6. May Be Too Intense For Younger Children
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When Jaws was released, the PG-13 rating didn’t exist yet. And while it was first given the R rating by the MPAA, it was later reduced to a PG rating. This only happened after a few gruesome shots, such as the showing of a severed leg from the man that was attacked in the estuary, had been removed. But even still, as many of you already know, the film was way more intense than the PG rating implies. So to combat that, posters for the film included the phrase “May Be Too Intense For Younger Children” in big bold lettering at the bottom. Interestingly, the PG-13 rating wasn’t introduced until 1984 when Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom forced the MPAA to implement the new rating.