> I keep thinking we need more ratings, to avoid situations where Whale Rider and Austin Powers keep company, while serious mature works are cut to fit into inappropriate but more saleable rating categories. Create an "A" (adult) rating between R and NC-17, to accommodate mature work while avoiding the unofficial media/theater boycott of the NC-17. Divide up PG-13 into a category that's actually suitable for 13 year olds, and a category that's merely softer than the average R. But I dunno. It seems to me, upon reflection, that we do have all the ratings we need already -- it's just that out of five theoretically viable ratings, we only ever use two of them.

Or, and this would require a vast overhaul of the system, rate each aspect of the movie that they normally count separately. I saw this on a couple of computer game boxes once, but then they went totally ESRB. I guess it's easier just to slap one rating on there and maybe a few warnings about why they rated it the way they did and have done with it, and for people to look at the one rating rather than look at a number of ratings and gauge what's okay for them.

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