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I chose “Use my own judgement.” What was The Passion of Christ rated?
 
I voted PG-13. Most of the movies that I watch most of the times are with my kids. PG-13 might be more of an average. I took all of the movies we watched in the past six months and PG-13 came up the winner.
 
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johnpaullover:
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JohnPaulLover,

May I suggest a different rating system?

usccb.org/movies/index.htm
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Ratings are pointless these days. What used to be NC-17 10 yrs ago passes for R today; R 10 yrs ago passes for PG-13 today, etc etc.

I don’t really care for movies anymore, as I haven’t heard of anything worth spending money on since the Passion debuted. But I suppose I’d say that “I use my own judgement.”

A PG movie might have pointless crude humor in it that I don’t want to hear, while an R movie might have very necessary violence such as the Passion. For example, this may shock some people, but (if I had kids) I’d let them watch Passion of the Christ before Shrek.
 
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For example, this may shock some people, but (if I had kids) I’d let them watch Passion of the Christ before Shrek.
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Agreed! I was surprised at the sarcasm and adult humor in Shrek. Very disappointing…
 
One must use his/her own judgement.
The Passion of the Christ was rated R so I knew some mormons who refused to see it because of the rating. But many will go see something rated PG13 which is full of bathroom humor and sexual innuendo patting themselves on the back by saying, “I never go to R rated movies!”
The movie industry cannot rate itself. And too many people put their “faith” in that self rating system instead of discerning for themselves what is appropriate and what is not.
 
I always ignore the secular rating system in favor of the USCCB rating, as it reflects the moral content of the movie.
 
I don’t mean to hyjack the thread, so just let me rant and then ignore me 😉 But does it seem like some movies add sexual content just to push it over to an “R” rating? We watched a movie last night that was rated R, and to be honest, I never checked the rating. The movie was largely harmless, and then - BAM - an explicit sex scene for no other reason than to shock you. Yuck! :mad:
 
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Mel Gibson would have liked it to be rated PG-13. It should have been. 😃
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I’m sure he did. It was a great movie that needed to be seen by everybody in the world. But you can’t convince the MPAA of that. lol 😃
 
I pretty much go by my own judgement.
The last movie I saw was The Passion of the Christ. Before that, a movie I saw in 2001, which I don’t even remember the title!

I have prettty much turned my nose on the whole Hollywierd industry. By the time the secular media hypes a movie (AND calls it news), I pretty much know what the movie is about and then decide.

Later this month, CA Live will have their annual quaterly Film Review program. Make sure to listen to it later this month!
 
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I don’t mean to hyjack the thread, so just let me rant and then ignore me 😉 But does it seem like some movies add sexual content just to push it over to an “R” rating? We watched a movie last night that was rated R, and to be honest, I never checked the rating. The movie was largely harmless, and then - BAM - an explicit sex scene for no other reason than to shock you. Yuck! :mad:
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Michael Medved talked about this once when he was guest hosting for Rush.

He noted that the biggest all time moneymakers are G rated, and that the market demands more G and less R, so the industry’s claim that it’s all because the public demands the ratings is not the whole truth.

He believes a large problem is the people who make these decisions all do so in context of their peers, whom they think perceive them as wimpy if they put out a G-rated movie. It’s like the drama people in high school have grown up now and have to prove how macho they are around each other.

If I believe him, maybe producing a G-rated movie feels to these people like a sellout to popular demand and not artistically “challenging” enough or whatever. Maybe those who really resist G-rated movies could claim making those G-rated movies just caters to kids – and exploits them.

Alan
 
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I chose “Use my own judgement.” What was The Passion of Christ rated?
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DING! DING! DING! DING!

We Have A Winner!

(provided that his “judgment” has been made from a properly formed Catholic conscious)
 
FiremanFrank said:
DING! DING! DING! DING!

We Have A Winner!

(provided that his “judgment” has been made from a properly formed Catholic conscious)
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It has…👍
 
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UKcatholicGuy:
Ratings are pointless these days. What used to be NC-17 10 yrs ago passes for R today; R 10 yrs ago passes for PG-13 today, etc etc.

I don’t really care for movies anymore, as I haven’t heard of anything worth spending money on since the Passion debuted. But I suppose I’d say that “I use my own judgement.”

A PG movie might have pointless crude humor in it that I don’t want to hear, while an R movie might have very necessary violence such as the Passion. For example, this may shock some people, but (if I had kids) I’d let them watch Passion of the Christ before Shrek.
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Well put. Movies have become progressively worse as a whole and has in turn caused the rating system to raise the bar on what can be done for certain audiences. It’s really sad. One good example was Shrek which had some pretty dirty humor in it. Unfortunately so many (not all) movies that are PG-13 include dirty humor or partial nudity.

I think that as Christians we need to look at the moral quality of the films before we go to see them. The best way that I have found is to take advantage of the movie rating page put out by the USCCB. The secular rating system is not as much concerned about offending morally upright people rather than just telling you how much trash you will likely be seeing in that particular movie.
 
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