PG! Are they kidding!

Me thinks thou dost protest too much. I'll note, you never have said what it is he is supposed to be doing in that scene...mmmm? You are missing the point because you think I am attacking your mothering skills or something. It is no business of mine if you allow your child to whack-off in front of millions...who am I to question how you earn money for your family. I'm kidding, I'm kidding, don't have a stroke! I'm just poking fun at you. Just take a step back for a minute. Believe me when I say that I am not criticizing you or your talented son. I am merely positing that the movie should have been rated PG-13 in the U.S. Just my humble opinion, that's all. No need to be indignant with me. The scene was so fleeting; he could have been doing any number of things. I am certainly willing to concede for your piece of mind that it was not your intent or his intent to portray him doing anything un-PG-rated-like in that particular scene.

Of course parents need to monitor their children's viewing and, obviously, I did in this case. I read the jacket cover to determine the subject of the movie, I made sure it was PG before renting it, and I watched it simultaneously with her. It is unrealistic to think that any parent is going to watch every PG movie twice (once alone and once with her kid after deeming it appropriate). Since the ratings system is not infallible, parents need to speak up when they think there is a problem with a rating. Relying on the assessment of other parents is just another means of determining the suitability of a movie for your child. It was only for this reason that I bothered to give my opinion of the appropriateness of this movie for a 7-year-old (nearly 8). If I thought there was too much going on to be rated PG, and my 7-year-old did too, then chances are there are others who would agree. I certainly respect your opinion that the movie was not inappropriate for children, since your child was involved with the production of it, but I'm afraid we will just have to agree to disagree that this movie was not suitably rated in the U.S.

Hang tough Clare. The OP is obviously disturbed. Don't directly engage with someone who sees sexual content in your childs acting where there patently is none. That alone smacks of pedophilia, or wish fullfillment, not sure. It's weird, and creepy, and base. For the OP to then attack you personally is far out of bounds.

Cheers for your attempt to engage, but it's best to leave it. Let the OP stew in their own perverted juices.

Cheers Clare!

Kim

Fair play 'claremcgibbon' - there are only so many minutes in the day to devote to educating the ignorant , or , in this case , the insane !

That which does not Kill me makes me Stranger . . .

Your head is in the gutter. It's a PG movie. Chill out.

Okay, I was with you the first couple of posts (even though I have seen the film twice and don't recall any masturbation or anything like it). I could see your perspective, and I did think that certain things were borderline for a PG.

However, you have now descended into directly insulting people. Once it gets to that, how can anyone take you seriously? You are a parent of a 7-year-old. Presumably you should be able to act like an adult.

I haven't watched this film, my sister is reading the book in school and I thought I'd check it out and see what it's about, that's the only reason I'm here, so I have no opinion on what's going in the film.

I do though have an opinion about what you just said to the actor's mother. Your first few posts, while coming across as pompous, did express yourself well and set the tone for the argument, you sounded formal and informed, and I could see where you were coming from. As I read on, though, YOU changed to insulting the woman who hadn't said anything awful about you, merely that she disagreed with your view. You didn't in anyway state that that was "the kind of thing you could have said", you actually said it to her.

Maybe I am also just a dumb halfwit as you suggest, but English is my first language and I believe you were highly insulting and continue to be so throughout, and that has lost you the argument. You may consider it "poking fun" but clearly from the rest of the responses, most of the rest of the board agrees you went too far.

That's assuming OP even has a kid.

Also, according to the IMDb page here, this film is a PG-13 and there is a cut PG version available. Where did you see the film? Did you see it uncut on television and assume it was a PG because you didn't bother to look it up?

I'm sorry, but even though I don't agree with the OP, your comment implies that it's okay for 7-year-olds to watch porn but not to watch films with criminals in them, like Home Alone.