depends on the movie. A good R rated movie often is worth watching. I prefer the latter

G rated movies make more money, so I am guessing people in general prefer to watch G rated films?

I'm quite happy watching movies by myself, so I'd just pick the better movie. Regardless of the rating there is good and bad everywhere.

I'd watch an R rated movie alone

Depends on my mood.

We watched any movie G-R with our kids, from about 6 or so up. On the "R"s, we would only let them do this if they would look away when we told them to, and they did this, because they knew if they didn't they wouldn't be able to see any more until they were older. As for cussing, we'd already explained to them that those words were NOT to be used by them until they were older, if they wanted to then, and we also knew they'd hear them at school from OTHER kids. And any violence was explained as special effects and stunts (and we watched a number of "making of..." shows and movies. They understood completely and we never had a problem with it.

I heard Lee Brower, one of the speakers on The Secret who talks about gratitude rocks, speak last night. He suggested that the rating system has allowed us to delegate leadership (and responsibility) to an entrepreneur run ratings company rather than help our kids learn good values and judgment in the media they watch. I don't personally watch anything rated R (or worse.) I am starting to wonder if even with that standard I have given up too much control by assuming ratings companies can keep up with my best interests. My least favorite films of all time are manipulative and misleading films like The Graduate and Philadelphia, and these are PG and PG-13 respectively. (And should not be.) I also heard the ratings board was paid off to make James Cameron's Titanic PG-13 instead of R so more teenagers would see it, particularly in my state. (Of course, I heard the opposite about The Matrix, which originally would have been PG-13 but they paid for the R rating. I think that was a financial mistake, personally, but it worked for Titanic.) What kind of legacy do we leave to our kids if we don't teach them judgment? That said, I am somewhat grateful to the ratings board for providing a starting point for evaluating media, even if they have been bought and sometimes or often misrepresent my standards and kids' best interests. I wish they would help parents understand that responsibility and opportunity for leadership are not meant to be taken out of parents' hands, similar to what the ESRB does with games at places like Blockbuster.

depends on the film