BRAVO DISNEY! Hollywood TAKE NOTE!!!

[SelfEmployedDebtFree]

POTC Dead Man's Chest just went over 400M domestic and 500M international (copied from another thread).
They DID this WITHOUT a SINGLE naked woman, without a SINGLE cuss word (if there WAS one there, it was used appropriately and was NOT the F word), without a SINGLE sexual innuendo (as before, if it was there I never noticed it) and without ANY scantilly clad women or pervertedness.
My point is how many times have you watched a "family movie" and had to explain that a word was BAD to your kids?
How many times have you had to cut off a family movie?
Think about Shrek for instance. I LOVED both Shrek 1 & 2, but both had innuendos and cuss words.
How many times have you gotten the feeling that a particular scene in a movie just didnt belong? People often say "sex sells" and many producers seem to believe it. POTC DMC was a MAJOR hit. No sex.
That was my only point in posting this. You dont have to offend the viewers who dont want to see or hear it to make a good selling movie.
Disney does it again!

 

[java]

have you seen the Captain Jack thread.... um maybe no blatant sex but........

 

[SelfEmployedDebtFree]

I'm a guy... He does nothing for me!!! And to be honest, Kierra Knightly (misspelled?) really dont either! Shes pretty and all, and I like her accent, but she isnt that special to me. Now Rachael Ray on Food TV......

 

[gowensby]

A paraphrase to be sure, but doesn't Sparrow say, "For you it's a dress or nothing and I do believe I have nothing back in my cabin." Innuendo yes, overtly sexual, no. OP's point is well taken though and I agree.

 

[cgcruz]

They DID this WITHOUT a SINGLE naked woman :

Well. Disney isnt perfect.

 

[CarolA]

While this is nice can someone tell me WHAT it has to do with Theme Parks?

 

[fonsy]

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While this is nice can someone tell me WHAT it has to do with Theme Parks?
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CarolA

What it has to do with the theme parks is that the movie was inspired by a theme park ride at WDW called Pirates of the Caribbean

 

[BoopOopADoop]

I personally don't see what all the fuss is about. We let our 9yr old son watch south park with us and it hasn't had any negative affect on him. We teach him right from wrong and make it clear that what he sees on tv is not necessarily ok in real life. It's just a show. Now before you go assuming that we are terrible parents and our son probably reflects that, just know that his teachers can't stop telling us how he is one of the best behaved kids in the school.

 

[MonkeyPants]

this week it became the 3rd movie to make over a BBBBBillion worldwide.

 

[bytheblood]

POTC Dead Man's Chest just went over 400M domestic and 500M international (copied from another thread).
They DID this WITHOUT a SINGLE naked woman, without a SINGLE cuss word (if there WAS one there, it was used appropriately and was NOT the F word), without a SINGLE sexual innuendo (as before, if it was there I never noticed it) and without ANY scantilly clad women or pervertedness. My point is how many times have you watched a "family movie" and had to explain that a word was BAD to your kids?
How many times have you had to cut off a family movie?
Think about Shrek for instance. I LOVED both Shrek 1 & 2, but both had innuendos and cuss words.
How many times have you gotten the feeling that a particular scene in a movie just didnt belong? People often say "sex sells" and many producers seem to believe it. POTC DMC was a MAJOR hit. No sex.
That was my only point in posting this. You dont have to offend the viewers who dont want to see or hear it to make a good selling movie.
Disney does it again!

 

[hismattjesty]

And even though it was a clean movie, it's funny that Pretty Woman was Disney's highest grossing picture ever. Nothing like Disney and prostitutes!!!!! (sarcasm)

 

[88Keys]

Ah yes, it is a great movie and I enjoyed it tremendously. I also enjoy many movies of many different ratings, and I think it is interesting that this thread is praising it as a non-offensive film for famililes. Am I crazy, but does not the film include dozens of gruesome deaths (the bone cage let alone being one example and the Kraken eating the ships another, not to mention the many moments of brutal combat)?

Why is it that chopping a limb off is "wholesome" and a dirty word or sexual innuendo is "condemned".

I don't know about you, but I think an image of a breast is less damaging than an image of someone with a sword skewered through the chest.

Just a thought...

 

[SelfEmployedDebtFree]

Arrre, but a dismembered arm is cool! haha

 

[SelfEmployedDebtFree]

I don't know about you, but I think an image of a breast is less damaging than an image of someone with a sword skewered through the chest.

I guess my point is, your children will see lots of "grusome" stuff this Halloween in stores and while trick or treating, and they KNOW (hopefully) its all just fiction, but they probably WONT see a breast.
Grusome halloween stuff is allowed in schools, but nudity is NOT. I know the whole art thing, but i'm not talking about art. im talking about perversion and sexual innuendos.
My main point again. They did it and kept it basically family value style.

 

[88Keys]

I guess my point is, your children will see lots of "grusome" stuff this Halloween in stores and while trick or treating, and they KNOW (hopefully) its all just fiction, but they probably WONT see a breast.
Grusome halloween stuff is allowed in schools, but nudity is NOT. I know the whole art thing, but i'm not talking about art. im talking about perversion and sexual innuendos.
My main point again. They did it and kept it basically family value style.

I still feel that violence is much worse than nudity and that massacres do not mean family style.

But I will say that it is surprising that POTC-DMC is rated PG-13 when everyone knows a good pirate movie is Rated ARRRRRRRRRRRRR.

 

[88Keys]

It reminds me of a story when I was a kid -- my older brother wanted to go see a James Bond movie when he was 16 (there was no PG-13 then, so it was only PG). Even though it was PG, my mom checked a Catholic newspaper that labeled it as morally objectionable and questioned him about it before he could go -- and my brother said, "No, it's fine -- it got that because a bunch of people are killed." Even then, at 12, I thought -- "So that's better than a steamy sex scene...a bunch of folks specifically killed?"

It's not that I am against movie violence...I just wonder why violence is seen as more "digestible" then sex/nudity when violence is a dengerous trait for one to have and sex is, well, usually very positive and necessary for us to continue as a species.

 

[MermaidMommy]

Ah yes, it is a great movie and I enjoyed it tremendously. I also enjoy many movies of many different ratings, and I think it is interesting that this thread is praising it as a non-offensive film for famililes. Am I crazy, but does not the film include dozens of gruesome deaths (the bone cage let alone being one example and the Kraken eating the ships another, not to mention the many moments of brutal combat)?

Why is it that chopping a limb off is "wholesome" and a dirty word or sexual innuendo is "condemned".

I don't know about you, but I think an image of a breast is less damaging than an image of someone with a sword skewered through the chest.

Just a thought...

Well-said!! I really liked the movie, too, but I guess I don't consider extensive violence family-friendly either. Personally, I have no problem letting my daughter enjoy Shrek (I can't remember any cuss words, and the innuendo went way over her head), but I would NEVER consider letting her watch Pirates. I know she would be much more disturbed at watching people kill each other than by a random cuss word or body part.

As far as the Halloween analogy goes, seeing a scary mask or costume isn't anything at all like watching on-screen violence, and we would certainly avoid trick-or-treating in any neighborhood that was as gruesome as the movie!

Again, I liked the movie, but where some films exploit sex in exchange for profits, this film exploits violence. Nothing necessarily wrong with that --obviously there's a market for it -- but that doesn't make it a family-values movie, either.

 

[DiszyDeanette]

I personally don't see what all the fuss is about. We let our 9yr old son watch south park with us and it hasn't had any negative affect on him. We teach him right from wrong and make it clear that what he sees on tv is not necessarily ok in real life. It's just a show. Now before you go assuming that we are terrible parents and our son probably reflects that, just know that his teachers can't stop telling us how he is one of the best behaved kids in the school.

Well, since South Park is probably one of the most educational shows on TV, I'm not surprised it hasn't had a negitive affect.

 

[blondeheroine]

Ah yes, it is a great movie and I enjoyed it tremendously. I also enjoy many movies of many different ratings, and I think it is interesting that this thread is praising it as a non-offensive film for famililes. Am I crazy, but does not the film include dozens of gruesome deaths (the bone cage let alone being one example and the Kraken eating the ships another, not to mention the many moments of brutal combat)?

Why is it that chopping a limb off is "wholesome" and a dirty word or sexual innuendo is "condemned".

I don't know about you, but I think an image of a breast is less damaging than an image of someone with a sword skewered through the chest.

Just a thought...

Hear, hear! (or is it here, here - never really was quite sure about that)

I LOVE Pirates. Love it. Wanna marry it. But, when I heard people praising the film due to its wholesomeness, I wondered if they had seen the same film I had. The film shows images of birds plucking out eyeballs, a vague (or not so vague?) introduction to a prison filled with torture devises, a hero (whom I love - don't get me wrong!) who barters for his own life with the lives of unsuspecting men, a villain who kills men violently when they refuse to join his crew and a major act of betrayal in the third act. Again, I love this film madly, but I have to ask why people consider this wholesome over images of a breast or even - gasp - sex. Kinda the same way I have to ask how people get so offended by a woman breastfeeding in public, but then barely squint when they see a head chopped off in a Hollywood blockbuster.

 

[hezreck]

Sorry, but I disagree with OP too. My DD is 8 and she will NOT be watching POTC. I watched part of the first one to see if I would let her watch it and I decided not to let her see that one. Too much violence. I haven't seen the second one, but I hear it's more violent than the first, and it's PG13 so no she won't see that either.

We come from a large family with 7 uncles who when they get together can let some four letter words fly. My DD knows the words, but she also knows she is NOT to ever use them or there will be proper punishment. Bad words are just that, bad words. But seeing gruesome violence inflicted on people and then joked about is just wrong. I can't specifically point out the line, but Jack Sparrow had a few one liners after he stabbed someone. Sorry, but to me that's not Disney. We will stick to the animated features and the more family friendly comedies and leave POTC movies for teens and adults.