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ki4jgt@ki4jgt@feddit.org
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Why don't movie ratings just have letters indicating objectionable material?

LVNSD would be much more informative than “Rated R,” or, "PG-13."

  • L - Language
  • V - Violence
  • N - Nudity
  • S - Sex
  • D - Drug use
  • B - Blasphemy

Let’s include recommended age at the end, so theaters can know whom to exclude (legal reasons):

Family Guy LVNDB-18

Dexter’s Lab V-8

Looney Toons VD-8

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SanguinePar@sanguinepar@lemmy.world

Replying to @⁨ki4jgt@feddit.org⁩

Depends what ratings are intended to do - if they are just to be informative for potential viewers then the kind of system you propose sounds good.

But, if the main purpose is to legally restrict access based on age, such ratings wouldn’t really do the job.

Plus, of course, there’s quite a range within each category - language could mean something as innocuous as “bum”, or something as deeply offensive as “Belgium” or “Barbara Streisand”.

I suppose you could have age ratings for each subcategory - L18, V12, N0, S0, D15, but it’d start to get complicated pretty fast. Plus, presumably, whatever the highest of those ratings was would still be the overall rating. At which point we’re back where we started.