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Our family watched a delightful romantic movie together the other night, Somewhere in Time (1980). In this movie, Christopher Reeves (Superman) finds the love of his life (Jane Seymour) by going back in time to 1912. Much of it filmed on lovely Mackinac Island in Lake Michigan, the movie features lavish scenery, ingenious plot, and haunting music score. However, parents, the movie is rated PG. That stands for Parental Guidance…NOT Pretty Good. Most of the movie is harmless entertainment. But near the end, the movie took a rather spectacular leap from G-ish material to a solid PG rating, after Reeves got his girl. Fortunately, I saw the look come over the actors’ faces, and I just knew what was coming… I scrambled for the remote, grabbed it just in time, and clicked pause. I told the kids to shut their eyes, and proceeded to fast forward through the yukkie stuff. If I had missed “the look” or delay just seconds later, my entire family, children, pets, and all, would have entered a bedroom with unmarried lovers, and witnessed…YIKES!! There was no nudity, but those two people were clearly doing some adult things with their clothes off!! Parents, movies with a PG rating are not necessarily kid safe!!! (Man, did I ever learn that!) I thought we were being careful too, but apparently you can never be too careful! Once it gets in, you can’t take that junk out of their minds!!!! |
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| September 17, 2009 |
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Dude, don't ya juss hate it when u learn that stuff the hard way !!!! Glad you caught it in time my brother. The way they rate 'em nowadays, I'm scared to watch a cartoon before I screen it. You are right also about it bein' hard to get out. Done good my brotha, a fine "catch". Blessings to you my friend. |
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| September 17, 2009 |
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Mike, I still do that.... TO MYSELF !!! |
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| September 17, 2009 |
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| September 17, 2009 |
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| Go Mike Go! |
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| September 17, 2009 |
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| i am just as careful what MY eyes see. i just plain do not want to polute my mind. Some people don't understand what the big deal is. I don't care if they don't understand. i gotta do what is right for me. |
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| September 17, 2009 |
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| I have 4 very inquisitve and perceptive grandkids. I know exactly what you mean Mike. I screen movies before I let them watch them to make sure none of the Yukky stuff is in them. Some of these movies contain BIG surprises. I found out the hard way too... |
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| September 17, 2009 |
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Not only movies but television is the pits.... Whatever happened to the FCC??? or whoever it is that screens this stuff... |
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| September 17, 2009 |
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I know the feeling, I avoid them if I can, but eh sometimes it sneaks and eww! |
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| September 17, 2009 |
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It's really bad... if I had young children, we wouldn't have cable. |
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| September 18, 2009 |
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So right on, Mike. |
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| September 18, 2009 |
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Pat and Joey...AMEN to that! Need to be careful what OUR eyes see too! Tim...thanks so much bro. We've been SOOOOO careful wrt what our kids watch. I could count on 1 hand the # of movies my younger kids have seen w/a PG rating. We watch a lot of old movies. Among our FAVS are silent flicks w/Buster Keaton! What [clean] fun!!! Mary, we screen a LOT! However Laura has been slipping lately...she let the kids watch old Hardy Boys and Wonder Woman tv shows on dvd w/o screening them. I can only HOPE they didn't learn anything bad. Well, they did learn the word "idiot" :-( Joey, we have cable but the kids ONLY watch Discovery and sometimes History. That's IT!!! |
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| September 18, 2009 |
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| Thanks Panda! We gotta be careful!!! |
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| September 18, 2009 |
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Marcella, so often they need to learn for themselves.....the HARD way! Megan - good word! Eww!!! (cmon Hollywood, don't take us there!!!) |
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| September 18, 2009 |
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I love Somewhere in Time, and that scene was absolutely unnesessary to the plot! It makes me mad that film makers add in stuff like that not for art, but for money. Also, Marcella, my mother would never let us watch Bewitched when I was a child, and I didn't like it until she explained to me that witches were supposed to be people who had sold their soul to the devil. Then I didn't want to watch it. I tried to hold the same standards with my children. I hope they will with theirs. |
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| September 18, 2009 |
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| Beverly, good points....I'm wondering now if we haven't done enough 'splainin to our kids regarding WHY we are so strict.... |
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| September 18, 2009 |
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| September 18, 2009 |
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| HI Sharon! Thanks! :) |
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| September 18, 2009 |
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Still, Somewhere in Time was a really good movie. There isn't any of that stuff in LOTR, or language, just frightening images, right? I still don't see what's so bad about that... :( |
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| September 18, 2009 |
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Excellent reminder and sharing brother Mike...
It is so easy to get caught looking!
We are a little fearful of renting any movies any more or viewing them on TV, unless we are familiar with them...
Guess we watch some of the old ones several times... :o)
I just do not want that "stuff" entering my soul and mind through my eyes...
4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things [are] honest, whatsoever things [are] just, whatsoever things [are] pure, whatsoever things [are] lovely, whatsoever things [are] of good report; if [there be] any virtue, and if [there be] any praise, think on these things.
Blessings In Him... :o)
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| September 18, 2009 |
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Mike I totally agree.....We need a CG rating huh? The world does not grade things with the people of God in mind! I did hear of a Christian service that will actually edit out inappropriate material from DVD's etc, it was being advertised on one of the Christian channels a while back but blowed if I can remember the company name...I'll have to 'Google' it I guess. |
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| September 18, 2009 |
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As mine are all grown up I can no longer control what they watch (unfortunatelly)
but have to agree the world would probally be a much better place if there were more perantal control on what Kids watch. Lately in the UK ther have been several
incidents where mere children were brutally attacking other children even to the extent of trying to hang them with barbed wire.TheChuckie movies were mentioned. |
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| September 18, 2009 |
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Mike, it does not get any easier, as they get older. Especially if they attend a public school. Well done keeping their eyes and minds clear for a little while longer.
peace |
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| September 18, 2009 |
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Iv'e seen several movies like this, the thing is, even without the non no stuff, they'd still be pretty good movies I love the movie Sheck, but still it has a few words that I feel inapropriate. |
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| September 18, 2009 |
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Yes, and if it ain't good for them, then not for us, either. Although we watch our Bible movies, and don't allow Josiah to watch the battle scenes until he's old enough to understand what it's about, instead of just seeing it and mimicking it. ya know? I hardly watch anything. Most ppl think I'm from another planet b/c they'll say something about a new movie out and I've never even heard of it or a TV show. |
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| September 18, 2009 |
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| Oh, and Amen to screening cartoons....even the older ones. I've been shocked at some of the stuff. I mean SHOCKED! |
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| September 18, 2009 |
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| well Lara, I never thought about it but when I was a kid, I never thought twice about watching cartoons and someone was hitting someone else in the head. I loved the Flintstones. But I remember even Fred hit Barney with a bowling ball. I watched the Roadrunner, and even it was violent. Makes you wonder doesn't it? |
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| September 18, 2009 |
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| Some kids won't immitate it, but how do we know our kid isn't going to? Why risk it? He watches some secular stuff. There is wholesome secular stuff like Bob the Builder, Bearenstain bears, Arther and some others, but a lot of Disney is like watch out. |
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| September 18, 2009 |
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| I love to watch Max and Ruby, Franklin and Little Bear. I guess you could say I'm still a little kid. haha |
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| September 18, 2009 |
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| I AM watching what my little eyes see Mike, trying to anyway |
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| September 18, 2009 |
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Like the movie King David, with full frontal nudity of Bathsheba, otherwise PERFECT
but hey, that movie Faith like Potatoes is outstanding, we watched it in church the other night. a dying scene in it that was a bit bloody but otherwise great message |
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| September 18, 2009 |
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| My king David movie doesn't have boobies in it. Must be a different one. I wanna see that Faith Like Potatoes movie. My mentor recommended it to me. |
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| September 18, 2009 |
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I have never heard of Faith Like Potatoes....sounds interesting. Would hate to watch King David w/my kids, only to run in the nude scene....but that is what ratings are for. (PG) Crystal, very good! We need to be as careful with OUR eyes as we are w/our kids'! Lara, amen! (I give you a lot of those, you know?) And ditto to what I just wrote to Crystal. :-) |
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| September 19, 2009 |
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You can never count on ratings. I always used to watch the movies first when my kids were young. I remember when we had a bid ordeal because they wanted to see Dirty Dancing and I wouldn't let them...so they watched at a nieghbors house. I was mad! I don't think we can win all the battles with our kids and the media, but I think we can set the standard so that when they are at the nieghbor's house, they at least know they're watching something mom and dad wouldn't approve of. |
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| September 19, 2009 |
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| Amen, God Pleasers. Your post calls attention to the fact that we parents need to go beyond simply guarding what our little ones see, but shaping what they want to see. i.e. molding their hearts! We can't protect them their whole lives!! |
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| September 19, 2009 |
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| (nor should we try....comes a time when it becomes their responsibility!) |
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| September 19, 2009 |
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I watched Faith Like Potatoes at a friend's church one night, and it at the beginning didn't interest me much (I couldn't get past the strong Aussie accent...), so at one point (right before the boy/tractor scene) I was zoned-out, staring at the screen, when suddenly he falls and all I see is blood... Faith Like Potatoes is a great movie, but there *are* some graphic scenes little kids should not watch. I might just be a little sensitive, but I sat in stunned silence, frozen, through the next fives scenes after that. It was horrible. Great blog, Mike! This is so true... My mom doesn't let us watch any PG rated movies without going to pluggedinonline.com (a great site, BTW... I go there myself to make sure the movies I want to watch are ok!) and it's good for parents to be aware. I know several friends who watch stupid, even bad, movies and their parents are like "Whatever" cause they don't care enough about what they watch... While it's tough sometimes to not be allowed to watch what I want to all the time, i guess in the long run its the best thing they can do. MG!!! |
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| September 20, 2009 |
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Thought that might make you giggle. =) I rarely will watch anything that isn't family recommended or something along that line. A tip that I can recommend is: 'Before you watch the movie with your family, ask a friend what they think about it (ask them if it is apporiate for kids), check online reviews of the movie and if it gets all cleared that way then watch it. That's how I do it. I hope that hollywood doesn't go that way, but if they do then it is there choice to chose that path. All you can do is pray for them like I do. =) Wanted to give ya a more of an iniste to my 'ewwwwww' or 'bleh, gage'. |
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| September 20, 2009 |
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Everyone Pray for me, I watch soap operas sometimes. I have let go "The Bold and The Beautiful. I do protect myself from music more than tv....not so "Remarkable". Gee I wish that was my only flaw. |
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| September 20, 2009 |
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Terry....I'm so prayin for you, my soap opera watching sister! :-) Megan...ah! Thanks for that insight! MusicGirl, I've been to pluggedinonline. Good site for sure! And we will definitely preview Faith Like Potatoes. :) |
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| September 21, 2009 |
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Mike...yes man!! Well said. We must be on ATTENTIVE watch for our eyes and our kids eyes are the gates to the soul. Lets be good gatekeepers!! PG movies can be quite R ...as you saw. If you go back about 20 years our current PG would be an R, and our Current PG13 would be even more ....oh well......you get it.. |
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| September 21, 2009 |
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I watched Prince Caspian yesterday, and my sister wanted to watch it with me (she's 8). I told her no since I had already seen it and was waaaay too graphic for her. Afterward, I looked at the box, and to my surprise, it was rated PG! Yes, it is not as violent to be up there with Lord of the Rings rated PG-13, but i know some pars who would have let her because it was rated PG, nothing worse. So who knows where our rating is going; maybe when I have kids "G" will be unacceptable! |
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