MOVIEGUIDE® has asked the Motion Picture Association of America to drop it’s rating system, which has blurred a good bit over the years. They are asking folks to sign a petition to this effect as well.
MOVIEGUIDE® has asked the Motion Picture Association of America to drop it’s rating system, which has blurred a good bit over the years. They are asking folks to sign a petition to this effect as well.
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Are they suggesting an alternative rating system?
I didn’t see a recommendation spelled out, but I think they have something. I think it’s returning to the morality standards used many years ago, which would be simply rejecting certain material from movies altogether.
Interesting. The powers that be behind MovieGuide have … shown themselves skilled at promotion. And while the MPAA’s system is terribly broken (The Village was originally given an R rating for a single sound effect, while PG-13 now encompasses every sort of scatology), I can’t really see this going anywhere.
I like the parent guides which have been added to many movie info/review sites. They often spell out just how much of what is in a movie, and generally speaking, its the sexual content that drives me away. I thought the recent movie, “Away We Go,” looked like a cute, romantic movie, but I learned it had a pile sexual talk and maybe other stuff I don’t remember now. Anyway, it killed the movie for me.
Yes, it’s good that a number of organizations have stepped up to show exactly what’s in certain films given the MPAA’s squishiness. My personal favorite is Screen It! Simple content reviews with precious little extraneous commentary.