So, yeah, PG-13

[pegkerr]

Delia is so not seeing this movie.

And she is going to be so pissed at me when I tell her so. *Sigh*

Edited to add: I just told her. She cried awfully hard.

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[kokopoko.livejournal.com]

Yeah Rachael's not seeing it either and she's upset.

[amethistdolphin.livejournal.com]

Ouch! Good Luck!

Anyway... is it good?

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

That's hard to answer, because it's just such a mixed bag. Parts of it were excellent, but they were mixed with such an awful script, that I just kept falling out of the story. It didn't cast the spell over me that I hoped it would, which was awfully disappointing.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Yes. This exactly. I don't like to have to struggle to stay in the magic.

[amethistdolphin.livejournal.com]

Ugh that is very disapointing to hear.. I'll have to wait to see it thogh... the queues are way too long here. =(

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Do let me know what you think of it when you see it.

[amethistdolphin.livejournal.com]

Will do!

A movie that surprised me when I didnt expect was the phantom of the opera...hehe sad I know, I love Musicals!!! hehe

[laurel]

Yeah. Ebert & Roeper had said that most kids wouldn't have trouble with it.

So when I saw it myself, I was surprised. I knew the film would be dark out of necessity and I knew a lot of what the last fight would involve, but still.

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

I felt very comfortable advising my friend with the nine-year-old that she possibly wanted to wait on this.

[psychic-serpent.livejournal.com]

Luckily my Rachel isn't particularly interested (she fell asleep watching the Clones on DVD) and neither am I (the Clones were pretty narcolepsy-inducing to me as well). I can wait for the DVD, and the advantages to that from her standpoint are a) she'll be older (definitely past her eleventh birthday) when the DVD comes out, and b) any intense scenes can be stilled while we take a break and then come back to it later. (This was how Ben first viewed the FoTR, for instance, as well as TTT.) Ben wants to see it, of course, being a nearly thirteen-year-old boy, and I think his dad wants to as well, so we'll just treat this as a Guy Movie for now and pair of them can go off and see it together.

[pinkfinity.livejournal.com]

Which part cinched it for you?

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

That she shouldn't see it? I wavered throughout the movie, but the maiming and barbecuing of Anikin, I think. Even though she knows that's what's involved, I don't want those images rattling around in her brain. We took her to see Phantom, and she was terribly frightening by the Phantom's unmasking, which, when you think of it, involved a deformity to about 1/4 of the character's face. Much worse to see terrible injuries happening, all over the body.

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

I think you're wise. The Phantom's deformity was laughably mild (Cleolinda referred to it as a bad sunburn), while Vader's little problem was played to the hilt, complete with screams of pain.

Also, in the future nobody gets prenatal care.

Speaking of which, this week my daughter (14) went to an assembly in which teen parents explained why teen parenthood was bad. They did this by telling horror stories about childbirth; she came home and was nervously asking questions about vaginal tearing. I did my best to talk her down. Bad enough when people tell these stories to pregnant adults...

[callunav.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm an adult (mostly, anyhow - as much as time can make me) and I didn't like Phantom Menace, didn't manage to see the second movie which I still can't believe was named that, and didn't really have any plans to see the third movie unless I can do so for less than $5 at some point, but--your description gave me the shivers. Bleah.

I know, though I sometimes worry about it anyhow, that there are thick-skinned, blase kids out there who have been desensitized enough to media violence or have too much comon sense or something to be able to watch something like that without being upset by it. But you already have evidene that she isn't one of them. So, go you.

I'm tempted to send you a pirated set of Miyazake movies for Delia in compensation, but I don't know if she'd like subtitled things, and I don't have the dubs. Alas. And they're not much like Star Wars in the movie theater, anyhow.

[king-tirian.livejournal.com]

The whole thing is sinister. Next week on the playgound, every eight year-old who didn't see the movie is going to be called a baby by every eight year-old who did. I don't blame them for making the movie they wanted to make, but they really should have toned down the full saturation marketing campaign for a movie that not every family would be able to experience.

[morganmalfoy.livejournal.com]

Well, I've been going around telling everyone to read the book...maybe you could read it and see if you think it would be too much for her, and then at least she would get something.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

That's not a bad idea, actually.

I will get her Patricia C. Wrede's version when it comes out. She loved her Enchanted Forest Chronicles, and we know Pat.

[scott-lynch.livejournal.com]

Jen and I just got back from seeing it. I think you made the right call.

Anakin's fate was pretty gruesome, and the scenes where the purge of the Jedi was carried out were extremely intense.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Ogh. Maybe I don't want to let myself see it.

[norabombay.livejournal.com]

I didn't make it through the film.

I left after Mace Windu died. It was that bad.

Promise a rewatch of the original 3?

A rental of the dvd of something else? Because this was terrible. And I at 28 didn't make it to the end...

By the time the DVD comes out, she should be up to the good parts version.