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There’s technically criteria to a movie/TV show rating. One such being the F-word. One usage is ok in PG-13 rated movie, but any more and it’ll be R. Ultimatel
by colejohnson66 7y ago
There’s technically criteria to a movie/TV show rating. One such being the F-word. One usage is ok in PG-13 rated movie, but any more and it’ll be R.
Ultimately though, IIRC, movies are rated by a committee run by the MPAA who watch the movie and rate based on how they feel it should be (while taking the criteria into account).
- woobar 7y agoI know there are guidelines that broadcaster should follow. But the lines between ratings are blurry. For instance, Mad Men was rated TV-14. They had F-bombs, rape, death, and most of the plot was around "adult themes".
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- ascagnel_ 7y agoMad Men was on basic cable, so even though it had those adult themes, it didn’t make them explicit (for example, one plot line was that a character traded sex for a business deal — but the episode didn’t show the sex scene). There were scattered F-bombs that were censored from the original broadcast; the version available on Netflix (or for purchase on home video) restore them.