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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
milomorris:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on May 31, 2013, 06:56:43 pm ---Your assumption about the appropriate ages to address the subject of violence and sex is highly debatable. But even if your argument is granted, there's violence and then there's violence. A parent may well choose to discuss violence with, say, a 12-year-old, and might want to talk about, say, avoiding violent situations or using self defense or war or capital punishment or whatever.
But a discussion of violence and its consequences does not require having children watch as a maniac rips out someone's spinal cord or forces someone to saw off his own foot.
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I agree. The violence depicted in movies is often at a level that very few humans will ever experience in their lifetimes. Movie makers even go so far as to create forms of violence that are absolutely impossible (vampires, warewolves, and supervillains for example).
But what I was getting at with my comparison of sexual content with violent content is that pre-pubescent children are far more likely to experience actual violence in some form or another than they are to experience actual sex. I was hearing "Don't hit your brother" many years before I heard "Wear a rubber." I also witnessed my first shooting the summer before I turned 6. It was police-related. And I didn't have my first sexual encounter until many years later.
milomorris:
--- Quote from: oilgun on May 31, 2013, 07:42:17 pm ---Oh, good grief! Please don't play the victim. America, and yes I resent the fact that you have appropriated the word America, deserves all the criticisms it's gets being the world's leading terrorist state.
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I'm going to start a new thread so you can explain why it is you think the U.S.A. is a "terrorist state."
Front-Ranger:
Thank you.
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: Monika on May 31, 2013, 04:06:17 pm ---In order to get back on topic - has anyone yet seen "Behind the calebra"?
I´m waiting for it to premiere over here so that I can go and see it.
I´ve been reading up lately on Liberace - he was mostly known in the US and not so much in Europe. I know of him mainly from references made about him in American movies :)
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Yes. I read a review in Entertainment magazine which said it was very well done. I recommended it to a gay co-worker - a man - who has HBO and he watched it and came back raving about it. It was apparently very well done, the acting was superb and the story did not go over the top into camp. He highly recommended it.
I don't have HBO, so I'm going to have to wait to see it.
delalluvia:
Saw Star Trek into Darkness.
MUCH better than the first Star Trek movie reboot.
They actually deal with sticky ethical and moral issues like the old Star Trek did.
Cumberbatch is amazing as usual, and his character is very interesting.
Uhura and Spock's relationship is sometimes played for laughs, but on the other hand it adds to the vibe that this is Star Trek 90210 as almost all the characters over the age of 35 are not present.
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