(the Rev) Vince wrote:
> So Jurassic Park 3 "dinosaur eating people" rating is a dismal,
> horrible, 2 - only 2 people get eaten and that is early on and just when
> you are thinking that a 3rd person gets eaten, a hokey and contrived
> miracle rescue happens somehow that we never did figure out.
I really don't have much of a problem with kids seeing this kind of movie,
in general. It's pretty easy to explain to a kid that dinosaurs used to
live here millions of years ago, and this was probably how they acted. Many
of them were carnivorous, and so people would have been food to them, just
as much as a cow, or a goat. I've also yet to meet a small boy in NZ who
didn't go through the "dinosaur" stage. My nephew had it from the age of 3
through to about 5. He knew the full scientific name of every dinosaur that
ever walked the planet, and had no hesitation in correcting you if you got
it wrong! He even nicknamed his one-year-old (rather "healthy") sister
diplodo-baby. A friend of my sister also told a great story about taking
his 2-year-son to an exhibit and saying "Look at the brontosaurus!" to which
his son replied very loudly (with huge eye-rolling) "Ohhhhhhhhh (sighing),
that's not a brontosaurus, it's a diplodocus".
But that's very different from a movie about a serial killer or a gang
member, etc. It's a little more difficult to tell a kid that the person
killing all those people in the movie isn't real, when they can see these
"pretend" people on the news every night, and you also have to seriously
warn them not to talk to strangers because they might hurt them.
It's only when the movies get "real" that the rating becomes a serious
issue, IMO.
Hell
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