Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: movie review

[Bombadil (bombadil]

> My 10yo son was very frightened by this movie, even though he is not
> bothered by cartoonish violence in martial-arts movies and has a great time.
> I was angered not so much by the questionable rating, but by the fact that
> the movie was marketed to children at all. Before it came out, I heard
> nothing at all about how violent it was, from *any* source. I was online
> downloading email from a parenting list I belong to when one of the other
> parents said not to let a child see the movie. My son was at the movie at
> the time! I'm still pissed about it.


First of all, I loved the movie and have seen it twice. The first 
experience is very intense, but the second time I was much more aware of 
the balance between quiet and intense episodes, and some of the really 
wonderful, nuanced acting. LOTR is a classic quest story, so it is made up 
of one peril after another.

As implied above, I think the reason it was potentially upsetting is how 
real the world and the characters were. Though scary and violent, it was 
not particularly graphic as action films go. I have seen many gorier films 
with PG-13 ratings.

I saw it opening weekend. I don't have kids so I'm not particularly attuned 
to parental warnings, but I had already heard from several sources that it 
was not appropriate for young kids. I can understand a parents distress 
though. And kids going to inappropriate movies is nothing new. I still 
remember baby-sitting for a terrified child who had spent the afternoon at 
a birthday party where they had taken a bunch of 8-year-olds to see 
Hitchcock's The Birds!

Linda Hobbet
(yes that's my real name, so I admit to some bias. Though in many ways I 
think it inclined me to be supercritical, not super accepting of what they 
did with MY story :-))

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