Mrs. Sawyer
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They should make PG-15 and combine R and NC-17.
Only two ratings are necessary:
Rating A
- This movie doesn't have excessive violence, nudity, and/or swearing. As always we recommend that you should be a good parent and be mindful of what your children are watching. If you want to let them watch it, hey that's your business.
Rating B
- This movie has excessive violence, nudity, and/or swearing. As always we recommend that you should be a good parent and be mindful of what your children are watching. If you want to let them watch it, hey that's your business.
Or an alternative one rating system:
Rating
- We're not your damn babysitter.
Only two ratings are necessary:
Rating A
- This movie doesn't have excessive violence, nudity, and/or swearing. As always we recommend that you should be a good parent and be mindful of what your children are watching. If you want to let them watch it, hey that's your business.
Rating B
- This movie has excessive violence, nudity, and/or swearing. As always we recommend that you should be a good parent and be mindful of what your children are watching. If you want to let them watch it, hey that's your business.
Or an alternative one rating system:
Rating
- We're not your damn babysitter.
Its too close to PG-13 and totally unnecessary.
Yeah it's silly seeing as R is technically PG-17. Do we really need a whole separate ratings category just to cater to that relatively narrow in-between age set?
I reeeeeeeeeally don't think some of you are quite understanding the actual advantages of a '15' rating. It's not about catering, it's about a more balanced system that's fair for the film and the studios, if a film is too mature for a 13 rating it simply gets bumped up to a 15, all is means is 2 years worth of audience don't have the luxury of being able to see it without mum or dad as opposed to 4 years with the current system.
But is still doesn't matter so long as the system by which the MPAA rates movies continues to be broken. You can have PG13, PG14, PG15, and PG16 added to the ratings system, and the MPAA are still gonna be unjustly giving X ratings to movies that should be rated R, R ratings to movies that should be rated PG(add number here), and so on. Fix the ratings system first. Then you can add all the new PG ratings that you want.
I reeeeeeeeeally don't think some of you are quite understanding the actual advantages of a '15' rating. It's not about catering, it's about a more balanced system that's fair for the film and the studios, if a film is too mature for a 13 rating it simply gets bumped up to a 15, all is means is 2 years worth of audience don't have the luxury of being able to see it without mum or dad as opposed to 4 years with the current system.
interesting
http://badassdigest.com/2013/07/25/2013-the-year-pg-13-broke/
in a way its good that WOlverine got pg13 because it can make money. but than i have a feeling that mpaa was payed to give it pg13.
What's the harm in trying though? Honestly, all I'm hearing from some people is 'fix the system', but no one seems to be offering anything other than 'fix the system'. Yeah, maybe the system might need fixing, and perhaps the first step is to bring in a new rating. Maybe it forces change.
Unfortunately it won't force change. It'll just make it that much messier.
Alternatively you could just bump the R rating down to '15' and leave the NC-17 as is.
How do you know? It's just as likely a '15' rating will level the inconsistencies giving films and studios are fairer and acceptable outcome and causing less hassles for the MPAA. No-ones really built a strong case against a '15' rating and if anything feels like people are trying to prevent the option for reasons that don't really make much sense other than to preserve the status quo.
How do I know? History. The MPAA have made stupid, inconsistent, and convoluted decisions in rating movies since their conception. The ratings used to go from G to PG, then R, then X. They added PG13 and NC17 to the list. Did this change how screwed up the system is? No. So what makes you think that adding another PG rating will do what adding PG13 and NC17 didn't?
On paper, a PG15 rating looks like it could be a good idea. But in the end we're still gonna be left with a severely broken system by which the movies get rated in the first place. THAT is what needs to be fixed. Once it is fixed, then you can add as many new PG ratings as you like.