The whole "no R-rated movies" thing - how does that translate where you live? Every country has their own rating system (if they have one at all) and a movie that gets an "R" in the States does not necessarily get an "18" in the UK.

Do the church leaders in other countries have blanket statements like ours? Is it emphasized where you live?

Even as a TBM I ignored this "commandment", because it's so blatantly obvious that the MPAA ratings are completely arbitrary.

It was no X rated films, if there was sex or swearage, I seem to recall.

Though the rating system is all a bit different now.

My wife has migraines and can't go to the cinema so I don't bother to go myself.

Last time I tried to see a film it was Star Trek Insurrection and there was a major power cut and the cinema's back-up generator failed.

I watched a couple of films (sorry! Movies!) on my flight to California last September.

I guess there may have been some sort or proscription against 'X' films (nowadays they are called '18'), but I dont recall it ever being discussed much.
I was a convert at 17, so didnt go through the whole 'mormon youth'rigmarole.
I do recall going to see an 'AA' film (rated for audiences over age 14) with the YA's - and I am pretty sure it had boobies in it :-)

It is a "commandment" many Mormons would ignore. Also downloading music illegally is another thing mormons aren't bothered by. My tbm roommates in college would lecture me about my "sins" such as drinking or swearing yet had no problems watching movies with "bad language" or stealing music off the internet. I guess honesty only goes so far.

It was no 18 rated films for a wile but they added a few titles from the american R rateing.

I think they'd say that it comes down to avoiding the appearance of evil, as they like to say. So whatever the rating is in your own country, then follow it.

I have a friend who checks the box on every DVD to see what the rating is. She has missed out on some pretty great movies, many of which I can't even figure out why they're rated R in the first place.

But even if I reassure her that there's nothing bad in it, or that I know when the bad spots come up, so we'll fast-forward over them, nope, she won't watch it.

We start at G and go through PG, M, MA15+ then R. Been a while since I paid attention to all this but I'm pretty certain the direction was to limit ourselves to G and PG. For example, Lorax is a 'G' - Mirror Mirror is PG - Hunger Games is M - American Pie reunion is MA15+. Can't see any 'R' rated movies advertised with one of a major cinema chains.

When I was a YSA there were some who would only see G rated movies. They took the whole admonition to watch wholesome movies to an unbearable level. Wouldn't have been fun to take out (this was when I would only go out with an LDS girl).

Anyway, Battleship (rated M) opens in Aus. tomorrow (Thursday) and the whole family, bar the toddler, are going

We have a system where movies and TV-programmes are put in categories of suitability for all ages or ages 6, 9, 12, 16 and over. They are rated on violence, scariness, sex, discrimination, substance abuse and language.

They use a 20-page questionnaire to rate the movies. TV-programmes are scheduled in such a way that smaller children are supposedly in bed by the time the higher-rated programmes are aired.

Most people will ignore it and it really was not discussed much on the ward I attendend, except one. They were obsessed with the rating of movies (I thin this ward was the closes to a Utah ward in our area), then the Passion of the Christ movie came out, someone in RS said she couldn't wait to watch it, then someone said it's rated R, then someone else added it was directed by Mel Gibson, a catholic, oh the horror. It was 5-10 minute discussion until the RS president said that eveyone should use their agency and to move on because we had more material to cover.

I personallly thought it was sily rule. I've seen some great R movies and I've heard of some PG13 movies that I wouldn't let my children see.

I also heard that in Utah, they were in the business of editing movies such as Titanic to make them PG13, I heard they removed the nude scenes and beeped the foul language. This always sounded sillier to me, I'd think someone has to watch the movie in order to edit it, why would we subject a person to that for the sake of others, if they want to ban the movie, ban it altogether but editing? It didn't make sense to me.