So I found out today that the one movie I've waited all summer to see, Gamer, is rated 18A.
WHY MUST THE FILM RATERS TORTURE ME LIKE THIS?
Apparently it was rated 18A for "brutal violence". Last time I checked, District 9 has people blowing up and heads getting torn off, aliens getting shot and humans getting kicked in the heart, and that was rated 14A. Inglorious Basterds was also 14A, and it had people getting scalped and beaten to death with baseball bats and Brad Pitt carving swastikas into Nazi's heads. And yet Gamer is 18A.
I understand if it was a horror movie, with peoples limbs getting sawed off or decapitated in slow motion, but it looks like it's just people getting shot! Nothing we haven't seen before!
And there's what looks like a DANCE SEQUENCE with the guy from Dexter! Because NOTHING is more horrifying that a DANCE NUMBER.
Luckily, though, I have my ticket in. My sister, who is 16 but can look in her 20s, has agreed to take me on my birthday. At our theatre, on your birthday you get in free.
But that leaves another movie I was planning on seeing: Final Destination, also rated 18A. I guess I'll just have to rent that one.
Honestly, 14 year olds aren't going to be disturbed by violence any more. Have you seen this generation? Practically the only movies I go to see are those with brutal violence and gore. It's... in a word, interesting.
Teenagers are the crowd that will WANT to see this movie. You're not going to find many seniors watching a movie about Gerard Butler shooting people. At least, not in my neck of the woods.
I think when I'm an adult I'm going to apply to be on the movie-ratings commitee.
This prooobably means that Law Abiding Citizen (another Gerard Butler movie, set to come out in March 2010), is going to be 18A. Which sucks butt, 'cause I really want to see that one too.
I suppose until I start to look older, I'll be forced to drag my sister to all the movies that I want to see.
Anyone else who goes to see Gamer, enjoy watching Gerard Butler blasting people's intestines out with an AK-47. I know I will.
Your's in violence, gore, and excessive language,
Izzie.
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These film raters should see the crap my sister watches.
If sex is evil, her movies are straight from the Devil's rectum.
Your lament has been going on for 2 or 3 generations. We found ways to get in! If you're at a movie-plex you can try to slip in the theater for the movie you want knowing that if you're caught you'll get kicked out but also knowing that your odds of getting caught are kind of small.
And you'll think that I'm an old guy but please don't be in such a rush to grow up! There's plenty of time (decades and decades) for that.
You express yourself very well. You may have a future in the media game. Do what you love, and you will love what you do.
so wring the juice out of 14, before moving on to the charms of work, parenting, making sense out of politics and foreign affairs.
and take my word on this, watching humans get chewed up gets old very quickly. it's not something anyone should be allowed to make a living from, so spend your money elsewhere.
I have to respectfully say, I think you may have misunderstood my post. It's not that I want to be older in order to get into better movies, it's that I wish the good movies would be rated 14A so I can enjoy them now.
I'm not looking forward to adulthood at all at this point. And I knwo that violence and gore will get old sometime, but I'm at that adolescent stage where that kind of content in movies entertains me.
Thank you for your comment, though. I do appreciate any feedback of any kind!