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==Content== The decade saw an increased amount of [[nudity in film]], as well as the increasing emphasis in the American industry on film franchises; especially in the [[science fiction film|science fiction]], [[horror film|horror]], and [[Action films|action]] genres. Much of the reliance on these effects-driven movies was due in part to the ''[[Star Wars]]'' films at the advent of this decade and the new cinematic visuals they helped to pioneer. With the release of 1984's ''[[Red Dawn]]'', the [[PG-13 (Motion Picture Association)|PG-13]] rating was introduced in the U.S. to accommodate films that straddled the line between PG and R. Which was mainly due to the controversies surrounding the violence of the PG films ''[[Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom]]'' and ''[[Gremlins]]'' from earlier that same year.<ref>{{cite news|title=PG-13 remade Hollywood ratings system|last=Breznican|first=Anthony|url=http://www.seattlepi.com/movies/187529_pg13rating24.html|newspaper=[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]]|date=August 24, 2004|access-date=June 27, 2016}}</ref> Some have considered the 1980s in retrospect as one of the weaker decades for American cinema in terms of the qualities of the films released. Filmmaker [[Quentin Tarantino]] has voiced his own view that the 1980s was one of the worst eras for American films.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Shamsian|first1=Jacob|title=Here's why Quentin Tarantino isn't worried about the influx of franchise films|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/quentin-tarantino-isnt-worried-about-franchise-films-2015-8|website=[[Business Insider]]|access-date=27 June 2016|date=24 August 2015|quote=Back in the ’80s, when movies sucked—I saw more movies then than I'd ever seen in my life, and the Hollywood bottom-line product was the worst it had been since the ’50s—that would have been a great time [for Superhero films].}}</ref> Film critic Kent Jones also shares this opinion.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Jones|first1=Kent|title=The Last Great American Picture Show: New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s: "The Cylinders Were Whispering My Name"|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p-xgdo_-5XEC&pg=PA165|via=[[Google Books]]|publisher=Amsterdam University Press|access-date=27 June 2016|date=2004|isbn=9789053566312|quote=This was the beginning of the 1980s, the worst decade ever for American movies...}}</ref> However, film theorist [[David Bordwell]] countered this notion, saying that the "megapicture mentality" was already existent in the 1970s, which is evident in the ten highest-grossing films of that decade, as well as with how many of the filmmakers part of New Hollywood were still able to direct many great pictures in the 1980s ([[Martin Scorsese]], [[Brian de Palma]], [[John Carpenter]], etc.).<ref>{{cite web|last1=Bordwell|first1=David|title=Observations on film art : It's the 80s, stupid|url=http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2008/11/20/its-the-80s-stupid/|website=David Bordwell's website on cinema|publisher=David Bordwell & Kristin Thompson|access-date=28 June 2016|date=20 November 2008}}</ref>
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