Watching this on YouTube, I found out that there are actually a priest and a minister on the ratings board. Does it bot
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v_anzaldua — 11 years ago(March 30, 2015 01:11 AM)
Watching this on YouTube, I found out that there are actually a priest and a minister on the ratings board. Does it bother anybody else here that members of the clergy, who have never been the most open-minded people when it comes to movies, are allowed to serve on the ratings board? They give harsh ratings to movies that they consider "indecent," which is virtually 100% of all movies released today.
Seriously, why are they even allowed to have a say on movies that they will automatically condemn? -
Ace_Spade — 10 years ago(July 30, 2015 08:20 PM)
I agree that the MPAA gets up to shenanigans when rating films. But not allowing priests, ministers, or any other member of the public to be a ratings board member is weird. Would you, for instance, object to a performance artist being a member of the board? They would skew the rating, too, in the opposite direction, allowing in a lot more sex and violence than the average rater would. Yet, I don't think they should be banned.
A more open system (here's what we're looking for, here's who's rating the film) and more people rating the films would be better, I think, than just outright stifling somebody's opinion because they happen to be a religious worker. -
v_anzaldua — 10 years ago(February 17, 2016 06:34 PM)
An MPAA member who is a performance artist may be biased as to how much racy material s/he allows to fly, but s/he would have a more nuanced view of humanity and life and know what makes for a good story or movie. Clergy, on the other hand, will automatically condemn just about any movie because many of them (the clergy, that is) have a black-and-white view of the world and would therefore judge the material in terms of that dichotomous thinking. In fact, over the years, many movies were either censored or outright banned because they didn't fit religious groups' views of right and wrong. There's a book called
Censored Hollywood: Sex, Sin & Violence Onscreen
by Frank Miller. He details the history of censorship in the entertainment industry and includes the role that religious clergy and groups played in suppressing movies. -
doggie_rodriguez — 9 years ago(September 06, 2016 08:59 AM)
But not allowing priests, ministers, or any other member of the public to be a ratings board member is weird.
If they have a Priest and a Minister on there they should balance it out by having a few Atheists on there as well. I mean, only fair, right?