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#1

Movie Ratings System

An article about how fawking EVERYBODY is jumping on the MPAA to bend movie ratings systems to their own agenda.

Some people see the current PG-13 rating as too lax???? Really? I remember when you could go see a PG-13 movie and see somebody get their heart ripped out and a pair of titties!
And don't get me started on those anti-smoking people
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#2

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I remember watching Jaws rip apart Quint with blood spitting out of his mouth. That movies was PG!
#3

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I still get pretty PO'd that the mere presense of gays can earn an R rating. I watched MILK and THE DA VINCI CODE back-to-back, and couldn't believe that MILK got an R while the other was PG-13.
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"I still get pretty PO'd that the mere presense of gays can earn an R rating. I watched MILK..."

I think there are about a dozen or so f-bombs in Milk, so the rating wasn't necessarily due to the presence of gays.
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#5

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MILK had a lot of cursing to go along with the sex and nudity. It deserved an R rating. If you have more than 1 non-sexual use of the F word, you get an R rating. It had more than a few of them.
#6

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BRUNO, in my opinion, should've still been NC-17.

Loved it, but it was SOO GRAPHIC.
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Yeah, I'm a bit surprised how BRUNO got by with an R-Rating. I guess those Christian stay at home Moms they have in the MPAA rating room had their eyes closed enough to make them miss he "scary" stuff.
#8

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Midnight Cowboy was originally an X rating than changed to an R

Andy Warhol's Frankenstein originally an X now an R

You get an R whether you curse or show graphic violence
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#9

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I agree that there should be a ratings system, however, I think it needs to be more defined. The MPAA should NOT run it! It should be judged similarly to court systems, by a group of unbiased anonymous people. Each rating should have specific criteria that defines the rating, and that criteria should be made public.

Each movie theatre and the ratings' organization website should have a more detailed explanation for the rating.

For example:
Rating: R
Curse words: 22
Sex: 2 sex scenes
Nudity: Female breasts and vagina
Violence/Gore: Guns, blood, exposed bones.
Other: sexual innuendoes, discussed descriptive intercourse, and more.

And then there can be the supplied more detailed list from there. This way, parents will know exactly why it got the rating it did.
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#10

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That sounds like an odd advertisement.

also I did a report on this.
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