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Thursday, August 31, 2006 12:00 AM

Rated "R" for righteous

"This Movie Is Not Yet Rated" pulls back the curtain on the secretive MPAA movie ratings board, moral "experts" determined to protect little Johnny from pubic hair and bad language.

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  • Wednesday, August 30, 2006 07:42 PM

    Better ratings?

    Perhaps what we need is a more fine-grained rating system. Instead of making assumptions about what parents will find inappropriate for their kids, the MPAA could put out a report with various things rated on a sliding scale, e.g.

    (1 is "best", 9 is "worst")

    Movie: Death Force 3000

    Language: 8

    Violence: 9

    Nudity: 5

    Sex: 2

    Drug Use: 1

    ... or something like that. Of course it would take up a little more space in the movie ads, but you could shorten it to "L8V9N5S2D1" or something like that, if you had to.

    Eh, just a thought.

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