PG 13 must?

[RobertScorpio]

I hope TREK XI aims for, at least, a PG-13 rating. PG or G just wont allow them to push that envelope.

What do you think the movie will be rated???

Rob
Scorpio

 

[cultcross]

I think it will be PG-13
Violence, a bit of sexual suggestiveness and some minor bad language. Any more than that and they lose a target audience by going up a rating.
I don't have any opinion on what it should be. A movie's quality is not determined by its rating or how risqué its content is.

 

[archeryguy1701]

I see PG-13 as the rating. In the past, most movies were PG, and a PG rating would be the best way to get an audience. However, both those categories have moved up to PG-13.

 

[Jon1701]

Just give me a good movie, please.

Put in the tits and the fucks afterwards.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Just give me a good movie, please.

Put in the tits and the fucks afterwards.

A totally bland movie like TMP, though it has its moments, will kill this franchise this time around...IMO

Rob
Scorpio

 

[Franklin]

Just give me a good movie, please.

Put in the tits and the fucks afterwards.

I'd truly love to hear McCoy swear a blue streak at some point in this movie. Scotty seemed like someone with that ability, too. So either, really. Or both.

Of course, the unrated director's cut DVD will have the topless Orion girls!


Actually, PG-13 seems to be the "shoot for" rating for pictures like this these days.

 

[PowderedToastMan]

Star Trek is planned to be PG-13. This was confirmed during the live chat with JJ Abrams on trekmovie.com back in January and has been reconfirmed during our panel with Bob Orci at Grand Slam last month

 

[Sector 7]

An R rating will exclude too many ticket buyers and PG is too mild for the teens. So PG-13 was the logical choice.

 

[T'Cal]

I'm expecting it to be PG-13 but I hope it's on the milder side. Over the past few years I've been to too many PG-13 films that should've been rated R. What has been described as "mild adult situations" or "some language" was quite the understatement in far too many movies. IIRC, a PG-13 rating allows one F-bomb, which would be totally out of place in a Trek film.

 

[M'Sharak]

I doubt there'll be much concern on that front. Star Trek has always been on the family-friendly end of the spectrum, and I don't think had even a PG-13 rating on a movie until First Contact (and that mainly for adventure-movie violence.)

 

[Joshua Howard]

PG-13 is the logical choice for a film that has an adventure plot in it... but really, the movie should be made in a Trek-friendly manner... whatever rating. There's nothing wrong with G or PG if that's what the plot calls for, though I certainly would be turned off if a Trek film was given an R rating. Quite obviously however, STXI is not going to be R.

 

[Franklin]

I doubt there'll be much concern on that front. Star Trek has always been on the family-friendly end of the spectrum, and I don't think had even a PG-13 rating on a movie until First Contact (and that mainly for adventure-movie violence.)

I know what you mean by Trek being approachable to the entire family, but I think TMP was initially given a "G" rating when it came out, and that's a killer at the box office for a sci-fi action movie, too.* The TMP DVD's carry a PG rating, now.

This movie could probably be made PG and be great. Abrams certainly knows what lines to cross or not cross to manipulate the movie's rating. But a PG-13 is probably thought to help at the box office, so that's what they shoot for. Notice that most action-adventure movies of the XI genre these days carry a PG-13 rating. It's like a seal of approval.

* OK, there are those who'd say TMP was not an action movie.

 

[EliyahuQeoni]

Where is the option for "I don't give a crap as long as its a good movie"?

A movie doesn't have to be PG-13 or R in order to "push the envelope"

 

[M'Sharak]

I doubt there'll be much concern on that front. Star Trek has always been on the family-friendly end of the spectrum, and I don't think had even a PG-13 rating on a movie until First Contact (and that mainly for adventure-movie violence.)

I know what you mean by Trek being approachable to the entire family, but I think TMP was initially given a "G" rating when it came out, and that's a killer at the box office for a sci-fi action movie, too.* The TMP DVD's carry a PG rating, now.

This movie could probably be made PG and be great. Abrams certainly knows what lines to cross or not cross to manipulate the movie's rating. But a PG-13 is probably thought to help at the box office, so that's what they shoot for. Notice that most action-adventure movies of the XI genre these days carry a PG-13 rating. It's like a seal of approval.

You've got a point.

I remember a few years ago when all the whoop-de-doo about lyric content on rock records was going on. After it became de facto industry practice to put warning stickers on records advising parents of "explicit content", all of a sudden everyone had to have a sticker to be cool. (Donny Osmond even filed suit because they didn't give him a sticker.) I see the MPAA PG-13 rating having the same "cool" factor.

* OK, there are those who'd say TMP was not an action movie.

Oh, come, now -- who would say a thing like that?