MPAA Modification

[Uniquely]

Anyone interested in this subject needs to watch the documentary This Film is Not Yet Rated. It explains a lot about why the ratings have become so much more conservative over the past 30 years. Movies that got an R rating in the 70's, like Coming Home, would today be forced to be edited or get an X rating for briefly showing frontal male nudity. There are people serving on the ratings board who simply do not fit the criteria for serving. The ratings have become completely arbitrary, and are now much more based upon what the raters themselves find personally distasteful rather than any fixed definable criteria. It's really pretty infuriating when you think about the fact that there is a very small group of people out there who literally get to decide what we can and can't see in a movie. Very few (if any) artists are going to stick with their vision and take an X or NC17 rating, and lose their oppurtunity for a wide relase.