Going to the movies is a favorite past-time event of American lives. A long time ago, however, there wasn’t any rating system. Making one seemed like a good idea at the time. Today, the system is still the same way and doesn’t fit today’s changed time. Therefore, the movie rating system should be revised because the current rating system is outdated. Today’s kids are growing up faster and maturing at a faster rate than ever before.
Twenty years ago it would be impossible to show breasts in a PG-13 movie. Today, kids are being taught the fasts of life younger than anyone could of imagined. This is all due to older brothers, the Internet and schools teaching kids about sex at the age of twelve. If everything else is changing except the rating’s no one is going to obey the law.
There are a total of four ratings that they show at most cinemas: G, PG, PG-13, and R. One would think that with so many different types of movies, there would be more ratings. Movies today have a very complex storyline and don’t want to give away any of the movie in the commercial. If there were more ratings you can tell what kind of movie it is and what is shown in the movie.
For Example, the movie A. I. (directed by Stephen Speilberg) would be D L-SC. This is because the movie is a drama, has language and has sexual content. If you saw that in a commercial rather than PG-13, you would have a better idea on if you wanted to see this movie or not. Next, if this kind of rating took place then it could become universal and more socially excepted than every country with it’s own system for rating.
Imagine, you can go to other countries (Europe perhaps) and watch movies made in English there. This might send some sort of bond between countries in rivalry. If the rating system is more universal then DVD players won’t need to have region block outs. This would enable people to buy a regular DVD player and watch movies from other countries. Plus, this would save the manufacturer money by not having to put more money into a region block out chip. This would also help out people buying DVD players by having them become cheaper.
If we could watch movies from other countries, that would encourage us to expand our horizon on movies from other countries. Looking at the huge collection of movies a friend and me put together over the years, I noticed a lot of movies with the same rating. Although they have the same rating, most of these movies are completely different (The Legend of Drunken Master and Freddy Got Fingered). If nothing is changed we can make the worst mistake of them all, not changing.
On the whole, change will be a good thing and won’t harm anyone except those unwilling.