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Why don't movie ratings just have letters indicating objectionable material? (feddit.org)
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LVNSD would be much more informative than "Rated R," or, "PG-13."

  • L - Language
  • V - Violence
  • N - Nudity
  • S - Sex
  • D - Drug use
  • B - Blasphemy

Let's include recommended age at the end, so theaters can know whom to exclude (legal reasons):

Family Guy LVNDB-18

Dexter's Lab V-8

Looney Toons VD-8

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[โ€“] 29 points 1 week ago (10 children)

There's a good documentary called This Film Is Not Yet Rated and issues with the existing rating system. For example a gay sex scene gets an NC-17 but straight one would get an R rating. If memory serves, they exist to rate the movies to prevent government regulation and to protect the studios which they're rating.

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Iirc this was the one that showed the sexism of the MPAA too, like how a fully visible penis gets rated R (I think American Psycho was the example), but in another film where some of the top of a woman's pubic hair was showing in a scene, they were going to rate it NC-17 unless they removed it.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 4 days ago

    The rating system was a bad compromise engineered by a right wing pig named Jack Valenti. But the reason for it was that Congress was sniffing around some kind of official government censorship. Jesse Helms having the final say over what movies we could see, would have been much worse.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 6 days ago

    IIRC, they also rate women shown enjoying sex more strictly than they rate men shown enjoying sex. The whole thing is obviously made up of the totally subjective opinions of a small group of blatantly biased old dudes.

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  • [โ€“] 12 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    "Midnight Cowboy" is still X-rated, even though there's nothing in it that you don't see in a show like 'Game Of Thrones.'

    What a difference a few decades make.

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    Woah, TIL:

    Midnight Cowboy is the only X-rated film (equivalent of the current NC-17 rating) to win Best Picture and the only X-rated film ever to win an Academy Award.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    In my opinion it's a great movie.

    People still quote Hoffman's line "I'm walkin' here!"

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    yeah, that line is infamous, i even hear kids saying it. I guess it's good it got the recognition it deserved despite the rating.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Different times.

    My opinion is that getting the X rating helped the movie. It came out after The Summer Of Love and just before Deep Throat and Behind The Green Door rolled into local theaters.

    I can't think of any other mainstream movie of the time that got an X rating, so it really stood out.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    Surely A Clockwork Orange released two years later is also rated X? But looks like nope, that was rated R which is pretty wild all things considered.

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