This Film Is Not Yet Rated

[techs]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0493459/

This Film Is Not Yet Rated

Documents a history of the MPAA ratings board. Talks to numerous directors and actors about the censorship of their movies before they could be released. Includes directors, Kevin Smith, Matt Stone, John Waters, Darren Aronosfsky, Maria Bello, Atom Egoyan.

Director, Kirby Dick hires a lesbian family of private investigators to find out the names of the MPAA ratings board and see if the raters are actually parents of children 5-17 like the MPAA tells American parents they are.


It looks interesting. I decided to check out the MPAA on wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...ica_film_rating_system
MPAA Ratings Board
Members of the MPAA's Classification and Rating Administration, which the MPAA claims consists of a demographically balanced panel of parents, view the movie, discuss it, and vote on the film's rating. In fact, many of the "children" of the "parent" members are adults. Further information about members is difficult to obtain, as they operate in secret. The only publicly known member is chair Joan Graves.


Basically the gist of the movie is the MPAA loves violence and hates sex.

 

[KeithTalent]

Not yet, but it's been in my queue for a while. It seems to be a very popular rental now for some reason.

Looking forward to seeing it.

KT

 

[scott916]

Caught part of it on IFC a while back. Fascinating social commentary.

 

[aircooled]

I'd like to see it.

 

[jonks]

Saw it, it's a mike mooresque 'docu' pic. Does raise clear questions about the setup of the mpaa though. Course, the mpaa probably saved the movie industry from govt censorship so guess it was the lesser of two evils, but reform is certainly needed.

I think we'll grow out of it due to social norms. When anyone in the world can open up a web browser and see two naked girls eating crap and vomit, it's kinda dumb to have an organization restricting/censoring artistic films from release because someone curses too much or too manny tits get shown on screen. Wait for the internet generation to grow up and things will likely change.

 

[vi edit]

It definitely has some interesting merits and points. But some of the directors just come off as overly bitchy. I really did feel bad for the gal that did the "Boys Don't Cry" movie. She really did get crapped on and seemed pretty humble.

Probably the single most eyeraising point was the disparity in treatment that Matt Stone and Trey Parker got when the did South Park under a major studio vs. Orgasmo under an independent label.

 

[InflatableBuddha]

This is on my list of movies to see.

However, I did read "The Moving Rating Game" for a paper in high school. It was written in 1972, and even then there was substantial evidence of personal morality and politics inappropriately influencing the MPAA ratings.

 

[thirtythree]

I saw it quite a while ago it seems. I liked it.

 

[thirtythree]

Might want to add a NSFW by the IMDB link

 

[Pacemaker]

I saw it about a year ago. It really showed how arbitrary the MPAA ratings are.

 

[queenrobot]

Originally posted by: Pacemaker
I saw it about a year ago. It really showed how arbitrary the MPAA ratings are.

This.

 

[0roo0roo]

yes, and the mpaa..shady