This Film is Not Yet Rated, a documentary about movie ratings
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This is a documentary about rating system and R vs NC-17, its also very similar to the M vs AO situation in US, it also takes in account how big film studios and indy movies are treated with ratings, sex vs violence, who reviews the movies, censorship, how the system gives more power to a few big companies etc, etc, basically the same crap that does on in the video game industry. Pretty interesting stuff.
This is a documentary about rating system and R vs NC-17, its also very similar to the M vs AO situation in US, it also takes in account how big film studios and indy movies are treated with ratings, sex vs violence, who reviews the movies, censorship, how the system gives more power to a few big companies etc, etc, basically the same crap that does on in the video game industry. Pretty interesting stuff.
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Reminds me, I still need to watch Exit Through The Gift Shop.
Very interesting, revealing, and thought provoking documentary, especially for movie lovers. Sheds a lot of light on the subject, and if I remember right, has some film makers commenting on the ratings system as well.
It does however repeatedly bring up Europe as some shining example, which it isn't a lot of rating companies exist in various countries but there starting to get there act together with people like PEGI for games though these are currently not enforced by shops in the UK (I don't know the situation elsewhere). They still use BBFC who do films and games and who are also relatively lenient compared to PEGI (Who are way to harsh on there ratings IMHO). that and i don't know anywhere that wouldn't stock either 18 on PEGI or BBFC.
The thing I don't understand about this censorship is why do we need ratings at all, theater doesn't have it and you can go see live sex scenes in several small independent shows near to where I live so why does this suddenly "affect" children if they see it on a screen.
In the movie Team America, during the puppet sex scene, they went way over the top in what they wanted in the final scene so they could get away with more, featuring water sports and scat, so those scenes would get cut instead of the crazy sexual positions.
you can show hundreds of people being shot, stabbed and blown up, but heaven forbid you show a titty!
another really good netflix documentry is The Union: the business behind getting high. Adam turned me onto it and there are some fuckin ridiculous lil bits of info in there, one of the better documentaries i have ever seen.