Slog - Comments on Why Pay Premium Cinema Prices... http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/why_pay_premium_cinema_prices ...when you can read hilariously thorough synopses of today's top films for free at KidsinMind.com? The site's stated mission: The purpose is to provide parents and other adults with objective and complete information about a film's content so that they can decide, based on their own value system, whether they should watch a movie with or without their kids. We make no judgments about what is good or bad or anything else. We are not affiliated with any political party, any cultural or religious group, or any ideology. The only thing we advocate is responsible, engaged parenting. It's a perfectly... Copyright 2008 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:39:38 -0800 Thu, 01 May 2008 23:31:35 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by DJSauvage Well. I'm definitely not going to take my 7 y/o niece to see Zombie Strippers now.

]]> DJSauvage http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/why_pay_premium_cinema_prices#c1009928 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/why_pay_premium_cinema_prices#c1009928 Film Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:22:16 -0800 Comment by hotness Two women kiss, and one says, "I love you" and "take me"; they then move to the floor, off-screen, and we hear crunching.

]]> hotness http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/why_pay_premium_cinema_prices#c1009932 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/why_pay_premium_cinema_prices#c1009932 Film Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:24:31 -0800 Comment by frankie From Pulp Fiction "there are several very explicit discussions of sex, and, most importantly, a man is shown being raped by another man"

Well I'm glad that they at least see the importance of man on man rape!

]]> frankie http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/why_pay_premium_cinema_prices#c1009945 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/why_pay_premium_cinema_prices#c1009945 Film Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:35:52 -0800 Comment by Soupytwist Some of the interpretations of scenes of JUNO are hilariously off-base. The slow dance WAS VERY SEXUAL!

]]> Soupytwist http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/why_pay_premium_cinema_prices#c1009948 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/why_pay_premium_cinema_prices#c1009948 Film Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:37:21 -0800 Comment by Hernandez Wonderful summary of Expelled:

MESSAGE - Science is evil. Darwin's Theory of Evolution made the Holocaust possible.

]]> Hernandez http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/why_pay_premium_cinema_prices#c1009974 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/why_pay_premium_cinema_prices#c1009974 Film Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:04:34 -0800 Comment by Mark at YVR The Christian Science Monitor has been listing the moral issues in their movie reviews all along. Except for their daily article on Christian Science which you can (and should) ignore, it is the best paper out there.

]]> Mark at YVR http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/why_pay_premium_cinema_prices#c1009999 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/why_pay_premium_cinema_prices#c1009999 Film Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:18:31 -0800 Comment by rb Those "final messages" sound like they were written by the same people who create the hilariously meaningless English-language t-shirts in Japan.

]]> rb http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/why_pay_premium_cinema_prices#c1010004 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/why_pay_premium_cinema_prices#c1010004 Film Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:22:23 -0800 Comment by David Schmader Thanks, Mark at 6, but KidsinMind doesn't deal with "moral" issues--it explicitly avoids moralizing. (For instance, they don't say lesbian zombie cannibal sex is wrong, just that it exists in Zombie Strippers.)

]]> David Schmader http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/why_pay_premium_cinema_prices#c1010040 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/why_pay_premium_cinema_prices#c1010040 Film Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:36:04 -0800 Comment by Jeff What, no sample commentary on Showgirls?

]]> Jeff http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/why_pay_premium_cinema_prices#c1010069 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/why_pay_premium_cinema_prices#c1010069 Film Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:48:45 -0800 Comment by e Under substance use in Baby Mama: "Woman is seen taking large vitamin". My mamma encourages my vitamin use. Enabler.

]]> e http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/why_pay_premium_cinema_prices#c1010070 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/why_pay_premium_cinema_prices#c1010070 Film Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:48:55 -0800 Comment by MarkyMark Is it possible that you are not familiar with the long-standing "screenit.com" site?

]]> MarkyMark http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/why_pay_premium_cinema_prices#c1010084 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/why_pay_premium_cinema_prices#c1010084 Film Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:58:01 -0800 Comment by Mark at YVR @8 I apologize for plopping "Sex/Nudity, Violence/Gore, Profanity, and Substance Use" under the simple catch-all name of "moral issues". The CSM also simply enumerates these in the review and allows you to determine for yourself if they are "moral" issues. They don't moralize either. The fact remains that these events are counted and enumerated so that people with "moral" hangups can make a decisions on whether to see a movie or not and who to bring. They aren't counting the number of time each says "the" after all.

]]> Mark at YVR http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/why_pay_premium_cinema_prices#c1010115 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/why_pay_premium_cinema_prices#c1010115 Film Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:15:47 -0800 Comment by Ivan Cockrum And if you -really- want comedy, try CapAlert, the ">ChildCare Action Project: Christian Analysis of American Culture.


A quote from CapALert's review of Superhero Movie:

"The males pumping women's breasts did not help the scoring, either. Nor did the men atop women in beds. Nor did the motions and gestures of intercourse. Nor did the oral sex innuendo. Nor did the homosexual inferences/suggestions. Nor ... [Eph. 5:4, Gal. 5:19, 1 John 2:26]"

]]> Ivan Cockrum http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/why_pay_premium_cinema_prices#c1010161 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/why_pay_premium_cinema_prices#c1010161 Film Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:39:35 -0800 Comment by Ivan Cockrum Doh. Sorry about that malformed URL. Hope I didn't break the SLOG. I meant to preview it, not post it.

]]> Ivan Cockrum http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/why_pay_premium_cinema_prices#c1010164 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/why_pay_premium_cinema_prices#c1010164 Film Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:41:09 -0800 Comment by Rev. Cherrycoke Y'all need to back off. This site is fantastic. The summaries are balanced, evenhanded, and non-judgmental.

If I had a kid who wanted to see Good Luck Chuck I'd much rather know there's a scene where "A man enters a room where another man who is nude and in profile is masturbating with a grapefruit and then talking about using a brush to stimulate his prostate" without having to actually watch Good Luck Chuck.

]]> Rev. Cherrycoke http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/why_pay_premium_cinema_prices#c1010208 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/why_pay_premium_cinema_prices#c1010208 Film Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:11:31 -0800 Comment by Conchis the review for eyes wide shut is amazing, the best part being the final message.

]]> Conchis http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/why_pay_premium_cinema_prices#c1010401 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/why_pay_premium_cinema_prices#c1010401 Film Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:03:24 -0800 Comment by Sara The description of Kinsey reads like a long, thorough textbook of scandalous things. I haven't read 1920's erotica written for flappers, but I imagine it to be roughly like the summary for Kinsey.

]]> Sara http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/why_pay_premium_cinema_prices#c1011232 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/why_pay_premium_cinema_prices#c1011232 Film Thu, 01 May 2008 23:31:35 -0800