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Monday, June 21st, 2021 8:53 AM

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Improvement for the "violence and gore" section in the Parents Guide

I have thought of a possible improvement that could make the Parents Guide section much more useful at a glance.

Please separate "violence" and "gore" into two separate categories in the Parents Guide section: many very mild action and horror films are marked as "severe violence and gore" because of scenes that are nothing compared to other much more hardcore films that end up receiving the same exactly rating. This is misleading when trying to tell a movie's content at a glance, without reading detailed info, which is often spoilers, since people post them without marking them as such.

For instance, movies like "The Shining", "Extraction" and "Taken", which barely have any bloody scenes in them, have the same "severe violence and gore" rating as "Hostel", "Martyrs" and "The Devil's Rejects", torture movies entirely consisting of explicit scenes of dismemberment. This ends up misrepresenting both types of movies and making the classification useless at a glance unless one reads the details, which like I said often spoil the film.

Lots of movies are violent without being gory and I think the two should not be conflated into one big umbrella term that doesn't help.

Thank you kindly for your time and consideration.

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