There are movies like that. They're usually rated PG.
Should the MPAA rating system be changed?
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But then the theater is normally full of children.
Definitely agree. The above mentioned TV ratings system, although not perfect either, would be a better way to go since it actually tells you a bit about the content. My 9-year-old son would be just fine seeing a movie rated PG-13 if it's just because of violence (like EP III), but *not* if it's because they're using foul language all throughout.
So you want to bar children from seeing movies that don't contain offensive material? That doesn't make sense.
Yes! But it does make sense, I don't want a movie which is aimed at adults ruined by a bunch of children running around.
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I voted yes, but it's not the ratings themselves that are the problem so much (though they could use some refinement) as the often completely arbitrary, secretive, or biased way the MPAA determines the ratings for each movie.
The british system, the bbfc, is widely considered to assign the most unbiased ratings. But these newer classes they've brought out, 7 and 12 and 12A are over the top imo. The role of PG already covers these, to advise caution at the discretion of parents. It really is for parents to judge how mature their children are, because they all develop at different rates, making these 7 and 12 advisories nonsensical.
As far as rating the upper ends, 18 is stuff that could be potentially disturbing, so is for adults only. R rating is an additional a warning that the film contains something extreme that viewers should be forewarned about. There's no need for any more ratings. Read the synopsis if you want to know what those extreme themes are, if it's not already obvious from the title.
Why is killing, murder, blood, guts, VIOLENCE!!! ok, but words are not?
I mean, why is it ok to see thousands slaughtered but heavens forbid they say the F word. Or dear christ, if there happens to be... don't say it... No.. No... Dirty... Nude Female Breasts in the movie.
I mean seriously, our nation is so fucked when there is this kind of thought process going on.
What do you mean 7? There is no 7, there's a PG with advice that it may be disturbing for children under the age of 7, but it's not a different rating, it's just an advisory added.
12A I can understand to a certain degree, but in reality, rather than adding the option for adults to take mature children to see films that are deemed suitable to be for older children and teenagers, it's just given studios an extra layer of PG to aim for, and to pester them for with their blockbuster films.
Basically they might as well have just had PG and added the A to 15 ratings.
oh, they call it Uc, but it means 7, or under 7. You can't watch it once you've grown up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bbfc#Current_certificates
Uc has been around since I was a kid at least, it's not a new one. It's usually on kids videos. I can't remember ever seeing a Uc at cinema.
It's obvious to me from this and many other comments that you're not a parent. Also, you're starting to put words in my mouth. I didn't say that my son could go see stuff like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but some of the more toned-down stuff that still gets hit with the "violence" tag. Episode III (and the Clone Wars cartoon, which also gets a violence rating) are really no different than the cowboy & indian movies that kids watched when my dad was growing up. At least kids can identify that this kind of stuff is fiction or at least highly uncommon, and people don't do that kind of thing to each other in real life. Kids play-acting cops and robbers (or Jedi & Sith) is one thing, and to some extent helps them learn about right & wrong. Language and nudity (and to extend that, sexuality), however, are *quite* real, and are a part of many people's *adult* lives, and kids just aren't developed enough to understand it fully, or it's stuff that some kids use (like foul language) to verbally abuse others, and I'll try to keep that away from my kids as long as possible.
Why is killing, murder, blood, guts, VIOLENCE!!! ok, but words are not?
I mean, why is it ok to see thousands slaughtered but heavens forbid they say the F word. Or dear christ, if there happens to be... don't say it... No.. No... Dirty... Nude Female Breasts in the movie.
I mean seriously, our nation is so fucked when there is this kind of thought process going on.
^In Japan they seem to think there ''youth'' is developed enough to understand *ADULT* content real well!
I have long wished the MPAA would just go away, and rating be replaced by content advisory like pay cable does. I'd rather not hear that someone I've never met thinks this movie is too much for me, but would rather like to know if the movie contains violence, graphic violence, cartoon violence, graphic language, nudity, adult themes, etc. That way, I could make up my own mind.
Ding!!!!!
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Well, that's what I said.
No the rating system is fine. All we need to do is convince theaters to stop being pussies and caving in on any film rated NC-17. NC-17 should be open for any film that wants to really revel in its violence, sex, or general adultness. Now NC-17 films have to got through this bizarre process of snipping a few seconds from there films, or worse just rearranging its scenes to get an R-rating.
I was watching a "PG-13" movie one day and the "f word" was said. I was shocked because I didnt think that word would be used in a PG-13 movie.
The MPAA says that 1 f-bomb can be allowed in a PG-13 rated film! BUT more then ONE and you get an R rating! NO JOKE!
