I use kids-in-mind.com and commonsensemedia.com. Kids-in-mind gives every teeny tiny detail, over-the-top really. I like that, because then I know that I have been alerted to any thing I would possibly find objectionable.
I use kids-in-mind.com and commonsensemedia.com. Kids-in-mind gives every teeny tiny detail, over-the-top really. I like that, because then I know that I have been alerted to any thing I would possibly find objectionable.
From the reviews, what's acceptable and what's not?
From the reviews, what's acceptable and what's not?
I've been thinking about how to answer the question you posed in the first post. I hesitate to say 'we never.... yada yada.....' because I'd hate to say that and later realize - "Oh, yeah, we did watch that one..."
We're pretty picky. For the most part, no sex scenes, period. Don't want to watch adulterous scenes portrayed in a positive light, either.
It's hard to just give you a hard and fast rule that we follow, because there might be occasional exceptions. But for the most part, no sex scenes. Or a bunch of sexual innuendos. We like our movies clean.
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watched this movie called Trick or Treat, kind of a campy/goofy/scary flick. Noone seemed to mind the violence, but one scene where this woman becomes a werewolf and showed some skin and it was like "fast forward this stuff" from the women, but the one who complained the most about it was the married guy.
My family has always drawn the line at R rated movies. We don't watch anything past PG-13. The only exception has been "The Passion of the Christ". There are some really good movies that I would like to see that I'm sure are only "R" because of violence, but that is just a line that we've drawn and so we hold to it. It keeps us from getting in compromising situations with movies.
We generally judge a movie by the content rather than the rating. I have let both my kids watch The Patriot (R rating), Cody has watched Saving Private Ryan, Braveheart, Gladiator, etc. all rated R.
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I think there are several issues here- You can say no sex scenes, etc. but I was driving in downtown DC last week and followed a bus for about 3 miles (no choice, traffic). The advertisement on the back of the bus had a picture of two men, in a clothed, yet sensual position saying "Every BODY deserves love- get tested today". I was appalled, disgusted, and thinking, if I had small children in the car I would not want to explain it to them. It's everywhere, unfortunately.
We are considered "over the top" by my kids friends, concerning what we do and do not allow, but our kids don't seem to mind that much as long as we explain our reasons, they usually don't complain too much.
On another note- I had a talk recently with my daughter about Harlequin romances (and similar novels), I explained to her that they are essentially "porn for women", they create expectations that our husbands cannot live up to- so we need to be aware of what we put into our heads and hearts, not just HOW we put it in.
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