Comments on: The MPAA knows good torture from bad http://www.johnsenclan.com/wordpress/2008/01/07/the-mpaa-knows-good-torture-from-bad/ Ooooh, Aaah. That comes first. Then later there's running and screaming. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:59:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: jeremy http://www.johnsenclan.com/wordpress/2008/01/07/the-mpaa-knows-good-torture-from-bad/#comment-1348 jeremy Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:09:27 +0000 http://www.johnsenclan.com/wordpress/2008/01/07/the-mpaa-knows-good-torture-from-bad/#comment-1348 I've used that site as well Josh. Although it points out stuff that would never bother me, it's useful to see beyond the MPAA warning of 'adult situations'. I enjoyed that as well Jamie, even though the MPAA makes themselves out to be the people that will protect your children, often they don't have children of their own. I'm supposed to trust someone like that to decide what is ok for my daughter to watch? I'd like to think I can figure it out for myself. We do the same thing with video games. Sidney loves playing, but every game she's played is something I've looked into to make sure it fits the environment we want her to be in. I’ve used that site as well Josh. Although it points out stuff that would never bother me, it’s useful to see beyond the MPAA warning of ‘adult situations’.

I enjoyed that as well Jamie, even though the MPAA makes themselves out to be the people that will protect your children, often they don’t have children of their own. I’m supposed to trust someone like that to decide what is ok for my daughter to watch? I’d like to think I can figure it out for myself. We do the same thing with video games. Sidney loves playing, but every game she’s played is something I’ve looked into to make sure it fits the environment we want her to be in.

]]> By: Jamie http://www.johnsenclan.com/wordpress/2008/01/07/the-mpaa-knows-good-torture-from-bad/#comment-1347 Jamie Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:30:45 +0000 http://www.johnsenclan.com/wordpress/2008/01/07/the-mpaa-knows-good-torture-from-bad/#comment-1347 Good post. I thought This Movie Is Not Yet Rated was pretty enlightening, too. The violence/sex standards always dismay and aggravate me the most. Show a breast in a sexual context, and that's bad, bad, bad. Show someone stabbing a breast, and that's okay. Or at least not as bad. I don't want my young kids watching either, but it just highlights how useless the system is for making any kind of less global distinctions. My favorite part was how they hired private investigators to discover the identities of some of the MPAA reviewers and then found out some of them either had no kids or had kids who were adults at this point. Your comparisons of the posters above is spot-on, too. Good post. I thought This Movie Is Not Yet Rated was pretty enlightening, too. The violence/sex standards always dismay and aggravate me the most. Show a breast in a sexual context, and that’s bad, bad, bad. Show someone stabbing a breast, and that’s okay. Or at least not as bad. I don’t want my young kids watching either, but it just highlights how useless the system is for making any kind of less global distinctions.

My favorite part was how they hired private investigators to discover the identities of some of the MPAA reviewers and then found out some of them either had no kids or had kids who were adults at this point.

Your comparisons of the posters above is spot-on, too.

]]> By: josh http://www.johnsenclan.com/wordpress/2008/01/07/the-mpaa-knows-good-torture-from-bad/#comment-1346 josh Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:06:41 +0000 http://www.johnsenclan.com/wordpress/2008/01/07/the-mpaa-knows-good-torture-from-bad/#comment-1346 I'm not opposed entirely to watching r rated movies. A couple websites I frequently visit detail what makes a movie receive its rating. One is kids-in-mind.org, which describes every possibly offensive scene so you can know what a movie will be like. One such description is as follows: ► Women wear low-cut dresses and tops that reveal cleavage. "This Film is Not Yet Rated" was enlightening. It's amazing how partisan and even bigoted the MPAA can seem. Brooke would probably want me to disclaimer that she does not watch R rated movies at all. I’m not opposed entirely to watching r rated movies. A couple websites I frequently visit detail what makes a movie receive its rating. One is kids-in-mind.org, which describes every possibly offensive scene so you can know what a movie will be like. One such description is as follows:

► Women wear low-cut dresses and tops that reveal cleavage.

“This Film is Not Yet Rated” was enlightening. It’s amazing how partisan and even bigoted the MPAA can seem.

Brooke would probably want me to disclaimer that she does not watch R rated movies at all.

]]> By: Mom http://www.johnsenclan.com/wordpress/2008/01/07/the-mpaa-knows-good-torture-from-bad/#comment-1344 Mom Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:28:11 +0000 http://www.johnsenclan.com/wordpress/2008/01/07/the-mpaa-knows-good-torture-from-bad/#comment-1344 Creepy posters - every one of them. I would say the least objectionable is the last one, but I can't understand how the top row passed the muster. Creepy posters - every one of them. I would say the least objectionable is the last one, but I can’t understand how the top row passed the muster.

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