Probably enough said--it's very boring.
I'm tired today. I think I'll blame the weather. It's grey and drizzly. However, if it were sunny and beautiful don't think I wouldn't be complaining about having to sit here at my desk in such gorgeous weather. 5 months.
We saw Iron Man last night. It was really violent; especially for a PG-13 rating. My husband said maybe it's because we don't play video games; we're really removed from all the on-screen violence that pervades our society. I understand that it's a comic--people die; but I didn't expect graphic war violence and children and mothers screaming for their murdered parents and babies. It was awful. I closed my eyes and sobbed silently for a good 5 minutes in the middle of the film. Not really a feel-good kind of thing. I mean, I "enjoyed" parts of the movie; it was fun, Robert Downey Jr. was amazing (and super-humanly good looking) but all in all, I really wish I hadn't seen it. Total bummer.
My boss took his kids (two boys, ages like 8 and 10) to see it opening weekend. He said there were some parts that he felt a little uncomfortable with them seeing. I'd read the reviews and asked if it was about the kidnapping/torture-ish scene at the beginning. He said "no, that part wasn't really that bad, mostly it was about the playboy/sex stuff shown in a couple of flashbacks." Are you kidding me???? A three minute, pretty comedic "love" scene in which both actors was fully clothed concerned you more than watching entire families gunned down at close range?
What a world we live in.
Anyway, the movie ended 14 hours ago and I still have a headache.
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One film-related rant coming right up....
That's the MPAA for you - it's all about the money, and a PG-13 sells more tickets than an R. More cash for the studio to make more films equals more money from the studios to the MPAA. Capitalism at its best/worst.
MPAA policy is also to frown on practically any sexual situations, but wave the violence right on through. Films ratings/censor boards in Europe generally apply the opposite - they'll act on violence far more readily than sex.
In the planet I live on, consensual love/sex is generally a good thing, and violence not such a good thing. Some people just live on other planets, I guess!
The guy I was dating until recently took his four year old son to see it and thought nothing of it. Just one of the many ways in which he and I were so, so not compatible. :-)
My best friend took all 4 of her kids to see it: ages 11-2.
You couldn't PAY me to take any of my kids to see it!
Some things are too violent for kids to see. And some of those things should also be too violent for adults to see.....
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