QOTW: Movie Ratings & Rules
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QOTW: Movie Ratings & Rules
| Mon, 10-30-2006 - 7:21am |
Our Question of the Week for this week is the following:
(submitted by a board member--thanks)
What about the rating of movies & shows, do you limit what rating is watched and what guidelines do you go by?
Movies have gotten so different with content then they used to be---things that are rated PG & PG-13 are a lot different than they used to be!
So share with us what your rules

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I used to have a strict rule: only G and PG movies. But as my kids have gotten older, I allow a little more freedom, but I don't really have a rule that says they can watch *all* PG-13 movies. Instead, I look at the reviews of whatever they want to see--in particular, I use a couple of Christian websites that review movies--and we decide together whether the movie is worth seeing.
The ratings are good for telling you about the violence, sex, swearing, drinking, but they're not so good at telling you whether the movie will be edifying in any way or have any redeeming qualities to offset the bad ones. My concerns have more to do with the world view of the movie than how many f-words there are, although a lot of those are certainly indicative of a messed up world view.
I've found that a lot of the PG movies from the late 70s and early 80s are absolutely full of bad language and general rudeness, and I'd rather my kids watch a more contemporary PG-13 movie with a better message.
*the punishment was swift and painful, not physical of course, but painful none the less. The friends went home and were angry at me, but they came back to play DDR another day, I made them food like I always do and all was fine. I miss those days as my girls are college age now and we no longer have "the gang" hanging out.
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