Heads up on Star Wars (No Spoilers)

[dark-blade.livejournal.com]

Just a heads up to folks with kids/littles/etc in their system... (or outside children of their own)

BELIEVE the PG-13 rating. It earned it. Be cautious about letting in system littles see it, I suggest screening for internal and physical small children...

EDIT: It's not due to sexual things, but graphic violence and a rather horrific thing that occured off screen, but you dang well KNOW what happened...

EDIT #2: AAGGH. I'm not saying littles and kids CAN'T see it just that it earned the rating so.. oh forgot it. If you're under the age of 13 and saw it and were fine, more power to you. The younger kids in our system were upset, so we thought we'd just mention that it wasn't just borderline for being past PG. SORRY. ~_~ Yes, we liked the film, yes, we recommend it.

Comments

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

If it's that bad, do I want to see it?

[dark-blade.livejournal.com]

I don't have a clue as to your tastes... *L*

It's a very well done film. However, there are a couple graphic areas, and also if you're able to understand some of what occured off screen...

Granted, you cannot go into this movie expecting happy triumph and joy. It's a dark film. I mean, it's ABOUT Anakin's fall. And it's well done. I just heard a lot of folks sayin it probably only barely got the rating, and.. yeah. Granted, I tend to react more emotionally to fiction than I probably ought and might be blowing it slightly out of proportion, I just don't want people to dismiss the rating.

[drlainaphd.livejournal.com]

Sorry if I'm drawing out potential spoilers, but is it cos of violence or sexual content? Or both?

[dark-blade.livejournal.com]

Violence, though some of it offscreen, and the graphic nature of some injury. In terms of sexual content, nah.

[sethrenn.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, we could screen it to see if it's awful *enough* for some of the kids in here to be interested... ;)

[idianshire.livejournal.com]

I dont get why people think us kids will be scared by stuff on a movie. I know we not meant to talk about abuse stuff here but I seed a lot of bad stuff in my life seeing it in make believe isn't like it is real. Maybe I jsut a weird kid who doesn't like barbie dolls and bunnies -pumpkn

[kangetsuhime.livejournal.com]

Some people have a lot of problems with it. Lu is very strong in that regard, and often winds up with terrible nightmares, and waking visions after a bad film. Event Horizon messed her up pretty badly, and the Ring gave her nightmares.

[dark-blade.livejournal.com]

My kids have been through a lot of things too, but they hid on my husband's arm for a few minutes, and cried at several parts of the film. For that matter, I'm an adult and I cried sometimes. (Quietly. Heh.)

I'm not saying that oh my gosh you should not see it ever because It IS Not Safe or somesuch, just that I advise people who are bigger to see it and determine if it is right for you. Y'all are free to not take the advice though. ^_^

[idianshire.livejournal.com]

WE just got up a wee bit ago and I am still all sleepy.I wasn't mad that you wrote that stuff it just confuses me I hear it alot, littles becareful, not senstive people becareful, like being a kid makes you scareder. But it wasn't me say oh you should not have said it was a scary movie

[dark-blade.livejournal.com]

Okies ^_^ Sorry, we posted a note elsewhere cause some people we know have kids and we just wanted to give heads up. It seems lots of people think movies get higher ratings now because someone's being stodgy about it, or maybe it had one too many bits of violence to make the lower rating. We just wanted to explain that it's not the case with this movie. :) If you're good to go on that sort of thing, power to you!

One of my friends at the comic shop went to the matinee, and said parents were leaving with their kids left and right... we just... yeah.

*shifty eyes*

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

This sounds like what happened with Gremlins. Which we are all unanimous in wanting never to see after what Ellison had to say about it. Email us if you want to know (not because it's so gruesome but because we're trying to keep these posts short and on topic, not get sidetracked).

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

The problem we would have is that if any of us see it, everybody gets wind of it -- it's the way our system communication is set up, it's like why we can't hide birthday presents.

And like Gabe pointed out -- it's not necessarily the kids. He dislikes overly violent films. The kids don't mind 'em, mostly find them boring.

To our kids, the real horror is Disney. I won't go into how or why, it'd take too long, but they unanimously hate it.

[spookshow-girl.livejournal.com]

*laughs* It's okay. PG-13 was okay for me when I was a kid. I wasn't keen on being forced to watch some rated R movies, but we did enjoy some horror when we were little. Firestarter, Cats Eye, Christine, and Aliens were among our favorites, although I wasn't fond of watching Christine without an adult around.

It's not too weird to not be scared of movies when you are little. We turned out perfectly normal. ;)

--Me

[kangetsuhime.livejournal.com]

I'd heard that. For once George Lucas said "Sod you mum's complaining about wanting to take your two year old, this film will be made the way it was meant to be." Good on him. Dark and wangst and evil, just that way films should be.

[ambersarchives.livejournal.com]

One of the little girls, Meghan, watched the movie most of the way through. She kinda gasped at one part in the beginning (because of violence). She fell asleep towards the end. Janessa had to turn her eyes away at the very end of the movie for one part she thought was gory (she's very sensitive to that kind of stuff).

~Mindy

[shatterstorm.livejournal.com]

The relationship between anakin and palpatine disturbed our kids more than any of the other stuff. But YYMV, there's loads of violence, injury due to fire, limbs lost, and a rather sick scene in a nursery.

[kasiya-system.livejournal.com]

We didn't think it was that bad (other than story continuity problems). The only squeamish scene was with Anakin there near the end. The thing with the kids was never shown on screen. It was only hinted at and then briefly brought up later.

[dark-blade.livejournal.com]

Perhaps we just have too good an imagination. There were other things that bothered them, but I was avoiding details there...

[jenscovia.livejournal.com]

agreed.

we thought that the movie was incredbile. even the youngest ones. we think it let the audience more easily identify with anakin/vadar.

[shatterstorm.livejournal.com]

What bothered us about it wasn't what wasn't shown. It was the trust and lack of comprehension the kids showed. The scene with the separatists/traders/etc didn't bug them.

[jenscovia.livejournal.com]

um, hello? it's the story about darth vadar's rise. why would it not be violent?

*scratches head*

besides we can take care of ourselves.

k. thanx. bye.

[shatterstorm.livejournal.com]

We did overall like the movie. It was way better than the last two, even the lovescenes were tolerable. And Grievious should have had more screen time!