I was watching the classic Airplane II, and can’t believe it got away with a PG rating. Things have changed a lot since 1982; these days having a handful of topless shots and a woman asking about faking orgasms in the opening sequence would probably get you an R from the puritans at the Motion Picture Association, or a PG-13 at the very least.
Not to mention the detailed list that now follows the rating, though sometimes that doesn’t tell you quite enough. Take Failure to Launch: they tell you there’s nudity, but not that it solely consists of Terry Bradshaw’s naked ass! IMDB, on the other hand, tags it a bit better with “naked man”.
It’s odd that we’ve gotten less permissive about nudity in the movies and while violence is still quite accepted. And now back to Airplane, with one of it’s better lines:
Steve McCroskey: Jacobs, I want to know absolutely everything that’s happened up till now.
Jacobs: Well, let’s see. First the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil. And then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes. And Prince Charles started wearing all of Lady Di’s clothes. I couldn’t believe it…
