Are movie ratings real?

Movies have been rated for as long as I can remember and it was the one thing that could keep you from watching the movie that you have been seeing all the ads about when you were a kid. I can still hear my parents till this day saying sorry buddy is not appropriate for you and my sisters being able to watch it but I couldn’t it was a very hard time. But movie censorship didn’t look like it does today, the movie used to be just secured and the scene that was deemed inappropriate cut out of the movie instead of having a rating all movies where just safe to watch. But now a day’s movies have a rating system that goes from G to PG to PG-13 to R to X they go from most appropriate to least appropriate but back in the day there was NC-17 which ended up being done way with after it being too hard to differentiate from R to NC-17. This started a lot of problems in the movie world because if a movie was rated NC-17 instead of R the movie wouldn’t be released and left a lot of producers with a worthless movie that they had to cut out the scene or the movie wouldn’t be seen and it was a waste of money.

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The problem really came from the people that rated the movie and how they didn’t really have any guide lines they just watched the movie and made up the standers as they went along. That’s why you would see such a drastic change between movies ratings, its because there is no true system to make their decision on they just used their opinion which changes person to person. What do you think, do the movie raters have too much power? Should they have a system in place?

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knfonash October 30, 2020 at 1:24 pm

I think the movie raters have too much power and there should be a system in place where they are voted in like a judge. They should only serve a four year term. I don’t think there should be a ratings system, but if there has to be it should be up to the people to decide. There should definitely be a new set of guidelines that is voted on for each movie. It wouldn’t be enough to just vote yes or no. Their case should have to be argued for each guideline. I also think that violence should be considered at the same level of offensiveness as nudity. Why is it okay to show people committing acts of violence but it isn’t okay to show someone nude?

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knfonash October 30, 2020 at 1:24 pm

I think the movie raters have too much power and there should be a system in place where they are voted in like a judge. They should only serve a four year term. I don’t think there should be a ratings system, but if there has to be it should be up to the people to decide. There should definitely be a new set of guidelines that is voted on for each movie. It wouldn’t be enough to just vote yes or no. Their case should have to be argued for each guideline. I also think that violence should be considered at the same level of offensiveness as nudity. Why is it okay to show people committing acts of violence but it isn’t okay to show someone nude?

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