I am 34 years old, and you are wrong. I was 13 when this all went down. My buddy Mark England's mom would not let him go to see Red Dawn because he was only 12. Loews Town and Country had a big sign on the wall warning parents about Red Dawn's new rating. I thought I was so cool bc I could go "legally" while Mark had to "sneak" in. From Wikipedia: The addition of the PG-13 rating In 1984, two films associated with Steven Spielberg triggered calls for yet another addition to the list of ratings. [1] Violent scenes in the PG-rated films Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (which he directed) and Gremlins (which he produced), were the catalyst. Public outcry about the violence led Spielberg to suggest a new PG-13 rating to Jack Valenti, who conferred with theater owners and then introduced the new rating on July 1. The rating still allowed children under 13 to be admitted without a parent or guardian, but it cautions parents about potentially shocking violence or other offensive content. The first movie to gain widespread theatrical release with a PG-13 rating was 1984's Red Dawn (although the first to receive the classification was The Flamingo Kid). It took a year for the PG-13 logo to shift into its current form. The initial rating, instead of using a line of boldface text followed by explanatory description below, bore the wording: Rated PG-13: Parents are strongly cautioned to give special guidance for attendance of children under 13. With the PG rating still being used without a change, it was unclear to some parents at first whether PG or PG-13 films were intended for older viewers. Until 1990, some of the same content that prompted the creation of the PG-13 rating was still being observed in some PG films. For example Big, Beetlejuice, and Nothing in Common were three late 1980s widespread PG releases that contained a sexually-derived expletive in their dialogue (Big and Beetlejuice used **** while Nothing in Common used dick). The ratings board reacted quickly to parental protests, and over the next couple of years, the number of PG-13 films finally outnumbered the number of PG releases, as standards were tightened for PG classification. Around the turn of that decade, standards were also tightened for PG-13 films, at least for violence, as the ratings board became more likely to issue an R rating for violence that involved bloodshed and/or the slaying of policemen. Except for a brief reversal in 1994, the number of PG-13 films has outnumbered the number of PG films ever since, and the proportion of R-rated films (starting with the boom of home video product in the late 80s) has generally increased at the expense of unrestricted films.
Patton Battle of Britain Das Boot The Longest Day The Big red one Sands of Iwo Jima Schindlers list The Dirty Dozen The Flying Tigers Too many to name..... DD
No I'm not. I very distinctly remember this. With my own eyes and ears. To say that the PG-13 rating wasn't mentioned prior to Indiana and Gremlins is completely false.
I guess I have to. Still, the fact that I can find nothing on this, even though I fully remember all of the commotion about this being the first PG-13 movie is still quite disturbing.
Here's a few more I would put up for consideration. Gone with the Wind and Cold Mountain are both movies not directly about the Civil War but set in it. Red Badge of Courage Casablanca Lawrence of Arabia
The Longest Day might be the quintessential war movie of all times. The Charge of the Light Brigade is 1939 I think. It is pretty good. To Hell and Back with Audie Murphy is great because the film's subject is also the star.
Tie between Glory and Saving Private Ryan Don't forget about Enemy at the Gates...it's not quite to the level of some of the others, but really didn't get the play it deserved since it was sandwiched between big hollywood war vehicles. But it's a damn good movie.
And if we're gonna include movies that aren't necessarily directly related to a war but are set in it, then we should probably include Raiders and Last Crusade too And how bout the best war movie w/ no war in it: Jarhead
Lawrence of Arabia was most assuredly a war film, and a brilliant one. The period of Lawrence's life it covers is completely intertwined with World War One. David Lean was a master of the war movie. His Bridge Over the River Kwai was mentioned earlier, and is a superb flick.
Eh well I was mainly referring to Casablanca and Gone with the Wind (and shoot even Cold Mountain to an extent) which really love stories set during a wartime period. You could even argue Hunt for Red October as a (Cold) War movie, but that's probably stretching it.
Kilgore Trout, Summer Song Giver, does Das Boot have a scene where some kid gets a limb or maybe a finger cut off from shooting water from a broken pipe or the escape hatch bursting? I remember seeing this IN SPANISH back when I was 6 or maybe 7 in Mexico with my parents. If it was the one I am thinking about, it was called "El Submarino" (the sub) in Mexico. AWESOME movie. The scenes are now coming back.
I forgot to mention another great one that came out recently. Saints and Soldiers is an independent film shot for under one million dollars... yet looks amazingly like a big studio production. They used war reenactors so the fighting and battles are extremely realistic. If you like war movies and haven't seen this one, you MUST get it. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373283/
