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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nathanael" data-source="post: 376690" data-attributes="member: 5784">The beginning of the X rating (starting in the late 60's with movies like 'Midnight Cowboy') ushered in a whole era of soft porn/high violence movies like 'Clockwork Orange,' 'Caligula' and became a way of life for people like Russ Meyer and Ralph Bakshi. This 'freedom' let loose a flood of 'baser' film making, and it seemed at the time like there was a competition amongst X rated filmmakers to see how many actual phalluses (phallusi?) they could cram in a movie. Watch 'Clockwork Orange' and 'Listzomania' to see what I'm talking about. Some of these movies didn't just border, but crossed completely over into on the surreal!All of this calmed down a bit as the decade progressed and the X rating became the line to be avoided if you wanted a commercially accepted picture, as crossing it relegated your movie to dank adult theatres being visited by guys in dark glasses and trenchcoats. The folks who made X rated films in the late 80's and early 90's were tired of having their films seen as closer to XXX than R when they believed that they were making art and not porn. These filmmakers bothered the MPAA until they came up with another rating to replace the old one. NC-17 became the replacement rating for X (starting with the movie 'Henry and June'). Supposedly this changed the formerly X rated movies from soft porn in to art, but nothing has really changed. The NC-17 rating is still the 'how far can you push the MPAA for an R rating' metre. That and a way for people to take home porn while being able to say 'I don't watch Porn, it's high art.'Just a short info moment for those who are confused by our very confusing MPAA rating system, which does little to actually stop kids from getting into restricted features. I mean, seriously, how many of you were in the theatre with the rest of us minors when 'Porky's' came out?</blockquote>

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