I’m watching Monday Night Football and now seen two movie trailers that looked like Rated R, but both turned out to be PG-13. So how does the rating system work? Checklists? Focus group gut checks? This is probably easy to google but I’d like to have it eli5.
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There is an excellent documentary on the subject that I highly recommend called “This Film is Not Yet Rated”.
The whole premise of the documentary is that they hire a group of PIs to find the names and addresses of the members of the MPAA (the secret panel in charge of rating movies) and the best part is, *they have to submit the movie to that panel to get it rated by them*.
There’s also a ton of interviews from some of the best directors in the biz talking about how silly and arbitrary the rating process is.
One of the best documentaries I’ve ever watched.
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