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Sunday, September 17, 2006
This Film is Not Rated - must-see doc about MPAA ratings
Boing Boing: "I just saw 'This Film is Not Yet Rated' and boy, is it a fantastic piece of work."
2 comments:
Anonymous
said...
A little extreme and comical of a view... but it seems that the power of the MPAA deems it the fourth branch of government. and thats sad. Yet seriously, having the power to control the American movie industry is a major power over all of society. Big Brother is still watching.
I have yet to see this movie, but I can not really argue against the notion of rating movies (though as distribution moves away from theaters and more and more to digital means it will be interesting to see if NC-17 is still a death sentence). Still, it seems as if the MPAA should be required to be transparent in its meetings and disclose who is doing the rating, and on what basis. If I'm a parent, and I don't know why a movie was given a certain rating, how can I decide if my child should see it.
Perhaps the more interesting part of this will be to see if the movie will create as much interest as other recent "documentaries". If it does, maybe it will be enough to force the MPAA to release its rational as to why the movie got a NC-17 rating.
2 comments:
A little extreme and comical of a view... but it seems that the power of the MPAA deems it the fourth branch of government. and thats sad. Yet seriously, having the power to control the American movie industry is a major power over all of society. Big Brother is still watching.
I have yet to see this movie, but I can not really argue against the notion of rating movies (though as distribution moves away from theaters and more and more to digital means it will be interesting to see if NC-17 is still a death sentence). Still, it seems as if the MPAA should be required to be transparent in its meetings and disclose who is doing the rating, and on what basis. If I'm a parent, and I don't know why a movie was given a certain rating, how can I decide if my child should see it.
Perhaps the more interesting part of this will be to see if the movie will create as much interest as other recent "documentaries". If it does, maybe it will be enough to force the MPAA to release its rational as to why the movie got a NC-17 rating.
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