I get so friggin' mad when I take my kids to see a movie and some sasquatch of about 6'4" has to sit in front of my 3yr. old or my 7yr. old. Especially if there's hardly anyone in the theater. I also can't stand going to a movie and people feel the need to discuss the events from earlier in the day or week during the movie...SHUT UP!

There are certaintly some prudes out there who think it is wrong to see a nipple under the age of 18 but I'm certaintly not one of them. The ratings are ok. Perfectly fine. Although, all the GOOD movies are rated R! R seems to be the classy rating as the really classy, awards-worthy films are all rated R. Doesn't bother me one bit. The movies I plan to see next: the comedies Happy Endings and Broken Flowers (with Bill Murray!)

I am with kamylienne, it's not the ratings that annoy me, it's the dumb parents that take kids to R rated movies that annoy me.

Ratings serve as a guide for me. As a parent I like having some sort of rating, but the final decision will be what I allow my kids to watch, or at least it was when they were younger. All my kids except for one are adults now, so they make their own decisions, but I still monitor my seventeen year old daughter.

Ratings themselves don't annoy me. People who take their six-year-old to see a rated R movie, only to have her bawl in the middle of it, now THAT'S annoying. And probably mildly traumatizing for the kid.

The rating system, in some cases, works very well. Filmgoers under 17 shouldn't see R or NC-17 rated movies in almost all cases, and I support that. The G and PG ratings are also mostly intact and work very well. However, the PG-13 rating has a big problem with it. As long as topics like drugs and violence or sex (in a dirty fashion) are merely discussed and not shown--a movie can get away with a PG-13 rating. Even more, the worst of the bad words can be used once--sometimes twice!--in a PG-13 movie, and then there are other words which I consider much more severe than the MPAA apparently does. For example, Austin Powers would be Rated R in my book and American Pie would get an NC-17 rating. However, some movies strangely don't get the G they deserve (although in Canada, they do get G's) like, for example, Cats & Dogs.