Follow up on Movies
I have a follow up to my previous blog entry. This one has to do with the rating of movies. Now I will begin by aknowledging that this will sound very parental of me, but hey I am allowed right?
Okay the Dark Knight was rated PG-13, what is that all about? It seems that there should be something that they look at besides sex, blood and swearing when deciding to give a movie a rating of R. Just because a movie pans away right as there would be lots of blood but they show everything including torture leading up to it does not mean that it is any less gruesome. My imagination is pretty good and when you leave me to think about what happened next I get a pretty clear picture. 
There was a child sitting in front of me at the Dark Knight, the child required a booster seat that’s how young she was, probably 6? I know a lot of you have seen this movie (either that or everyone else in the country has seen it at least 3 times to make up for you based on the numbers), would you allow your child to see this movie? My brother and I were talking about it before the movie and he said he would let an 8 year old see the movie, after the movie was over he amended it to older (I suggested 35). Based on the PG 13 rating I would assume a lot of parents would allow their children to see it, how could they know it would be as “intense” as it is?
Here is the screwy part at least in my head, and the part that leaves parents with no idea how scaring a movie is going to be. Clueless was rated PG-13, do you really think that Clueless and Dark Knight should be rated the same? Little Miss Sunshine was rated R… Really? Which would you rather your child see?
Well I have decided Ryan isn’t allowed to see anything but Pixar until he moves out of the house… okay maybe that was a little bit of an exaggeration, but how am I to know what is appropriate for him to see without seeing the movie first myself?
Okay enough of a rant…
2 comments:
I actually agree with you on this. Now, granted, I loved Dark Knight and I went back to the theatre to see it again because I was so rocked by it. But, I was completely shocked that it was rated pg-13. It was incredibly disturbing and there is NO WAY I would want my 13-year old watching. Even aside from the torture and the implied violence, the intensely twisted personalities and subject matter make it entirely inappropriate for children.
Actually, I think maybe your idea of pg-35 is right about on. I have had disturbed dreams about that movie, and I am an adult (mostly, sort of.)
-Sarah Cate
I would like to, as a side note, put in here that Ms. Kathleen bought little ole me tickets to see rated R movies when I was underage. I used to go hangout in the bathroom and she would then bring me the ticket. Hahahaha.
But, I totally agree with your assessment of this movie; a child was sitting in front of me, probably around 7, and I couldn't stop thinking about how inappropriate it was that he was there. It acutally (annoyingly) distracted from my movie expirience.
But, as the above comment shows, even if you don't want your kids to go, they will probably find a way regardless.
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