Forgive me for the long title, I wanted to give you a feel for what I had to say in this hohumm about the Dark Knight being too dark and haunting for kids. It seems to me all the glory that people gave in the passed week is taking a little bit of a curve with parents saying they should have been advised not to bring their 8 yr old to watch the PG-13 movie.
A PG-13 rating already suggests that some scenes from the movie may not suitable for kids, so if people are complaining that the Joker stuck a pencil in another man’s eye, that’s not really the rating board’s fault isn’t it? If anything, it’s the parent’s fault for bringing the kid into the cinema, and the parent’s responsibility to tell them not to do that in school.
Honestly, I dont know what was haunting about the Dark Knight. In a time where kids play Resident Evil and Grand Theft Auto, what’s so bad about seeing Two Face’s half-burnt face and left eyeball? And since I already wrote it down, Hancock stuck a man’s head in another man’s ass and that wasn’t gross - oh what morals have we!?! Lolz! Seems to me that all this flak thrown to the Dark Knight is just media’s way of grabbing itself some audience by making news-worthy the same piece they praised during the premiere.
Tell you what, it would’ve been nice to have heard the advisory then…
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kubi
and all those toys, good grief. the marketing for this movie is consumerist brilliance.
paolo reply on July 22nd, 2008 11:09 am:
Lolz! Just wait ’til the G.I. Joe movie… that’s gonna sell alot of action figures. =P
Jul 22nd, 2008