Wow! Talk about mixed up priorities. I couldn't pass up commenting on this article regarding the rating assigned to the movie "The Dark Knight".
Ms Clark of the British Board of Film Classification justifies the rating that was assigned to "The Dark Knight" because of the target audience the movie was made for. According to Ms Clark, "Younger teenagers would not have been able to see it, and they are the very people who are going to love it...We would have ended up with far more complaints from people who wanted to see the film and couldn't." I guess that's the same logic the MPAA used in issuing a PG-13 rating to the film.
So what happened to the notion that a film will be rated based on its content and not its intended target audience, or how many people may be upset? How about challenging the producers and directors of movies to work
harder at removing content from a movie if they really are targetting a
certain audience. In other words make the content match the target
audience, or accept the appropriate rating and live with the fact that
the movie as produced missed its target audience.
Its all subjective of course but people rely on the ratings assigned to films to understand the general content of movies, and whether there is anything in them that they would not want to see or experience. By using the logic cited in the article I'm referring to hear it shows that in some cases the BBFC and MPAA are not doing their job. In the connected world we live in we are probably better served checking out reviews by sites such as Plugged In, and Christianity Today, than relying on the ratings assigned by the associations.
Ms Clark of the British Board of Film Classification justifies the rating that was assigned to "The Dark Knight" because of the target audience the movie was made for. According to Ms Clark, "Younger teenagers would not have been able to see it, and they are the very people who are going to love it...We would have ended up with far more complaints from people who wanted to see the film and couldn't." I guess that's the same logic the MPAA used in issuing a PG-13 rating to the film.
So what happened to the notion that a film will be rated based on its content and not its intended target audience, or how many people may be upset? How about challenging the producers and directors of movies to work
harder at removing content from a movie if they really are targetting a
certain audience. In other words make the content match the target
audience, or accept the appropriate rating and live with the fact that
the movie as produced missed its target audience.
Its all subjective of course but people rely on the ratings assigned to films to understand the general content of movies, and whether there is anything in them that they would not want to see or experience. By using the logic cited in the article I'm referring to hear it shows that in some cases the BBFC and MPAA are not doing their job. In the connected world we live in we are probably better served checking out reviews by sites such as Plugged In, and Christianity Today, than relying on the ratings assigned by the associations.
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