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  • Depends what ratings are intended to do - if they are just to be informative for potential viewers then the kind of system you propose sounds good.

    But, if the main purpose is to legally restrict access based on age, such ratings wouldn’t really do the job.

    Plus, of course, there’s quite a range within each category - language could mean something as innocuous as “bum”, or something as deeply offensive as “Belgium” or “Barbara Streisand”.

    I suppose you could have age ratings for each subcategory - L18, V12, N0, S0, D15, but it’d start to get complicated pretty fast. Plus, presumably, whatever the highest of those ratings was would still be the overall rating. At which point we’re back where we started.













  • Saw the first two years ago, but never got round to watching the third one until a few weeks ago.

    Batman Begins - I don’t really remember it too well. I think I thought it was ok.

    Dark Knight - don’t remember too well hut I remember really enjoying it.

    DKR - I thought it was ok, but some bits were just so dumb, and it was often quite confusing tbh. I had thought that the general view on it was that it was great, but reading the comments here, apparently that’s not the case!

    I really enjoy Nolan’s work on the whole, but I’m not sure the Batman films were a good fit for him.


  • First one that comes to mind is Swastika Night by Katharine Burdekin (using the pseudonym Murray Constantine).

    It’s a “What if the Nazis Won the War?” story, set 900 years in the future. However, it was written in 1937, two years before WW2 even started.

    It’s kind of like 1984, and much of it is quite talky and philosophical, but there are also some bits that are really, really messed up. It’s excellent.