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Have you heard this joke about the content rating system? (Original Post) DetlefK Dec 2016 OP
... pscot Dec 2016 #1
How about... Nitram Dec 2016 #2
... Too many words and bad pacing. DetlefK Dec 2016 #3
But it does avoid attributing interest in all NC-17 movies to sexism. Nitram Dec 2016 #4
But the defining characteristic of the movie ratings seems to be sexism. Staph Dec 2016 #5
Disgusting dervaish Dec 2016 #6
Have you heard about this joke? CaliforniaLove Jan 2017 #7

Nitram

(22,788 posts)
2. How about...
Wed Dec 21, 2016, 11:27 AM
Dec 2016

PG-13: The bad guy gets wounded and is arrested.

R: The good guy gets wounded but the bad guy gets killed.

NC-17: The good guy or the bad guy mutilates and slaughters everybody else.

Nitram

(22,788 posts)
4. But it does avoid attributing interest in all NC-17 movies to sexism.
Wed Dec 21, 2016, 12:04 PM
Dec 2016

I didn't know you were such a self-respected critic of definition jokes. When did that happen?

Staph

(6,251 posts)
5. But the defining characteristic of the movie ratings seems to be sexism.
Wed Dec 21, 2016, 05:15 PM
Dec 2016

A movie can show pretty horrific violence and still get a PG or PG-13. But a single nip-slip or an F bomb, and the rating goes to an R.

This country is quite puritanical respecting sex and frightening blasé about violence. The Europeans think we have it backwards (and so do I!).


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