Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Ready to be Morally Offended?

While looking for something else on the archdiocese's website, I noticed they have movie reviews. No doubt for Good Catholics who don't want to be morally offended. Because Roger Ebert is probably too much of a heretic. So, their ratings are:

A-I General audience

A-II Adults & Adolescents

so far, so good. better than some random -13 age.

A-III Adults

actually, I'm finding this pretty good (as a system, not nescessarily how they are applying it)

L Limited audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling

fair enough, just because it's 'adult' doesn't mean I want to watch slasher films

O Morally offensive

So, how is this system applied?

L -
a strong caution must be raised about the underlying "anything-goes-for-love" message and several other problematic elements. Overall freewheeling morality, light sexual references and innuendo, casual treatment of marriage, divorce and nonmarital relations, some vulgar gestures, brief rear-nudity sight gag, an anti-Catholic remark and a few crass words. [Mama Mia!]

and yet,

A-III
Brief, nongraphic adulterous sexual activity, much rough and crude language and sexual references [Days & Clouds - another 'if it's got subtitles we don't apply the rules equally]

O -
Tropic Thunder
Pineapple Express
Step Brothers
The Wackiness
Wanted
The Love Guru
Sex and the City


I think I'm ready to be morally offended

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