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There's a good documentary called This Film Is Not Yet Rated and issues with the existing rating system. For example a gay sex scene gets an NC-17 but straight one would get an R rating. If memory serves, they exist to rate the movies to prevent government regulation and to protect the studios which they're rating.
"Midnight Cowboy" is still X-rated, even though there's nothing in it that you don't see in a show like 'Game Of Thrones.'
What a difference a few decades make.
Woah, TIL:
In my opinion it's a great movie.
People still quote Hoffman's line "I'm walkin' here!"
yeah, that line is infamous, i even hear kids saying it. I guess it's good it got the recognition it deserved despite the rating.
Different times.
My opinion is that getting the X rating helped the movie. It came out after The Summer Of Love and just before Deep Throat and Behind The Green Door rolled into local theaters.
I can't think of any other mainstream movie of the time that got an X rating, so it really stood out.
Surely A Clockwork Orange released two years later is also rated X? But looks like nope, that was rated R which is pretty wild all things considered.
The movie was rated Xin the UK and Kubrick himself had it pulled after he found out that young hooligans were imitating the violence.
Iirc this was the one that showed the sexism of the MPAA too, like how a fully visible penis gets rated R (I think American Psycho was the example), but in another film where some of the top of a woman's pubic hair was showing in a scene, they were going to rate it NC-17 unless they removed it.
IIRC, they also rate women shown enjoying sex more strictly than they rate men shown enjoying sex. The whole thing is obviously made up of the totally subjective opinions of a small group of blatantly biased old dudes.