I had previously applied for a job with the Board (as film/game classification is an issue that I am very passionate about) so I could reflect community standards to the best of my ability, but my efforts were fruitless. I can't exhaustively cover everything they get right or wrong or why they do what they do.
I used to agree with most of their decisions back in the day, but nowadays I am finding myself disagreeing with them more and more. All I would suggest is for consistency and for the various categories to be distinguishable from one another. Their "standards" are really topsy-turvy these days, and there seems to be little rhyme or reason to what they do. But actual gambling involving real-world currency can be issued as little as a G classification under the guise of an "in-game purchase". Mon 21st Jun Gambling content used to warrant a PG classification for casino-style games back in the day, though any game that even vaguely resembles gambling now (even without an incentive or reward) is slapped with an M classification (with few exceptions).Meanwhile, a recent documentary titled House of Cardin contains sexualised breast nudity and somehow managed to score a G classification! Where the hell is the consistency? I could understand if the nudity in question was that of a breastfeeding mother or in an otherwise educational context, but this is ridiculous. The game was censored internationally in response to the Australian banning (the BBFC approved of the uncensored version of Sexy Poker with a mere 15 rating for "moderate nudity"), and the censored version was approved with an M classification for "Sexual references". Sexy Poker for WiiWare was originally banned for incentivising breast nudity, but the irony (and hypocrisy) is, had the girls been bare-breasted by default, it would likely have been fine with an M rating (maximum MA15+ at the time). Nowadays, a scene at a strip club with no nudity gets slapped with an M rating. I know what I'd rather show to young teens!īreast nudity (even sexualised) used to be fine at the PG rating since the Classification Board's inception until around the late 2000s.
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Meanwhile, a film like Lady Bird, with only a few uses of the F-bomb, and two C-words in a conversational manner gets slapped with an MA15+ rating, while 8 Mile, having at least 200 uses of the F-bomb (many aggressive) has an unrestricted M rating. Nowadays, a single use of "ass" is slapped with a PG, which is absolutely ridiculous considering the plethora of far stronger terms that are typically permitted at the category. Now, I'm not suggesting that things weren't a little problematic then too, but we're just seeing a different kind of absurdity concerning many of the Board's decisions. A VHS compilation called "Sex, Lies, and The Simpsons" was given a paltry G rating (uncut) by the Board back in the day (with a hilariously risqué cover to boot!), though it was reclassified as PG for its DVD release 6 years later (though there was no legal need to do so). Many episodes of The Simpsons were rated G in Australia, often with little to no cuts, despite uses of coarse language, sexual references, and bloody animated violence. You can get away with some minor cuss words (including the bum words and bass turds), while PG was usually reserved for stronger terms (scatological/genital slang), and the M rating was basically a free-for-all, though aggression, frequency, and sexual context could push it in to higher categories accordingly (nowadays, a single use of the C word bags you an MA15+ rating, though it didn't use to be this way).
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Our M rating is generally a lot more relaxed than the equivalent ratings overseas, which is why it would be so frustrating for parents, as the same rating for a fantasy movie with a bit of unrealistic violence (and no other objectionable content of note) gets the same rating as a film containing frequent coarse language, realistic violence containing use of real-world weapons, and sexual content.įor example, the G rating used to be a LOT more relaxed in the 90s. They're strict in some matters but lenient in others, but in more recent years, they have become even MORE strict for the most part, even though parents have expressed concern that the G, PG, and M classification categories are becoming harder to distinguish as even the most kid-friendly of movies/games are often slapped with a PG, and other family movies are branded with an M.
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