MPAA Ratings Cards

[Hellspawn28]

MPAA change over time. I think PG movies can say "Shit" at least once to avoid a PG-13 rating since movies like Little Monsters (1989) and Warriors of Virtue (1997) have said shit once. I think PG-13 movies can say "skreeonk" at least once as well?

[JVM]

MPAA change over time. I think PG movies can say "Shit" at least once to avoid a PG-13 rating since movies like Little Monsters (1989) and Warriors of Virtue (1997) have said shit once. I think PG-13 movies can say "skreeonk" at least once as well?

Depends on context and meaning i.e. "skreeonk" as in to skreeonk someone is a no-no unless it's R.

[Gojira-Fan]

Godzilla vs. Hedorah got re-rated to PG when it was released on DVD by Sony; along with Gigan and Mechagodzilla.

[MaxRebo320]

MPAA change over time. I think PG movies can say "Shit" at least once to avoid a PG-13 rating since movies like Little Monsters (1989) and Warriors of Virtue (1997) have said shit once. I think PG-13 movies can say "skreeonk" at least once as well?

Depends. If you say "skreeonk" as in "What the skreeonk is that?!" or something along those lines, you can pass with a PG-13 rating. However, using sexually gives you an R.

[omgitsgodzilla]

HEDORAH rated G?? HAH!!!.

Well things were different back then. Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968) is rated G and that movie has a pretty brutal stab scene. Even Jaws (1975) is PG and I think Jaws would be at least PG-13 if it was made today.

I'm pretty sure Planet of the Apes, the one from '68 with Charlton Heston, was G. So things were clearly looked at a bit differently then.

MPAA change over time. I think PG movies can say "Shit" at least once to avoid a PG-13 rating since movies like Little Monsters (1989) and Warriors of Virtue (1997) have said shit once. I think PG-13 movies can say "skreeonk" at least once as well?

Depends. If you say "skreeonk" as in "What the skreeonk is that?!" or something along those lines, you can pass with a PG-13 rating. However, using sexually gives you an R.

Examples would include movies like The Social Network, which had "Tell them Sean Parker says 'skreeonk you'" and references to "'skreeonk you' flip-flops," or Super 8 where the comic-relief stoner character spots the trashed army bus and exclaims "What the skreeonk?" It's probably also worth noting that the latter contains two non-sexual uses of the word "pussy" and various other obscenities, by roughly junior high/freshman-aged kids.

[o.supreme]

Is Gigan rated G?

It wouldn't surprise me. Remember, CS released it as "Godzilla On Monster Island" so most of the more violent scenes (including Angilas getting cut by Gigan's buzzsaw chest and Godzilla's gushing neck wound) were edited out. The same goes for "Cosmic Monster".

[Goji]

All of the Cinema Shares releases were rated G. The problem is in figuring out which cuts were made for theaters, and which were made for TV. The TV edits of MEGALON and COSMIC MONSTER are the ones that ended up on all of the VHS releases. Then you have the claims from some fans who insist they saw those three films uncut in theaters, which may imply that some cuts weren't made until a later theatrical re-release, and then possibly even more cuts for TV airings.

[Tamura]

I heard that there were two different edits of THE TERROR OF GODZILLA released to theaters: one unedited (except for maybe the opening credits) and the other edited (which is, of course, the basis for the one we're accustomed to from later TV airings and pre-2008 US DVDs). This may have been the case with the three Cinema Shares films, too, but I still subscribe to the theory that at least MEGALON debuted in theaters unedited/nearly unedited and was then recut at some point into its theatrical release. In addition, we know that MECHAGODZILLA was originally released theatrically as BIONIC MONSTER and renamed COSMIC MONSTER a couple of months later, but whether any edits for blood/language were made in addition to the retitling is unknown.

Does anyone know the answers to these questions? I just want to know what these films were like in US theaters during the mid '70s-early '80s.

[Goji]

In addition, we know that MECHAGODZILLA was originally released theatrically as BIONIC MONSTER and renamed COSMIC MONSTER a couple of months later, but whether any edits for gore/language were made in addition to the retitling is unknown.

Does anyone know the answers to these questions? I just want to know what these films were like in US theaters during the mid '70s-early '80s.

I'm especially interested in anyone who saw BIONIC MONSTER, and if they can recall anything about it. It's entirely possible that it was released uncut, and then later cut when it was re-released as COSMIC MONSTER. Of course, it's only a theory, and there is literally nothing to suggest such a thing actually happened.

[o.supreme]

I believe August might know since he would have been old enough at the time to see these in theaters, and is well researched on the subject. I always believed that G vs MG (1974) never made it to U.S. theaters as "The Bionic Monster", only a few posters and memorabilia have this as the title. According to Wikipedia (take it for what it is) the lawsuit by Universal was filed in July of 1977. I guess knowing the exact U.S. release date in 1977 of "Bionic/Cosmic" monster would be needed in order to know if the film was ever released and seen by the public under its original American title. Also to know if any film print with the "Bionic" title exists anywhere.

[Tamura]

According to the February 7, 1977 edition of Boxoffice Magazine (a trade paper), MECHAGODZILLA was set to be released in March under the title GODZILLA VS. THE BIONIC MONSTER. On May 16, the film was reviewed in Boxoffice under that title. It would continue to be listed as BIONIC MONSTER in the feature chart until July 18 of that year, when the title was changed to GODZILLA VS. THE COSMIC MONSTER, while at the same time still occupying the March row.

[o.supreme]

Thanks again Tamura . Thats the kind of great research you still cant from any referrence site online. So now I know (many of you knew already), that "G vs The Bionic Monster" DID in fact make it into the theater until that title, for a couple of months at least. Wether a print with that title still exists however is still unknown.

[Tamura]

Extant prints or not, the BIONIC MONSTER title card probably wouldn't be that hard to recreate. I'm assuming it looked exactly the same as the COSMIC MONSTER card but with the BIONIC title instead.