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[bcholmes]

I rented some DVDs this weekend. One of them is The Missing with Tommy Lee Jones and Cate Blanchett. Rogers Video has put the following information on the DVD package:

Sex/Nudity: mild innuendo; male bare buttocks
Drugs/Alcohol: social/casual drinking; people are drunk; someone smokes
Violence/Scariness: fatal gunplay; dead and bloody bodies seen; kids are kidnapped; someone killed with mystical dust; someone kills herself; kids are physically assaulted; someone forced to eat dirt; an attempted rape; people killed with arrows; people fight; someone beaten to death; horses are shot; a horse shot with flaming arrow; people fall to their deaths
Objectionable Words/Phrases: approx. 5

Am I the only one who thinks that this is weird?

Comments

[50-ft-queenie.livejournal.com]

Rogers does that on all their movie pkgs now, to alert parents to things they might not want their chidren to see.

I find it irritating, but then again, I hold the unpopular opinion that parents ought to do their own research regarding what their kids read, watch etc., instead of relying on other people to do it for them.