Movie ratings. How I hate them. Just in case your a little bit rusty, lets review them:
- G - Anybody can watch
- PG - Anybody can watch, but younger kids are recommended to have parental supervision
- PG-13 - Anybody 13 and up, but teenagers should have parental supervision
- R - Only 17 year olds and up
Now, lets start at the bottom. The last G movie I’ve seen was a Winnie the Pooh movie. Disney animations such as Cinderella or Little Mermaid are PGs. I think young kids can watch those without their parents hover over their shoulders; these movies should be G.
Quite a lot of PG-13 movies don’t deserve the rating they get. A new rating, such as PG-9, would be nice, something to put all those movies that are to much for PG but not enough for PG-13.
Onto R. This is the most unfair rating. If the F word is mentioned in the movie more than 3 times, its an R movie. I think 13 year olds can handle swearing. Obviously the people who invented the rating have forgotten what a middle school locker room is like.
Also, to much violence and gore shoots a movie up to an R rating. Likewise: 13+ year olds can handle it. Teenagers are mature enough.
Funnily enough though, PG-13 movies will allow a huge amount of sexuality, but not much gore and swearing.
Yep, the rating system is messed up. And I can apply the same argument to video game ratings too.