latimes.com: In the late '80s a thunderbolt of inspiration struck Jack Valenti, longtime chief of the Motion Picture Assn. of America: What if his organization got rid of the X rating, besmirched by years of misappropriation by hard-core exploitation films, and replaced it with a new marker that was both trademarked and respectable?
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Considering the struggles, perhaps the MPAA should get rid of the rating all together, wait a few years, and try again if they really feel it necessary to have this rating. As was mentioned in the article, people know blue as blue, even if you call it something else. With so much more violence and sex in pop culture, the supposed desensitization of youth, does there need to be a dirrerence between R and NC-17? R may be a little softer in content, but they are movies not made for children. Parents or adults have to go in with them, meaning the parent is taking responsibility for what the child is being exposed. Part of the issue with reviving NC-17 is that theatres are then restricting children in a way that does not give adults the option of taking their children, which would likely inhibit any attemp to revive the movement. It is telling adults that the MPAA knows better for the children. Which, honestly, they probably do, but people will not accept a rule telling them they cannot bring their children or teens, whereas R is okay because it is only a recommendation, one an adult can choose to over-rule.
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