So just how "bad" is it? Are we going to get complaints from mothers and fathers on this?

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Mike Blakesley
www.goforsyth.com/roxy

Still, nothing will ever beat Preston Blair's show stopper, in Tex Avery's "Red-Hot Riding Hood"!!!

All I can say to customers who complain is..."Hey, we aren't the ones who rate these things."

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"And the monkey flips the switch."
- Major Don West, "Lost In Space"

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I guess that's why I like B-Westerns so much; I know that the bad guy will never win, and a virtuous moral will be the lesson. Plus, these pictures are very fast-paced, which holds the little one's interest. I can comfortably let my son watch a B-Western and not worry about his picking-up new words to use at the dinner table. (And no, he won't learn to use guns to settle his disputes anymore than he'll learn to use a horse to get to school.)

I'm convinced that, sometime in the 50s, they forgot how to make movies.

The Straight Story just happened to have no nudity, violence or foul language in it. It wasn't a childrens film but I don't think the "G" hurt its grossing potential. It wasn't aimed at children and except for one instance, most parents were clued in. Even if they had brought the chlidren, they would only have been bored.

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Mother: "I'd like two child tickets for these boys for Scream 3"

Box Office: "And another for yourself?"

M:"I don't want to see that"

B.O.: "This is an MA film (your R) and 10 year olds can't see it without an adult."

M: "Why not?"

B.O.: "It's the law. This film is not suitable for 10 year old children"

M: (Getting disgruntled)"I don't see why that should be the case! They've seen the other two!"

...and we all wonder why they are killing each other in the schools.

Lady wants to know why we won't let her eleven year old son in to Scream 3 with his older brother.

We replied simply:

"We should imagine you wouldn't want to expose your children to that type of violence anyway"

Our response:

"Oh... ummm yeah i guess" I think we foiled someones plans for a evening without the children.

Mr. Fithian notes that in 1999, only two of the top ten grossing films were rated R. Historically, only 8 of the top 50 grossing films were rated R. Fithian then says: "Yet, the majority of films produced today receive the R rating. In 1999 CARA rated 677 films, or which 470 received either an R or an NC-17 rating. Only 207 films rated in 1999 received a G, PG, or PG-13 rating." Fithian feels there is a need for more family-friendly films, but he "will fight tooth and nail against any attempts by any government to regulate what we can and can't exhibit". He then agrees with most of the posters here: "But with our freedoms comes responsibility. The rating system is one way to shoulder that responsibility, and it works well. Working with the MPAA, we provide parents with the information, we do our best to enforce the ratings at the boxoffice, and parents work to make informed decisions about the movies their children see".

For those who haven't seen it, the MPAA now has a web site with complete searchable information about film ratings:
http://www.filmratings.com

KEEP YOUR HANDS OUT OF THE FEED SPROCKETS!!!

In all reality just remember there are no dumb questions, just dumb projetionists. If you think you have a dumb question then just ask it, at least you avoid losing a finger or worse yet, thrashing a print....