Director- Kirby Dick
Writers- Kirby Dick, Eddie Schmidt, Matt Patterson
Starring- Kirby Dick, Jack Valenti, Kimberly Peirce, Alison Anders, John Waters
Critics Rating- "...A ringing indictment of a system that's not just broken. It's rigged and needs replacing."- Roger Moore "Orlando Sentinel"
Rating on Rotten Tomatoes- 84%
Out of a possible of 5 stars- 5 stars
My Review-
The MPAA decides the fate of the movies we watch in theaters, ranging from a rating of G to a rating of NC-17. In the documentary ironically rated NC-17, takes a look at the start of the ratings system and has interviews with directors and actors who have been in movies or had their movies rated NC-17; for either a little to much sex or a little to much violence. It shows how the movies are rated, who rates them and why they would be rated that way, BUT does not say who rates them for they want it to be a secret. In the movies I have seen which I really have lost count I have questioned the ratings of some movies and why they were given that rating. This documentary was rather very interesting because of how secretive the MPAA is about their members. I have always heard of how directors appealed their movies at an appeal board and here we sort of got an idea of how it works, and in away it seems like they just want to get it over with and they do not even give out their names, because they are afraid that they will be influenced to change the rating of the movie they are watching or have watched. So in way the Ratings system is kind of useless for some things that do not need that bad of a rating. At times it seems like the people at the head of the MPAA are two damn secretive, and don't want anybody to know what they're doing behind closed doors. And that they have the power to rate our movies and see if people watch it or not is kind of bad that they have the power to have are movie shown or theaters of not, I just hope that if I ever get to make a movie that I don't have to go through that whole entire process.
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