Predator: Badlands
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That's American ratings, so with a parent anyone can go in otherwise it's 13 years.
Remember American ratings tend to go softer on violence and harder on sex/nudity than the UK system.
IIRC at the moment they have no equivalent to the UK 15 rating so it's either PG13 or R (17 or if accompanied by a parent under 17's can go), and at one point they had nothing between a PG and R/17 rating so there were some real oddities*.
It's worth noting that by comparison, all the Predator films are currently rated at 15 in the UK at the moment, including the originals.
Always remember different countries rate things differently and have different age ranges for their ratings when you look at a rating
Also remember what is acceptable for a specific age rating changes over time, hence why we've got a load of older action films that were once 18 with cuts and are now 15 uncut.*The era of PG nudity, as there was basically no mid point so you got films with non sexual nudity getting a PG rating as otherwise it was a 17 rating.
Apart from AvP1 all the other Predator films have been R rated in America. So it's still sort of significant.That's American ratings, so with a parent anyone can go in otherwise it's 13 years.
Remember American ratings tend to go softer on violence and harder on sex/nudity than the UK system.
IIRC at the moment they have no equivalent to the UK 15 rating so it's either PG13 or R (17 or if accompanied by a parent under 17's can go), and at one point they had nothing between a PG and R/17 rating so there were some real oddities*.
It's worth noting that by comparison, all the Predator films are currently rated at 15 in the UK at the moment, including the originals.
Always remember different countries rate things differently and have different age ranges for their ratings when you look at a rating
*The era of PG nudity, as there was basically no mid point so you got films with non sexual nudity getting a PG rating as otherwise it was a 17 rating.
rp2000
I'm not sure how US ratings have changed over time, but IIRC any drug references used to pretty much automatically move it to a higher rating so IIRC Predator 2 would have likely been pushed up due to the drug dealer scene as an example.
It's hard to say, but as I noted they don't have anything between the Pg13 and R, so a lot of stuff that would be 15 in the UK could fall either way in the US, so it's not necessarily as big a thing as some think, especially as I don't think the US tends to rerate films like the UK does so you're looking at ratings given in some cases ~30 years ago. The US seem to stick with the original MPAA rating whilst in the UK it's required to reassess them if you do something as simple as use a remastered source and companies have a financial interest in asking for them to be looked at again if they think the old rating was too harsh by current standards (hence why we've got a bunch of previously banned films released, sometimes as 15's, and films that had heavy edits to get an 18 are 15 uncut now).
It's hard to say, but as I noted they don't have anything between the Pg13 and R, so a lot of stuff that would be 15 in the UK could fall either way in the US, so it's not necessarily as big a thing as some think, especially as I don't think the US tends to rerate films like the UK does so you're looking at ratings given in some cases ~30 years ago. The US seem to stick with the original MPAA rating whilst in the UK it's required to reassess them if you do something as simple as use a remastered source and companies have a financial interest in asking for them to be looked at again if they think the old rating was too harsh by current standards (hence why we've got a bunch of previously banned films released, sometimes as 15's, and films that had heavy edits to get an 18 are 15 uncut now).