Why Does The MPAA Still SUCK

[cranegal107]

I watched 'This movie is not yet rated' years ago and the problem is still the same. Nudity, gay sex, makes a movie either R or NC17 while violence goes down to even G. I don't understand it. Anyway I am starting this thread because I am trying to find other people that agree with me and if you do I would love it if you could sign my online petition to give power back to us in rating some of these movies. http://www.change.org/petitions/tell...ting-of-movies

[Erroneous]

I am not clicking your link, but I agree with you. Big deal with that movie Bully that is was R rated for a few swear words.

It is part of that whole sex is bad voilence is good thing.

[oh-dae-su]

Originally Posted by cranegal107

while violence goes down to even G.

Well, I don't know about THAT.

[Exophrine]

I hate the MPAA, personally...and it goes far beyond ratings.

Right now, they're doing everything they can to block the availability of digital content to us, the consumer. They've successfully blocked 2 separate attempts at making the technology available to allow us, the people, to rip our own DVDs, much like we can now rip CDs. They've stopped the technology from being manufactured, and they're currently standing in the way of the changes being made in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to make ripping DVDs legal.

[gabriel1980]

What is the MPAAs problem with sex?! Sex is a guaranteed R/NC-17 rating whereas you can blow shit up and kill people to your heart's content and get a PG-13.

[adamjohnson]

Originally Posted by gabriel1980

What is the MPAAs problem with sex?! Sex is a guaranteed R/NC-17 rating whereas you can blow shit up and kill people to your heart's content and get a PG-13.

The problem is its a bunch of conservative old people running the joint. Like if grandma had the authority to decide.

[jaw2929]

Originally Posted by adamjohnson

The problem is its a bunch of conservative old people running the joint. Like if grandma had the authority to decide.

Makes sense, even though it shouldn't be that way. It's fucking nonsense in fact. I also hate the MPAA and it's horse-shit backwards "logic".

[adamjohnson]

Im all for a ratings system, but why is it so damn secretive? You could just ask everyone on Rotten Tomatoes to rate it and it'd be the same. but done by people that actually know what theyre doing.

[Dirtyfrog]

the american rating comitee (MPAA) is very old-school and outdated... some R rated stuff ( i.e Don't Be Afraid of the Dark ) should be pg-13. That's why Bruce Willis in the latest Die Hard couldn't say "Hippy Ka-yay motherfucker!" else they would have been hit with an R rating ( citation needed , just what i remember )

they need a middle rating badly ... like a 15+ for example

[Lost in Space]

Originally Posted by Dirtyfrog

the american rating comitee (MPAA) is very old-school and outdated... some R rated stuff ( i.e Don't Be Afraid of the Dark ) should be pg-13. That's why Bruce Willis in the latest Die Hard couldn't say "Hippy Ka-yay motherfucker!" else they would have been hit with an R rating ( citation needed , just what i remember )

they need a middle rating badly ... like a 15+ for example

we don't need to add anything really... we just need to have the system make fucking sense. As is it's completely rediculous

[Dirtyfrog]

Originally Posted by Lost in Space

we don't need to add anything really... we just need to have the system make fucking sense. As is it's completely rediculous

So how do you propose to make "fucking sense" of a "completely ridiculous" rating system without changes ?

A middle ground rating like 15+ (or 16+) was my idea , what's yours ?

[adamjohnson]

Originally Posted by Dirtyfrog

So how do you propose to make "fucking sense" of a "completely ridiculous" rating system without changes ?

A middle ground rating like 15+ (or 16+) was my idea , what's yours ?

He seems the system by which they come to a decision.

Theres an old story about how Hitchcock was denied a rating once. They told him to edit and ship it back for a re-rating. Being Hitchcock, he did nothing, sent it back anyway, and was granted the rating.

It's ALL subjective. To the point where they could be having a bad day but the film would suffer. Not to mention their COMPLETE bass-ackwards views on sex and violence.

There's no accountability with the system. If they give a film an nc-17 rating, they then have control over how that film does at the box office. NO PERSON outside the creation of art should dictate it that way. Especially ones as insipid as these old, rich, white people, that consistently bring their own agendas to work.

Btw, an MPAA rating is not required for a release. However, the MPAA has gotten in with theater owners SO DEEPLY, they thay've convinced them not to show an nc-17 or unrated film EVER.

How have they done this, you ask? MONEY. It's a system of lobbying, see also: bribery.

[razgriz21]

It's ran by a bunch of overly-conservative folks who don't have a clue.

[KyleG]

The whole rating system is a joke, especially since big studio movies get more leeway than independents

I think they should adopt Netflix's rating system. Under the movie details of lots of the movies they have a "common sense rating" all it is an age number, how old you probably should be to see it. There's no need to only have a limited number of rating categories. Each movie is unique and could require a unique rating

[SL Dubbs]

It's different when you hear from maybe two or three people how bad something is but when everybody thinks this is an incompetent group of people handling a task this important, then something really has to give.

I've been seeing material in the rating that is completley non-existent. Example: Charie Bartlett(nudity). There was no nudity at all in this film. I've seen lots of this lately. Andrew Dice Clay Stand up in Madison Square Garden rated NC-17, apparently has invisible nudity in it as well. There's countless other movies I've seen bullshit non exsitent material determing a rating.

Excessive smoking I saw on the back of a film determining it's rating. They might have to go back and re-submit an NC-17 to Rebel Without A Cause then if that's the case.
More than half the members here if given the job, would do a hell of alot better then the incompetent backward ass group they have now.

[Dirtyfrog]

Last week , TVA (local station ) showed Independence Day ... it was rated 8+

guess TV got a different rating system than theaters ( was rated PG in theaters in Canada)