Mary Beth, better late then never. Hollywood is all about sex. Check those web sites.
I am outraged at the amount of sex that was thrown at my children during the movie Marley and Me .
It may not be offensive to parents with teens, but with my young children, I was very uncomfortable.
First, I blame myself for trusting the rating PG. This is the last time. I'm usually pretty vigilant when it comes to movies. I check online Web sites to see if movies are appropriate for my children before I take them.
My husband and I, unfortunately, got caught up in the previews and marketing and thought this would be a good family movie. Hollywood marketed this movie for the young at Christmas time for goodness' sake! It's about a man, his family and the love for their dog. How in the world could this scenario be a bad movie?
This matched our family to a "T," or so we thought. So we took our children to see this movie the day after Christmas and we seriously thought about walking out after the second implied sex scene. Not only do they talk about sex the entire movie, it is also implied all throughout and the visuals were too much for a PG.
It could have been a wonderful family movie, but Hollywood again turned it into another sex-filled movie.
Thanks to Hollywood and its rating system I will never trust PG to mean family friendly.
I will again return to my system of the wonderful rating systems I've found online which are the Catholic Bishops Reviews and the Kids-in-Mind movie rating system.
I only hope that we weren't the only parents who felt this way in a theater full of children. What a shame they were all exposed to this senselessness. Thank God the couple was married.
Mary Beth Welch
Augusta
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Mary Beth, better late then never. Hollywood is all about sex. Check those web sites.
I saw this movie and apparently missed the sex. come on.. lighten up. I'm sure you would have found The Ten Commandments offensive because of their skimpy costumes.
Maybe you should've chosen another movie that opened on Christmas day, something else fuzzy and heart-warming maybe, like the one about trying to blow up Hitler.
This movie was approved by Barry Obama. He feels it a part of his sex education plan for da chillin. Never too early to start is his philosophy.
Mary Beth the ratings for movies have been up-graded so that the PG movies were once what PG13 used to be...I have found it quite useful to look up exactly what the movies have in the way of language, sex, and violence online before I attend the theater, rent or buy movies...
So what part of Parental Guidance don't you understand?
"for thematic material, some suggestive content and language" Hollywood has done all it needs to do other than raise your kids for you. The world's going to hell-in-a-handbasket and only this paper would print this drivel in the editorial space.
Try http://www.kids-in-mind.com before you go with the "family" to the movies again.
ANother good web site to check is Focus on the Family. They have a section called Plugged In Magazine and gives details of the sex both factual and insinuated, language, violence. My parents were going to take my 4 year old to see this because she wants a dog, but when I read the review and saw that in the end the dog dies... I said "let's go see Tales of Desparuex instead. Not a great movie for my parents, but much more appropriate for the youngest grandchild.
It was just a bad movie. Rent it and save the money.
Mary Beth, I completely agree with you. 99% of the time, I look up a movie to see what language etc it contains. However, since this was pushed as PG and 'a great family' movie, I kind of went with it. I am not naive, however, I felt it was way too much sex for my 10 year old. We actually left the theater. As one poster noted "some suggestive content and language" usually goes over my child's head. However, not a few mintues into the movie they are talking about sex, sex and more sex. "There is a naked woman lying on the bed waiting for you", squeaking bed springs (we all know what that means, lol. ) It was so much, one line right after the next. Just take heed if you take a child under the age of late 12-13 years of age. If I had not taken my child, I think I would have enjoyed the film.
Mrs. Welch...the movie was rated PG not G. PG clearly states some suggestive content and language. For you to act like this was a shock to you is unbelievable! Your "young children" obviously need to only go to G rated movies. Or if you're thinking about taking them to a PG movie you need to do what my sister did when her children were young, she went to see the movie BEFORE she took her kids to it. I agree with JC...you have nothing to gripe about. Sorry but this editorial is useless!
A PG-rated motion picture should be investigated by parents before they let their younger children attend. The PG rating indicates, in the view of the Rating Board, that parents may consider some material unsuitable for their children, and parents should make that decision. The more mature themes in some PG-rated motion pictures may call for parental guidance. There may be some profanity and some depictions of violence or brief nudity. But these elements are not deemed so intense as to require that parents be strongly cautioned beyond the suggestion of parental guidance. There is no drug use content in a PG-rated motion picture.A G-rated motion picture contains nothing in theme, language, nudity, sex, violence or other matters that, in the view of the Rating Board, would offend parents whose younger children view the motion picture. The G rating is not a "certificate of approval," nor does it signify a "children's" motion picture. Some snippets of language may go beyond polite conversation but they are common everyday expressions. No stronger words are present in G-rated motion pictures. Depictions of violence are minimal. No nudity, sex scenes or drug use are present in the movie.
Bizarro: Are you really as ignorant as your comments suggest? You really need to get over the election thing kiddo...
Botton line seems to be that Mary Beth is whining that she failed to do her homework and now wants to blame the theatre, the producers, the actors ... anyone but herself. When you have young children better do some serious checking before going to any move including G rated. Hollywood types have a different moral code than those of us in the Bible Belt.
Why anyone would pay good money to see Jennifer Aniston "act" is beyond me. She was a doofus in Friends, and she was a doofus in every other movie she's been in. The woman cannot act!
Bizarro, please tell me you really don't believe that nonsense you just spewed forth. The "sex education" in which you are referring to is not to teach children the nitty gritty details of sex. The education for children is so that they will know if an adult touches them improperly. If you have a problem with that, I can only assume you are a child molester or worse.
What did she think PG meant? Why on earth would she think that was a family-friendly movie suitable for young children? The book- which was excellent, by the way- is written by an adult, for adults. She needs to buy or borrow the book "Bad Dog, Marley" which is written for young children. I read it to several kindergarten classes. It was a huge hit. BTW, SouthernLady, you would be amazed at just how much some kindergarteners know about the nitty-gritty details of sex, which they happily share with the class.
"A B&B John and Jen stay in during a trip to Ireland is heavily adorned with Catholic figurines and paintings of everyone from Jesus and Mary to the Pope." Notice FOF calls it "Catholic", not Christian. We know where they stand.
"Each class or course in comprehensive sex
education offered in any of grades K 6 through 12 shall
include instruction on the prevention of sexually transmitted
infections, including the prevention, transmission and spread
of HIV AIDS."---------- That is verbatim from the bill that Obama supported. Don't sound like it's just "inappropriate touching" to me.
PG as a movie rating means "Parental Guidance". Just because it has a mature representation of married life doesn't mean it is a bad movie, nor does it mean it is not for children. If a particular parent thinks children should not be exposed to any hint of intimacy in a marriage, he should do his homework before attending the movie for any rating other than a G.
Mary Beth Welch. You stayed the entire movie ? Oh, yea. That movie started gettng good to you.
I think that this editorial is a warning for parents who make the same mistake Mary Beth made. Be warned of PG not family friendly.
Whats funny is that she is going to depend on the Catholic Church to tell her what movies to go see... why don't you just role over and let them stomp on the other side of your face while you're down there
Some of you have apparently lost your sense of humor which apparently reflects a similar lack of intellect. I was kiddin-it is the Bizarro thing that and mocking you mainly under-educated ignorant imbeciles. Sorry I tried cogent arguments and realized the audience here is that of a grade schooler.
If you want a family-friendly perspective on the weekend's new releases, you should listen to the Plugged-In Movie Review from Focus on the Family. It airs every Friday at 7:10 AM on Family-Friendly 88.3 WAFJ. Bob (the reviewer) did not recommend this one for families.
I am glad I read this because I started to take my 6 and 11 year olds to see it thinking it was like a "Disney" fun family movie by the ads we saw. Now, if we need a movie to add more smut to our daily lives, I know which one to pick. (Not!) We get enough smut on regular television, I sure don't plan to pay good money for more of it. (That's what we're going to the movie to get away from).Good Luck Mary Beth, I think the comments show that nobody cares and this will be a lonely uphill fight for us. Hollywood should wake and see that the good parents who care are willing to pay well for clean entertainment for the kids because kids are not ready for the harshness of the "Real World" just yet. It is a shame when 6 year olds cuss and talk about sex, that is just not messed up.
PG means parental guidance suggested. before you take your childern to a PG movie, it means read more about the movie before you bring you childern...hum
If it was that bad and you sat there and let your kids watch it anyway what does that say about your parenting skills? Nobody forced you to go and nobody forced you to stay. Quit blaming everything on someone else and take some responsibility for your own actions. That's why they have doors at the movies. You can get up and leave anytime you want. That's why they have a place to change channels on a television or even turn it off. I am kinda sick of the PC crap we all must deal with everyday. The only way your children are not gonna be exposed to sex and violence is to lock them up in a closet. I bet you they hear worse things in school everyday than what they heard in that movie. Next time get up and leave instead of boring us to tears with a waste of space LTE such as this.
Another lesson learned...if we are to be True Christians and/or good moral compasses for our children then perhaps movie going should not be a part of our lifestyle. Problem is we try to have a foot in each world and its just not gonna work. In reality, all you are seeing is immoral men and women playing the rolls of immoral men and women.
What's your gripe, Marybeth? If you watch the "cartoons" on TV, the content has a great deal of violence in them; some are suggestive as well. I suppose it is how you view what is fun and what is not fun--and Hollywoood no longer produces 'fun.' By the way, PG means PARENTAL GUIDANCE, which indicates there may be something other than juvenile visuals involved, so you have no one else but yourself to blame for the 'error.'
We all know this "movie" has been doctored up on the holiday ads. I agree that it sux. It also is not appropriate for smaller kids. It sems like we are losing our morals every day. What next, an r rated porn? ........ Oh shut up you freaks.
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