The movie ET banned in Finland and Sweden for "portraying adults as children's enemies."

[Hollywood Jack]

PG-13 isn't a government thing. There are no laws against children watching anything except for porn.

However, private companies only started the movie rating system (G,PG,PG-13,R) in America as a way to prevent the government from starting a censorship board back in the 1920s.

You're right, except those ratings were created in the 60s, not the 20s. Before then, you had the Hays Code where movies weren't rated, but they had to meet the standards of the code before they could be released. And even earlier, you had pre-code Hollywood, which was sort of in between in terms of explicitness.

 

[superpunch]

You're right, except those ratings were created in the 60s, not the 20s. Before then, you had the Hays Code where movies weren't rated, but they had to meet the standards of the code before they could be released. And even earlier, you had pre-code Hollywood, which was sort of in between in terms of explicitness.

Ah, right. I was thinking of the Hay's Code where private film companies gave themselves a "moral code" so that the government didn't make a moral code with laws.

Of course the guy to do it is some weak nerd that looks like this

 

[Hattori]

Those two countries have bigger problems than that

 

[fightingrabbit]

This is great news. How dare the original try to portray people as bad guys. Unacceptable.

 

[Reyesnuthugr]

I know it's just an age-restrictive rating, but that's a really absurd, overly-controlling and petty reason to do that. That's a really odd reaction.

If it happened at all, that is.

Adults are kids' largest enemies. That's a fact. It's not other little kids, that's for sure.