Comment by stevage
1 year ago
I would love to see movies come in many different flavours. Long, short, dial up the violence, or down, etc etc.
1 year ago
I would love to see movies come in many different flavours. Long, short, dial up the violence, or down, etc etc.
This was actually something that was tried with music in the early 90s, by Philips and Sony with the CD-i. The musician/producer Todd Rundgren made an album specifically for this format called "No World Order" where the songs were all broken up into "modules", so to speak, and the user could configure them however they'd like.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-i
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_World_Order
That would probably make every such movie rated 18+, unless you limit the controls somehow and they find a way to make sure nothing too violent happens on any given setting, or pre-render every single configuration and have reviewers check them all.
We should just get rid of the ratings. They’re a stupid system that hasn’t worked anyways.
Couldn't disagree more.
They're not fine-grained enough IMO - IMDB's "parent's guide" is great for detailed content information.
Similarly, with game ratings (video- and boardgames, as it happens), I appreciate them, but often they're trying to do two things, rate the game content and the gameplay. They fail often, and I buy outside the ratings, but I'm happier having them than not having any information in that space.
I wouldn't want no ratings for film/TV as that would mean I'd have to seek out spoiler-level information before finding if media was right for what I wanted to consume (or take friends/family to consume). I try my best to see little about the plot of films I'm keen to watch.