Awson

"In our country, we have a 15/16yo movie rating."

Changing a tire isn't as unrealistic as overhauling an entire aspect of a multi-billion dollar industry.

How dare you make me type out something so obvious.

Everything prior was arguable, but now you're just being stupid.

Yes, it would be a compromise for R in many cases, but a better compromise than PG-13. It doesn't "add another layer" to the problem in any bad way. I can see how you might think that adding anything to a flawed system is pointless, but it's not. You can add small things to flawed systems to improve them.

And nothing is being split. The demographics bleed into each other.

"In our country, we have a 15/16yo movie rating."

Yeah I've heard that before too. The ratings exist for lazy parents, which there are a lot of. Yes, no ratings is an ideal method for an ideal world, but it isn't realistically going to happen anytime soon in America. An additional rating is realistic.

And that whole thing about playing games isn't a problem with the system. It's a problem with the people currently in charge of the system. And having a spot between 13 and R would make the "game" far less punishing.

"In our country, we have a 15/16yo movie rating."

@Vilageidiotx

Drastic and unrealistic ideas accomplish very little.

Concerned families will still want simple labels so that they can know at a glance if they don't want their 13yo seeing certain movies.

I didn't know anyone paid attention to the specific content list next the the letter grade.

Separating movies by tiny indicators of general "bad things" might prove to be even more divisive and bring odd new forms of self censorship.

Right now it's "Drug usage and violence? Well it's PG-13, so it's probably not too bad."

Without ratings it could easily change to "Drug usage and violence? No way!"

"In our country, we have a 15/16yo movie rating."

That's usually where the conversation fizzles out on the Internet when talking about movie ratings.

Often times people, including me, lament the lack of R-rated high budget films in theaters these days.

We're reminded that it's safer for studios to make Pg-13 movies and one or two non-Americans remind us about their superior film rating system.

Personally, I used to mostly ignore the talks of other people's rating systems. The reasons being because it doesn't feel possible to change America's system and because often times it seems like those dirty foreigners were just bragging or being condescending about the topic.

I've recently come to realize that adding a new 15yo rating is exactly what we need. It's usually just one of many topics that arise in a movie ratings discussion, but it absolutely needs to be the main topic.

More people need to realize that a new rating would fix a lot of moviegoers dissatisfactions. Only when the idea becomes widely popular will any sort of change happen.

So where is Rax to tell us what she thought of Deadpool?

Unhelpful review. Biased against obscenities. 5/10.

So where is Rax to tell us what she thought of Deadpool?

I haven't seen it yet.

the only thing keeping me sane today is my bag of goldfish crackers

Pussy crackers, actually.

the only thing keeping me sane today is my bag of goldfish crackers

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is this a reference to an innuendo or am i just a terrible person

@Taaj

OF COURSE IT'S AN "EATING PUSSY" JOKE.

I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO SAY THAT.

NEVER ASSUME I'M EVER NOT MAKING JOKES ABOUT PUSSY.

the only thing keeping me sane today is my bag of goldfish crackers

I have to specify? I refuse.

Not so that it seems like I'm being quirky and mean both things, but because OF COURSE I MEAN THE CRACKERS.

YOU DON'T HAVE TO SAY "GOLDFISH CRACKERS."

Never assume a human being could possibly be saying that he or she wants to eat live animals unless specifically stated otherwise. Come on now.

NO I DON'T MEAN THAT I WANT TO EAT A LIVE CAT.

Excuse me, sir.

We're trying to play mindless forum games here. Could you move along, please?