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As a kid in the 80's, there was a pretty big disconnect between the movie rating and what we would eventually watch on VHS at home. Over time I effectively saw
by wvenable 12y ago
As a kid in the 80's, there was a pretty big disconnect between the movie rating and what we would eventually watch on VHS at home. Over time I effectively saw every popular 80's movie, every martial arts movie, and a good chunk of horror movies before the age of 12 on home video.
- ptaipale 12y agoTalking about disconnects in movie ratings, the DVD releases of "Little House on the Prairie" were rated 18+ in Finland. This was because the State Motion Picture Inspection Agency got greedy, and wanted to collect a new fee from the distributor who had already paid for the VHS releases. Distributors had to pay to get a rating, but were allowed to release stuff as 18+ without paying. So the distributor of Little House just told the agency to go climb a tree and released this horrible nightmarish series with a 18+ rating, and since everyone now realised how the inspection agency had made itself completely ridiculous, they gave up and changed the rules.