Comments on: We see a man and woman kiss

We see a man and woman kiss

(bb|[^b]{2}) — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:02:06 -0800

Kids-in-mind "provides parents and other adults with objective and complete information about a film's content so that they can decide, based on their own value system, whether they should watch a movie with or without their kids." Informative AND unintentionally hilarious! From the somewhat kid-friendly Ratatouille (A rat smokes a mushroom over a chimney, and with another rat they are struck by lightning, thrown from the roof and to the ground (they have electrified fur but are otherwise OK).) to more decidedly non-kid-friendly fare, and everything in between.

What's the verdict on your favorite movie?

By: nitsuj

nitsuj — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:05:12 -0800

A runaway chariot runs into a clown.

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:08:31 -0800

This is excellent fodder for name-the-movie games. A few people are knocked unconscious, some are knocked off a cliff by a wolf, a girl bites a boy's arm, some people are kicked, a boy is flung into a lake by a boar, a girl steps on a man's face and men beat others with hoes and clubs.

By: cecilkorik

cecilkorik — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:10:28 -0800

Rambo is not kid-friendly? My childhood begs to differ.

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:12:10 -0800

My wife is very sensitive to violent content, so I consult this site whenever we want to watch a movie together. It's really quite useful.

By: tadellin

tadellin — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:12:16 -0800

Why would they even bother rating "Zombie Strippers"? I'm thinking that the title would be enough to let me know that it is probably not "kid friendly"...

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:17:18 -0800

christ, that's a lot of popups.

By: Artw

Artw — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:18:28 -0800

So this is kind of like CAPAlert without the LOLCHRISTIANS? Becuase it's totally the LOLCHRISTIANS that makes CAPAlert worthwhile. That and teh bonker explanation of their scoring system.

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:19:14 -0800

This is just excellent. A man yells and throws things around in a hamburger shop threatening to burn it down. Satan (he's a large, red, horned creature) sprouts out of the ground, it threatens two men, and they argue and compete with each other. A male mouse accidentally pulls a female mouse's pants off and we see her modest underwear. Some female mouse characters wear tight clothing and shake their behinds. A woman barrels through a door, runs into a bee hive, is covered with honey, is chased by a swarm of bees, runs through a pillow and is covered with feathers and ends up hanging from a tree as a piñata and is whacked by children with sticks. A man pounds a llama on the head with a heavy bowl, knocks him out, stuffs him in a sack and tosses the sack into a stream which leads to a high waterfall. Wheeeee.

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:20:16 -0800

I think this is actually better than movies.

By: Artw

Artw — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:21:06 -0800

The lack of a Watership Down review is disapointing.

By: Spatch

Spatch — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:21:56 -0800

What a day it is for "Later, they fight a yeti" posts.

By: bjork24

bjork24 — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:24:14 -0800

A man jumps from a platform and flips over another man who slashes him with a saber cutting off his legs and an arm: the wounded man lies on the ground, near a river of molten lava, moaning, and he begins to slip; his legs (what's left of them) catch fire, his body catches fire, we see him engulfed in flames, see his tortured face and hear him scream in agony, and when the flames go out he continues to smolder and we see his charred and bloody skin as he drags himself away. It's as if George Lucas wrote it himself.

By: Artw

Artw — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:26:43 -0800

Jah Jah Binks is certainly an offense to god.

By: bjork24

bjork24 — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:27:03 -0800

The attention to potentially offensive sounds in the 300 review is cracking me up (we hear squealing).

By: dersins

dersins — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:27:24 -0800

Someone [*] really needs to breakdown these movie reviews alongside those of the Maoist International Movement. They're not really all that different, in some ways. To wit, from their respective reviews of The Matrix:

1. MESSAGE - One must look inside one's self to embrace the daunting responsibility of saving the earth from a super cyber-intelligence."

as opposed to:

DIALECTICS-- The humyn resistance thus faces two dialectical truths: 1) It must struggle to know its own history or be kept in the dark by the oppressor.

Fun for the whole (revolutionary) family! [*] Note-- Someone with more patience and followthrough than I.

By: never used baby shoes

never used baby shoes — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:27:49 -0800

Men in a cave are trapped in a room and hear creatures approaching (screaming, trampling and drumming), arrows fly past their heads, a sword fight breaks out, an evil creature is stabbed in the eye with an arrow, there's a beheading, and evil creatures swing chains. Look out! They've got chains! I can see the utility of the site, but some of the descriptions are quite amusing. I mean, we've got a sword fight breaking out, but creatures are being stabbed by arrows and chains are being swung...there's no context, no continuity - scenes are jumbled up, mixed together, and pulled out of order. I guess that's what I'm finding so fun with it. Interesting find, thanks.

By: c:\awesome

c:\awesome — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:30:35 -0800

A frenzied ferret is thrown into a tub with a man and nearly scratches and hurts the man as a result.

By: Brainy

Brainy — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:31:08 -0800

the nun rides a hobby horse erotically (like she's humping it) Quills I love how they have to explain just how she is riding it erotically.

By: oddman

oddman — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:32:28 -0800

You know, I'm a dad, and I find this sort of information to be really useful. I'm sure that at some point it could come in handy. (Though they are awfully verbose aren't they?) But, did they really need to mention this " A young man is shown in running shorts in several scenes (bare legs to the thigh)."? Wasn't that was last considered sexual content in like the 1800's?

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:35:01 -0800

If you can't imagine off the top of your head a dozen or so different erotic ways to ride a horse then Oh dear! I've said too much already.

By: Artw

Artw — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:36:04 -0800

BTW, if anyone wants to inadvertently traumatize a four-year old I can definitely recommend the DVD of Planet Earth, especially the bit when, after we see lots of lovely animals and landscapes and stuff, a cute baby deer-thing is mercilessly hunted down by wolves and eventually brought down. Quite a bit of uncomfortable explaining after that, I can tell you. The cave full of gross creatures living in a huge mound of bat-poop, on the other hand, went over really well.

By: Abiezer

Abiezer — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:36:34 -0800

Damn you dersins, my joke was "lacks a class analysis."

By: uncleozzy

uncleozzy — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:47:52 -0800

If you haven't seen Forgetting Sarah Marshall, don't read the commentary. It's funnier to be very slightly surprised. (And, I should add, it's much funnier than I expected it to be.) Also, I'm a little disappointed they don't have ratings of the movies that basically raised me: Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, and Spaceballs. Spaceballs, in particular, I watched at least 50 times when the library got it on VHS.

By: uncleozzy

uncleozzy — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:48:19 -0800

(Also, note the page title when you search for a movie.)

By: monospace

monospace — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:50:25 -0800

Did they really have to give away every frickin scene in Shortbus? (On the other hand, the reviewer sure was paying attention.)

By: slimepuppy

slimepuppy — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:54:20 -0800

A man shoots a man in the head and he falls face first on a desk, he shoots a woman in the back (we see two bloody bullet holes on her back), another man in the chest, as well as a vacuum cleaner which sparks. I don't want my children exposed to violence against vacuum cleaners.

By: cgk

cgk — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:57:52 -0800

On a related note, as a parent of 4 one thing I actually find useful are the reviews published by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. While they do list the "naughty bits" at the end of reviews, they are generally intelligent and obviously written by a person or people who know film.

By: Kabanos

Kabanos — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:57:58 -0800

An Inconvenient Truth [2006] [PG] Violence & Gore: 3 I remember significantly more Gore in in this movie.

By: owtytrof

owtytrof — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:02:17 -0800

33 F-words and its derivatives, 4 scatological terms, 2 anatomical terms, 7 mild obscenities, name-calling (stupid), 4 religious exclamations. Name calling is stupid.

By: dismas

dismas — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:03:36 -0800

"DISCUSSION TOPICS - Exotic dancing, viruses, zombies, re-animation of tissue, fads, evil, spread of viruses, dreams, sins, morals, conforming, racism, purity." Zombie Strippers really allowed my family to have that all-important discussion about our values (specifically related to racism and exotic dancing) as well as science (viruses, zombies). These topics can be awkward to bring up out of the blue, but are important to discuss. Thanks, Sony Pictures!

By: uncleozzy

uncleozzy — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:05:47 -0800

A woman asks a man to demonstrate on a banana how he performs oral sex on a man, and then she demonstrates for him -- she licks and kisses the banana, describes what she is doing in graphic terms and we see the man pressed against a porthole with his pants down, yelling and a man outside with some goo on his face (suggesting that the man has ejaculated out the window).

By: dismas

dismas — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:06:04 -0800

From "Superbad" : "Two teenage boys lie in sleeping bags next to each other (they appear slightly drunk), profess their love for each other and they hug (nothing sexual is implied)" it's okay, parents! it's not gay!

By: porn in the woods

porn in the woods — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:15:07 -0800

Great find. Gold mine of quips, bookmarked. Two men have an uncomfortable and tense conversation and it appears that if not for a lucky flip of a coin that one of the men would have ended up killing the other one. A man puts his comb in his mouth then drags it through his hair, then puts saliva on his fingers and smoothes it on his hair. A young man has a bowel movement and we hear flatulent sounds and see him wiping himself, a young man picks his nose, and a woman vomits into a bucket. A straw man collapses in flames, and a young man punches a pumpkin.

By: dersins

dersins — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:16:42 -0800

A straw man collapses in flames, Wait, they reviewed Metafilter?

By: Kabanos

Kabanos — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:23:07 -0800

Zombie Strippers MESSAGE: Zombies can do anything. Oh good! A positive message for a traditionally marginalized group. The kids will love this!

By: slimepuppy

slimepuppy — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:26:42 -0800

A straw man collapses in flames Uh, guys, the hint is in the title. I just love the clinical breakdown of the movies with little to no regard on subtext. In The Mood for Love gets a "SEX/NUDITY 2 - A man holds a woman while she cries (comforting, non-sexual). A woman affectionately touches a man on the shoulder."

By: slimepuppy

slimepuppy — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:29:12 -0800

Ah, crap, I thought the straw man thing was from a review of the Wicker Man. Ignore me.

By: gottabefunky

gottabefunky — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:35:08 -0800

Why does Jackass leap to mind? A brief glimpse of several men's private parts: we see testicles, testicles and penises, and anuses; while we see patches of flesh, nothing is discernible in its entirety. Men are bare-chested in many scenes, and one man appears in a thong several times exposing his buttocks (we linger on the man's private parts in a couple of scenes). Two men pretend to be masturbating with sea cucumbers and the cucumbers spray out a white liquid. Two men rub against a whale suggestively. A man is dressed in a penis-shaped suit. A mountain lion bats at a man in a mouse costume. Two men fall through a ceiling pretending to be robbers. A man puts a toy car into his anus: we see him get an X-ray and then later we see the car after he has had a bowel movement.

By: naju

naju — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:44:11 -0800

gottabefunky, that's awesome. Reads like a passage from a W.S. Burroughs novel.

By: Pastabagel

Pastabagel — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:46:08 -0800

Why not just consult mrskin.com and avoid any movie it rates positively?

By: goatdog

goatdog — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:47:45 -0800

A man pulls a whole banana with two cherries on the end out of a mixed drink and puts it in his mouth (there is a sexual reference as to what it looks like). They forgot to say "IT LOOKS LIKE A PENIS AND TESTICLES". What are their readers supposed to do with such limited information?

By: The corpse in the library

The corpse in the library — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:55:29 -0800

oddman: "But, did they really need to mention this " A young man is shown in running shorts in several scenes (bare legs to the thigh)."? Wasn't that was last considered sexual content in like the 1800's?" Nope. There are plenty of people, mainstream Americans, who don't want to see men's legs. I'm thinking of the BYU dress code, for example, which says shorts should be at least knee-length. Or Orthodox Jews -- don't they have similar ideas of modesty?

By: Anything

Anything — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:00:28 -0800

Whoa! Endless supply of roleplaying game event descriptions!

You press your ear against the wall. There is a smattering of scatological language. You enter the bar. A woman kicks a door down, sprays beer on electrical equipment and people, then pounces on a man and holds him down with her foot while yelling at him. Awareness check! You throw the rock. It's a hit. A bolt comes loose on the Jamaican team's bobsled, causing it to careen on its side with the bobsledders helmets scraping along the ice, but they end up okay.

By: Artw

Artw — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:03:21 -0800

Presumably if you fed all of these into a Markov chain text generator it would actually write a better and more coherent movie than Pirates of the Caribbean III.

By: bibliowench

bibliowench — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:08:26 -0800

In several scenes we see couples engaged in sexual intercourse: we see several different sexual positions, we see them thrusting up and down, and hear them grunting and making other noises and we also hear their explicit sexual talk during intercourse; we see a man and woman having sex in several different positions, and we see a woman on top of a man making very loud sexual noises as she moves back and forth (she has a T-shirt on). It's like the world's most boring porn.

By: The Bellman

The Bellman — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:10:50 -0800

A woman barrels through a door, runs into a bee hive, is covered with honey, is chased by a swarm of bees, runs through a pillow and is covered with feathers and ends up hanging from a tree as a piñata and is whacked by children with sticks. A man pounds a llama on the head with a heavy bowl, knocks him out, stuffs him in a sack and tosses the sack into a stream which leads to a high waterfall. OK, who the hell set up a webcam in my bedroom?

By: Navelgazer

Navelgazer — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:12:48 -0800

I can see how this would be useful, but what bugs the hell out of me is the complete lack of context and almost total lack of actually discussing the movie's positive qualities. The Shawshank Redemption, for instance, rates a 7-7-7 (Jackpot, I guess?) With only this information, I'd choose something more "family-friendly" for my kids* to watch, because I know nothing of all the reasons why they should check it out, only the obsessively detailed and anal-retentive reasons they shouldn't. *hypothetical kids

By: Artw

Artw — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:20:56 -0800

Ah, see, it's objective! It's like a food labeling system which tells you what a food item contains. That's it. We make no judgments about what is good or bad or anything else. Indeed, we do not "condemn," "critique" or "criticize" movies. And we don't "praise" or "recommend" movies either. We advance no "beliefs" and we do not "preach" anything. We are not affiliated with any political party, any cultural or religious group, or any ideology. The only thing we advocate is responsible, engaged parenting. ...and a profoundly mechanistic world view, at least as far as movies are concerned.

By: Artw

Artw — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:30:42 -0800

CAP Alert, which I mentioned above, makes a similar deal about how just counting the number of things is the only way to get an objective view, and you shouldn't be led astray by things like context or message. The Passion gave them a bit of trouble though, as they clearly wanted to make allowances for it.

By: everichon

everichon — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:47:35 -0800

I would like to such a description of Turkish Star Wars. Then I could die, fulfilled.

By: Navelgazer

Navelgazer — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:02:18 -0800

As much as this bothers ma, I must admit I've gotten a little addicted to it already. But yeah, as Artw is saying, this is a kind of lying through statistics, or at least hiding great bias behind them. By listing these things out of context (while claiming that they pass no judgment, perhaps ignoring their #-#-# rubric) they're presenting these aspects already prejudged as something to find offense in. The times they do provide some minimal context simply prove the point further, as they're either trying to show that something is really, really bad, or else that it really isn't but they thought in all fairness they should mention it. That's not so much of a problem, to me, in that at least it offers some subjective - and more helpful - editorial review, but to claim that there's no judgment is absurd. Moreover, the only thing it can help a parent do is to find something unobjectionable, which is far from finding something quality. Watching a film, especially as a child, should provide a positive experience, not just simply not a negative one. Counting all the breasts and F-bombs definitely serves some purpose, but it's not even close to the whole picture. What I'd prefer, if I were a parent, would be a guide written by a large group of thoughtful, intelligent, and concerned parents, set-up akin to Rotten Tomatoes or Metacritic, which could provide a quick access to those parents' thoughts on how to weigh both the positive and possibly objectionable parts of any given film. The reader would then come to know which contributers they trust more than others, and make more informed, better choices. I guess I'm just saying that MeFi could do this a lot better. Also, it's missing the Princess Bride. Just sayin'.

By: The Card Cheat

The Card Cheat — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:03:19 -0800

If you rent He Got Game from Rogers Video up here in Canada, the "Objectionable Content" write-up on the back of the box warns you that "Jesus has sex with two women."

By: Artw

Artw — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:18:31 -0800

Something along the lines Navelgazer mentions would be a heck of a lot more useful.

By: fearfulsymmetry

fearfulsymmetry — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:44:10 -0800

Well CAP ALERT makes the effort to point out that American Psycho has scenes of men lusting after each others business cards so I think that's still got the edge. However they seem to think that the new Halloween is like the most dangerous film in the history of cinema. I was trying to forget it exists but after that I'm tempted to check it out...

By: Artw

Artw — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:52:28 -0800

Oh yes, CAP Alert always wins. It's like the Batman of batshitinsane movie reviews.

By: boymilo

boymilo — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:17:33 -0800

Thank you (bb|[^b]{2}), and thank you all. I have never laughed with the blue as much as I have for this post, and these comments.

By: porn in the woods

porn in the woods — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:27:24 -0800

Ah, crap, I thought the straw man thing was from a review of the Wicker Man. Ignore me. It's from the extremely decadent Roger Avery film Rules of Attraction (2002). Goodness, this site delivers in SPADES every time. I wish they would tackle The Aristocrats. A man talks about high school hazing incidents that include stripping boys of their clothing and shoving them into the girls' locker room, and inserting a pickle into a boy's anus. We see turtles mating on a TV screen. People talk about a man and a woman having sex in a public market place. People remark about the size of a man's endowment. A woman says that she forgot to take her birth control pill.

By: fearfulsymmetry

fearfulsymmetry — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:28:35 -0800

The snake spits up a dead monkey and a slightly chewed-up man. This so so addictive. I also love the brilliant incisive message tacked on the end... 'War is bad' and the like.

By: Artw

Artw — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:56:16 -0800

Well, yeah, it *IS* kind of funny that they have spotty coverage of actual children's movies, possibly because they spent the time counting all the bad things in Cabin Fever or Dogville, which you're probably not going to let your kids watch.

By: Navelgazer

Navelgazer — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:56:29 -0800

You also have to love the "message" tacked onto the end of the Pulp Fiction review: Life is random. I agree that Pulp FIction is not for children, but the reason the movie works so well is that, after all this violence, the end chapter deals with a hitman deciding that God has shown him the way towards peace, at which point he diffuses what could have been a disastous and bloody situation with sacrifice and well-chosen words. Yup: "Life is Random." That's the only point to be taken from Pulp Fiction.

By: Artw

Artw — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:56:47 -0800

(that was in response to the lack of an Aristocats review)

By: Acey

Acey — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:56:56 -0800

This is hilarious for so many reasons. I think just about all of them have been put into words for me upthread, but god is this funny. A woman is wrapped by barbed wire around the wrists and lifted into the air (she screams and blood drips from her wounds); other lengths of wire make their way under her skirt (blood pours from between her legs), wire comes back out through her chest (blood pours and sprays and she screams) and the lengths of barbed wire pull and tear her body in half (blood pours and sprays). That bit grossed even me out, but reading this just doesn't do it justice. Nevertheless, sitting in a movie theatre hearing someone read this would potentially have been more enjoyable.

By: Artw

Artw — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:00:08 -0800

Heh. Yes, that was a little gross. Silent Hill was much much better than a videogame movie deserves to be though, except when it hits a huge expedition-dump and everything falls to pieces.

By: mrzarquon

mrzarquon — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:24:24 -0800

People throw bottles at three people who are making noise in a street late at night. The Gore/Violence section of HOSTEL Really. Do you need to add that? I mean the shooting the vacuum thing is one thing, but are you going to choose THAT scene from the movie to discuss how not to be violent to others?

By: rmless

rmless — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:57:00 -0800

A woman glows and is sucked into a model of the sun. Reckless driving. I really wouldn't want my future kids to be scared by the reckless driving in Tomb Raider.

By: LeeJay

LeeJay — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:58:52 -0800

I won't be truly satisfied until they review Gummo. I'd like to see what "message" they take away from that one.

By: rooftop secrets

rooftop secrets — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:09:53 -0800

Goodness, this site delivers in SPADES every time. I wish they would tackle The Aristocrats. Umm 83 F-words and its derivatives, 80 sexual references, 92 scatological terms, 98 anatomical terms, 2 mild obscenities, 5 derogatory terms for African-Americans, 3 derogatory terms for homosexuals, 1 derogatory term for Hispanics, 4 religious exclamations.

By: roll truck roll

roll truck roll — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:49:28 -0800

For all the criticisms, I actually think that this site could be extremely useful to parents, and to teachers of kids too. I especially like the "discussion topics" section. It makes me happy to picture parents using these movies to have nice, long, non-judgmental conversations with their kids about tough issues, and I'm pretty sure those kids are better off than both the kids whose parents don't let them go to anything and the kids whose parents don't even know what movies they go to.

By: flatluigi

flatluigi — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:53:52 -0800

A scene of a storm at sea with a drowning, and a another storm with a near drowning. A man hits another man in the backside with his briefcase. People are nearly hit by vehicles a few times. A car drives through a fire. A group of men overpower another man. A woman threatens a man with a grater and a man pushes a woman around. A man punches a wall. A man has a bruise on his face. Scuffles, chases, falls, reckless driving. Any guesses?

By: flatluigi

flatluigi — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:57:41 -0800

This is the only movie that got a 10 in all categories. No movie got all zeroes, though.

By: nakedcodemonkey

nakedcodemonkey — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:25:22 -0800

2 anatomical terms...98 anatomical terms I congratulate someone on their tremendous leisure time. I too have always wanted to take early retirement, move to the Caribbean, and count useless trivia until I die. Thank you for this inspiring example that all dreams are possible. Elbow! Sternum! Pinky! Vein! Tendon! Eyelid!! Oh god, help me stop before this potty mouth explodes with even more filth.

By: sageleaf

sageleaf — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:26:16 -0800

For an example of how this sort of thing can be done well, see Nell Minow, the Movie Mom. Discussion points and a whole lot less ridiculousness.

By: Durn Bronzefist

Durn Bronzefist — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:30:27 -0800

THIS IS AWESOME. I can't wait to write in as a concerned parent and ask them to do write ups for The Entity and Deathrace 2000.

By: Jpfed

Jpfed — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:06:46 -0800

I've long thought that a multidimensional rating scale would be better than the current system of "G" through "NC-17". I'm glad that someone is providing such ratings, even though this specific instance of them is a little strange.

By: c:\awesome

c:\awesome — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:11:39 -0800

Metafilter: testicles, testicles and penises, and anuses

By: dirigibleman

dirigibleman — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:08:54 -0800

From Juno, under "Violence/Gore": We see a fetus on a sonogram screen and a teenage girl makes a remark about the size of the baby's head. What, seriously?

By: Artw

Artw — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:56:35 -0800

Oooooh... aristocrats.

By: Monochrome

Monochrome — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:02:32 -0800

I see your CAPAlert, and raise you one Vanguard Movie Reviews.

By: Artw

Artw — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:22:02 -0800

Holy fuck. I conceed the field.

By: Locative

Locative — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:39:34 -0800

I actually really love this site. I love horror movies but have no tolerance for the violent visuals, so I can go here and find out in advance if I'll be able to take it. e.g. Saw III: A woman wakes up from being unconscious, with a heavy metal ring around her neck, and an apparatus attached to her ribs (we see bloody hooks attached to her sides and blood drips on the floor); she reaches into a container of acid to retrieve a key that will free her (her hand is eaten away by the acid and the liquid turns bloody), her time runs out and the apparatus that she is attached to rips her rib cage apart (we see her fall limp and see bloody tissue flapping around). Yeah, now I know that I can't see it. It's also useful if you want to avoid watching a movie with your mom where people start getting rimjobs right and left.

By: roll truck roll

roll truck roll — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:20:39 -0800

Locative typed "It's also useful if you want to avoid watching a movie with your mom where people start getting rimjobs right and left." Wait, there's a movie theatre review? I missed that section.