{"id":4155,"date":"2007-12-30T14:37:35","date_gmt":"2007-12-30T22:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/12\/30\/the-ratings-game-1\/"},"modified":"2019-12-23T08:47:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T16:47:12","slug":"the-ratings-game-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/12\/30\/the-ratings-game-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ratings Game #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5671,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/us.imdb.com\\\/title\\\/tt0462538&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20090629053840\\\/http:\\\/\\\/us.imdb.com\\\/title\\\/tt0462538\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 13:27:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 05:57:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 05:57:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Some time within the past couple years, it seems to have become standard (whether voluntarily or by decree, I don&#8217;t know) for all new DVDs to flash the MPAA rating on screen for a few moments just before the movie begins. Additionally, for the past few years the MPAA has been including a brief description underneath the rating of <em>why<\/em> the movie in question has received its particular rating.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m constantly amused by these little blurbs and their attempt to rationalize, in fifteen words or less, what prompted the MPAA to assign the rating it did to each movie. So, I thought we could try a little game: every so often (whenever I get around to it, hopefully no less than once a week), I&#8217;ll post the MPAA rating and rationalization. <em>Your<\/em> goal is to try to guess the film, based solely on the MPAA&#8217;s rating and their description of its faults. I&#8217;ll post the answer either after someone guesses it correctly, or later on if it has remained a mystery.<\/p>\n<p>Number one, then&#8230;any guesses?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0462538\/\" title=\"IMDB\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image4154\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/ratingsgame0001.jpg\" alt=\"Ratings Game 0001\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every so often, I&#8217;ll post the MPAA rating and rationalization. _Your_ goal is to try to guess the film, based solely on the MPAA&#8217;s rating and their description of its faults. I&#8217;ll post the answer either after someone guesses it correctly, or later on if it has remained a mystery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[23,6],"class_list":["post-4155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-film","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}