The studios insist that a PG-13 rating would be better for making profits, but they fail to take a gander at what's happening on the music charts. Now imagine if Interscope Records had contractually bound Eminem to count the number of naughty phrases and deliver a laundry list of checkmarked acceptable criteria. Like it or not, Eminem has sparked debate about hateful lyrics simply because he was not censored, and dialogue between parents and kids, and in general, can only be good. The rating comes first, the art second. The tail wags the dog.
Movie buffs lament the decline in quality over the years.
If the film industry continues to bury their head in the sand about the bean counters that are the MPAA, we will absolutely lose all that is left about film as an art form. To the big shots, movies are like McNuggets, bought, packaged and sold as many times as possible. But for some of us, film is a language that is slowly having the letters taken away.