Are you sure Casper isn’t really Eric Cartman?
Nah, they were going to Fuddrucker’s. You misheard, scro.
Sad, but true. Too many of Carrol Ballard’s films died at the box office because they were perceived as some sort of squishy “family film” that couldn’t possibly be any good. Even films like the wonderful Topsy-Turvy had to add completely gratuitous profanity and nudity just to get to an R rating. I wish every kid could see this movie and discover this wonderful music, and the bare breasts and f-bomb make that impossible.
I’m confused, because in the rest of this post, you seem to be saying that exactly.
No, what I said was this:
- The Kings Speech had swearing (two scenes.)
- After the Oscars, the film’s American distributors decided to re-edit the movie, removing/reducing the amount of swearing in those two scenes.
- IMHO, had they not had the swearing scenes, this re-editing would have not been necessary.
- The swearing didn’t matter to me as I took my 10yo to see the “R” version. (This may have been in a separate post.)
Honestly not trying to be a dick, here, but I don’t understand the distinction you’re making.
Is this true? I’ve read in some sources that G rated movies tend to make money.
You claimed that I took a position that TKS should not have been made with the swearing (“you’re arguing (the swearing version) shouldn’t exist”). In fact, I don’t care that it had swearing or not.
However, the film’s American distributors edited out the swearing for a more “kid friendly” re-release, which would not have been necessary had the film not have had the scenes/swearing to begin with.
Snert. Butt dust.
I came here to point this out.
But when you exclude animated G rated films, they don’t.
I am pretty sure that in the otherwise very gentle and family friendly romantic period film Ever After in the scene where Prince Henry has to chase the gypsies to get Da Vinci’s painting back, he says “Fuck fuck fuck!” as he rides off into the trees.
The 1996 film version of Jane Austen’s Emma is rated PG, and I remember hearing that the filmmakers actually dubbed the word “damn” into one scene (when the vagabonds frighten Harriet Smith you can hear someone say something like “Grab her purse, damn it!”) so it would avoid getting a G.
Amen to that! To me, it brings nothing to a situation but maybe more dramatic affect, but why add more to a mountain that should never exist in the first place?
God bless you always!!! 
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Here is a list of G Rated films by gross. The highest non animated is The Sound of Music but there are several films up there that are more recent. Princess Diaries, Charlotte’s Web (the new one)
G rated films in general have a limited audience, it’s just some (like Disney’s stuff) can overcome that.
For example, Transformers: the Movie* was animated, but they still added in one instance of Spike yelling “shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit” just so they could nab a PG and hopefully get run at better times by the theaters.
The VHS releases of the movie removed the word, btw, as ratings really don’t matter much for home video (at least in the US where ratings aren’t legally enforced). Later on when all the kiddies were all grow’d up and nostalgiaing and wondering what happened to the swear, the DVD releases put it back in.
*-not to be confused with the movie Transformers, which was live action (well partially live, and partly CGI)
It’s a shame though when a movie is rated R just because of language. The Blues Brothers is a classic, hilarious film but is rated R because they repeatedly said “fuck”. If it was done in a sexual manner like Joliet Jake telling the nun that he wanted to fuck her I could understand the rating. But not when the word is just used in conversation.
Of course, it should be noted that The Blues Brothers was released in 1980 which is four years before the PG-13 rating was adopted. Had that rating been around then, the movie probably would’ve been rated PG-13 rather than R.