Havent films got very abusive lately?

[Herbie]

I'm a bit of an old-timer myself, especially when it comes to language in the house, but I think on balance I'm quite pleased that things are easing up at the pictures. One thing I'm sure of: they hear worse in the playground every day.

I too hate swearing and bad language especially in front of young kids etc. I used to love going to the football with my old man when i was a nipper but all the swearing that went on kinda embarassed me when i was with him

 

[RedRider]

I remember when it was all fields around here AND they kept their belly buttons hidden!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Congratulations.
You are middle aged and I claim my £5!

In reality, he's Autistic, so probably can't differentiate as well as the rest of us between rigid rules and the continual evolution of society, be that for good or bad.

 

[monkeylc]

Think we all just getting old
standards are defiantly different though,i take my 11 year old lad to 12a films and its unreal sometimes!
wolverine being asked to join the X men "Yeh,F**k off" for a 12 year old?
"The woman in black" 12 ? If i let my lad watch that he would freak out man!
And yes i know he's 11 but come on?

 

[trampyjoe]

I think it's the other way around and the prudes are taking over movie ratings. We tried watching the Goonies with out daughter the other day and after the third time the word 'sh!t' was used we gave up. Same for other PG films from the 70's and 80's. Even Jaws is only rated PG and I'm not comfy have my daughter watch that film yet.

What I have found interesting is that swearing and sexual references have been removed from modern kids movies, but guns and violence have increased.

They swear in the Goonies? I don't remember that!

re guns and violence: GTA San Andreas (i think) was all over the news years ago because it contained a hidden scene in which the main character, that the kiddies control, has sex. Oh the outcry! The shame of it! How could the games publishers, nay, the government allow a sex scene in a game? It's terrible!!!
Many people failed to mention that the game was based around this main character running around a city stealing cars, car jacking, beating people up, shooting anything that moves and generally being not very nice.
Is that irony?

 

[snapper_37]

Is alive and living in Rhyl....

 

[Drago]

I was a little surprised with Expendables II being a 15, what with the opening battle scene being full of bad guys heads exploding as they get shot.

 

[dellzeqq]

I was a little surprised by 'Sweet Home Alabama'. Apparently there are fewer black people in Alabama than in Suffolk. Who'd have thought it?

 

[byegad]

Mary Whitehouse? If her and her ilk had had their way, we'd never have been allowed to see things like Life of Brian, simply because they thought them 'corrupting' - and that such beliefs gave them the right to deny others access to things they wanted to see/hear/read. The hell with them - bunch of humourless, sanctimonious, self-righteous dinosaurs. I'm delighted they became extinct. Good riddance.

We have another force in the world with similar views. Witness the rage in the Islamic world over cartoons depicting the Prophet and the recent bad film that hardly anyone would have looked at if not for their reaction.

While I wouldn't go out of my way to put down someone's religious beliefs I object strongly to them forcing their taboos onto me.

 

[Sandra6]

We watch a lot of films as a family and are pretty relaxed about what we let the children watch tbh.
The whole family will sit down to a 12 -it's generally just a glorified pg anyway. The swearing doesn't bother me but I don't see the need for so much sex. What happened to seeing a couple have a kiss, then shut the door and come out later smiling?!
My teens are aged 14 -16 and 18 and they watch most 15's and some 18's but we generally check out what the content is first, if it's going to be too graphic then we don't watch with them, but that's mostly to save on embarrassment all round.

 

[Ron-da-Valli]

It's a similar situation with those "Shades Of Grey" books. The language used is obcene but the books are freely available in all supermarkets with apparently no age restictions. If they started to sell Playboy and other mags there woud be an outcry, but what's the big difference.

 

[trampyjoe]

It's a similar situation with those "Shades Of Grey" books. The language used is obcene but the books are freely available in all supermarkets with apparently no age restictions. If they started to sell Playboy and other mags there woud be an outcry, but what's the big difference.

I think the difference is that with a book it's left to your own imagination, with films and games it is not.

Apparently those shades of grey books are really badly written and the 'naughty' bits are very boring and repetitive*. The fact they're mostly on sale in supermarkets, without trying to stereotype too much as I do the shopping in this house, you can tell the target audience.

*I'd like to point out that this is the general opinion of another forum where 99% of the users are women.

 

[marzjennings]

They swear in the Goonies? I don't remember that!

re guns and violence: GTA San Andreas (i think) was all over the news years ago because it contained a hidden scene in which the main character, that the kiddies control, has sex. Oh the outcry! The shame of it! How could the games publishers, nay, the government allow a sex scene in a game? It's terrible!!!
Many people failed to mention that the game was based around this main character running around a city stealing cars, car jacking, beating people up, shooting anything that moves and generally being not very nice.
Is that irony?

I don't think this scene would get past the rating's committee these days....



Also GTA San Andreas was sold as a mature audience game. Parents complaining it wasn't appropriate for kids were right and maybe should have considered the warning on the box.

 

[Over The Hill]

When the original Sweeney came out on TV Whitehouse complained about the way the programme was violent and it did rather push at the boundary at the time. So really to meet the expectation of the audience I guess it needed to have a gritty reality.

I would much rather a range of programmes be available so we can choose to watch or not watch something rather than the only alternative which is to have someone censor things for us. You can now choose to watch comedy on TV in a whole range of styles. The Inbetweeners is crammed full of "rudeness" while Last of the Summer Wine is not.

I do not like horror films at all and dont watch them but I accept some people like them.

Much is to do with the context of the action. I am quite OK if a criminal is duffed up in The Sweeney but less happy if some bully on Eastenders is violent when such violence is tolorated or accepted.