jason-boaden — 10 years ago(December 12, 2015 04:33 PM)

The MPAA isn't giving us a classification, to make an informed decision; they're censoring film-makers by telling them to make a bunch of cuts that suit their standards; and, if they don't, the movie won't be released to the general public.
Hello. I'm an adult. Shouldn't I have the right to go see a movie made for adults?
While I do agree with that the public needs a classification to be clear on what they're in for

1. This 'voluntary' system, with consequences if you don't enter into it, is extortion.
2. If the MPAA did what they claim to do, then they wouldn't demand cuts; they'd give a film that's obviously for adults an adult rating, so that adults can go see it in the cinema with other adults.
   If children get in to see it, that's neither the MPAA's fault, nor the film-maker's; that's the cinema's fault.
   Put simply, the MPAA is a censorship system that claims to be about classification, but it really treats adults like children; as stated in the film. And, it's telling us that, as adults, we don't have the right to view adult content in an unedited form; nor can we go see it in a cinema with other adults.
   Also, the discrepancies between decisions regarding different films; I don't understand how any film-maker couldn't organise and win a class suit against the MPAA.
   The trials against the, so-called, Video Nasties, in the U.K. lost for this very reason. The prosecutors were discriminating; based on wildly inconsistent personal opinions.
   What's laughable is that a film like the Evil Dead made the Video Nasty list. It's so cartoonish; and, unlike most everything else on there.
   That film is almost a deliberate mocking of over-the-top violence. But, that's a detail that's lost on the censorship - sorry classification - board; or, so it seems.