Best Highest Grossing PG Rated Movie Of The Year (2008-1982)

Home Alone.

ET

Home Alone (1990)

no duh

Roger Rabbit or Truman Show, honourable mention for E.T..

Roger Rabbit, though Back to the Future and Ghostbusters and Shrek II and Truman Show are pretty strong contenders too.

tbh, i'd be happy to see any of the '82-'85 options win. who framed roger rabbit and home alone also solid choices.

Just to freak you all out: I have never seen E.T.

voted Jedi, but would have voted Who Framed Roger Rabbit? if I saw it

(if I saw it on the list, not if I saw the movie, which I have many times)

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ghostbusters, ET or bttf

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Ghostbusters.

God, looking at this list you'd think the 80s was a really weak time for kids' films seeing as they dominate from then on. Maybe it was.

Ghostbusters, over ET then Jedi.

if Apollo 13 gets any sincere votes then ILX has failed

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I'd argue that there were maybe more family films and fewer kids films in the 80s - which was a much better situation than now.

if Apollo 13 Shrek 3 gets any sincere votes then ILX humanity has failed

ghostbusters vs. back to the future vs. roger rabbit. hard call.

wtf happened to pg movies in the '90s?

Soft spot for Sleepless, but there's no way I can't vote for Back to the Future. I've seen it approximately 8,000 times and liked it each and every one of them.

I was about to vote for Kung Fu Panda by default but holy shit 82-91 is an incredible run

first wives club

BTTF, but could have gone for any of the three previous years, Roger Rabbit or The Grinch. Might regret not voting grinch.

ET, Ghostbuster, Jedi, Top Gun

Ghostbusters, but I've never seen Top Gun :/

PG movies became too "kiddie" for teens once "PG-13" was introduced.

My GOD, what a horrid list. ET.

The real question here is: Do the added cgi farting dinosaurs make Star Wars: Special Edition worse than Return of the Jedi?

But anyway I voted for Back to the Future.

not on this list, but watched poltergeist on the wkend was surprised that it was rated pg, i mean damn. rad movie.

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PG movies became too "kiddie" for teens once "PG-13" was introduced.

Which is why the inclusion of First Wives Club BLOWS MY MIND!

E.T., of course.

Thinking about it, I guess the audience of Frist Wives Clubwould've seen it regardless of the rating.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
Star Wars Special Edition (1997)
Home Alone (1990)
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Back to the Future (1985)
Return of the Jedi (1983)
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

^^^ these are all solid... feels weird to give it to the Star Wars ones though since the original and Empire fall just outside of the range and those are the classics of the line. Home Alone and Shrunk the Kids were both awesome when I was 9 but I think my mind would wander watching them now - whereas I wouldn't miss a minute of Back to the Future.

I haven't seen ET straight through since I was old enough to remember it clearly, it's probably a better film but I have to give this to BTTF.

(Harry Potter also overshadowed by better entries in the series that didn't make the list - I mean the first one is total fun but mostly as fanservice for the books, not sure how it works as a standalone.)

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Back to the Future (1985)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Return of the Jedi (1983)
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

these are all excellent. but he '90s and '00s are a complete waste imo

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Ah the days when a navy pilot could fuck their superior on a bathroom counters and watch their co-pilot's wife become a widow in A PG-RATED MOVIE.

All at the same time!

the only two I've seen in the last decade were the Anakin geekquels (Clones only on TV)

voted truman show fwiw

oh for the days when PG movies included this sort of thing

kind of has to b who framed roger rabbit

i'm not watching that cuz I'm seeing The Getaway in a bigscreen McQueen retro next week.

but yeah, even '70s "G" films could be full of violence.

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i'm not watching that cuz I'm seeing The Getaway in a bigscreen McQueen retro next week

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i'd have probably voted roger rabbit if i'd seen it more recently than about 15 years ago

to hell with all of you, voting for elf

its like suck suck suck suck suck

Top Gun (1986)
Back to the Future (1985)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Return of the Jedi (1983)
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

OMG

voted back to the future cause its the best ever

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i voted for Roger Rabbit. runners up: Ghostbusters and Apollol 13

i watched Kung Fu Panda last week and it's the best of these since the truman show, at least.

Thanks to this thread I know know that Ferris Bueller's Day Off was the 10th highest grossing film of 1986.

the rise of PG-13 pretty much explains why PGs started to suck in the mid-80s.

Cloak & Dagger was the first PG-13 movie I ever saw. And aside from the D&D references, it was pretty lame.

I used to get into R rated movies as a kid all the time. Must suck to get carded now.

What a dire list. Reminds me of a line from Spongebob Squarepants (of all things), when the manager of the new restaurant that replaced the Krusty Krab tells a shocked Mr. Krabs: "Look around you. Our customers are quite content with the contrived and the mediocre."

ET because it's one of the greatest movies ever. Hon mention to First Wives Club

this is one of my favorite movie scenes ever:

I was going to vote for Roger Rabbit but then I noticed Honey I Shrunk The Kids. You guys have not mentioned that movie enough yet. When I was a kid I would have loved to slide down grass or mud.

I remember back in 1996 predicting all three of them to be nominated for best actress until I actually saw the movie.

It's very difficult for me to choose between Ghostbusters and BTTF, especially when E.T. keeps looking at me from the corner.

THIS IS HARD. it's either ET or Return of Jedi for me,

they both serve a simlar function for me, with ET being the one i think about more, BUT JEDI IS MY BIRTH YEAR

FUCK

ghostbusters is the most quotable movie of all time

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i say this like 3 times a week

82-85, truman show, elf, kung fu panda...it is veeeery hard to choose one of these above the others!

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heh

this list is probably worse than the G Rated list ... Ghostbusters is the only one I have any real fondness for, though Back to the Future did have Crispin Glover and Christopher Lloyd and wasn't awful.

Back off, man. I'm a scientist.

and Ghostbusters is eminently quotable

yeah back to the future was "not awful" like the bible is "a good story"

good lord after about 91 almost every PG rated film here is terrible. The G rated films must be better (assuming Disney and Pixar films all get Gs). PG has become some kind of wasteland of mediocrity

Ghostbusters and Back to the Future would be PG-13 movies nowadays -- not because of what's in the movies, but because of what WOULD have been in the movies had that rating not been so new and untested back then. Not that it would have made the movies better, but they'd have left an extra dirty joke or two in.

Like, dude would've totally fucked his mom this time.

that's how i would've made it

the MOVIE i mean, the MOVIE for heaven's sake

wow TOP GUN was '15' rated over here.

as long as there's a steady paycheck involved, i'll believe anything you say

most quotable movies [POLL RESULTS]

ghostbusters 67
big trouble in little china 10
happiness 1

you...you've earned this

you have to do that when you give somebody a candy bar or some sort of treat

most quotable movies [POLL RESULTS]

ghostbusters 67
big trouble in little china 10
happiness 1

ALIENS sorely missing from that poll

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OH I GET IT! VERY cute. Very cute. If we think of "Best Highest Grossing PG Rated MOvie of the Year," Best Highest Grossing PG Rated Movie of the Year will appear and destroy us all.

can't decide between roger rabbit, ghostbusters, back to the future, jedi, and top gun, too many childhood memories.

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^ tru but Jedi was a lucky escape

can't believe i described Home Alone as "solid," wtf was i thinking

loved home alone as a kid but when i rewatched it as an adult what struck me most was how unpleasant and boring the whole booby-trap sequence at the end is.

and out of step with the otherwise basically sweet and interesting movie about a kid being home alone. conventional wisdom was right the whole time, unfortunately i was 9 and so the booby trap part was ninety percent of why I loved the movie.

My sister always puts it on at Christmas. I enjoy casually stating 'Dead.' every time one of the characters should have rightfully been killed by whatever trauma they just suffered.

the rest of the movie holds up p well for me: john candy as the polka guy, catherine o'hara being awesome as usual, the note-perfect nastiness of the older siblings. the stuff w/ the seemingly scary neighbor is probably corny but it still works for me. but yeah i wish they'd come up w/ a cleverer and more realistic way for kevin to outwit the crooks.

or just... don't have the crooks! or seriously downgrade their significance to the story. i mean the middle section stuff where he's throwing him off the scent with faked parties and that great fake movie is obviously comedy gold, but otoh from that point on we've lost sight of the emotional arc of this kid who's home alone. he's taking it all impishly in stride and constructing extremely elaborate, unlikely tricks.... the stuff with the furnace and him going to the grocery store is way way better and if they'd found a major conflict/arc that came out of that situation they could have had a christmas classic. instead they made millions upon untold millions of dollars and ruined macaulay culkin's life.

Roger Rabbit, no question