This movie was sometimes gross but unfortunately, it was not all that frightening. The story upon which it is based is much scarier - the film could have been terrifying if it had hewed closer to the ...
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Titles You’ve Reviewed
DVD: The Haunting in Connecticut
I rate this titleiffyand give itMy concerns are:Boring Movie, Some Jump Scares
TV: Law & Order: SVU
I rate this titleoffand give itMy concerns are:- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate sexual content
Defiinitely not for young teens and younger
I had been watching the original Law and Order since I was eight or nine without issue, so my usually very cautious mother thought it would be okay for me to watch SVU starting when I was about ...
Music: Fallen
I rate this titleonand give itBeautiful but Sad Music, Some Intense Songs
Fallen features beautiful music, and a lot of it is actually positive in spite of the dark sound. The main concern for letting younger kids listen to it is the generally spooky sound of most of the ...
Music: Battlefield
I rate this titleonand give it- My highlights are:
- Good role models
Great Messages for Girls!
I get very tired of turning on the radio and hearing garbage about staying with a guy no matter how badly he treats you or how he lies to you, things like that were part of the reason I stayed with a ...
DVD: The Dark Knight
I rate this titleiffyand give itMy concerns are:- Excessive violence
Great Movie, But Definitely for Teens and Adults! (spoiler alert!)
This was an excellent movie, and definitely a must-see for people who are old enough. However, it is a very intense movie and even the good guys don't pull their punches. The Joker, of course, ...
DVD: The Dark Knight
I rate this titleiffyand give itMy concerns are:- Excessive violence
Great Movie, But Definitely for Teens and Adults! (spoiler alert!)
This was an excellent movie, and definitely a must-see for people who are old enough. However, it is a very intense movie and even the good guys don't pull their punches. The Joker, of course, ...
DVD: Schindler's List
I rate this titleiffyand give itBring a tissue box...
I bawled endlessly during this movie. Being the kind of person who cries at the end of Black Beauty, I knew there was no way I was coming away from this one unscathed. The violence is generally ...
DVD: The Golden Compass
I rate this titleiffyand give it
Comments You’ve Made
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Tips for Social Networking
Your Comments:Don't make a big deal out of it, because that could only lead to awkwardness, but casually bring up Facebook in a conversation and suggest the other mom check out her daughter's page.
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Gossip Girl Threesome Adds Up to New Low
Your Comments:This is Gossip Girl we're talking about, isn't it? Is anyone really shocked? The show is already about as trashy as you can get.
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Movie Trailer Bait and Switch
Your Comments:That's terrible, and certainly explains the traumatic 2012 trailer that ran before the PG-rated sixth Harry Potter movie. That thing made me cry! I think the MPAA has utterly lost their minds. I've thought this ever since Beowulf scraped by with a PG-13 instead of an R. I have not seen Hostel or the new Halloween II, but most people I know who have agree that both of those two films should have been NC-17. But at the same time little indie films with content that is not nearly as objectionable get slapped with R or choose to forego ratings at all, lest they meet the same fate. I've long noticed that trailers are not really "rated G" anymore, but somehow knowing that it's now official policy is even more distressing. Trailers for PG-13 and R films have always had the potential to traumatize children (yeah, ask me about the trailers for the Blair Witch Project, which came out when I was very young), and now it's going to get even worse since studios will have no restriction on the content they can put in them. The studios are partially to blame too - they should know better than to advertise in this way, but they just want money like any other business. The MPAA should be there to reign them in when it comes to marketing towards children, but obviously we can't count on that anymore.
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Full-Frontal Awkwardness
Your Comments:Bless your heart! That is terribly awkward - although, really the title should have been a wee bit of a giveaway, and you probably should have left. I've never had anything like this happen to me, although some kids I babysit did try to sucker me into letting them watch the Dark Knight, but I said no. (The little girl picked up the box and was so frightened by the Joker's picture she dropped it - which convinced her she didn't really want to see the movie after all.) However, before I was born, my mother took my cousin (then two) to see Gremlins, having seen cute little Gizmo on the trailers. My cousin spent most of the movie hiding under her magic blanket. As for the people who are complaining about the prudishness of American culture in regards to nudity - you have every right to make that decision for your own household, and we won't judge you. However, you don't have a right to judge people who don't think long, painful close-ups of penises are appropriate for their children. The author of this article was not behaving ridiculously - she wouldn't want her kid to see a penis and she knew the little girl's parents wouldn't want it either, her reaction was perfectly normal and healthy. I think the human body of both sexes are lovely and sexuality is a beautiful gift from God that bring happiness when used properly, but that doesn't mean I want either nudity or sex depicted on screen and if I accidentally brought a young kid I was babysitting to a movie featuring sex and/or nudity I would be horrified!
