Posted on 03/18/2008 10:27:51 AM PDT by Between the Lines
I am Legend was rated PG-13 (for intense sequences of sci-fi action and violence).
Family Movies Name Rating Box Office Ratatouille G 206,445,654 Shrek the Third PG 322,719,944 Enchanted PG 127,807,262 Bee Movie PG 126,631,277 Hairspray PG 118,871,849 Total 902,475,986 R-Rated Name Rating Box Office 300 R 210,614,939 Knocked Up R 148,768,917 American Gangster R 130,164,645 Superbad R 121,463,226 No Country for Old Men R 73,674,390 Total 684,686,117
There were only 4 G-rated movies released with a wide release (more than 300 theaters) in 2007. That's not making G movies, that's almost stopping entirely.
Have you read the Code?
It was more that 'uplifting endings and bad people are always punished.' IMO it's certainly not 'balderdash'. And isn't a tad ironic that during Hollywood's 'Golden Age', the Code was in effect. As far as I'm concerned there's nothing wrong with 'Truth, Justice and The American Way' being the message of a movie (how quaint of me).
And I still don't want to see Bogie butt naked. Or Shane having sex with Marian Starrett (Jean Arthur).
that’s about the same number as 2006 or any other year. Part of the problem is that G-rated movies are hard, the ratings people who are strange and highly random in the first place are even harder to please when your target is G. Just look at the PG list from last year ( http://www.the-numbers.com/market/2007/Rated-PG.php ), there’s a lot of movies that are obviously targeted at the kid/ family market (Bee Movie, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Evan Almighty, Happy Feet) with a PG rating. Clearly they’re putting out family fair but not getting the G rating. There’s also the problem I mentioned in other posts that most people in their late 30s and early 40s (which is the prime movie producer age bracket) grew up in the time when all G movies stank and probably have a disposition against them.
It’s not all just sex. The Code changed throughout its history but at its worst it forbid even the implication of good people committing immoral acts. adultery. This made complete nonsense of a film like Hitchcock’s ‘Suspicion’ where the ending was imposed by outside forces because Cary Grant could not be depicted as trying to murder his wife. And material such as Tennesee Williams plays were completely bowdlerized.
The problem with the Code is that it was even more arbitrary than today’s ratings system. Just look at what they did to the original Scarface, where they decided that the bad guy getting gunned down wasn’t a “proper” ending, apparently there wasn’t enough “punishment”, so they had to change it so he got caught and faced trial. The whole thing was just nonsensical, there was no predictable pattern to it, movie makers could get away with just about anything if the “moral message” was strong enough.
Probably the phony combat silliness. The reason why the Spartans won Thermopolye (sp?) was that they fought as a team. In only one scene, did they show the Spartans fighting as a team. The rest was spinning twirling phony combat silliness. If the Spartans really fought like that the Persians would have slaughtered them, with not nearly the losses that they suffered.
Dollars to dollars, the top five R rated movies make about 2/3rds as much as PG rated movies. Not a bad return. WND was playing games with statistics.
Sometimes a PG or G movie can be good and they are good for children. But sometimes, adults like to watch adult themed movies. There IS an audience for R rated movies and some show impressive returns.
The article is the movie equivalent is that Toyota makes more money than BMW so BMW should just close up shop.
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