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Don't know if it's a rumor or not, but I've been hearing that there's gonna be a 21+ Age Rating on films. Discuss here!
Where in the cinema? BTW there will be for really violent films and when I say violent I mean it.
I haven't heard this but it wouldn't surprise me. The problem here is that the film studios want to maximize audience numbers so they have put a lot of pressure on the film censors to push the boundaries of what is acceptable for each of the certificates.
I was very surprised at the amount of violence allowed in the Cert PG 13 - Spiderman 2, My wife and I took my 13 year old nephew to see it and afterwards I thought ooooo that was a bit violent, in the scene in the hospital at the beginning were Doc Oc arms take over.
So if you keep lowering the floor eventually the ceiling has to follow, but that would mean that very adult content would be allowed into the next certificate rating below the current one, so they have no choice but to make a new rating in order to keep the really bad stuff away from the impressionable viewers.
I don't subscribe to the theory that violence on TV and in Films makes the world more violent, but it doesn't help either. Kids grow up too fast these days which is a shame, because once they loose that childhood innocence it is gone forever and why should we make some of them face/handle the ugly reality that the Adult world can bring them.
Discuss.......... 
^ that's what I call a: neat reply 
A very true one though! The world is facing that problem, so good on you for bringing it up. I blame Sky Movies partly.
I don't know about other countries, but I know that here in Australia most people assume that there are five classifications - G, PG, M, MA15+ and R18+. The classifications are fairly self explanatory, but there are actually eight: there's also E (Exempt - documentaries, fitness videos and such), X18+ (Adult material - not available over the counter except in Canberra and certain parts of Sydney / Melbourne) and Refused (refused means no classification, effectively meaning "banned" since a video cannot be [legally] sold without a classification on it).
I don't see what advantage Australia would have in creating a 21+ classification since there is already an X18+ classification.
As a side note, I find it interesting that since there is a problem in Australia with youth (13-18) drinking, they (the government) want to raise the drinking age to 21. The reason I find this amusing is that the current drinking age is 18 so the 13 to 17 year olds that are getting drunk are getting their alcohol illegally already - usually at home from their parents!
US has...
G = G
PG = PG
M = PG13
MA15 = NC17
R18+ = R (Restricted, 18 and older.)
X18+ = X, and it's probably available on the internet.
Refused = I (Illegal)
Exempt = Not Rated
I haven't heard this but it wouldn't surprise me. The problem here is that the film studios want to maximize audience numbers so they have put a lot of pressure on the film censors to push the boundaries of what is acceptable for each of the certificates.
Well, alot kids are thinking nowadays that it´s cool to watch violent films. I know lots of my friends who say: "Hey dude! Yesterday I saw such a very violent film, but I don´t think it was frightening." And if it´s too frightening they get nightmares and have to control their fear due the peer pressur in school. After that it evolves to a bigger problem and they begin to take drugs or have a jolt for their whole life.
They maybe didn´t understand the film. Good films don´t have to be gory, they have to make people think about it. Not as "very gory", as "great twist/plot", or as a good film.
Discuss now 
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What bothers me most is how low the minimum age is for a kid to go see an R movie with an adult. It's 4 years old. It makes me want to slap the parents when I go to the cinema and watch a couple with two young ones walk into an R rated flick. And if they do it once, they'll do it again and again. And then years down the road the parents wonder what they did wrong when their teen is struggling with depression and drugs.
What bothers me most is how low the minimum age is for a kid to go see an R movie with an adult. It's 4 years old. It makes me want to slap the parents when I go to the cinema and watch a couple with two young ones walk into an R rated flick. And if they do it once, they'll do it again and again. And then years down the road the parents wonder what they did wrong when their teen is struggling with depression and drugs.
What kind of parents do that?
Dunno, but I've seen and heard it happen several times. And it's not always R movies, more often it's violent PG-13 movies. But still, that's too much for children so young to handle.
Dunno, but I've seen and heard it happen several times. And it's not always R movies, more often it's violent PG-13 movies. But still, that's too much for children so young to handle.
my little sister watches "LOST" with us, but at least we have a "tent" for bad parts.
I think it makes you ready for the real world.
Completely psychotic, but ready.
Lol.
Well, alot kids are thinking nowadays that it´s cool to watch violent films. I know lots of my friends who say: "Hey dude! Yesterday I saw such a very violent film, but I don´t think it was frightening." And if it´s too frightening they get nightmares and have to control their fear due the peer pressur in school. After that it evolves to a bigger problem and they begin to take drugs or have a jolt for their whole life.
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In this day in age, it's sort of arbitrary to be so strict with rating restrictions. Because, thanks to a little device called the internet, anyone is capable of watching anything at any given time.
Last edited by MindGame (May 14, 2010 (04:26pm))
I really doubt this would come to the UK any time soon. once your 18 your and adult, that means your old enough to deicide on whether you watch a film or not. On a DVD it not only displays the age rating but things like violence, adult behaviour and substance abuse, ect. this is also available on most cinema websites and from this people will be able to decide. and quite frankly by making films 21+ the government (or the EU in some peoples cases) would be taking away a peace of an adults freedom. I have seen 'Rise of the footsoldier' (which is an 18 in UK) and I didn't start taking drugs and murdering Turkish gangsters or even start swearing loads. It would be a pointless and useless move to make a 21+ anyway.
If you get depressed or get on drugs because of seeing R rated movies, you must be a total dumb*ss.
I was talking about 4 year olds, Darkman. They can't handle it, and the stress of trying to cope with such violence makes many depressed, turn to drugs, etc when they're older. Not saying this happens every time, some have been able to come out reasonably well. But it's still a dumb*ss move on the parents' part.
Last edited by Bricklord (May 14, 2010 (07:16pm))
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