> Yeah, but the mistake was in replacing X at all. >A new rating at the top end of the scale comes into
>being exactly when the old one is booted out?
>Obviously people were going to figure it was simply
>a replacement, a new name for the same stuff.

I've never understood this argument. No porn movie in history has ever officially been rated X. The porn industry simply co-opted the X rating (and later decided one X wasn't even enough, and went to XXX) for themselves and has used it ever since. The porn industry didn't stop using the X rating when the MPAA retired it. They didn't start using the NC-17 rating just because it was "the new X" either. So the only people who mistake movies officially rated NC-17 by the MPAA for hardcore "X-rated" porn put out by the porn industry are complete retards.


>What they should have done is kept the X and
>ranked it above the new NC-17. This mirrors the
>way the rest of the modern world's rating systems
>work.

By your logic, people would then just start confusing your new rating for the never-officially-anyway "XXX" rating the porn industry invented.

And what other rating system does this mirror?

-- Dave