. It doesn't take much to get PG-13 these days, yet it takes a helluva lot to get an R. If Phantom Menace (PG) or the Matrix (R) were rated today, they would probably both get PG-13. You can't really classify every movie using a 4 rating system (NC-17 doesn't really count, as is practically nonexistent).

 

Ratings are meaningless. Some PG movies are darker and more mature then PG-13 movies. They should just state what content is in it and let the viewer decide whether it's age appropriate or not. The suggested ratings are unnecessary.


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Note my prior post DarthTedTheodoreLogan

 

I was hoping for a PG rating so as to match the ratings of all but one of the other Star Wars films.

 

Eh PG-13 is fairly standard for a blockbuster

 

The one about the Hobbit? Yeah... That's just... Why? I'm a childless adult, so ratings mean nothing to me, but, for the sake of others, I wish they were a bit less arbitrary.

He needs the cash to pay the troll toll...

 

I was just thinking. Will the flashback of the massacre where the Knights of Ren kill all of the jedi students potentially be brutal? Or are we just going to see the aftermath of it only?

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figured as much that it would be PG-13.

 

It's PG13 because of the end scene where Luke Force speed blitz decapitates all the Knights of Ren

 

If I'm gonna worry about inconsistency, it would be that five of the seven films are shot on film and the other two were shot on digital. But moving on, moving on... *Runs away*

 

Not surprising, but unfortunate.

I was hoping to take my 10 (almost 11) year old nephew to go see it. But now that's it's PG-13, I'm not sure my sister will want him to go.

 

I've seen parents taking their toddler to The Martian [all the NASA jargon made them whine of boredom during the latter half of the film (I like the tech talk, btw)] and R-rated movies like The Expendables. You're not a bad uncle if you take your nephew to see STAR WARS.

 

I saw Titanic when I was 10 in the theater four times. Ahem, there are some scenes in there. There wasn't a single kid in my 5th grade class who hadn't seen it, despite the PG-13 rating. Not a single one.

Certain PG-13 tent pole films have been frequently gone to by even very young children for a long time. Many very notably young kids went to go see the LotR and PotC films if you looked around the theater. The ratings were irrelevant for most parents except the super strict ones with supposedly very sheltered children who actually watch what they're not supposed to at friends' houses. Fantasy violence is pretty tolerated and it's only sexual content that tends to raise flags for parents. PG-13 is the same equivalent of what PG films used to be in the '70s and early '80s.

Raiders of the Lost Ark (one shot was altered) and Temple of Doom both almost got R-rated or were actually censored overseas because there wasn't a PG-13 yet. They're PG in rating, but not in content. Please remember that.

And the original Star Wars almost got rated G (it was a single shot that made it a PG franchise by 1977 standards)! And that hypothetical G-rated film would have included a bloody arm stump, planetary genocide and Han taking the only shot at Greedo. Only very sanitized kid cartoons get that rating today. Early Disney films have content that is pretty damn dark for G-rated fare by modern standards (seen Pinocchio lately?).

 

Well duh! It wasn't going to be R obviously so kids could see it and PG would be too soft these days. You know unless you're making a movie for six year olds.

 

Mixed fellings about this. As much I know I know that most movies of this type will be 12A (I live in Scotland), as a parent of a 5 year old boy who is Star Wars mad I'm not sure he will be able to see the movie on the big screen and that leaves me sad. I suppose it's like the Marvel movies. The toys and merch are aimed at kids of 4 and upwards but they can't get to see the film. To be honest, I don't get ratings. Ok I get the ROTS was a 12A due to the final burning scene but ANH has smouldering skeletons and Darth Vader choking a man to death anf throwing him against a wall and that film is U. Mmmmm....

 

Well there is that but also the fact that the standards have not stayed constant over this time period.

American Ratings have high violence tolerance, low cursing tolerance and low sex tolerance.

 

Are there seriously parents who wont take them because PG-13 is way more wild than PG?
For christ sake the longer you hide your children for slightly more intense content, the more likely they will grow up to be scared and sheltered weirdos.
Its the reason why restrictions and ratings wouldnt exist in a completely perfect world.