[DUH] ... there's more sex in films

Canada.com ^

[My Right Foot]

A Harvard School of Public Health study of 1,906 films found there has been significantly more sex in PG and PG-13 movies in recent years, with researchers noting that "today's PG-13 movies are approaching what R movies looked like in 1992."

[My Right Foot]

Gee. Even the Candadians are getting worried.

PG-13 ain't what it used to be.

Just watch "Saved"

[Dr Stormfist]

And exactly how much did this study cost the taxpayers???

[My Right Foot]

Exactly.

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

And "R" movies are approaching "X"! My husband and I saw "A History of Violence" last night, and while it was otherwise an excellent and thought-provoking movie, there was a flash of full-frontal nudity (not what I was expecting) as well as some pretty explicit sex. Guess I just don't get out to the movies enough these days to know what to expect. (I do want to reiterate that "A History of Violence" was otherwise one of the best movies I've seen in the last few years, and well worth seeing. I just wish the director hadn't felt he had to juice it up with gratuitous sex.)

[GOP_Party_Animal]

More crap from the left. They'd love to assume that American audiences are becoming more "open" to porn in mainstream films. They first assert this is true:

"Despite a spike in social conservatism over the past few years, filmgoers seem to be tolerating -- and in many cases, welcoming -- more sex on screen, both in adult-oriented movies and those designed for younger audiences."

Then they prove it is false:

"A four-year study released in June by the Dove Foundation, an American advocacy group, found G-rated films -- which consistently outperform their R-rated counterparts -- have in fact become 11 times more profitable.

People vote with their dollars. I really don't think sex sells; more likely, Hollywood is trying to use it as a substitute for good writing and original ideas.

[GOP_Party_Animal]

I saw History of Violence too and had the exact same reaction as you. Great movie with some totally irrelevant raunch foisted on me. You have to wonder at the thought process is for these fools in Hollyweird.

Looks like the movie is going to be a financial loser.

[My Right Foot]

Movies classified for ADULTS (R-X) I have no problem with. Adults can watch what they want to watch.

But movies that are in the gray area (pg-pg13)... nowadays I don't know who to trust.

There are R-rated movies I would let my kids watch (equal amounts of violence compared to your saturday morning cartoons...)

X Men 3 (out soon)
Batman Begins
Unleashed (Danny the Dog)


...and those I wouldn't let them watch that are PG-13:

1.) "Saved" (man. Sacreligious... my ex let her buy it. A ten year old)
2.) "Darkness" (crap)
3.) "Scary Movie 3" (crap with boobs)

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Remember how all this got started? Back in 1968 Robert Kennedy was shot and America, primed by the MSM to believe we were going through an immense crime wave, went ballistic and blamed everything from...
Guns, hence the 1968 Gun Control Act.
Tv violence, so good programs for mature audiences such as "Gunsmoke" were rewritten as children's shows.
Comic books.
And Movies. The movie industry said they would police themselves for violence, so the fox began to guard the henhouse. Before 1968 a child could pay and go see most any movie. After 1968 the "rating" system prevented this. Movies immediatly decended into sleeze, T&A movies, the drive in movies were some of the worst.
Remember the ratings?
G General audiences.
M Mature audiences.
R restricted.
X Unrated. No children allowed.

Then came ..
G, Gp, R, X movies.

Now it's G, PG, R, X.

In 1969 the following shows were rated R. Romeo and Juliet, (believe it or not).
RIOT, with Jim Brown.

RIOT was on Pay cable not long ago rated PG.

ROMEO AND JULIET, the same.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Fortgot about PG-13 as I don't go to movies very much anymore.

[My Right Foot]

" People vote with their dollars."

We're doomed.

[little jeremiah]

Pingout tomorrow.

As if we didn't know! I never watch movies, haven't for quite some time. Well, hardly any. I watch LOTR when I want to watch a movie.

[SuziQ]

Any parent with a 13 yr old could have told them that for free!

[taxesareforever]

Whatever it cost the taxpayers was too much. I could have told them that without doing a study. But hey, those were tax dollars well spent. NOT!

[My Right Foot]

Yeah. And that independant flick 'KIDS' that came out years ago that caused such a ruckus... nowadays would be almost nothing.

I'm telling you, I was shocked by 'Saved'. It reminded me of going to see Tom Cruise in Risky Business. At the time I had just stopped going to Church. I was 19 & offended by the movie and walked out (the first and last movie I ever walked out on).

Later, I watched it again, without my high & mighty hat on... and I enjoyed it. It was tragic & funny & stupid.

But I remember that there were kids in that theater. I think that's what made me so uncomfortable the first time.

Eh. Who knows.

[tflabo]

We went to see '40 year old virgin'. Walked out after the first 15 minutes....pretty vulgar language and crass. Rated R. Just awful cr@p on the big screen.

[Incorrigible]

I never go to the movies with my 9 year old daughter before consulting here:

Kids-In-Mind Movie Ratings

 

[My Right Foot]

I normally don't watch a movie with my kids without watching it first. My ex pretty much made me believe that 'Saved' was cool. What the heck? They'd already bought it & watched it. I was only borrowing it.

So I watched it. And was roundly shocked.

[Hildy]

Just put on cable TV, it's rated x...I'm watching HBO ROME now. It's Deadwood set in Ancient Rome. It's the Sopranos set in ancient Rome..you get what I'm saying?

[packrat35]

I'm not a prude but I was suprised by the recent version of The Longest Yard on DVD being rated PG-13.

The F bomb and many other cuss words would have been an R not loong ago.

[q_an_a]

one of the movies they profile is "Closer" where the article talks about A list actors making more sex scenes. At boxofficemojo.com they show that the movie's budget was 27 million and that tickets sales in US were 33 million - which means they did not make back production costs. That is what is happening with most of these movies, because many people are not happy when surprised by sex on screen - so they don't go again for years.