This film Is Not Yet Rated

Richard Dower

Seems interesting, docu about the MPAA and how it reaches it's decisions.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Film_Is_Not_Yet_Rated

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTL3XMDwY0c

This Film Is Not Yet Rated is an independent documentary film about the Motion Picture Association of America’s rating system and its effect on American culture, directed by Kirby Dick and produced by Eddie Schmidt. It premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and was released limited on September 1, 2006. The Independent Film Channel, the film’s producer, aired the film later that year. The MPAA gave the original cut of the film an NC-17 rating for “some graphic sexual content” – scenes that illustrated the content a film could include to garner an NC-17 rating. Kirby Dick appealed, and descriptions of the ratings deliberations and appeal were included in the documentary. The new version of the film is not yet rated. The film discusses disparities the filmmaker sees in ratings and feedback: between Hollywood and independent films, between homosexual and heterosexual sexual situations, between male and female sexual depictions, and between violence and sexual content.

Chad ghostal

Saw this a couple of years ago and found it interesting, especially the way the board is made up and makes decisions, which seems mental.. but I found the narrator to be well.. a bit of a petty dick. I felt it would've been much more effective and interesting, if it had stuck to the MPAA facts and he had kept his big head out of it

mike65

Saw this on Film Four I think. Full of insight, the US ratings system is quite mad.

zooropa56

Seen it a couple of years back when it first came out, it makes a lot of interesting points about how they look at violence and how one too many thrusts can get you a X rating! and how big movie studios can put pressure on the board to get the rating they want.

Duggy747

Yea, saw this when it came out. Very interesting subject on what bodies dictate what's "acceptable". Censorship boards in games, music and films have always interested me, the amount of essays I wrote on them was ludicrious :pac:

Test audiences is a very sketchy subject in itself. Granted a film studio can tweak their movie for better or worse but the kind of characters they get to test their movie can be quite sporadic.

I remember there was a big hub-bub over test audiences wanting a piece cut from The Dark Knight. It was the scene where The Joker is brought to Gambol's and put on the pool table acting dead. Since Ledger had recently died prior to the screening they thought it was "insensitive & disturbing" to have it in the movie. :pac:

Cactus Colm

Thought it was a good enough film, but concentrated a bit too much on the sex aspect, thought it was a point that only needed to be made once, but the filmmaker kept going on about the MPAA thinking sex is bad, sex is bad, sex is bad. Had hoped it would go more into how the MPAA treats films from independents and major studios differently.