I watched the clip from that documentary. pretty interesting. It seems kind of weird to me that they'd make a whole movie about it though. I mean who really cares about the movie ratings? Do they effect the way you watch movies? I mean I know we are all a bunch of pervs on here, so if a movie was rated XXX it wouldn't phase most of us. If I wanted to watch it, I'd watch it, I don't care. The only people that would care can't appreciate anything in any intellectual capacity and they wouldn't want to watch it anyway.
I don't think it effects how we watch movies at all. It
does effect, however, what is
shown in the movies.
It's a good documentary. They talk about how ridiculous the ratings board is and how certain things (sex, violence, etc) are forced to be edited out of one movie, where on the other hand, the
same exact thing may be "allowed" in another movie.
They show a bunch of comparisons between two movies that have extremely similar sex scenes, only one is "straight" and the other is "gay"...
all of the "gay" ones received an NC-17 rating and the "straight" ones got an R. Even though there was a lot of nudity and "explicit" detail in the "straight" movies, the MPAA said it was ok. But, the "gay" movies didn't have nudity at all and didn't show anything explicit and they were slapped with an NC-17.
It was quite interesting and reveals a lot of political (and believe it or not,
religious) bullshit that happens inside the MPAA.