Two curse words in the previews before "Cars" which is a rated G movie. Anyone else?

[4chitlins]

I never considered damn to be a curse word unless you put the word "god" in front of it. Otherwise I think it is about the same as darn

 

[TLHB70]

You as a parent are worried about damns?


If you were concerned about Cars, I would have checked any parental cinema advocacy website out there, screenit.com is one of them.


Stripper pole or two damns.... which one warrants more attention?

Yes, I as a parent am worried about d***. That is unacceptable to me. To others, it may be fine; to me, it is not fine. That is my opinion. I am an individual and that is how I feel. I also raise my children differently because that is where I stand. I understand that not everyone else does the same. I am not making low blows at those of you that don't find it wrong. I just feel differently. I do use parental cinema web sites to preview movies. I stated that in another post. I use ScreenIt and PluggedIn. They are both saved on my favorites. However, as I stated in a few posts, I have never used them to review rated G movies because, as I have also stated a few times, I never thought I needed to. I thought rated G meant it was free from questionable material. Again, I have said this a few times as well, I was wrong. I will screen G movies from now on. However, ScreenIt and PluggedIn do not screen previews. There was no way to avoid that one.
As far as which is better........stripper pole or two d***s............neither. Why should I have to pick a lesser of two evils? That is my point. A rated G movie shouldn't have either one.


Also, FWIW, my children aren't in public schools but I understand your point about the classroom. It is truly sad what our children are exposed to today. Which, BTW, adds to my point.

 

[cardaway]

The preview was for a movie in which an engaged man gets cold feet from his wedding and has an affair. I didn't really mind the driving away from the church.. you could explain that. But one scene shows the guy at a strip club, you see the pole and all in the preview. There wasnt any bare flesh, but you did hear music, see a pole and some legs! Now compare the stripper pole to two damns for Flicka... thats a totally different thing.

Excellent point which makes me wonder why people use these word filters on movies. Most movies that are rated PG or higher have issues far beyond a few words. Lots of violence and adult themes. Why not just support movies that were made for your tastes rather than try to change others?

There's a reason there are not more movies not appropriate for little ones. Because for evey Pixar blockbuster there are at least five that nobody supports.

 

[TLHB70]

HillBilly H*** was what they used twice but dont say the whole movie was bad only bc they said that 2 times, heh

I never said the movie was bad. I just don't agree with the rating and words in combination. That is all.

 

[TLHB70]

Why not just support movies that were made for your tastes rather than try to change others?

I completely agree with this. That is why my family goes to rated G movies. That is our taste for our children. Sure, DH and I go out to some PG and even a few PG13 when the kids are with grandparents or friends. However, we bring them to G. If the rated G now contains curse words, what can we do? That just basically means no more movies for us. IMO, it is so sad that it has come to that. I think it is sad that they have to bring the questionable language into the lowest rating. I know that you can agree with me that rated G ONCE meant no questionable language. That is all that I am asking. Keep it that way so that our family can go to movies. You can put the words in PG, but keep a G rating so that we can support family friendly movies. That is all I am asking.

 

[cardaway]

I know that you can agree with me that rated G ONCE meant no questionable language. That is all that I am asking. Keep it that way so that our family can go to movies. You can put the words in PG, but keep a G rating so that we can support family friendly movies. That is all I am asking.

Actually I can't given your defintion of questionable language. As somebody already pointed out, the words damn and hell go back to the first days of film ratings, and it was always G.

My opinion on Cars being really PG is based on the innuendo and older themes, not the two uses of hell.

 

[dizneenut]

We didn't have a preview of Flicka before Cars. But I wouldn't be offended by them saying "damn."

 

[Bob Slydell]

I know that you can agree with me that rated G ONCE meant no questionable language. That is all that I am asking. Keep it that way so that our family can go to movies. You can put the words in PG, but keep a G rating so that we can support family friendly movies. That is all I am asking.

I'm certain that if you go back to the early days of movies, films that would be deemed G still had the words damn and hell in them.

 

[MosMom]

I'm certain that if you go back to the early days of movies, films that would be deemed G still had the words damn and hell in them.

I was a little shocked that Airplane was rated PG. There is no way that movie would get a PG rating today.

 

[cardaway]

I was a little shocked that Airplane was rated PG. There is no way that movie would get a PG rating today.

Lots of movies made back then would get PG13 now. They didn't then because it didn't exist. Not bad enough for R... it got a PG.

 

[Bob Slydell]

I was a little shocked that Airplane was rated PG. There is no way that movie would get a PG rating today.

IIRC, that was before they had created a PG-13 rating, which I'm certain it would have received back then.

 

[Cool-Beans]

They said "hell" and "damn" in Gone With the Wind, as well as having a scene where a man forcibly takes a woman to the bedroom...it has a "G" rating.

 

[Planogirl]

I completely agree with this. That is why my family goes to rated G movies. That is our taste for our children. Sure, DH and I go out to some PG and even a few PG13 when the kids are with grandparents or friends. However, we bring them to G. If the rated G now contains curse words, what can we do? That just basically means no more movies for us. IMO, it is so sad that it has come to that. I think it is sad that they have to bring the questionable language into the lowest rating. I know that you can agree with me that rated G ONCE meant no questionable language. That is all that I am asking. Keep it that way so that our family can go to movies. You can put the words in PG, but keep a G rating so that we can support family friendly movies. That is all I am asking.

Your idea of what is family friendly may not be what the majority thinks nowadays. The ratings are based upon what society thinks is appropriate from what I understand and many consider the words "damn" and "hell" no big deal.

It's not that I think that little kids should say these things but there's a lot of activities that they shouldn't take part in that they'll see every day. Learning limits is just part of childhood IMO.

 

[Skywalker]

"Gone with the Wind" and any number of other movies may have been rated "G", but they were also not made for/aimed at/advertised to young children. It was clearly an adult movie that no kid would be interested in.

I highly doubt that a movie actually geared toward children and rated "G" would have contained any questionable words "back then". Perhaps I'm wrong, but that is the impression I have.

 

[TLHB70]

Ok. I understand the point that some of you are making. Let me clarify what I am trying to say. I understand that Gone With the Wind was G. However, it was not marketed to be a children's movie. I am talking about movies marketed for young children having a G rating. However, I see that we still disagree. I know that we are all different and have different opinions. I honestly had no idea that the majority of people wanted their young children to hear these words.

 

[lclark0621]

I honestly had no idea that the majority of people wanted their young children to hear these words.

It is not that the majority of people want their kids "to hear words like those". It is that most do not consider "Damn" a curse word.

And the movie theaters, industry, etc are going to cater to the MAJORITY. Since MOST dont have a problem with it, there is no reason to omit words like that from previews & G Rated movies.

 

[cardaway]

I highly doubt that a movie actually geared toward children and rated "G" would have contained any questionable words "back then". Perhaps I'm wrong, but that is the impression I have.

Actually that is far from the truth.

First of all, as a Disney fan you should know there wasn't a lot of movies made that were geared towards kids. Most of the stuff from those times outside of Disney were shorts shown before other movies. Not only did they have language like that, they also had all kinds of content that people will not even show now. Cartoons and live action movies that are edited for content, or banned from ever being released again, and none of it related to language.

Sorry, but if anything, it was worse.

 

[Disney1fan2002]

To the OP, if you took your children to your local WalMart, or Target or Sears, or even the grocery store, you could be in line with a customer who may be upset with the cashier. Your children would maybe hear words worse than damn coming from this customers mouth.

My point: You can't shelter your children from every bad thing out there. They will hear bad words. The best you can do is make sure they understand they ARE bad words, and they should not use them. Did you enjoy the movie Cars? How much? A lot? If so, you won't allow your kids to see it again, because the word hell was used. Once? Twice? Your kids hear worse on the streets, are you going to keep them in the house from now on?

My son is on the bus with a little 6 year old who is teaching him obscene jokes. I am not going to start driving him to school, because if it is not a kid on the bus, it will be a kid in the lunchroom, if I take him out of the lunchroom, it will be a kid in his class. What I do is talk to MY son, and explain that the things this boy is doing is BAD, and he should never, ever repeat them. It is about all I can do.

 

[Missy1961]

To the OP, if you took your children to your local WalMart, or Target or Sears, or even the grocery store, you could be in line with a customer who may be upset with the cashier. Your children would maybe hear words worse than damn coming from this customers mouth.

My point: You can't shelter your children from every bad thing out there. They will hear bad words. The best you can do is make sure they understand they ARE bad words, and they should not use them. Did you enjoy the movie Cars? How much? A lot? If so, you won't allow your kids to see it again, because the word hell was used. Once? Twice? Your kids hear worse on the streets, are you going to keep them in the house from now on?

My son is on the bus with a little 6 year old who is teaching him obscene jokes. I am not going to start driving him to school, because if it is not a kid on the bus, it will be a kid in the lunchroom, if I take him out of the lunchroom, it will be a kid in his class. What I do is talk to MY son, and explain that the things this boy is doing is BAD, and he should never, ever repeat them. It is about all I can do.

I think you have a very reasonable response to life today.

 

[MommyPoppins]

To the OP, if you took your children to your local WalMart, or Target or Sears, or even the grocery store, you could be in line with a customer who may be upset with the cashier. Your children would maybe hear words worse than damn coming from this customers mouth.

My point: You can't shelter your children from every bad thing out there. They will hear bad words. The best you can do is make sure they understand they ARE bad words, and they should not use them. Did you enjoy the movie Cars? How much? A lot? If so, you won't allow your kids to see it again, because the word hell was used. Once? Twice? Your kids hear worse on the streets, are you going to keep them in the house from now on?

My son is on the bus with a little 6 year old who is teaching him obscene jokes. I am not going to start driving him to school, because if it is not a kid on the bus, it will be a kid in the lunchroom, if I take him out of the lunchroom, it will be a kid in his class. What I do is talk to MY son, and explain that the things this boy is doing is BAD, and he should never, ever repeat them. It is about all I can do.

There is a difference in hearing other people around town use bad words. Yes, explain to your children that we don't use them. It's totally different to entertain them with something that uses bad words, especially in a funny way. Kids think it's funny, they repeat it. How can we teach our children that those things aren't allowed, if we says they can be entertained by something that uses it. Especially in a funny way?