This Film is Not Yet Rated - Colin McGuire
This week's film, "This Film is Not Yet Rated" was a very eye opening experience. I had realized that ratings were off skew and not very constant, but i did not realize how biased they were. The fact that the committee is private and not accessible to the public is not right at all. The public deserves to know who is DETERMINING what they are able to view or not view, purchase or not purchase. It makes the public think that the picking of the committee is also biased and takes away all trust in the rating system. Another point, is that the appeal system is screwed up. the fact that you can not compare any other movie or fraction of a movie to your own is ridiculous. it just goes to show that the system they have for rating has no guidance or set of guidelines to go by. it is on complete movie by movie basis based on the committee's biased decision. the system the MPAA has set up is wrong in every way. who says that these people have the right to choose what we view in the first place? Their opinion could possibly be the opposite of the majority of the American population. The part of the movie that was very interesting was the comparison of the nudity or sexual scenes involving either gay, straight, or bisexual intercourse. Most scenes involving gay or bisexual sexual scenes were less inappropriate than most straight sex scenes, yet were more often denied playing on the big screen. This weeks film was a very inspiring eye opener for me to second guess some of the things that dictate my life.