Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: movie review

[Kevin Wolf (kjwolf]

At 08:43 AM 1/23/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> Just a word of warning to any other parents out there considering taking a 
> young child to Lord of the Rings.  I thought it was absolutely awful, and 
> really wish we had paid attention to the PG13 rating before taking Eliot, 
> our 8 year old son.  Personally, I think it should be an R rating - and 
> personally I think it is just a really bad movie, inappropriate for any age!

My 13 year old who loved the book thought the movie too violent.  I thought 
it was the best adaptation of a book to a movie I have ever seen.  When 
reading we can add as much gore to our imagination as we want. On the 
screen it is right there to see.  I knew the PG-13 rating was for violence, 
not sex.   I wouldn't have taken her if she was much younger because I know 
how she doesn't like to see movies that give her bad dreams. I think the 
PG-13 warning is a good one and more parents should abide by it.  But 
rating a fantasy movie of good versus evil R for that level of violence 
would be excessive.

Kevin 
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