| bdbdbd said: Movies are real? Hmm. Interesting point of view. Basically the reason why movies pass, when games doesn't, is that movies are easy to edit, when there's content, what is inappropriate. Movies don't go directly to homes, they are first viewed in movie theaters, where there is (should be) control over who can watch it. And usually movies on DVD:s, are edited from the theatre version. Games go straight to homes, no theatre views, no (real) control etc. I think that's the main reason why games are rated harder than movies. But, is the criteria correct, that would be a different topic. |
This argument doesn't hold water. For one thing., when I was younger (old enough not to get into R rated movies). I watched a ton of them without getting carded because I had a friend who worked at the theater and just let me in or if he wasn't working the other employees would just let me through. Supposedly there is supposed to be a control mechanism in place but it's flawed just like the control mechanism for Video Games. You can't jsut randomly say that one way works better than another when it is technically the same method for control. Besides most movies make it to the home market either signifigantly altered by (director's cut or unrated versions) with scenes that were deemed to graphic to make the theatrical release.
The control method that needs to be excersied and is not because of either laziness, ignorance or both is PARENTAL. Parents need to be restricting what games and movies their children partake in not developers, ratings boards or console makers. That's the whole reason we have ratings in the first place, to provide a guideline for parents[/] and consumers to decide what is appropriate for them.
The sadest part is Americans, of which I am a part, are not willing to take responsibility for their own actions and like to blame shift until they are blue in the face. They think that it's the responsibility of corperations to make appropriate products so that they can buy whatever is on the market for their children without thinking twice about it, which in effect create Parents out of big business and government. When you think of it like that, all Americans are children ane are not mature (meaning responsible for their own actions) to handle even a mature rated game.
