Can you add the ability to at least view the MPAA Content Rating components to see why a film was rated R, PG-13, or PG?
It would also be helpful to have the IMDB Parents Guide at least clickable, this would enable me to content rate what my children can watch without having to go to IMDB for each and every movie or TV show. It would be more helpful if I can also filter a user by the content rating component so for example I could allow a PG-13 film with nudity OR PG-13 with sexual content but not with both Nudity and Sexual Content (in other words seeing 2 people naked in bed engaged sexually is not appropriate but kissing while dressed is or only brief nudity is ok)
There isn’t a way to display content warnings or trigger warnings ( other than overall Content Rating ) for movies or series currently. For movies and series ( top level ) I am using the Labels section in Sharing but this isnt visible on any overview screen I use ( ios, web, roku, smart-tv, etc). This also doesn’t allow for individual episodes to have content warning labels, unless i use collections but that directly interferes with collections shown to my family. I currently have the habit of watching any media before I approve it for my family ( mostly kids ). I need a place to tag or label when the content may not be something I’m ok with them watching, or any others in my family may not be comfortable with viewing. It would be nice to have this list of tags visible somewhere here if enabled:
Just trying to understand what you’re aiming for… are you asking for sharing labels to be displayed on the movie details pages or do you have some other “warning” information in mind?
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There’s already existing suggestions discussing an option to allow assigning sharing labels on episode or season levels too.
When checking this out I’ve noticed an old suggestion which discussed an option to display “rating components” (why was a movie rated the way it’s been rated) and how to use this for sharing (possibly assigning information).
@tom80H Sorry if the request was not as clear as I thought it was. No, I’m not looking for the sharing labels to be displayed on the details page. I was using that object as an example of rthe type of tags I am looking for. I hadn’t seen the Rating Components thread until now but I think that is very similar. Though it may be in the same area around content warnings or parental guides, I don’t see what the expected results are from that request. Looking up the IMDb parental guides, I think maybe the main advisories (ie. Violence & Gore, Profanity, etc ) are examples of tags I would like to include. I think an attribute ( list of tags ) should be included at the Metadata level ( so individual movies, series, individual episodes ) that could hold these content warnings of triggers. An Example object:
...
"studio": "20th Century Studios",
"type": "movie",
"title": "Prey",
"librarySectionTitle": "Movies",
"librarySectionID": 3,
"librarySectionKey": "/library/sections/3",
"contentRating": "R",
"summary": "When danger threatens her camp, the fierce and highly skilled Comanche warrior Naru sets out to protect her people. But the prey she stalks turns out to be a highly evolved alien predator with a technically advanced arsenal.",
"rating": 9.3,
"audienceRating": 7.3,
"year": 2022,
"tagline": "They hunt to live. It lives to hunt.",
"duration": 5974059,
"audienceRatingImage": "rottentomatoes://image.rating.upright",
"chapterSource": "media",
"ratingImage": "rottentomatoes://image.rating.ripe",
"contentWarnings": [
"tag": "Violence & Gore",
"tag": "Frightening & Intense Scenes"
]
...
And I think the way this becomes useful is to show it on the details view of the media. Maybe under Subtitles…
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The way I’m understanding the other thread it’s very much asking for the same. It’s about having an option to display more details about the content rating, e.g. based on the structure available on the IMDb parent guide.
Once you have that information a next step could be thinking about how to use it for filtering or content restrictions/parental controls.
I suggest you comment/vote in that thread in order to help us avoid distracting or cannibalizing votes.
[mod-edit: merged to maintain votes]
I think it would be useful if the meta-data was included in the title view of WHY it is rated a certain rating. As an example Copshop is rated R for “Rated R for strong/bloody violence, and pervasive language.” My wife will watch R rated movies but they have to NOT have rape/sex/gratuitous nudity.
It was kind of missed yesterday in discussion of other aspects of the announcement, but Plex has integration with Common Sense Media on the roadmap for 2025. It may hope with some aspects of this.
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Around here, the Content Rating is still how we take our first pass on deciding to watch or not. If we’re still wanting to see some content that is beyond our comfort level, we’ll go take a look at services like Kids-In-Mind, or the Parents Guide section of an IMDB listing to see why it got that rating. Maybe we’re okay seeing some Smoking, but Slang Humor is a step too far (for example).
I’d love a way to see this somewhere in the apps.
- A quick “for” next to the content rating showing the official rating reason. Example: “PG for action, smoking and slang humor”
- A “more” next to the “PG-13” or “R” designation to see official, or unofficial sources (IMDB, KIM) etc
- A quick breakdown in the expanded description, etc.
I don’t mind working for it, but I’d love to be able to get to it.
Most anywhere you look for this info they have a way to show this in short form, and longer form. KIM has a numbering system showing 1-10 on Sex, Violence, Language before a longer breakdown.
This KIM example shows Fantastic Mr. Fox having a 1 in Sexual content, a 4 in Violence, and a 3 in Language.
IMDB shows “Rated PG for…” as well as a roll up of the votes before a longer breakdown.
Maybe something like this, tucked away somewhere
While no full match for this suggestion… Plex has just added common sense media ratings to the online and local content (see related support article for details and requirements).
