Check out Jack's response, quoted in
this story in the NYT, to theaters offering "R-cards" for under-18 teens whose parents let them see R-rated films:
It distorts... and disfigures [the rating system].... Not all R movies are alike. There are some R movies that children should not see.
Ponder that for a moment. "Not all R movies are alike": And yet all of them are rated R, Jack. "There are some R movies that children should not see": Ergo there are some R movies that children should see - hmm, very interesting. "It distorts... and disfigures [the rating system]": Exactly how, again? It takes its very definition from the rating system itself - it is an "R-Card", after all. As the theater owner who came up with the system puts it:
You can't say it's a parental guideline and then say the parents have no choice.
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