7th March 2008, 12:29 PM
(This post was last modified: 7th March 2008, 2:05 PM by Dark Jaguar.)
Heck, I don't even see the need for "PG-13". To this day I have no idea what the difference is between saying "parental guidance suggested" and "parental guidance suggested for people somewhere around the age of 13, or whatever the 13 means".
I mean which one is the higher rating? Is it PG then PG-13, as in one's for everyone under 18 and the other is only for people over 13 and under 18, or is it the other way around, as in the 13 is only for people under 13 and the other is for everyone under 18? No one knows! By that I mean I'm sure the movie raters know, but I've asked numerous parenty types and they don't have a clue. They take it synonemously, and in my personal experience, both ratings seem to have the same content anyway.
Even TV ratings are a little bit much.
General Audience, Parental Guidance, Restricted. That's it.
Oh, it would help if they STRAIGHTENED UP THOSE LETTERS. Those slants make them look "cool", and thus someone might think it's a feature and not a rating. At least they got rid of the weird dot pattern.
I mean which one is the higher rating? Is it PG then PG-13, as in one's for everyone under 18 and the other is only for people over 13 and under 18, or is it the other way around, as in the 13 is only for people under 13 and the other is for everyone under 18? No one knows! By that I mean I'm sure the movie raters know, but I've asked numerous parenty types and they don't have a clue. They take it synonemously, and in my personal experience, both ratings seem to have the same content anyway.
Even TV ratings are a little bit much.
General Audience, Parental Guidance, Restricted. That's it.
Oh, it would help if they STRAIGHTENED UP THOSE LETTERS. Those slants make them look "cool", and thus someone might think it's a feature and not a rating. At least they got rid of the weird dot pattern.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)