This Film Is Not Yet Rated

What I missed the most in this "documentary" is why they didn't event talk about the businesses and institutions taking the ratings into consideration let alone ask them directly about it. Why should a film-maker care about the rating?

I saw this amusing little documentary after listening to a podcast that explained something about the shady dealings of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), and how almost the entire income of the American movie industry depends on their cooperation. I already learned that the MPAA is a very mighty organization, despite the fact that it is a completely voluntary system that movie studios and cinema franchises have universally adopted, and was only designed for classifying movies into categories as a guide to parents.

I'm glad, this movie expose a lot of how the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) honestly works. I was always curious, on how they rate the suitability of films' themes and content for certain audiences through their G, PG, PG-13, R or NC-17 ratings.

In the movie "Dragonfly", Kevin Costner's character says the "F" word once. At that point in the director's commentary, Tom Shadyac says, "...

This movie purports to want to do three things: Make the MPAA less mysterious, explain the ratings system, and explain what the MPAA does. It fails horribly at each.

I think the film takes a good hard look at the MPAA and its conflicts of interest, view of self-importance, and the effect that they have on U.S.

I watched this movie in a film class, and found it to be juvenile and biased. "Outing" the reviewers who work for the MPAA, filming one of them surreptitiously while she was eating a sandwich, and going through one of the reviewer's garbage was an appalling invasion of privacy.

I just wanted to say first that I don't normally review films so this isn't going to be a professional review, it just a personal review of the documentary. With that said , I thought it was great!

As entertainment "This Film is Not Yet Rated" is good. It's fun, it's fast-paced, it's humorous, and the interviews conducted with the filmmakers often provide insight into the thought-process behind some of these NC-17 rated films and the scenes that caused them to be rated that way.