[LINK] ET rated PG

[Adam Todd]

>I saw a story on this on tele last night.  Spielberg actually edited the 
>original and made it less PG by taking out guns in the scenes of the 
>military and putting walkie talkies in instead!

I noticed.  <shakes head> Well we know the OFLC isn't exactly high in 
aptitude and far from aware of the public's perception of social standards.

BTW I recently watched Romance, about four times.  Cute girl, small tits 
though.  Still seems the character had a reasonable personality. The bloke 
was arrogant and a twit.  Story wasn't much overall, although some great 
sex scenes and very well produced.

I'm stunned the OFLC demanded the scene in the training hospital cut.  It 
originally had a gynecology examination, apparently with a speculum and 
all.  The Australian version gets fingers poked into the poor girl to feel 
her pregnancy development.  I have to admit, I've never seen anything like 
that in two pregnancies I've been part of.  The Speculum I have, but the 
fingers??

So I'm not exactly sure what the OFLC is trying to do.   Perhaps cause 
confusion to our social standards?

>I was more concerned about the unedited Grease that I watched for the 
>first time in a long time last weekend.  It was listed PG in the tv guide, 
>but probably should have been M given the content: unsafe sex when the 
>condom breaks and the girl has a pregnancy scare, unsafe driving by drag 
>racing in the LA river basin, Sandy changes to 'bad girl' rather than 
>Danny becoming the 'good boy' he was willing to be in order to get the 
>original 'good girl', not to mention the VERY explicit sexual language in 
>many of the songs.

Ohh Baby!  Reminds me of the Austin Powers movies hey!  Penis enlarger, 
naked bodies, total sexual innuendo all the way through.  I guess it comes 
down to the censors and their humor acceptance.

I wonder how they would have rated the Tropfest entries?  I guess it's a 
good thing they clips on the Tropfest web site are streamed!  That ensures 
that they can be run across the Internet without censorship issues.  Mind 
you - none contain sex.  Only Pissing into toilets and urinals, psycho 
killers and arsonists.

>I wasn't a big Grease fan when it first came out, so I hadn't listened to 
>the messages at the time.  But hearing them now at this particular time in 
>history, and what we know about unsafe sex, etc. makes me shudder a 
>little.  If ET gets a PG, then surely Grease deserves an M.

I think MA+ might be more appropriate.  But I'll bet the Censors of Today 
are the Grease lovers of yesteryear.  Although that doesn't explain ET as 
it's roughly the same period of production.

I hope Speilberg does his block and the rating is brought down.  I have 
kids, AJ is now 4 and I'm cautious about what we let him watch.

But here is a reality for you.  Watching a lot of the cartoons and programs 
for kids on Channel 7 and ABC as a parent I'm greatly concerned.  Almost 
all have guns and things in them (cartoons anyway) or fighting and 
war.  Some of the character things are better.  I'm even concerned a bit 
about Seaseme Street.  However when AJ and I were watching Die Hard a short 
time ago, he was rather bemused by the acting and performance.  He knew it 
wasn't real yet felt the cartoons were more real and relevant.

Very concerning.

>[partly tongue in cheek]

[not so tongue in cheek]