Because it’s about Jesus! That makes it good, wholesome family entertainment. :rolleyes:
They gave The Passion an R rating, not a G rating, *tracer.
As Good As It Gets was initially rated R because of Helen Hunt’s repeated use of the work “fuck”. I thought it was kind of funny that in a movie with Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt, she uttered all of the profanity and he uttered none.
It’s been mentioned in other threads, but I’ll bring it up again here: How the hell does Boogie Nights get away with an R rating and other films (such as Requiem for a Dream) get stuck with an NC-17?
One thing to take into account is that the raters are people, not machines.
So they can be affect by some very basic things.
Maybe they are in a bad moood. Maybe they watch several movies in one day so the first one is really rough so the second one doesn’t seem that bad. Or maybe they watch and rate four kiddie films and then something that maybe should be PG-13 comes next and it gets an R because it seems really rough.
But if we didnt’ have a ratings board, the government would try to do something. I would much rather have Jack Valenti’s cronies rating the films than Liberman and Ashcroft.
That maybe true, but I think that one scene in the movie alone makes it pretty disturbing. Neo and Trinity walk into the lobby and procede the blow the crap out of everyone in it. Then they go upstairs past their target and jack a copter and then go downstairs. The violence was kinda pointless and pretty graphic.
Tell that to the guys and gals over at [urlhttp://www.capalert.com/capreports/passionofthechrist.htm]CAPalert. Their strongest caveat was that “taking your younger little ones might be ill-advised,” and that was only because of the subtitles.
Fixed URL tag: CAPalert.
(I hate not being able to edit my own posts.)
tracer,
that review was HILARIOUS. You know you’re getting an unbiased fair review when it opens with “The first time I’ve seen the Truth being told Truthfully” and starts bragging about how great their own review system is partway down.
American History X is more violent then the Passion because the violence of the Passion was ‘justified’? What a surreal world that guy lives in.
You have no idea. His sole reason for disliking Finding Nemo was because a major plot-point is a son disobeying his father.
So, he’s saying Jesus deserved being flogged and crucified? That’s cold, man. Real cold.
:smack: I totally forgot about that aspect! Duuuhhhhhhh…
That certainly explains why so many ministers have been urging their congregations to take the kiddos and make a day of it.
What fun.
My mentor at Rutgers, Richard Heffner, was the Chairman of the MPIAA from 1969 to 1994. In working with him and preparing his papers to be archived up at Columbia, I learned an awful lot about movie ratings and how they worked. I can probably answer some of your questions.
The one big fallacy that I do want to address is that there is any kind of objective criteria for the ratings. It’s not supposed to be strictly objective. The idea from the outset was that a group of parents would give ratings based on how they thought other typical parents might feel.
Of course things have changed a bit in the intervening 35 years. Now there’s a lot of history to consider when assigning a rating–not only in how the type of content was rated before, but studios also know all too well how the “wrong” rating can hurt the bottom line. Therefore, there can be a lot of negotiation between the board and the studio, where the studio tries to get the rating it wants and the board tries to maintain some standards.