Current Mood: Confused
A few months back I was going to take the kids to see the new Harry Potter movie. When my ex-wife found out, she registered her displeasure and it finally came down to me agreeing that if the kids had nightmares I would get a phone call to talk them down from it.
I read that particular HP book, and except for near the end it was actually less scary than the previous few of the series…it was PG when the previous few were PG-13. There were no nightmares.
A few weeks ago Geoffrey told me he had watched the first part of The Dark Knight at a friend’s house and his mum got mad. I, too, was unhappy to hear that, as that movie is too dark for a 7-year-old, IMO.
So, it seems that PG movies are okay and PG-13 are not. But wait! Here are a list of PG-13 movies I would let my kids watch:
Ever After
Fantastic Four
Goldeneye
Pirates of the Caribbean
Spiderman
Stardust
Star Trek
X-Men
How can those movies be counted in the same list as 1408, The Dark Knight, and The Ring? The ratings system is just nuts.