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Yesterday, Elf and I took the girls' out to the movies. Elf mentioned in his journal that he took Yamaarashi-chan to March of the Penguins. I, however, took Kouryou-chan to a slightly different flick. We went to see Fantastic Four.
Now, I had already seen this movie. Several weeks ago![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fallenpegasus and I went to see this show, and I really loved it. I was also quite surprised at the PG-13 rating. It really didn't merit a PG-13 rating, I felt. The violence just wasn't presented in such a manner to be that impacting on a child under 13. I realized after I watched it that the only reason that a PG-13 rating had been given to this film was implied nudity, and one instance where one character (the Invisible Woman) was seen in her underwear (she had turned invisible, and needed to remove her clothes...else there'd be no reason for invisibility would there?...and lost control of the invisibility just at the point when she got to her underwear.)
Um, don't we see underwear commercials in which real women wear underwear and mannequins in stores all of the time wearing underwear to sell them? I mean, get real. The implied nudity is that she must be naked with her clothes off...while invisible. Oh, puh....lease!
And frankly I didn't think the violence was that bad. I think that we're turning our children into a bunch of sheep that will shake at the notion of squashing a bug, let alone defending themselves against all enemies foreign and domestic (emphasis on the domestic recently).
This was a hero film (unlike The X-Men, for example, which was an angst and anguish film with an action wrapper). It's sole purpose was to show people being heroic, not to exploit the violence (think Teleporter...:P). The fact that violence has to occur at times for people to be heroic and save lives, maintain order, etc, is something I want Kouryou-chan to be exposed to and understand.
This movie was rated PG-13, but thanks to the fact that this is a *recommendation* by the movie rating board, and not a requirement by the government, I had the right to decide *for myself* whether my daughter was up to seeing this film. Right now more and more we are moving away from this freedom, especially in video/computer games. Let's not take this freedom away from responsible parents. 'Kay?
Oh, and despite the fact that she was scared at a few parts, the only time she really wanted to leave was during the "boring grown-up parts" (i.e. when they were talking relationships). We went and got candy and soda then. Heh.
Now, I had already seen this movie. Several weeks ago
fallenpegasus and I went to see this show, and I really loved it. I was also quite surprised at the PG-13 rating. It really didn't merit a PG-13 rating, I felt. The violence just wasn't presented in such a manner to be that impacting on a child under 13. I realized after I watched it that the only reason that a PG-13 rating had been given to this film was implied nudity, and one instance where one character (the Invisible Woman) was seen in her underwear (she had turned invisible, and needed to remove her clothes...else there'd be no reason for invisibility would there?...and lost control of the invisibility just at the point when she got to her underwear.)Um, don't we see underwear commercials in which real women wear underwear and mannequins in stores all of the time wearing underwear to sell them? I mean, get real. The implied nudity is that she must be naked with her clothes off...while invisible. Oh, puh....lease!
And frankly I didn't think the violence was that bad. I think that we're turning our children into a bunch of sheep that will shake at the notion of squashing a bug, let alone defending themselves against all enemies foreign and domestic (emphasis on the domestic recently).
This was a hero film (unlike The X-Men, for example, which was an angst and anguish film with an action wrapper). It's sole purpose was to show people being heroic, not to exploit the violence (think Teleporter...:P). The fact that violence has to occur at times for people to be heroic and save lives, maintain order, etc, is something I want Kouryou-chan to be exposed to and understand.
This movie was rated PG-13, but thanks to the fact that this is a *recommendation* by the movie rating board, and not a requirement by the government, I had the right to decide *for myself* whether my daughter was up to seeing this film. Right now more and more we are moving away from this freedom, especially in video/computer games. Let's not take this freedom away from responsible parents. 'Kay?
Oh, and despite the fact that she was scared at a few parts, the only time she really wanted to leave was during the "boring grown-up parts" (i.e. when they were talking relationships). We went and got candy and soda then. Heh.
