What are your games movie rated as?

[Balgin]

Renegadeshepherd wrote:

PG-13, PG, R, N -17, X, G?

Just to be clear, over here in the UK the ratings are U, PG, 12, 15 & 18 (then there might be the occassional X but I don't think we've got a G).

My games tend to vary between a 12 and a 15 depending on how mature the players are. Even my 15's tend to lean more towards the 12 but with occassional adult moments (which are often alluded to rather than graphically described. I'm sure the players' imaginations will come up with something much more vile than anything I'd actually bother to describe).

[Orthos]

Pretty sure it's
U=G (General Audiences)
PG=PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
12=PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested - Not Recommended for children under 13)
15=no real American equivalent
18=R (Restricted - no children allowed without adult accompaniment)

No idea what NC-17 stands for, as I've never seen a single movie with that rating. Never seen an X movie either, but I'm fairly certain it means "explicit sexual content included".

[Hama]

NC-17 is not for children under 17.

[Usual Suspect]

Yeah, NC-17 is basically adults only content without actually being explicitly a sex vid.

[Digitalelf]

Orthos wrote:

I'm fairly certain it means "explicit sexual content included".

A film can be rated X for extreme violent content. The original 1987 Robocop, directed by Paul Verhoeven for example was rated X at first by the MPAA until some of the blood and gore was toned down...

[Todd Stewart]

Mostly R, with very rare dips into NC-17 (as plot justified, not for the hell of it just to be explicit).

[Ivan Rûski]

Orthos wrote:

Pretty sure it's

U=G (General Audiences)
PG=PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
12=PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested - Not Recommended for children under 13)
15=no real American equivalent
18=R (Restricted - no children allowed without adult accompaniment)

No idea what NC-17 stands for, as I've never seen a single movie with that rating. Never seen an X movie either, but I'm fairly certain it means "explicit sexual content included".

As others have said, NC-17 is not for children under 17. It's a harsher rating than R, and doesn't allow anyone in the theater under 17 even with a parent/guardian.

EDIT: And, yes, X is porn.

[Digitalelf]

Ivan Rûski wrote:

And, yes, X is porn.

If you want to include extreme violence as porn, then yeah, I suppose you’re right... See my post above yours for an example of what I am talking about...

[Hawkmoon269]

Technically, there is no X rating in the US, at least not anymore. Ratings are issued by the Motion Picture Association of America. Prior to the 1990s X rated movies simply meant no children (under the age of 18) were admitted to the movie. The MPAA applies the X rating to non-pornographic movies that contained content of a nature deemed inappropriate for children. (And technically, while the MPAA trademarked all the other ratings, they didn't trademark X. Any movie rated X wouldn't receive the MPAA seal on it. So being rated X was basically the same as not being rated at all. So being rated X was the same as the MPAA saying "We refuse to even rate this.")

The MPAA never rated pornographic movies. But pornographic films were often "self designated" X rated by the production company. In the popular mindset "X Rated" became associated with pornography.

In the 90s, the MPAA replaced the X rating with the NC-17 rating in order to distance themselves from pornography, and also to trademark the rating.

So, while films such as Robocob were threatened with X ratings (which would have meant theaters wouldn't show it since most theaters have a policy to not show films that aren't rated by the MPAA), today that would be the equivalent of threatening them with an NC-17 rating (which is almost just as bad, since most theaters have a policy not to show NC-17 rated movies as well). At no time were NC-17 and X both possible ratings.

So today, the only way to have a movie rated X is to not submit it to the MPAA for a rating and to self designate it as X. And that is pretty much only done for pornography.

[Ivan Rûski]

Digitalelf wrote:

Ivan Rûski wrote:

And, yes, X is porn.

If you want to include extreme violence as porn, then yeah, I suppose you’re right... See my post above yours for an example of what I am talking about...

Gorn? Somehow missed your post. Sorry about that.

[Digitalelf]

It's all good... Nothing to apologize for. :-)

[The Gorn]

Ivan Rûski wrote:

Digitalelf wrote:

Ivan Rûski wrote:

And, yes, X is porn.

If you want to include extreme violence as porn, then yeah, I suppose you’re right... See my post above yours for an example of what I am talking about...

Gorn? Somehow missed your post. Sorry about that.

SShhhrrrreerrrreerrrrr.....you rang?

[Loren Pechtel]

Orthos wrote:

Pretty sure it's

U=G (General Audiences)
PG=PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
12=PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested - Not Recommended for children under 13)
15=no real American equivalent
18=R (Restricted - no children allowed without adult accompaniment)

No idea what NC-17 stands for, as I've never seen a single movie with that rating. Never seen an X movie either, but I'm fairly certain it means "explicit sexual content included".

NC-17 stands for "no children 17 or under". It's the same thing as the old X rating--they forgot to copyright the X rating so they ended up having to come up with a new rating.

Few theaters will show NC-17 movies.

The dividing line between R and NC-17 in general amounts to whether there is *ANY* use of the genitals on screen--an erection or any touching. The movie ratings leave something to be desired, though:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0493459/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 ("This Film Is Not Yet Rated") (Note, this documentary contains many clips of scenes that got movies NC-17 ratings.)