Ack! Protect the Innocence of My Eyes

I love statistics, so I thought that I’d share some with you.  If you go to the website for the Motion Picture Association of America, you can see how they rate films, but I wanted to do a little recon for myself.  So, I went on Apple Movie Trailers and looked at the opening 3 seconds of about 200 movies.  Most of these do not have ratings assigned to them before they are labeled okay to be seen by ‘appropriate audiences’.  I kept track of how many had been rated.  There were 54 of them.  Here were the things they were tagged for. 

In first place was sexuality.  First we got eight for ‘sexual references,’ four for ‘some sexual content,’ one for ‘brief sexual references,’ two for ‘some sexuality,’ two for ‘brief sexuality,’ five for ‘nudity,’ six for ‘sexual content,’ one for ‘partial nudity,’ one for ‘graphic nudity,’ one for ‘sexuality,’ one for ‘brief graphic nudity,’ one for ‘strong sexual content,’ one for ‘brief sexual reference,’ one for ‘sexual material,’ another one for ‘some sensuality,’ one for ‘a sexual reference,’ one for ‘some graphic nudity,’ and one more for ‘some nudity.’  That gives us a grand total of 39/54.

Twenty eight of them were tagged for ‘language.’  Then specifically, two more for ‘brief strong language,’ two more for ‘some strong language,’ one tagged ‘language throughout,’ and one more for ‘pervasive language.’  That’s 34/54 for bad language.

Our third place winner was for violence.  Ten of them were tagged for ‘violence,’ one for ‘violent incident,’ two for ‘disturbing and violent images,’ two more for ‘brief violence,’ three more for ‘bloody violence,’ two more for ‘some disturbing images,’ one for plain ‘disturbing images,’ one for ‘strong brutal violence,’ one for ‘an unsettling sequence,’ another one for ‘some strong violence,’ and three for ‘some violence.’ I’m going to leave out the ones that were tagged for action sequences and stuff like that because it doesn’t do to get too fussy.  But that’s still 27/54 for violence.

This was the real reason I did this.  I wanted to know how many films have drug use.  So, we got one for ‘brief drug material,’ two for ‘teen drug and alcohol,’ one for ‘drug reference,’ one for ‘drug content,’ one for ‘teen drinking,’ two for ‘some drug content,’ two for ‘brief drug use,’ two for ‘smoking’ (the only one that is legal), one for ‘mild drug use,’ two for ‘some drug use,’ one for ‘pervasive drug use,’ one for ‘drug use involving teens,’ and one more for ‘drug use.’  That gives us 18/54 (one third).

I’m also not mentioning the films that were tagged for ‘thematic elements’ and ‘thematic material.’  And there were even a few films that were rated R and they gave no reason why. 

So, since there were 54 films, on average each film was tagged for an average of 2.18 tags.  Thank you, Hollywood.