> >What they should have done is kept the X and
> > >ranked it above the new NC-17. This mirrors the
> > >way the rest of the modern world's rating systems
> > >work.
> >
> > By your logic, people would then just start confusing your new rating for the never-officially-anyway "XXX" rating the porn industry invented.
>
> I'm not sure I get your logic about XXX at all. You're creating a rating *beneath* the X, not one above it; the message is, "Ok, these films aren't as bad as that awful, dirty, no-good X."
>
> Likewise, today, I think that the same tactic can be used. Create a new rating *beneath* the tainted NC-17, rather than above it, and that allows nervous theater owners and media outlets to continue to boycott what they think is porn.
>

I think these problems will all be solved in the future, with much more specific ratings that tell you exactly who should and should not be watching the movie.

In Futurama, All My Circuts: The Movie was rated M-14, which meant "Not suitable for aliens from the planet M-14".

Seriously, though, I think it was mentioned earlier in this thread, but I'd like to know whether a movie got its rating for language, violence, sex or other content (e.g. on-screen use of narcotics). I don't think it would be such a big deal for movies to be rated something like "R (language), NC-17 (sex), G (violence)". They wouldn't have to change the system, just let us know how they would rate each aspect.

Maybe the reason they don't do this is because there are more and more single events that will earn a movie an "automatic" adult rating. This saves the ratings people the trouble of watching the rest of the movie or using any sort of discretion at all.

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F"some people need to now for sure if there's any nudity, before they will buy a ticket"B