{"id":710,"date":"2007-01-20T21:38:38-05:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-21T02:38:38+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2007\/01\/20\/ratings-and-pans-labyrinth\/"},"modified":"2007-01-20T21:44:44-05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-21T02:44:44+00:00","slug":"ratings-and-pans-labyrinth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2007\/01\/20\/ratings-and-pans-labyrinth\/","title":{"rendered":"Ratings and Pan&#8217;s&nbsp;Labyrinth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p>So the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/arts\/film\/story\/2007\/01\/20\/film-ratings-mpaa.html?ref=rss\">MPAA is going to open up its secret\/secretive system for rating movies<\/a>, apparently in (unstated) reaction to <a href=\"http:\/\/rogerebert.suntimes.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060914\/REVIEWS\/609140301\/1001\">this (unrated) film<\/a>.  It&#8217;ll be interesting to see their explanations of how films like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0457430\/\"><cite class=\"title\">Pan&#8217;s Labyrinth<\/cite><\/a> (which I saw tonight, based on <a href=\"http:\/\/tofillthealberthall.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/guide-to-your-spanish-directors.html\">Tammy&#8217;s recommendation<\/a>) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0206634\/\"><cite class=\"title\">Children of Men<\/cite><\/a> can get <abbr title=\"Restricted: Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian\">R<\/abbr> ratings, particularly given that they&#8217;re somewhat <q cite=\"http:\/\/rogerebert.suntimes.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060126\/FILMFESTIVALS05\/60126002\">lenient towards violence<\/q>.  (Both were rated the much more reasonable <abbr title=\"Persons younger than 14 years must be accompanied by an adult\">14A<\/abbr> here in Ontario, with similar ratings across the rest of Canada and most of the rest of the world.)<\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So the MPAA is going to open up its secret\/secretive system for rating movies, apparently in (unstated) reaction to this (unrated) film. It&#8217;ll be interesting to see their explanations of how films like Pan&#8217;s Labyrinth (which I saw tonight, based on Tammy&#8217;s recommendation) and Children of Men can get R ratings, particularly given that they&#8217;re&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}