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[moogle]

It makes no sense to me, there is very little language, pretty much no gore, nd no nudity or anything like that...

Anybody know why its rated R? Like using specific scenes and such? ...Billy Madison was more R-ish than AoD...

The rating people say for Violence and horror
[/quote]Rated R for violence and horror.[quote]
Nut it was more comedic than horror, and besides the one scene in the sindmill with the chainsaw and the pit it wasn't really that violent...

[lethe]

I can't really answer your question. If it was up to me, I'd put "Schindler's List" as mandatory movie at 9th grade, still is rated R. :bleh:

[moogle]

Ohh, that would be a good school movie
I need to see it...

[blastradius14]

Its a good movie. Shows how humanity can be decent even in a environment of evil.

Yeah, if every school showed this in History or English type classes at 9th grade it would really cut down on the stupidity of the racism between people. Might even cut down on stupidity itself...

[Kon-Tiki]

't Could be due to the general atmosphere in the movie. I know that mom finds La Cité Des Enfants Perdus a real nightmare, and it has a very pressing atmosphere, but there's no blood, gore, extreme violence (not more than in a Disney movie, anyways), cursing, nudity or anything. It's just the atmosphere that could give it a straight R-rating (or at least a rating above 14 years)

[Sebatianos]

Originally posted by lethe@Dec 5 2005, 03:45 AM
I can't really answer your question. If it was up to me, I'd put "Schindler's List" as mandatory movie at 9th grade, still is rated R. :bleh:

Well over here schools did take school children to see them.

But then again - Slovenia just started implementing something like a rating system (on TV in the movies there is non yet)... There are things that can be shown at any time, those that must be shown in the evening and those that can be shown only late at night (that's it).

[Abi79]

The children in Slovenia are lucky. This is an example why I'm not :


-Mommy, can I go watch that movie ?
-Ok. *a few seconds later* No, I'm sorry. You can't. It's only for children more then 16 years old....
-Pretty please ?
-No
-Pretty please ? Please, mom :angel:
-Nope
*And this continues until I get bored *


P.S. Of course, if I stay late at night... :whistle:

[efthimios]

Wow, I never had any problems as a kid watching whatever I wanted. My parents were away almost every night so from like 4-5 yo I would be left alone. Knowing that I could watch TV on my own anyway, they prefered to sit down and talk to me and watch any kind of movie, including those I "shouldn't" be watching. And yes that includes scary movies and porn.
Though I had no interest in the latter for few more years, I liked scary movies but I prefered watching them with friends, but none would be allowed to by their parents, till I was like 8 or close to that that I watched Nightmare on the elm street (the first one) with friends (an 8 and a 9 yo friends).
Yes, I was scared watching and after watching them, yes very rarely I could see a nightmare related to the movie, but I am sooo glad I did watch them. Case one that I am glad, a guy that I know who is now 25, is afraid to watch scary movies, or even play games with monsters, or even aliens. He didn't buy Area 51 because the aliens do not look very much like humans and he would be afraid of them. (that is just one example of how scared he gets).

[Sebatianos]

Wow, that fear just ain't normal.

Watching scary movies and even porn isn't a thing that has to damage child's perception of the world. It may, but it doesn't have too. The worse problem is being excluded from that.
If a child knows what's reality and what's fiction that child may be scared of some scary movies (I remember how frightened I was when I saw Freddy 2 - the first Nightmare I saw), but that doesn't have to mean the child will start butchering others.
There are however people that do have some very bad inpulses in them. They can get ideas by watching the movies (making them into copycats), but then again, if it weren't for such movies, they'd imitate the news reports or something. Some poeple simply have something in them that makes them tick the wrong way.

[Abi79]

Little children (under eight years) shouldn't watch that kind of movies. About the news *ahem* (news are scary, news are bad :evil: :angel: )....they should only be allowed to see some news, but not all. Anyway, which little child would like to see the news instead of some cartoons ? I wouldn't. (do know that I still watch cartoons )