Should the MPAA make a "PG-15" rating?

[thealiasman2000]

My point exactly.

Most "kids" who go to see PG-13 movies are teenagers that have been brought up with foul language and sexuality in their culture, and therefore laugh at it on the big screen.

STILL, PG-13 movies have to hold back A LOT because they are not R movies.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

Yes. We need a PG-13, a PG-14, a PG-15, a PG-16, an NC-17, an NC-18, an NC-19, an NC-20 and a "We ID under 21" rating.

 

[Bat Attack]

I say just keep the ratings the way they are.

 

[Darth Elektra]

It doesnt matter to me.

 

[jusblaze21]

No.

 

[Darth Elektra]

edit.

 

[Gamma Ray]

No. That seems like a really unnecessary idea.

 

[dutchmarvel]

Make a 16 rating.

In The Netherlands we have All,6,12 and 16

For Harry Potter 3 there making a special one (9),only for that movie,because people complane after the second movie and 12 years whas to old.

The moost movie´s get 6 and 12 and All,6 and 12 is a advice and 16 is must.

What get 12 can´t be showd before 20.00
What get 16 can´t be showd before 22.00

Sometimes there give 12 but keep in mind that it can be showd shokking material and there show it later,for people who have seen season 4 of 24 know what i mean.

Moost Thrillers get 16 and some action movie´s also,but moost of the time action movie´s get 12.
War movie´s get always 16 years and older.

For example Mission Impossible and Bond get 12 years,but Die Hard or Seven 16.

After a couple of years it can happen that some movie´s get a lower rating.

Beside´s this we have other logo´s beside´s the age logo.
For example Prisonbreak get 4 other logo´s this beside´s the 12 age logo:

More about the Dutch system you can read here http://www.kijkwijzer.nl/index2.php in Dutch or English.

 

[Warhammer]

15 is not far from being able to see a rated R movie.
Pointless to make it that high.

If parents have a problem with PG-13,,
My words of advice are:

Too bad, Deal With It, Get Over It.

 

[Backdrifter]

This is not about the kids. This about allowing filmmakers to make movies more mature than a 13 rating but not taking it all the way to R.

 

[Warhammer]

I didnt mean it like that.

...But aren't the kids the reason
why they made a rated PG-13 in the first place.

 

[CConn]

This is not about the kids. This about allowing filmmakers to make movies more mature than a 13 rating but not taking it all the way to R.

I doubt the filmmakers care.

 

[Backdrifter]

I doubt the filmmakers care.

I think they would. I know I would. Like I said. I think Batman Begins could have benefited from a 15 rating.

 

[CConn]

I think they would. I know I would. Like I said. I think Batman Begins could have benefited from a 15 rating.

Why?

 

[Backdrifter]

Why?

It means that you do not have water down content for a PG-13 audience but it is not an R rating so your core audience can still go so the film. Most countries in the world have a rating inbetween 12/13 and 18...it is silly for America not to do the same. It frees up film makers.

 

[CConn]

It means that you do not have water down content for a PG-13 audience but it is not an R rating so your core audience can still go so the film. Most countries in the world have a rating inbetween 12/13 and 18...it is silly for America not to do the same. It frees up film makers.

But you don't really have to water down content. Ratings have become as much a marketing tool as anything - marketing tools that can be changed to whatever the studio sees fit. Scareface for example was originally NC-17, of course the studio couldn't have that, so it was dropped to an R.

As for Batman, look at Batman Returns. That was quite a dark film, and despite remaining PG-13, it's content still alienated it's core audience, and it did poorly because of it. So BB couldn't have been any darker simply because WB knows it would alienate the children viewers.

And then of course you have the director's cuts and the DVD extras and all of that which allow filmmakers to film and include unrated content, and total shuck off the rating system when need be. What a film is rated is really pointless on the creative side of movies, I think, it just has to do with marketing and how light or dark the studios want a film to be.

 

[dark_b]

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.

 

[MrMaooz]

No.

 

[Destructus86]

Kids act a lot older than their age nowadays, more so than in previous generations thanks to more exposure through the internet. They mature faster. So yes...the rating system needs to be fixed.

 

[Hyde]

The UK ratings system is the best (if you want to see it, go to the last page). IMO America should just adopt that

 

[dark_b]

well its insulting that if you stab someoen and he dies its PG13. if the same shot has blood between the body and the claws its R. the same character killed the same character in the same way. the only difference is blood. or an example of bullets. if you shoot someone and there is no blood its pg13. if there is just a drop of blood its R.

i dont think kids are that stupid.

 

[Warhammer]

For The Conjuring, the reason why it was rated R was simple. A PG-13 horror film automatically raises eyebrows. Automatically. Scary doesn't equal violence, but that's just how it is.

 

[dark_b]

yes true. some are still shocked how Ring is pg13. i am

 

[jmc]

I'm really curious to know why so many people are voted No on this poll. It's a no brainer that you should have a rating in between teenage and adult viewing. Frankly, it's half the reason so many films are watered down nowadays.

 

[Warhammer]

Eh, because if there is going to be a PG-15, then PG-13 should be done away with. Then the question goes, why have a PG-15 rating when R is 17 years or older? It's unnecessary to have a PG-13, PG-15, and R. Then people will want a PG-13, PG-14, PG-15, PG-16, and R. What's the point?

Besides, the whole middle rating argument is moot. Is there seriously this significant difference in maturity between a 13 and a 15 year old? Like that article above about The Wolverine states, the issue isn't simply the rating. The issue is that the MPAA does not rate films consistently. Objectively, when a film like The Conjuring gets an R for no sex scenes, no death, no gratuitous cursing or gore, and a fantasy premise, while The Wolverine gets PG-13 for excessive violence like stabbing and the death of human beings, there is an issue. That issue is the MPAA itself.