Random Ranting: PG-13

I'm not a big fan of the PG-13 rating.  (WARNING: uncontrollable ranting ahead)  While it originally was actually useful (and didn't cheapen the PG rating), it eventually became too "tame."  Like the PG rating, you could initially have multiple instances of "f--k," nudity (including breasts), and graphic violence (after 1984, a few PG-rated films were released with nudity or f-words, but this quickly stopped).  Now, most summer blockbusters are rated PG-13, and are very watered-down, with the PG rating almost being decried as too juvenile.  Thankfully, the PG rating is getting fixed so as to be less childish (you can now show boobies in an educational context, and you can even say "s--t" again [but nothing stronger]), and there is the occasional PG-13 film that will contain content that actually justifies the rating.  So, maybe there is hope for the ratings board.