Jaws was PG

gameover man

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Cinefan made a correction to a comment made by Freeze Him on the ratings thread, suggesting that Jaws was rated PG, not R. I've always been blown away by this. Jaws is one of my favorite movies of all time. I dont want to hear about how bad the shark was...I thought it was great, expecially for the time (granted I wasnt born yet). And I know by reading on this site how much you all appreciate animatronics as apposed to CGI. The characters in the film are fantastic! I remember reading the novel when I was a kid, the opening chapter with the girl going skinny dipping, it describes the sharp tug on her leg and she reached down and felt an aching stump, and I had never really thought before about what it would be like to lose a limb, especially to a living thing. But more to the point, how in the world did Jaws get a PG rating? The scene when the shark sieges the Orca and Quint slides down into its mouth, and lets out that blood curdling scream as it devours him from the feet up is horrifying. I saw an interview with what I believe was one of the main producers of Prometheus who said that he can promise that not one scene of the movie will be cut. I think you can find it on the featurette website "coming soon". [img]http://famousmonstersoffilmland.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Jaws_Bruce-and-Steven.jpg[/img]

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May 07, 2012

I think the simplest answer is that the standards and climate of 1979 were very, very different to what they are today... I daresay, "Jaws", would be rated a PG13, now.

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May 07, 2012

Yeah, it didn't dawn on me until I watched it as an adult. It is one violent PG movie. Will always remember the scene kid who dies in a fountain of blood.

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May 07, 2012

I suppose, with the absence of profanity, it would have never received an R rating, but I would put it closer to R than PG in any era. It's practically a horror movie. The scene where Robert Shaw is eaten is almost as bloody as the chest buster scene with Hurt. A kid gets eaten, you see a few limbs taken off, robert shaws flesh is still sticking to the monsters teeth when it comes back in the boat after brodie, etc etc. just needs a couple 4 letter words and its R as far as im concerned.

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May 07, 2012

I remember seeing 'Jaws' in the cinema when it first came out. I must have been about ten. I was utterly terrified; had nightmares - really bad ones, waking up screaming and all that - for weeks afterwards.

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May 07, 2012

Jaws is so overrated...

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May 07, 2012

that you're opinion @the coming, but there sure is no accounting for taste.....I'll say that much........ 'Jaws' is a phenominal film.....my favorite part has to be Quinn reliving the horror of what happened to those sailors on the Indianapolis.....BRILLIANT STUFF..... gameover man....I would say....'Jaws' is most definately a horror film.......the genre was defined long before excessive bloodshed and horror porn gore fests became the regrettable norm of modern horror cinema.......Horror is defined by the effect it has on its audience at a fundamental level...Let's not forget......'Nosferatu' and 'The Phantom of the Opera', both silent films are horror classics, (the latter being considered the first horror film), that rely not on bloodshed, but a preternatural ability to generate [i]horror[/i] in their audiences....the content of the story and the deeply unsettling manner in which it affects the audience is what makes a horror film what it is....and 'Jaws' qualifies, most definately............

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May 07, 2012

No in Quebec and in Most Parts of Canada it was 14+, I know because I had to put hockey pucks inside my cowboy boots to get in. I was 13 !I also am positive the BEST thing to happen to this film is it's R rating and will directly translate to MORE and NOT Less people seeing it as so many believe. The listing for Quebec is wrong, it was 14+ here as well...and this comes off the IMDB page for the film itself... Portugal:M/12 / Canada:13+ (Quebec) / Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) (re-rating) (1995) / Canada:AA (Ontario) / Canada:PG (Manitoba) / Canada:R (Nova Scotia) (original rating) / Iceland:16 / Spain:T / USA:TV-14 / Brazil:14 / New Zealand:M / Canada:14A (Canadian Home Video rating) / Peru:14 / Chile:TE / Italy:T / UK:PG (tv rating) / Argentina:13 (re-rating) / USA:TV-14 (TV rating) / Argentina:18 (original rating) / Australia:M / Denmark:15 / France:-12 / Hong Kong:IIB / Ireland:12 / Israel:PG / Japan:PG-12 / Netherlands:16 / Norway:15 (video rating) / Norway:16 (original rating) / Singapore:PG / South Korea:12 / Sweden:15 / Taiwan:GP / UK:A (original rating) / UK:PG (video rating) (1987) (1993) (2000) / USA:PG (Certificate #24175) / West Germany:16 / Finland:K-16 Looks like for most of the word it was a restricted film and it was just in the U.S. that it ran completely with a PG Rating !