Dirty Interpretations of CC Levels

[pillowpc2001]

This probably isn't the best place to get started on a rant about the MPAA and the rating system, but I just want to say that it's absurd that you can get a PG-13 rating with extreme violence (even as far as genocide and the slaughter of children), but if you swear too much, or show too much of the human body (or discuss too many of its, ahem, functions), you end up with an R rating.

Well, IMO the difference between swearing/nudity and violence in movies is that the violence is fake, but the swearing and nudity are "real". In other words, if a child was watching the movie with their parents - if something violent is happening in the movie and the kid is asking questions and/or is scared, the parent can tell them "don't worry, it's just pretend". If they see nudity or hear questionable discussions/language, the parent can't explain this away as easily and it will probably result in a lengthier explanation that the parent would've preferred not to get into.

(I'm not saying that extremely violent movies shouldn't get R ratings - they should. I probably don't watch enough violent movies to know of any that are PG-13 that should've been R... )