What would you have rated the following movies?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Alpha Dog
The Matrix
Speed
The Departed
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Kill Bill Vol. 1
Kill Bill Vol. 2
Superbad
Saw series
Hostel
Clerks
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Garden State
Donnie Darko
Boys Don't Cry
Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom
The Dreamers
Sin City
Kids
Bully
Ken Park
Shooter
Training Day
American Pie

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

PG-13:
Alpha Dog
The Matrix
Speed
The Departed
Kill Bill Vol. 2
Superbad
Clerks
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Garden State
Donnie Darko
Kids
Shooter
Training Day
American Pie

R:
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Kill Bill Vol. 1
Saw series
Hostel
Boys Don't Cry
Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom
The Dreamers
Sin City
Ken Park
Bully

NC-17:
nothing

[Lief 🗽]

PG-13
The Matrix
Speed
Superbad
Clerks
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Garden State
Donnie Darko
Boys Don't Cry

R
The Departed
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Kill Bill Vol. 1
Kill Bill Vol. 2
Saw series
Hostel

Never seen it/don't know enough about it:
Alpha Dog
Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom
The Dreamers

[Colin]

The Matrix: PG-13
Speed: PG-13
The Departed: R
Pulp Fiction: R
Reservoir Dogs: R
Kill Bill Vol. 1: R
Kill Bill Vol. 2: R
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back: R
Sin City: R
Shooter: PG-13
Training Day: R
American Pie: PG-13

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Boys Don't Cry is tamer than Kill Bill Vol. 2? What the hell are you thinking?

[Lief 🗽]

Probably. I barely remember Boys Don't Cry at all.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Uh, it originally got an NC-17 rating, contains a brutal rape scene and a shotgun murder far more explicit and gory than anything Kill Bill Vol. 2 (which isn't very gory at all actually, not that it was a bad movie, but it was nothing like the first)

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Edited a few more in by the way.

[Lief 🗽]

PG-13
American Pie

R
Kids
Sin City
Bully
Ken Park

Don't know enough about:
Shooter
Training Day

[Tetro Kornbluth]

My Rating system: G(eneral), Y(oung; ie. not designed for small children), T(een; young adolescents or 'Tweens'), M(ature), A(dult)

The Matrix T
Speed T
The Departed T
Pulp Fiction T
Reservoir Dogs T
Garden State T
Donnie Darko T
Sin City T

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

I wouldn't have bothered with a ratings system.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The Matrix T
Speed T
The Departed T
Pulp Fiction T
Reservoir Dogs T
Garden State T
Donnie Darko T
Sin City T

That's just as dumb as the current system. Garden State gets the same rating as Sin City for a few uses of "f**k" and a few scenes of drug use?

[Tetro Kornbluth]

The Matrix T
Speed T
The Departed T
Pulp Fiction T
Reservoir Dogs T
Garden State T
Donnie Darko T
Sin City T

That's just as dumb as the current system. Garden State gets the same rating as Sin City for a few uses of "f**k" and a few scenes of drug use?

Garden State got an '18' rating here, the highest there is - mainly I think for one scene (where Braff and Portman are in the hotel and looking into the hotel rooms along with a porter.. I think you know what scene I'll talking about.) but then again so did most of those movies in the list (Donnie Darko only got a '12' iirc and Speed '15')

Of course as I've said before the violence in movies like Pulp Fiction and Sin City is so cartoony and in it's own way so delibetary postmodern that it's hard to see how any child with a grasping of Irony could take seriously. Plus, I'm not fond of giving out high ratings.

[Friz]

IIRC, all of the ones I've seen were accurately given an 'R' rating.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The Matrix T
Speed T
The Departed T
Pulp Fiction T
Reservoir Dogs T
Garden State T
Donnie Darko T
Sin City T

That's just as dumb as the current system. Garden State gets the same rating as Sin City for a few uses of "f**k" and a few scenes of drug use?

Garden State got an '18' rating here, the highest there is - mainly I think for one scene (where Braff and Portman are in the hotel and looking into the hotel rooms along with a porter.. I think you know what scene I'll talking about.) but then again so did most of those movies in the list (Donnie Darko only got a '12' iirc and Speed '15')

No, I don't know remember that scene so it clearly wasn't anything shocking. A good rule of thumb I was using actually was "Would you be fine watching this movie with your parents?" If so, it's PG-13. Considering I actually DID once watch Garden State with my mom this kind of sums it up. I certainly can't say I'd do the same for Reservoir Dogs?

Of course as I've said before the violence in movies like Pulp Fiction and Sin City is so cartoony and in it's own way so delibetary postmodern that it's hard to see how any child with a grasping of Irony could take seriously. Plus, I'm not fond of giving out high ratings.

How is Pulp Fiction cartoony? And Reservoir Dogs certainly isn't. Probably some of the most brutally real violence I've seen in a movie.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

IIRC, all of the ones I've seen were accurately given an 'R' rating.

Which ones would that be?

[Friz]

IIRC, all of the ones I've seen were accurately given an 'R' rating.

Which ones would that be?

Off the top of my head, Pulp Fiction, Resevoir Dogs were rightfully 'R' rated.  American Pie should have been PG-13.  Both Kill Bill movies were f--king awful, so I'll decline further comment.