Word came down the trade grapevine this weekend that the McG Terminator flick, previously over-titled as Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, will be shooting for a PG-13 rating a la Live Free Or Die Hard.

Obviously, opinion is split.

On one hand, this is the best way to make the most money off of another Terminator film, and making more money off T4 will further ensure T5 and T6, since we’ve been told that Terminator Salvation has been conceptualized as a trilogy.

Live Free Or Die Hard ended up grossing about $380 million worldwide which says enough for how you can sell a PG-13 movie. Not to mention that as soon as you get disposable income teen-America in the seats, they are much more likely to go out and buy the companion video game and action figures.

The crux of this argument is that there was very little in uber-successful and fan-loved T2 that would push the boundaries of a modern PG-13 rating. We are talking about a movie that – by all accounts – is set in the future where men are fighting metallic skeletons with lazers. How much gore does one need?

On the other hand, the fanboy hand, everyone hates when a studio decides to go for profit over unfettered artistic integrity. If it was anyone besides McG shooting this sequel, we’d probably be on this side of the fence: “Don’t tell us what we are or aren’t mature enough to see, you fucks.”

Well, we’re not on that side. Not this time.

Look at McG’s directing track-record. All the action? Charlie’s Angels.

We’ve seen (sadly) both installments of the Charlie’s Angels “series,” and we have to say that McG knows his way around action – albeit ridiculous action – without having to show brains splattered against walls and the oft-forgotten Fuckanator, who is just like T-1000 but manifests as a huge, angry penis.

We don’t see PG-13 necessarily hurting this movie.