[Ax]

When I was a kid growing up in the 50s, if I wanted to go see a movie, my mother would check the back page of the Michigan Catholic. If it was rated “A” we could go. If it were a “B” then it was questionable. If it were a “C,” forget about it! In 2012, there aren’t too many flicks these days that would qualify for an “A.”

[sickoflibs]

RE :”When I was a kid growing up in the 50s, if I wanted to go see a movie, my mother would check the back page of the Michigan Catholic. If it was rated “A” we could go. If it were a “B” then it was questionable. If it were a “C,” forget about it! In 2012, there aren’t too many flicks these days that would qualify for an “A.”

While we are strolling down memory lane : when I was a kid in early 70s era we only had 4 TV stations where I lived total boredom; but my grandmother lived in a big city (owned both a house and yard) and they got 7 VHF channels and a few more UHF channels and they were packed with old movies and TV shows from the 50s and 60s all day and night, Every Saturday they had three stations competing for Creature Feature, Chiller and (I cant remember the other one’s ) black and white horror and Sci-FI movies,
Sunday was Abbott and Costello and Bowery Boys movies. Marx Brothers, Cagney, Flynn, Rathbone as Sherlock Holms (every weekend too_), it was great,

Every-time an old movie I saw then turns up on TCM I DVR aand then enjoy it. Compare that with the total CRAP on Scy-FY channel. In the 50s and 60s they had to have a plot and act in a movie, there was no computer animation and underwear models who can barely read a dull script.

[sickoflibs]

Once I got about 13 or 14 my dad took me to R rated movies for company that my Mom wasnt interested in. But it was more like Dirty Harry and Death Wish type movies. But you never knew what would turn up at a drive in. I recall those days fondly.

Most of that stuff bores me now, I need more interesting plots..

[brytlea]

I don’t remember that rating system, but I do remember that I was not allowed to see anything rated R until I was an adult and was married! I’m not even sure I often got to see things that were GP.