In other words, if I own a movie theatre and I require 17-year-olds (or 30-year-old idiot writers, for that matter) to be accompanied by a mature adult in order to see certain movies, that's MY RIGHT just as much as it's YOUR RIGHT to go to a different movie theatre.
You are absolutely right there. Movie theatre owners should have the right to enforce whatever policies they wish to come up with (within reason). You as the consumer vote your approval or dissaproval of these owner policies with your dollar (do I spend it here, or elsewhere?...). But on the other hand, a
lot of theatres have been behaving this way as of late. There are no
less restrictive movie theatres for consumers to go to at the moment. I'd bet that this renewed vigor for ratings enforcement is being coersively "
suggested" by federal regulation agencies. (Perhaps spawned by Clinton's recent move to persuade the movie industry to tone themselves down in the interest of "public safety"...) Am I wrong? Maybe it
is simply knee-jerk reactionism on the part of every single movie theatre owner in America at the same time! Stranger things have happened, I suppose. I really can't say. ; ) But for the record, I do detest any ratings system that's not a private, informative venture. Of course, I do not have all the facts on this at the moment (I do not own a theatre for one...). In anycase I do think that there are more
important things to get all bent out of shape about at the moment than some kids being denied their South Park fix... (It's a terribly stupid movie. ; )
