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Sylvester Stallone Admits That A PG-13 ‘Expendables 3’ Was “A Horrible Miscalculation”

Aside from the huge piracy leak that left The Expendables 3 available to downloaders weeks before release, one of the things that hurt the old-men-blowing-up-stuff franchise was its PG-13 rating. The first Expendables was a hard and unapologetic R. The second was a PG-13 film that added digital blood in to make it R. The […]

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Is The MPAA Rating System Flawed? New Study Questions ‘PG-13’ VS. ‘R’ Films

According to an article posted by The Hollywood Reporter, a study conducted by the Annenberg Public Policy Center and the University of Pennsylvania states there is “little difference” between ‘PG-13’ and ‘R’ rated films. The study concludes that violence is often coupled with sex, alcohol, and use of tobacco in both films. The study dissected […]