Rated R
Today's blog will be about the ridiculousness that is the movie rating system. (G, PG, PG-13, R, and NC-17). My first question is should the libertarian in me ponders whether we should even have a system. Obviously to have a successfull libertarian society would require strong parental units and accountability from the community. Since we live in America, I will erase that question and then question who the morons are that actually rate the movies. Why are movies like Knocked Up and Hostel II not rated NC-17? Knocked Up shows birthing scenes with the head actually crowning from the mother. It showed non-stop marijuana usage, lots of swearing, a dozen or more nude scenes, et cetera. Should we have a right to see this movie? Of course, assuming we are all adults. If it is just Rated-R, then pretty much everyone can watch it. I saw in the row next to me a Dad with his two sons (the oldest being ten) at Knocked Up. Now onto Hostel II. How on earth is this movie not rated NC-17? To give you an idea of what happens in this movie. In one scene a man's genitalia is sawed off and then fed to a dog. In another scene a woman is hacked up and her blood drips down to a waiting woman in a bath below. Once the blood starts pouring on her she starts to have an orgasm. How on earth is this shit only rated R and not NC-17? If we are going to have a rating system, fine, but then let's actually have some standards. Now, if American adults enjoy this type of filth, fine, but let's have it be rated NC-17.
posted by cyclonejohn @ 9:28 AM
5 Comments:
Knocked Up and Hostel II should be rated NC-17 according to you? I think they should be rated PG at most. This way more people are able to see these movies which would increase ticket sales and help the economy. Rating these movies NC-17 is unpatriotic.
I see that tieds is pushing your buttons just to get a rise out of you.
Anyway, the reason why we have ratings systems is so that parents don't have to go and see every single movie before they let their kids go. I had no idea there would be nudity/drugs/birthing is Knocked up. and I've seen plenty of trailers for it. I'm sure the first draft that was sent to the ratings people was NC-17, and then they shaved off the blood/drugs little by little until it barely passed as an R rated movie. At least, that's what they did for the South Park movie.
Why is birthing offensive?
I didn't say that birthing was offensive? I just said that birthing scenes should not be in rated-R movies.
Why not? If nearly every male can legally and physically get someone pregnant before 17, if nearly every female body has the capacity and the legal ability to be pregnant before 17, why should anyone not be legally allowed to see birthing scenes before 17? I genuinely don't understand what needs to be censored about it. It's a perfectly natural - some might even say essential - part of human existence. So please explain your reasoning. Because, for me, it's a far, far cry from torture-as-sex.
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