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Post by havedunter74 on Aug 8, 2008 4:26:54 GMT -5
over in jolly old england The daily mail has been running articles about the age rating of the dark knight (its a 12A) over here and theres been alot of arguments about the film being unsuitable for kids. and because of the Joker's fetish for knives its encouraging kids to use knives for crime etc......
I agree it is a violent film and not suitable for young children but to say its encouraging kids to use knives is ridiculous.
has there been any stories like this in the USA guys?
im just interested to see if its just us small minded english folk.
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Post by All Star Batman on Aug 8, 2008 12:27:46 GMT -5
I haven't heard about anything like that in the US, but I wouldn't be suprised if there were. Yes, it is a violent film and not intended for children, but they actually think that they would start playing with knives because the Joker does? For god's sakes, parents like that should just explain to their children what's good and what's bad and not blame movies, or TV for that matter.
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Post by snooch2dnooch on Aug 8, 2008 12:35:11 GMT -5
this kind of problem has been around for as long as movies have been around. people are going to use movies as a scapegoat because they are too weak to take responsibility for their own actions. if you do some research, you'll see that A Clockwork Orange, Taxi Driver, and Natural Born Killers (just to name a few) have all come under fire in the media for 'causing' violence. i have seen these movies, and i don't believe any of them encourage violence, let alone glorify it. taxi driver especially shows how ugly and horrible violence is. the dark knight is being hit with this right now because it's popular. if it were a smaller film, trust me, you wouldn't hear a thing about it.
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Post by Dark Nightwing on Aug 8, 2008 19:00:04 GMT -5
Well, the English have always been extremely concerned about violence. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was renamed Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles and the Nanchaku were edited out. Only recently has this changed. The Australians have a similar view about violence. America is generally okay with violence.
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Post by All Star Batman on Aug 8, 2008 22:03:30 GMT -5
Mutant Ninja Turtles was renamed Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles and the Nanchaku were edited out. Seriously? Ah carumba.
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Post by batmaster on Aug 9, 2008 9:58:29 GMT -5
Here is the dark knight 16+!
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Post by Doomsday on Aug 9, 2008 10:27:30 GMT -5
Here (USA) there have been some talks about it being too intense for PG-13.
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Post by Jack the Skull on Aug 9, 2008 11:17:46 GMT -5
[shadow=red,left,300]In Canada, It's rated PG! If you think there is controversy in the U.S.A or England about the rating, come up North! Our critics are idiots![/shadow]
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Post by BruceBatman on Aug 9, 2008 18:23:49 GMT -5
Yeah, I think TDK is a little too intense for the little kids! Not so much because the Joker carries too many knives but because it show some pretty gruesme stuff like the pencil trick, two-face, the Joker's face, the stomach the Joker cut open, etc.
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Post by Dark Nightwing on Aug 9, 2008 21:10:25 GMT -5
Mutant Ninja Turtles was renamed Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles and the Nanchaku were edited out. Seriously? Ah carumba. I read about it online. While that doesn't necessarily make it true, it did have a picture of the edited logo. The word Ninja was inappropriate. I think that is just crazy. Being a 20 year old college student with no children likely to comeabout in the near and even not so near future, I can't really give a valid opinion on the appropriateness of TDK. I do not like people "dumbing down" television for children. Kids are far smarter than adults realize. From this standpoint, I would rather kids see TDK than something like B&R. The only really bad part about TDK for kids that I saw was the way Two Face was done, the way the Joker used his knife on people, and how Two Face takes Gordon's kid hostage at the end. However, these are all characters that kids know. And if kids know about it, then they aren't afraid of it. The Penguin in BR was really scary looking. Was I ever scared? No. Because I had been watching BTAS every week. I was really young the first time I saw it too. I would say that WB made Two Face more frightening by not having him in TB because it prevents kids from being exposed to the character (Tommy Lee Jones can only do so much ). That is just the opinion of an unqualified to judge kid.
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Post by havedunter74 on Aug 11, 2008 2:32:25 GMT -5
thanks for the comments guys. i think your right about parents taking responsibility for letting their kids see the film. i had to put up with the hero turtles thing,it was pathetic!!
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Post by heathlegend on Aug 11, 2008 7:10:32 GMT -5
I gotta say, I ain't so sure its the imagery, or the violence that makes it unappropriate for kids, dark as they are, kids get over that stuff, or desensitised to it, its the themes, the ideas. As dark nightwing said, kids are smarter than adults give them credit for and the idea of a man with no agenda but to 'see the world burn' doesn't go over their heads, it gets right in there, I remember as a kid seeing Day of the dead and it wasn't the zombies or gore that got to me, it was the way they humans treated each other, and their different moral stand points, some of them real loose morals, that put the willies up me, and I don't think its a bad thing either, I think films should effect you like that, and there's no reason to hide that stuff from kids, helps them grow, so yeah its the concepts I reckon, freddy kruger ain't so scary, its that fact that he gets you in your dreams.
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Post by heathlegend on Aug 11, 2008 7:12:38 GMT -5
......... anyway, definately not a kids movie.
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Post by MANBAT on Aug 15, 2008 15:27:16 GMT -5
I could see them changing the title of Free Willy but TMNT
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Post by SuperPa on Aug 15, 2008 15:36:28 GMT -5
There's been a bit of trouble over here in Ireland about it,some Politician say it with his nephew or something and said it was way to violent for a 12's film.
The violence was well toned down though,Batman interrogation Joker was violent but all the times he hit he never left a mark or blood was never seen.
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Post by electri on Aug 16, 2008 12:29:36 GMT -5
yh way toned down and i read that article
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Post by batfan93 on Aug 30, 2008 8:48:27 GMT -5
Two days ago I was holding a potato peeler in hand and watching my older sister I told her: "Why So Serious? Let's put a smile on that face!" as I lifted the peeler. She said: "Oh, this movie will drive you insane!"
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Post by Doomsday on Aug 30, 2008 9:51:47 GMT -5
^ you didnt scar her, did you? LOL
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Post by batfan93 on Aug 30, 2008 10:11:35 GMT -5
Nah, if I did that, she wouldn't give me the The Batman Hero Cycle she had bought.
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