pg-13

FINALLY! THE DARK KNIGHT has a MPAA rating; PG-13, for (as usual) "action violence" (or something like that) and "some menace". I'm guessing The Joker isn't as menacing as I was led to believe in the previews...or maybe this will be the 2nd time the MPAA is forced to come up with a new rating, like they did with the "PG-13" rating when films like GREMLINS and INDIANA JONES pt. 2 came out and parents were like "what the heck? I'm not sure if this is really appropriate for children to see...". Of course, most parents realize that being scared is an attractive emotion for children, and a film like GREMLINS will not traumatize them. Warp their brains, maybe, but it won't traumatize them. And I don't know what most kids like, but when I was a wee lad, INDIANA JONES was one of the more boring features I saw. I still don't care for it all that much. I guess if a child were more of an outdoors type, they might like it. And, being an outdoors type, they wouldn't be traumatized by people eating "weird" foods or whatever...outdoors types KILL their own food and gut it and everything...ok, maybe not ALL outdoors types hunt, but anyway...but parents often don't understand their children. Parents don't get the difference between what they have been LED TO BELIEVE is "obscene" and what ACTUALLY IS obscene. Parents think a child who sees naked people is going to...what exactly do they think would be the impact? Do they even know what they think? And then some parents are so completely void of realization that they let their kids watch TV shows like THE SIMPSONS and SOUTH PARK, JUST BECAUSE they're animated. NVm WHAT the shows are displaying via their animation, why on earth would that matter?