How well do your nation's rating systems work?
Feb 14, 2024 17:37:28 GMT -6
Post by saintofm on Feb 14, 2024 17:37:28 GMT -6
Live in the United States my whole life, so I can say without question that the American Film Rating system is screwed up beyond belief. What should be a perfect Barometer, much less something that accurately says what age range can see this or that film and be ok, sucks.
Plenty of PG films like Ants or Master of Disguise which should have had a PG-13 at best, and then R rated films like The Kings Speach or Last Samurai that could work as a PG-13 easily. However what got me on this rant again was watching Blue Thermal on YouTube a cute anime movie about a college Freshman that joins a Glider club and turns out to have the makings of a ace pilot. It is cleaner than most of the Saturday Morning Cartoons I watched as a kid.
Current Rating systems.
Been in since installed in 1962
G for general Audience: Safe for the whole family. This still includes a Dracula film staring Christopher Lee, True Grit which has dismemberment and lots of strong searing and violence, and Star Trek The Motion Picture which also has some language not appropriate for the youngins.
PG: Paradental Guidance. A little more intense than the other, and should have some guidance from the older and wiser people in these kid's lives. Alot of films that would make the PG-13 today end up here until the PG-13 came in 1986, largely thanks to a combination of Gremlins and Transformers: The Movie being the wakeup call for the sensors and many a parent.
PG-13 means you can't see it without an adult if you are under 13 years of age.
R means you can't see it without an adult if you are under age 17.
And NC-17/the Old X rating means adults only.
Unfortunately how one decides this is strange. Up until Deadpool made bank, people tried to avoid the dreaded R rating as that meant alot of younger viewers couldn't see it, and therefor give their money to the film studio. So if your film: Limits the amount of blood, or keeps it a color other than a typical shade of Red; limits their use of booze, smoking, and swearing to the point that you have 1 F bomb use if its in a none sexual way; the gorier parts something bloodless, none human (such as robots) or be discreet about it; doubly so with spicier elements; and not be an Independent film you too can have a PG-13 film.
The last one can be annoying as films like Saints and Soldiers, a WW2 film by a largely Mormon film studio, nearly got an R rating despite being fairly clean for a war film. On the other hand, sex usualy bumps the rating up, so films that easily could be a PG-13 get the R treatment; and those that should have the same rating as other Big Studio films with the same content, get stuck with the Dreaded NC-17, which is a death sentence for filmmakers (and a rating you never truly get these days without a heaping amount of Sexual content; how one decides that is arbitrary and random at best).
So, how are your country's rating systems, and if you are in the US like me anything else that needs to be added to the dumpster fire that is the MPAA?
Plenty of PG films like Ants or Master of Disguise which should have had a PG-13 at best, and then R rated films like The Kings Speach or Last Samurai that could work as a PG-13 easily. However what got me on this rant again was watching Blue Thermal on YouTube a cute anime movie about a college Freshman that joins a Glider club and turns out to have the makings of a ace pilot. It is cleaner than most of the Saturday Morning Cartoons I watched as a kid.
Current Rating systems.
Been in since installed in 1962
G for general Audience: Safe for the whole family. This still includes a Dracula film staring Christopher Lee, True Grit which has dismemberment and lots of strong searing and violence, and Star Trek The Motion Picture which also has some language not appropriate for the youngins.
PG: Paradental Guidance. A little more intense than the other, and should have some guidance from the older and wiser people in these kid's lives. Alot of films that would make the PG-13 today end up here until the PG-13 came in 1986, largely thanks to a combination of Gremlins and Transformers: The Movie being the wakeup call for the sensors and many a parent.
PG-13 means you can't see it without an adult if you are under 13 years of age.
R means you can't see it without an adult if you are under age 17.
And NC-17/the Old X rating means adults only.
Unfortunately how one decides this is strange. Up until Deadpool made bank, people tried to avoid the dreaded R rating as that meant alot of younger viewers couldn't see it, and therefor give their money to the film studio. So if your film: Limits the amount of blood, or keeps it a color other than a typical shade of Red; limits their use of booze, smoking, and swearing to the point that you have 1 F bomb use if its in a none sexual way; the gorier parts something bloodless, none human (such as robots) or be discreet about it; doubly so with spicier elements; and not be an Independent film you too can have a PG-13 film.
The last one can be annoying as films like Saints and Soldiers, a WW2 film by a largely Mormon film studio, nearly got an R rating despite being fairly clean for a war film. On the other hand, sex usualy bumps the rating up, so films that easily could be a PG-13 get the R treatment; and those that should have the same rating as other Big Studio films with the same content, get stuck with the Dreaded NC-17, which is a death sentence for filmmakers (and a rating you never truly get these days without a heaping amount of Sexual content; how one decides that is arbitrary and random at best).
So, how are your country's rating systems, and if you are in the US like me anything else that needs to be added to the dumpster fire that is the MPAA?
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