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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[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.