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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

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

I find it mindboggling that there are people out there that would be upset to find that they were not warned that they would see someone forced to eat dirt, social drinking, smoking, and a bare bottom, that the gender of the person that the bottom is attached to would matter much in the decision whether to watch or not. That level of sheltering cannot be good for anyone's development.