The Film Thugs Movie Show

The MPAA has the easiest fallback defense; “we have to protect children from harmful images.” This doesn’t really leave any room for disagreement. “Oh, so you want children to have access to hardcore pornography?” Of course you don’t. The fact that they already do isn’t something that is brought up very often.

This is more of a question of who controls content.

We have seceded parental responsibility to an absolutely frightening level.

My parents never placed the power to decide my viewing outside the house. They talked to me, they educated me, they trusted the way they raised me enough that movies weren’t a threat. They made sure I understood that there was a difference between the film world and the real world, made sure I understood that there were consequences for every action, and made sure I had a moral center in my life that would not allow a 90 minute piece of entertainment to damage me.

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It comes down to a question of who decides what you get to see. I know that the MPAA cannot prevent a movie from being released but the fact that most theatres are bound by its arbitrarily applied rules can prevent a movie from being seen in most theatres.

The MPAA has far more power over what we see then most people realize.

It’s the studio attachment that people seem to miss. It is widely reported that the MPAA has a policy of not giving notes or specific reasons for its ratings, That policy only seems to apply to independent features, as most studio productions do, in fact, receive very specific feedback that allows the filmmakers to get the ratings they desire.

How precisely is a G movie different from a PG move? How is a PG movie different from a PG-13 movie? And how does a PG-13 cross into R territory?

Toy Story 3- G

Ratatouille- G

Toy Story- G

Toy Story 2- G

Monsters Inc- G (Theatre and Disney Channel), PG (ABC)

Finding Nemo- G

Cars- G

Wall-E- G

A Bugs Life- G

The Incredibles- PG

Up- PG

Shrek- PG

Shrek 2- PG

Shrek 3- PG

What makes all three “Toy Story” movies, “Monsters Inc.,” “Finding Nemo,” “A Bugs Life,” “Ratatouille,” “Wall-E,” and “Cars,” different from the “Shrek” films, “Up,” and “The Incredibles?”

All the moves in the first group are rated “G” and the second group are all “PG.” Can you tell me why?

The reasons range from “some peril and action,”to “action violence and potentially unsettling scenes.” It is also possible that “Shrek” got the rating for the inclusion of the word “damn.”

So “Up” has more perilous action than the toy story movies? Is it because it involves people who aren’t real instead of anthropomorphic fish, bugs, and toys? I am not saying right or wrong here, I am saying that it doesn’t make sense. There is noting in “Up” that comes even close to the “peril” of the recycling center scene in “Toy Story 3.”

Daniel Day-Lewis is playing Lincoln. How do I feel about a Brit playing such an important American? Dude, someone could write a part specifically for me and end up giving it to Day-Lewis and I’d be ok with it.

http://news-briefs.ew.com/2009/04/21/pixar-up-pg/