Here's my take: a look around my box sets shows that listing a single rating for the whole is generally not done. Other than cases like Blade Runner, which we have apparently decided to treat as a box set despite there only being one movie, there seem to be very few sets that list a rating for the set itself. My collection is almost entirely American releases, though and this wouldn't necessarily be in the case in countries where ratings are legally required. It seems to me that if Invelos intended this rules to mean we shoudl enter a rating if all movies in the set have the same rating, they would have just said that, so we shouldn't enter rating unless one is clearly given for the set as a whole, not just it's components.

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My collection is almost entirely American releases, though and this wouldn't necessarily be in the case in countries where ratings are legally required.

In the UK, there are ratings given to the box set as a whole. The rating is given based on all the movies AND the extra features, not just the movies

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You forgot one, Ace. My opinion is not covered, Boxsets don't have ratings, movies do. Simialrly Paramount Pictures does not make Boxsets, they make movies, Paramount HE makes Boxsets, so it is wrong to list PP for the boxset. The boxset should not get a rating, it's just a piece of cardboard, the movies that are part of the ste get the Rating. Whether they all have the sme rating or not is not really relevant in my book.

I think we are pretty close to the same page.

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We definitely agree on what a box set it, though the idea that movies have rating is rather US-specific. I assume the rule was written this way to deal with countries like the UK and situations like Blade Runner.

Yep, this is different across localities.

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Actually Ace, sets like Blade runner were not even on the horizon at the time.

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Legend and Brazil (which, granted, is unrated) are similar situations that had been out a while.

In Australia the boxset is given a rating too.

As per what Corne said, over here it is a package deal, everything on the DVD has to be rated, the special features, the main feature, any games on the disc, tv shows have to be rated too, as do video games, although for video games we don't have an R18+ rating

The rating rules are basically that the boxset MUST show the rating of the highest rated movie in the set. So for instance with my 'Bruce Willis' box set, out of the 3 movies 'The 12 Monkeys, The Jackal and Mercury Rising' 2 of those are M15+ and one of them is MA15+, therefore the boxset is required to have MA15+ on it.

The reasons for this are so that people who buy the boxset can see ahead of time what the highest rated movie is, otherwise a parent might be buying something like a childrens boxset for their 10yr old kid only to find that 1 of those dvds is rated PG (Parental Guidance recommended) while the rest are G.

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I don't think I would change my attituderelative to US releases since we don't actually rate Boxes, I find it fascinating that foreign film boards feel the necessity to do so, but I think I can understand the rationale, though i don't like nanny states. But Rho is right if we are going to include a rating for a Boxset that isn't rated, it would have to be the highest rating in the set.

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